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Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer
25•abelanger•3d ago

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alexthedigger•12m ago
Yes
root-parent•6m ago
Are you kidding me? Have you heard about Data Direct?

https://docs.progress.com/bundle/datadirect-postgresql-odbc-...

hoppp•6m ago
Yes, I don't always need it. Depends on the service architecture.

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
42•tosh•57m ago•16 comments

Is the industry ready for tokens-constrained work?

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/what-to-do-when-tokens-run-out
16•fullautomation•54m ago•13 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
29•matt_d•4d ago•11 comments

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer
26•abelanger•3d ago•3 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
501•wiradikusuma•4d ago•346 comments

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware

https://hwbusters.com/news/comma-ai-egpu-dock-runs-open-source-firmware-249-bare-799-with-an-rx-9...
55•txrx0000•2d ago•12 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering

https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering
1•mayop100•15m ago

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io
207•pdet•6d ago•24 comments

Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10857-1
31•sbulaev•3d ago•10 comments

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22
43•Alifatisk•1h ago•20 comments

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems
146•maxutility•11h ago•97 comments

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

https://rhonabwy.com/2026/08/15/software-engineering-fundamentals-matter-more-than-ever/
214•ingve•15h ago•139 comments

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-f...
312•dgellow•18h ago•202 comments

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
205•felixbraun•16h ago•49 comments

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432
447•randycupertino•21h ago•331 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
12•pentagrama•48m ago•7 comments

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns

https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/
80•Eridanus2•12h ago•20 comments

At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve...
269•gmays•23h ago•103 comments

What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/
187•porridgeraisin•6h ago•144 comments

Falstad Math and Physics Simulations

https://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
38•pykello•9h ago•9 comments

AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really
156•AnodicElegy•18h ago•84 comments

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV
339•dmitrygr•2d ago•386 comments

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

https://www.micdrop.gg/
69•johnsillings•12h ago•29 comments

A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/3.html
111•frizlab•5d ago•15 comments

Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite

https://notebook.link/blog/numba-in-the-browser/
58•xalfotis•4d ago•10 comments

A spectre is haunting Unicode

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html
241•sensanaty•23h ago•96 comments

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/
96•ingve•16h ago•37 comments

I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers

https://bipluk.com/
28•halfradaition•3d ago•17 comments

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-diseas...
289•theanonymousone•16h ago•235 comments

Show HN: Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent

https://github.com/alexander-akhmetov/grafana-agento11y-hermes
11•eventuallyacat•5h ago•0 comments