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$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
We've lowered the entry price for using PlanetScale Metal to $50 and added more flexibility in storage-to-compute ratios....
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KRONTAB
Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon
14 HOURS AGO
DECIMALENOUGH
John Varley has died
7 DAYS AGO
OZORNIN
Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta)
34 MINUTES AGO
CHARLESW
Podcast industry under siege as AI bots flood airways with programs
A DAY AGO
THOMASCOUNTZ
Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
16 MINUTES AGO
XNX
The Google Search homepage adds a 'plus' menu
4 DAYS AGO
KRUUUDER
A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (2011)
A DAY AGO
TELEFORCE
Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms
onemoresoop
42 minutes ago
Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
The 78-year-old UK citizen was convicted of lobbying foreign governments to impose sanctions on HK and China.
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pavel_lishin
4 hours ago
It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs
lol. I minted a new TLS cert and it seems that OpenAI is scraping CT logs for what I assume are things to scrape from, based on the near instant response from ......
MilnerRoute
a day ago
Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’
Arduino has defended the changes, claiming its commitment to open source hardware remains unchanged....
PaulHoule
17 hours ago
If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
The technological race among industry giants and the wave of layoffs they have announced has revived the debate about the advisability of taxing automation...
pil0u
7 hours ago
Avoid UUIDv4 Primary Keys
Introduction Over the last decade, when working on databases with UUID Version 41 as the primary key data type, these databases have usually have bad performance and excessive IO. https://da...
bikenaga
3 hours ago
Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide
Paraquat is banned in more than 70 countries, but still legal in the United States. Now, a growing number of U.S. farmers are blaming the toxic pesticide for their Parkinson's disease in a l...
nreece
17 hours ago
Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese suppl...
magoghm
8 days ago
P-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems
Researchers in Kerem Çamsari's lab and ECE professor Luke Theogarajan have demonstrated that their p-computer design can outperform a leading quantum annealer on the same “spin-glass” benchm...
https://news.ucsb.edu/2025/022239/new-ucsb-research-shows-p-computers-can-solve-spin-glass-problems-faster-quantum
jnord
17 hours ago
AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS....
valzevul
13 hours ago
The Whole App is a Blob
I tried to prepare for life in French-speaking Canada by turning language drills into a Tamagotchi. It worked, as long as you don't ask me whether my coffee is for here or to go....
CafeRacer
12 hours ago
Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions
Educational blog posts for Rust beginners. Contribute to pretzelhammer/rust-blog development by creating an account on GitHub....
culi
a day ago
JSDoc is TypeScript
In May of 2023 an from the Svelte repo made it to the front page of the Hacker News forums. The (superficially) controversial PR seemingly vindicated TypeSc......
rbanffy
4 days ago
The History of Xerox
A Monochromatic Star...
RickJWagner
13 hours ago
Rob Reiner has died
The two-time Emmy winner and Oscar nominee and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Brentwood home. Their son Nick has been arrested....
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9 days ago
Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time
Talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives. These palms were introduced by landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx in the 1960s....