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pg_background: Make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light)

Article URL: https://vibhorkumar.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/pg_background-make-postgres-do-the-long-work-while-your-session-stays-light/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054464 Points: 15 # Comments: 1

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I swear the UFO is coming any minute

Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-swear-the-ufo-is-coming-any-minute Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054134 Points: 57 # Comments: 7

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Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives

13 years ago, we launched Watsi.org with a Show HN [1]. For nearly a year, this community drove so much traffic that we couldn’t list patients fast enough. Then pg saw us on HN, wrote us our first big check, and accepted us as the first YC nonprofit

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Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use

An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma are more inclined to overuse social media.

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Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true

Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.

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America's Future Leaders Are Learning to Become Grifters

Article URL: https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/americas-future-leaders-are-learning Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053912 Points: 17 # Comments: 1

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Structured AI (YC F25) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/structured-ai/jobs/q3cx77y-gtm-intern Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053267 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs

Article URL: https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052941 Points: 17 # Comments: 3

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Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station

I've been working on creating a Low Power FM radio station for the east San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. We are not yet on the broadcast band but our channel will be 95.9FM and our range can been seen on the homepage of our site. KPBJ is a freefor

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Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible

Article URL: https://www.pricepoints.health/cp/188296406 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052579 Points: 32 # Comments: 21

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Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript

Throughout my career, I tried many tools to query PostgreSQL, and in the end, concluded that for what I do, the simplest is almost always the best: raw SQL queries. Until now, I typed the results manually and relied on tests to catch problems. While

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Apple is reportedly cooking up a trio of AI wearables

As the AI hardware space heats up, the iPhone maker has multiple smart products in development.

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Thrive raises $10B for new fund, its largest yet

Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for its new fund-- nearly double the size of its last fund.

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Climactic launches hybrid fund to get startups through the ‘valley of death’

The new project, called Material Scale, will initially focus on climate tech startups in the apparel industry.

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Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat

Colbert: "I want to assure you this decision is for purely financial reasons."