date: "2026-10-29" stories: - title: 'Multigres private alpha: automatic failover for Supabase Postgres' url: https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-private-alpha source: Supabase created_at: "2026-10-29T07:00:00Z" - title: Designing a planned switchover for minimum disruption url: https://planetscale.com/blog/designing-a-planned-switchover-for-minimum-disruption source: PlanetScale author: Shlomi Noach created_at: "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z" - title: 'Why Microsoft contributes to Postgres: What I tell people' url: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-blog-for-postgresql/why-microsoft-contributes-to-postgres-what-i-tell-people/ba-p/4568479 source: Azure Database for PostgreSQL author: clairegiordano created_at: "2026-10-28T17:22:59Z" - title: 'Show HN: I built a tool that finds reliability bugs in your code' url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280650 source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280650 points: 6 author: aray07 created_at: "2026-10-28T20:45:51Z" - title: 'Show HN: OpenTaxRate – open-source US sales tax rates by street address' url: https://github.com/equated-org/opentaxrate source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277662 points: 5 comments: 1 author: winxton created_at: "2026-10-28T17:40:49Z" - title: 'Why Microsoft contributes to Postgres: What I tell people' url: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/why-microsoft-contributes-to-postgres-what-i-tell-people/4568479 source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277503 points: 4 author: clairegiordano created_at: "2026-10-28T17:34:27Z" - title: Postgres 19 is Late, and it's AI's Fault url: https://neon.com/blog/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281809 points: 3 author: sorentwo created_at: "2026-10-28T22:26:19Z" - title: 'Show HN: OLake – Open-Source Postgres/MySQL/MongoDB CDC to Apache Iceberg' url: https://github.com/datazip-inc/olake source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289287 points: 3 comments: 1 author: rohankhameshra created_at: "2026-10-29T14:06:32Z" - title: Russian and East European Posters url: https://digital-collections.princeton.edu/collections/soviet_posters source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287765 points: 3 author: bookofjoe created_at: "2026-10-29T12:17:43Z" - title: Delete your back end, Your whole stack, inside Postgres url: https://btholt.github.io/postgres-talk-delete-your-backend/ source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280142 points: 2 comments: 2 author: mariuz created_at: "2026-10-28T20:07:09Z" - title: 'Fact-Checking Microsoft''s "PostgreSQL to SQL Field Notes: Connections"' url: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2026/10/fact-checking-microsofts-postgresql-to-sql-field-notes-connections/ source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282548 points: 2 author: Shorn created_at: "2026-10-28T23:46:00Z" - title: 'Show HN: Seqora – Desktop DB Workbench for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite' url: https://seqora.dev/ source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289455 points: 1 author: duoro created_at: "2026-10-29T14:15:39Z" - title: Solving Postgres' Count Problem url: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/opening-a-closed-tin-part-2 source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282443 points: 1 author: philippemnoel created_at: "2026-10-28T23:33:54Z" - title: 'Show HN: Control – Data Observability for Postgres, Pipelines and CDC' url: https://control.turbolytics.io/ source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287082 points: 1 comments: 1 author: dm03514 created_at: "2026-10-29T10:55:09Z" - title: What was the turning point for Postgres? url: https://planetscale.com/blog/what-was-the-turning-point-for-postgres source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291685 points: 1 author: theanonymousone created_at: "2026-10-29T16:27:57Z" - title: 'Show HN: Backend for Agents and Builders who don''t need one yet – Statebase' url: https://statebase.dev source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290463 points: 1 comments: 1 author: bhldev created_at: "2026-10-29T15:19:01Z" - title: 'Built to bend: Postgres''s inventor and a steward on what AI needs' url: https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/10/29/partner-content-built-to-bend-postgress-inventor-and-a-steward-on-what-ai-really-needs/5305957 source: HackerNews hn_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291348 points: 1 author: DougN7 created_at: "2026-10-29T16:10:06Z"