Blog posts, like academic papers, should have to divulge how AI has been used to write them.
Even blog post is generous. This is an ad.
It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
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#252No, seriously, people need to be punished for submitting LLM-generated garbage without specifying that it's LLM-generated garbage. 400+ points, oh my god, people, what's wrong with you...
I just pasted the first paragraph in an "AI detector" app and it indeed came back as 100% AI. But I heard those things are unreliable. How did you determine this was LLM-generated? The same way?
Just using LLMs enough I've developed a sense for the flavor of writing. Surely it could be hidden with enough work, but most of the time it's pretty blatant.
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#253I've actually started moving away from Postgres to MySQL and SQLite. I don't want to have to deal with the vacuums/maintenance/footguns.
It’s kind of remarkable how little operational maintenance mysql requires. I’ve been a Postgres fan for a long time, but after working with a giant mysql cluster recently I am impressed. Postgres requires constant babysitting, vacuums, reindexing, various sorcery. MySQL just… works.
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hate how developers are often very skeptical but all the skepticism goes out the window if the tech is sufficiently hyped up. And TBH, developers are pretty dumb not to realize that the tech tools monoculture is a way for business folks to make us easily replaceable... If all companies use the same tech, it turns us into exchangeable commodities which can easily be replaced and sourced across different organization…
Sure, but the world is vast. I would love to be able to test every UI framework and figure out which is the best, but who’s got time for that? You have to rely on heuristics for some things, and popularity is often a decent indicator.
Popularity’s flip side is that it can fuel commodification.
I argue popularity is insufficient signal. React as tech is fine, but the market of devs who it is aimed at may not be the most discerning when it comes to quality.
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#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just pasted the first paragraph in an "AI detector" app and it indeed came back as 100% AI. But I heard those things are unreliable. How did you determine this was LLM-generated? The same way?
Just using LLMs enough I've developed a sense for the flavor of writing. Surely it could be hidden with enough work, but most of the time it's pretty blatant.
Sometimes I get an "uncanny valley" vibe when reading AI-generated text. It can be pretty unnerving.
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#257No, seriously, people need to be punished for submitting LLM-generated garbage without specifying that it's LLM-generated garbage. 400+ points, oh my god, people, what's wrong with you...
They’re upvoting because they agree with the sentiment in the title.
That’s largely how these voting sites work.
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#258No, seriously, people need to be punished for submitting LLM-generated garbage without specifying that it's LLM-generated garbage. 400+ points, oh my god, people, what's wrong with you...
and it’s up voted 400+ on hn. This place has truly lost its way.
I mean to be fair, "Just use Postgres" will get 400 votes here without people even clicking TFA.
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#259but mongo is webscale.
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#260I recently started digging into databases for the first time since college, and from a novice's perspective, postgres is absolutely magical. You can throw in 10M+ rows across twenty columns, spread over five tables, add some indices, and get sub-100ms queries for virtually anything you want. If something doesn't work, you just ask it for an analysis and immediately know what index to add or how to fix your query. It…
I am a DBA for Oracle databases, and XE can be used for free. It has the reference SQL/PSM implementation in PL/SQL. I know how to set up a physical standby, and otherwise I know how to run it.
That being said, Oracle Database SE2 is $17,500 per core pair on x86, and Enterprise is $47,500 per core pair. XE has hard limits on size and limits on active CPUs. XE also does not get patches; if there is a critical vulnerability, it might be years before an upgrade is released.
Nobody would deploy Oracle Database for new systems. You only use this for sunk costs.
Postgres itself has a manual that is 1,500 pages. There is a LOT to learn to run it well, comparable to Oracle.
For simple things, SQLite is fine. I use it as my secrecy manager.
Postgres requires a lot of reading to do the fancy things.