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Umair Shahid: The best PostgreSQL databases are boring on purpose

Tech Blogs Planetscale PostgreSQL 22 hours ago

Boring is an investment. Exciting is a bill.The calmest PostgreSQL deployments in production share one trait. They are boring. Pages stay quiet. Dashboards stay green. The on-call engineer reads a book on Tuesday night. And the people running those databases will tell you, plainly, that boring is the achievement.Think about flying for a minute. The flight everyone wants is the one where the captain says hello, the meal shows up on time, and a few hours later, the wheels touch down in the righ...

Warm Burnout: editor and terminal color scheme

Hackernews Vim and Neovim by cdrnsf 22 hours ago

Chrome looks set to ship an LLM Prompt API to the web. We oppose this API

Hackernews Progressive Web Apps by Vinnl 22 hours ago

"Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++

Hackernews C++ by dwrodri 23 hours ago

Amber-Lang 0.6.0 - New release, check what's new

Lobsters C++ by Mte90 23 hours ago

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

Hackernews Browser Internals by jaffathecake 23 hours ago

pgpulse- Autopilot for Postgres Observability and Monitoring platform

Tech Blogs Database Development PostgreSQL by /u/Far-Special-245 1 day ago

🚀 We launched pgpulse : Autopilot for Postgres Postgres is the backbone of the modern stack, but managing it at scale often feels like flying a plane in a storm without a radar. When things go wrong, you’re stuck digging through logs and raw metrics, trying to piece together a story while your performance tanks. pgpulse changes that and mostly reduces the time of debugging for hours and saves you from critical incidents. It’s an Autopilot for Postgres that translates complex internals ...

Jan Wieremjewicz: Open source doesn’t die. It gets unfunded.

Tech Blogs Planetscale Open Source 1 day ago

If you are using PostgreSQL in any capacity very likely this week has started for you with a bang. pgBackRest, one of the most known tools for PostgreSQL, praised for the scalable and reliable way to do backups has announced that the project is currently archived. Archived, you mean EOL? No! Open source software rarely has a hard “end of life.” What it does have are maintainership gaps and those can be just as serious.

Jan Wieremjewicz: Open source doesn’t die. It gets unfunded.

Tech Blogs Planetscale PostgreSQL 1 day ago

If you are using PostgreSQL in any capacity very likely this week has started for you with a bang. pgBackRest, one of the most known tools for PostgreSQL, praised for the scalable and reliable way to do backups has announced that the project is currently archived. Archived, you mean EOL? No! Open source software rarely has a hard “end of life.” What it does have are maintainership gaps and those can be just as serious.

Craig Venter has died

Hackernews Computational Biology by rdl 1 day ago

Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?"

Hackernews Quantum Computing by bwesterb 1 day ago

Lessons from Building an OTel Normalizer for GenAI

Hackernews OpenTelemetry by thebitofmyheart 1 day ago

Monad Tutorials Timeline

Hackernews Functional Programming by brudgers 1 day ago

A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust

Lobsters Rust by fanf 1 day ago

Jobin Augustine: Troubleshooting logical replication delay made easy

Tech Blogs Planetscale Replication 1 day ago

This blog is based on a real production case in which users experienced a serious delay in logical replication. Let me try to explain how to approach similar cases and analyze them in an easy method, because lag in logical replication is a common problem, and we should expect it to come up for different environments. But sometimes troubleshooting can be challenging, especially on DBaaS environments where we won’t get in-depth information at OS / hardware level. Such situations force us to d...

Show HN: Agent that refuses to run commands without human approval

Hackernews Mobile Development by hexer303 1 day ago

Breaking ten years of C API compatibility in Futhark

Lobsters GPU and Parallel Computing by christine 1 day ago

LLMs Generate Kitsch

Tech Blogs Arxiv Large Language Models by Xenia Klinge, Stefan Ortlieb, Alexander Koller 1 day ago

arXiv:2604.25929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate pictures, texts, music, videos, and other works that have traditionally required human creativity. LLM-generated artifacts are often rated better than human-generated works in controlled studies. At the same time, they can come across as generic and hollow. We propose to resolve this tension by arguing that LLMs systematically generate kitsch, and that this is a consequence of the w...

CogRAG+: Cognitive-Level Guided Diagnosis and Remediation of Memory and Reasoning Deficiencies in Professional Exam QA

Tech Blogs Arxiv RAG by Xudong Wang, Zilong Wang, Zhaoyan Ming 1 day ago

arXiv:2604.25928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Professional domain knowledge underpins human civilization, serving as both the basis for industry entry and the core of complex decision-making and problem-solving. However, existing large language models often suffer from opaque inference processes in which retrieval and reasoning are tightly entangled, causing knowledge gaps and reasoning inconsistencies in professional tasks. To address this, we propose CogRAG+, a training-free framework th...

Information Extraction from Electricity Invoices with General-Purpose Large Language Models

Tech Blogs Arxiv Prompt Engineering by Javier G\'omez, Javier S\'anchez 1 day ago

arXiv:2604.25927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Information extraction from semi-structured business documents remains a critical challenge for enterprise management. This study evaluates the capability of general-purpose Large Language Models to extract structured information from Spanish electricity invoices without task-specific fine-tuning. Using a subset of the IDSEM dataset, we benchmark two architecturally distinct models, Gemini 1.5 Pro and Mistral-small, across 19 parameter configur...