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Luca Ferrari: pgagroal 2.1.0 is out!
A new release of the fast connection pooler for PostgreSQL! pgagroal 2.1.0 is out! Yesterday the version 2.1.0 of pgagroal has been released! This is a feature release, and the full changelog is available here. This release provides a lot of new features, most notably: a web console to monitor Prometheus metrics; an improved failover support; an health check process; improve pgagroal-cli ping command output to provide information about the health of the servers; improve the test...
Luca Ferrari: A very illuminating article about contributing to Open Source and PostgreSQL
An interesting article about PostgreSQL and Open Source. A very illuminating article about contributing to Open Source and PostgreSQL Abdelrhman Sersawy wrote an article titled How I started contributing to PostgreSQL in which he describes how he started to write code for the community. I think the article is very good and detailed, as well as illuminating. It reminds me how I felt the very first times I was pushing commits to the open source ecosystem (not only to PostgreSQL).
Post-quantum encryption for Cloudflare IPsec is generally available
Post-quantum encryption for Cloudflare IPsec is generally available
Cloudflare IPsec now has generally available support for post-quantum encryption via hybrid ML-KEM. We’ve confirmed interoperability with Cisco and Fortinet.
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock
My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock
Show HN: Throwaway – open-source disposable email checker and API
Show HN: Throwaway – open-source disposable email checker and API
The Worst Coder in the World goes agentic: building a leaderboard cracking AI
The Worst Coder in the World goes agentic: building a leaderboard cracking AI
Agents are everywhere, so isn't it fitting that the Worst Coder in the World goes agentic? A coding newbie explores the challenges and rewards of building an agent for work—and trying to learn a few things about coding along the way.
Netflix wants you to watch ‘Clips,’ its TikTok-like vertical video feed
Netflix wants you to watch ‘Clips,’ its TikTok-like vertical video feed
Spotify introduces verified artist badges to help distinguish humans from AI
Spotify introduces verified artist badges to help distinguish humans from AI
Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.
The Download: the North Pole’s future and humanoid data
The Download: the North Pole’s future and humanoid data
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past In the past, getting to the North Pole involved a treacherous trip through ice many meters thick. But last year, a research vessel…
The Duolingo taxi test–could being rude to the driver cost you your dream job?
The Duolingo taxi test–could being rude to the driver cost you your dream job?
Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations a week
Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations a week
GCC 16 has been released
Valeria Kaplan: Why sell the idea of contributing to PostgreSQL to your employer
Valeria Kaplan: Why sell the idea of contributing to PostgreSQL to your employer
How contribution decisions shape the sustainability of the PostgreSQL ecosystemLast week at PGConf.DE, I gave a talk titled Not Just Altruism: Selling PostgreSQL Contributions to Your Employer.It didn’t attract a large audience. To be fair, it was right after lunch on the last day of the conference, and there was strong competition from two excellent technical talks. Plus… why bother talking to your employer about contributing to PostgreSQL? :)The news this week that David Steele, the co...
Copy-fail-destroyer: K8s remediation for CVE-2026-31431
Copy-fail-destroyer: K8s remediation for CVE-2026-31431
A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve?
A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve?
Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
You can beat the binary search
You can beat the binary search