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Mike Stonebraker: Computer Science might not be a growth industry going forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPObBOwIrHk
1•tcp_handshaker•59m ago

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tcp_handshaker•57m ago

  0:00 - Intro
  1:03 - How he got into databases
  6:43 - Competing with Oracle
  9:07 - What made Postgres special
  15:55 - One size fits none
  21:37 - Why he disagreed with Google
  29:14 - Why he chose academia over big tech
  30:58 - Replacing state in an OS with a DB
  42:02 - Future problems in databases
  51:36 - Technical book recommendations to learn databases
  52:20 - Advice for younger self
  55:52 - Outro

Kelvin versioning

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/kelvin_versioning.html
1•manwithaplan•1m ago•1 comments

A multiplicity of tomorrows: Imagining 299 climate intervention futures

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901126000626
1•rbanffy•5m ago•0 comments

American Keiretsu: A World of Increasing Interconnectivity (2025)

https://www.lom.com/american-keiretsu-a-world-of-increasing-interconnectivity/
1•walterbell•5m ago•0 comments

A Pragmatic Beginner's Guide to Introducing AI to Your Engineering Workflow

https://jeffammons.com/2026/05/05/a-pragmatic-beginners-guide-to-introducing-ai-to-your-engineeri...
1•jammons•5m ago•0 comments

Interpolatable Archives

https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/on-interpolatable-archives-clean
1•walt74•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a screen recorder that captures console logs, requests and more

https://userplane.io/
1•wizenheimer•7m ago•0 comments

America is experiencing a productivity miracle

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/05/11/america-is-experiencing-a-productivity...
1•andsoitis•7m ago•0 comments

Collective climate geoengineering futures through technology foresight exercise

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625004104
1•rbanffy•8m ago•0 comments

Prometheus and Christ

https://hommepresse.substack.com/p/prometheus-and-christ
1•paulpauper•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Aggregating votes from US Congress representatives

https://usvote.fyi/
1•readonkeyless•9m ago•0 comments

If you can't get a job today, it's your fault

https://auren.substack.com/p/if-you-cant-get-a-job-today-its-your
1•paulpauper•9m ago•0 comments

The progress against pancreatic cancer

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/pancreatic-cancer-just-met-its-match
1•paulpauper•12m ago•0 comments

The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets

https://www.wired.com/story/polymarket-insider-trading-cftc-michael-selig-interview/
2•Cider9986•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pockli – I needed a better iOS scanning app

https://pockli.com/
1•tsoswr•17m ago•0 comments

Observability SQL?

https://github.com/elyosemite/openwatchit
1•elyosemite•18m ago•0 comments

The scientists using electricity to assess the consistency and flavor of coffee

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5798783/electric-food-science-coffee-flavor
2•gmays•20m ago•0 comments

Distance Marching for Generative Modeling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02928
1•E-Reverance•24m ago•0 comments

Annota – A local-first, E2EE note app with BYOK AI

https://annota.online
2•SpyNinja•24m ago•2 comments

Spec Driven Development: short specs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLIsrusr3NQ
1•bullbash•24m ago•1 comments

Why is Charlie Stross's site named Antipope?

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/old/antipope.html
29•turadg•25m ago•11 comments

Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge

https://forgejo.org/
1•doener•26m ago•0 comments

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears

https://www.popsci.com/environment/japan-robot-wolf-army/
6•bookofjoe•30m ago•2 comments

The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention

https://fil-c.org/calling_convention
2•pizlonator•31m ago•0 comments

LocalVibe – Pure-Rust local AI stack with MCP, in one binary (Apple Silicon)

https://github.com/Sok205/local_vibe
1•sok2054•33m ago•0 comments

The Windows Command Line and JP Software – A Brief History

https://jpsoft.com/blogs/news/the-windows-command-line-and-jp-software-a-brief-history.html
1•BruceEel•35m ago•0 comments

Inter-Dicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence

https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2026/05/16/260516b.html
1•bombcar•35m ago•0 comments

Xi Jinping Was Only Humoring Trump

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/trump-lame-duck-superpower/687189/
6•hebelehubele•38m ago•3 comments

ArXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated slop for one year

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/preprint-server-arxiv-will-ban-submitters-of-ai-generated...
1•Lihh27•38m ago•1 comments

NextEra and Dominion in talks over tie-up to create $400B US utility giant

https://www.ft.com/content/37ba1609-ffa7-42ae-b63c-b2c628c584e1
2•JumpCrisscross•41m ago•0 comments

Sequence Points (2010)

https://susam.net/sequence-points.html
1•susam•42m ago•0 comments