Best Postgres Podcasts (2025)

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Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele 1:18:40

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What do guitar busking, geospatial queries, and agentic coding have to do with Postgres? In Episode 33 of Talking Postgres, principal engineer Rob Emanuele at Microsoft shares his winding path from Venice Beach to building a new VS Code extension for PostgreSQL—that works with any Postgres, anywhere. We dig into GitHub Copilot, ask vs. agent mode, …

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11.5.25 | Mr TIFF, Robert Morris's 1988 worm, Pg_lake integrates Postgres with Iceberg 12:11

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 5, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Mr TIFF (01:31) - This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm (02:38) - Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access (03:53) - I took all my pr…

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1.2 Million Messages Per Second | Scaling Postgres 390 17:32

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how far Postgres can scale with queue and pub/sub workloads, temporal joins, IPC:SyncRep and nested partitioning. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/390-1.2-million-messages-per-second/ Want to learn more about Postgres perfor…

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Gapless sequences 39:49

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Nik and Michael discuss lightweight locks in Postgres — how they differ to (heavier) locks, some occasions they can be troublesome, and some resources for working out what to do if you hit issues. And one quick clarification: changing the CACHE option in CREATE SEQUENCE can lead to even more gaps, the docs mention it explicitly. Here are some links…

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#define: sheer resistance (Friends) 1:42:41

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On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery: past winners battle to determine the champion of champions. (Also, Adam.) Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres…

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11.7.25 | FBI investigates archive.is owner, Kimi K2 Thinking is a trillion-parameter model, write an agent 11:09

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 7, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is (01:34) - Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model (02:37) - You should write an agent (03:45) - …

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Building an S3 Competitor with Tigris CEO Ovais Tariq 1:07:27

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Aaron talks with Ovais Tariq, co-founder and CEO of Tigris Data and former Uber engineer who helped scale one of the world’s largest distributed systems. They discuss Uber’s hyperscale infrastructure, what it takes to build an S3-compatible object store from scratch, and how distributed storage is evolving for the AI era. Follow Ovais: Twitter: htt…

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11.6.25 | Solarpunk in Africa, Japanese community ends, new gel restores dental enamel 11:23

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 6, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Solarpunk is happening in Africa (01:23) - End of Japanese community (02:31) - New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair (03:35) - I was right…

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The Architecture of the Internet with Erik Seidel 51:20

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The modern internet is a vast web of independent networks bound together by billions of routing decisions made every second. It’s an architecture so reliable we mostly take it for granted, but behind the scenes it represents one of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements. Today’s internet is also dramatically more complex and capable than in i…

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The world of open source metadata (Interview) 1:43:59

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Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He’s been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with libraries.io and now with ecosyste.ms, which tracks over 12 million packages, 287 million repos, 24.5 billion dependencies, and 1.9 million maintainers. Wh…

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11.4.25 | Critique of PGVector, AI's early development phase, mastering Arthur Whitney's C for intelligence 11:23

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 4, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - The Case Against PGVector (01:33) - AI's Dial-Up Era (02:37) - Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024) (03:47) - A visualization of the RGB space cov…

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SED News: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s Struggles, and Apple’s AI Long Game 49:02

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SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they cover the $1.7B acquisition of Security AI, LangChain’s massive valuation, and the surprise $300M funding” round for Per…

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The overlooked power of URLs (News) 7:30

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Ahmad Alfy explains how URLs are state containers, Shrivu Shankar shares how he uses every Claude Code feature, Yusuf Aytas laments how AI broke technical interviews, Wu Xiaoyun tells how he saved TikTok $300k during his internship, and TOON is a new serialization format to save us some LLM tokens. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog+…

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11.3.25 | Throwing good parties, URLs as state containers, djb's notes on Fil-C 11:54

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 3, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Facts about throwing good parties (01:26) - URLs are state containers (02:29) - Notes by djb on using Fil-C (03:38) - Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016) (04:…

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11.2.25 | ArXiv CS review article updates, Visopsys OS by single developer since 1997, Show HN on LLM coding experiment 12:22

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 2, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category (01:32) - Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997 (02:42) - Show HN: Why …

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11.1.25 | Strange Attractors, subtle risk in async Rust, Pixels vulnerable to Cellebrite hacking 12:21

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 1, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Show HN: Strange Attractors (01:23) - Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust (02:29) - Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking (03:44) -…

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Amazon US-EAST-1 Outage in Details 24:26

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On October 19 2025 AWS experienced an outage that lasted over a day, 10 days later we finally got the root cause analysis and we know exactly what caused the DNS to fail0:00 Summary 5:30 How did Dynamo lost its DNS?13:41 EC2 Errors 16:16 Network Load Balancer ErrorsRCA here https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/…

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We see dead projects (Friends) 1:18:33

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It’s a FRIGHT…when your record a podcast with dead projects all around. Tech debt, poor choices, timing, market shift, and optimizing for the wrong things are all lurking around waiting to pop out at you! Just don’t forget to push record. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Joi…

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10.31.25 | Affinity Studio free, free software scares, 987654321 / 123456789 10:09

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 31, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Affinity Studio now free (01:26) - Free software scares normal people (02:39) - 987654321 / 123456789 (04:09) - How the cochlea computes (2024) (05:24) - Denmark repor…

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Rewriting SQLite from prison with Preston Thorpe 1:18:28

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In this episode of Database School, Aaron talks with Preston Thorpe, a senior engineer at Turso who is currently incarcerated, about his incredible journey from prison to rewriting SQLite in Rust. They dive deep into concurrent writes, MVCC, and the challenges of building a new database from scratch while discussing redemption, resilience, and raw …

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Agentic infra changes everything (Interview) 2:03:40

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Adam Jacob joins us to discuss how agentic systems for building and managing infrastructure have fundamentally altered how he thinks about everything, including the last six years of his life. Along the way, he opines on the recent AWS outage, debates whether we’re in an AI-induced bubble, quells any concerns of AGI and a robot uprising, eats some …

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10.30.25 | Uv enhances Python ecosystem, Azure experiences outage, Minecraft drops Java obfuscation 11:57

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 30, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade (01:28) - Tell HN: Azure outage (02:36) - Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition (03:50) - C…

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Building AI Agents on the Frontend with Sam Bhagwat and Abhi Aiyer 57:04

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Most AI agent frameworks are backend-focused and written in Python, which introduces complexity when building full-stack AI applications with JavaScript or TypeScript frontends. This gap makes it harder for frontend developers to prototype, integrate, and iterate on AI-powered features. Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework focused on build…

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10.29.25 | Sideloading discussions, AI reduces hospital bill, Android openness 12:13

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 29, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - What we talk about when we talk about sideloading (01:26) - Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k (02:43) - Keep Android Open (03:48) - EuroLLM: LLM…

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10.28.25 | YouTuber sued for lock shimming, PSF withdraws $1.5M grant proposal, Claude for Excel 12:36

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 28, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:23) - 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea (01:40) - PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program (02:50) - Cla…

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The X-Plane Flight Simulator with Ben Supnik 56:26

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X-Plane is a popular flight simulator developed by Laminar Research. It features a first-principles physics engine, realistic aircraft systems, and a wide variety of aircraft. We wanted to understand the engineering that goes into creating a flight simulator so we invited Ben Supnik on the show. Ben is a software engineer at Laminar and he’s been w…

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Code like a surgeon (News) 8:24

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The Dead Internet Theory dies, Geoffrey Litt tries to code like a surgeon, Matt Sephton thinks spreadsheets are great for UI design, Nate Meyvis advocates for front-end maximalism, Hemant Pandey thinks 9-5 employment is a great option for most, David Miranda compares React to Backbone in 2025. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ mem…

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10.27.25 | Git server availability, PyTorch bug insights, Asbestosis discussion 11:56

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 27, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - You already have a Git server (01:25) - A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it (02:42) - Asbestosis (03:48) - A definition of AGI (05:02) - How…

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Heavy Reader or Writer? | Scaling Postgres 389 14:21

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss ways to optimize reading or writing, the benefits of a descending index, more information about lightweight locks and a backup public service announcement. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/389-heavy-reader-or-writer/ Want to…

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10.26.25 | Worker falls into nuclear reactor pool, California invests in battery energy storage, Linux boot process explained 10:03

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 26, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool (01:19) - California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind (02:25) - The Linux Boot Process: Fr…

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10.25.25 | Swift SDK for Android, shape can't pass through itself, Twake Drive as Google Drive alternative 11:53

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 25, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - The Swift SDK for Android (01:30) - First shape found that can't pass through itself (02:36) - Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive (03:31) - Unloc…

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Kaizen! Mop-up job (Friends) 1:47:36

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It’s our first Kaizen after the big Pipely launch in Denver and we have some serious mopping to do. Along the way, we brainstorm the next get-together, check out our new cache hit/miss ratio, give Pipely a deep speed test, discuss open video standards, and more! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they mad…

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10.24.25 | Trump pardons Binance founder, Claude Memory, /dev/null is ACID compliant 11:46

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 24, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Trump pardons convicted Binance founder (01:21) - Claude Memory (02:33) - /dev/null is an ACID compliant database (03:34) - PyTorch Monarch (04:36) - Apple loses UK Ap…

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A million transactions per second: building TigerBeetle with Joran Greef 1:28:12

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In this episode, Aaron talks with Joran Greef, CEO and creator of TigerBeetle, the world’s first financial transactions database. Joran takes us on a deep dive of on how TigerBeetle brings double-entry accounting principles directly into the database layer to achieve extreme correctness, performance, and fault tolerance at scale. Follow Joran and T…

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10.23.25 | Google marks Immich sites dangerous, Useful scripts I frequently use, FIA bugs expose Max Verstappen's passport and PII 12:09

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 23, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Google flags Immich sites as dangerous (01:33) - Scripts I wrote that I use all the time (02:31) - Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs (03:39)…

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Turning Agent Autonomy into Productivity with Chris Weichel 1:01:22

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A common challenge in software development is creating and maintaining robust development environments. The rise of AI agents has amplified this complexity by adding new demands around permission controls, environment isolation, and resource management. Ona is a platform for AI-native software development and engineering agents. The platform combin…

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Bringing Atuin to the desktop (Interview) 56:39

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Ellie Huxtable’s magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers’ hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now Ellie is tackling the desktop with a GUI built to help teams make their workflows repeatable, shareable, and reliable. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and …

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10.22.25 | ChatGPT Atlas, Cutting Heroku costs from $3000 to $55, Creating a custom database 11:45

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 22, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - ChatGPT Atlas (01:16) - Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server (02:16) - Build your own database (03:21) - KDE Connect: Enabling communication between a…

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10.21.25 | Amazon's AWS struggles, Claude Code online, laser pointer at 2B FPS 12:01

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 21, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout (01:30) - Claude Code on the web (02:36) - A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video] (03:34) - Alibaba Cloud says …

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Homebrew and macOS Package Management with Mike McQuaid 1:05:46

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Homebrew is a widely used package manager that simplifies the installation of open-source software on macOS. It was created in response to the growing demand for a lightweight, developer-friendly tool suited to an increasingly Mac-centric development ecosystem. Today, Homebrew is a near-essential part of the macOS software development toolkit. Mike…

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The science behind developer flow states (News) 6:47

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Csaba Okrona lays out exactly what Flow is (then shows you how to engineer your way back to it), a smart vacuum turned against an innocent hacker, Matz and the Ruby core team step up to steward RubyGems, Simon Willison things Claude Skills could be bigger than MCP, and Luke Plant looks at technical debt from a more positive perspective. View the ne…

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10.20.25 | AWS outage, Andrej's success advice, Space Elevator 11:03

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 20, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Major AWS Outage Happening (01:15) - Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013) (02:23) - Space Elevator (03:28) - Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake …

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NVME Wins? | Scaling Postgres 388 16:26

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss PG17 and PG18 benchmarks across storage types, more about Postgres locks, sanitizing SQL and can a faster software & hardware environment cause performance problems? To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/388-nvme-wins/ Want to le…

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10.19.25 | IDEs from 30 years ago, ./watch tool, Root System Drawings 11:30

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 19, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023) (01:34) - ./watch (02:35) - Root System Drawings (03:34) - Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wrec…

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10.18.25 | Karpathy on agents' decade-long challenges, 50 Cent's inflation-adjusted impact, Claude's impressive skills surpassing MCP 10:31

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 18, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents (01:29) - The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation (02:20) - Claude Skills are awesome…

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There will be bleeps (Friends) 1:41:45

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Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode an…

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Graceful shutdown in HTTP 25:49

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There are cases where the backend may need to close the connection to prevent unexpected situations, prevent bad actors or simply just free up resources. Closing a connection gracefully allows clients and backends to clean up and finish any pending requests. In this episode of the backend engineering show I discuss graceful connections in both HTTP…

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LWLocks 38:22

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Nik and Michael discuss lightweight locks in Postgres — how they differ to (heavier) locks, some occasions they can be troublesome, and some resources for working out what to do if you hit issues. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Wait Events of Type LWLock https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/monitoring-stats.html#WAIT-EVENT-LWLOCK-…

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10.17.25 | Bypassing Amazon's Kindle web DRM, Claude Skills, Gemini 3.0 A/B testing discovery 11:49

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 17, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM (01:27) - Claude Skills (02:40) - Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing (03:51) - Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and…

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10.16.25 | Apple M5 chip, Claude Haiku 4.5, Zed available on Windows 12:01

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 16, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Apple M5 chip (01:32) - Claude Haiku 4.5 (02:37) - Zed is now available on Windows (03:45) - Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified archite…