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80 Hacker News submissions by month with at least  points since the start of

80 submissions with 1 points or greater

HN Points HN Title (Links to original post) Submitted Date
493 Vector databases are the wrong abstraction 2024-10-29
155 Using Postgres for Everything 2024-05-20
127 Pgvector Is Now Faster Than Pinecone at 75% Less Cost 2024-06-11
80 How We Made PostgreSQL a Better Vector Database 2023-09-25
50 We scaled PostgreSQL to 350 TB+ (with 10B new records/day) 2023-11-02
37 Making Postgres backups 100x faster via EBS snapshots and pgBackRest 2023-08-31
29 Scaling PostgreSQL with Amazon S3 2023-03-28
22 What Is a Time-Series Plot, and How Can You Create One? 2023-06-27
20 The New Timescale 2023-05-17
20 How We Made Real-Time Data Aggregation in Postgres Faster by 50k% 2024-03-20
19 We Designed a Resilient Vector Embedding Creation System for PostgreSQL Data 2023-11-10
15 Advice on PgBouncer from a Support Engineer 2023-09-14
14 Pgvectorscale: Making PostgreSQL a Better AI Database 2024-06-11
14 Is Postgres Partitioning That Hard? An Introduction to Hypertables 2023-10-11
13 Why PostgreSQL Is the Bedrock for the Future of Data 2024-04-24
13 New Python library for using PostgreSQL as a vector database for AI applications 2023-09-28
12 A Complete Guide to Creating and Storing Embeddings for PostgreSQL Data 2023-11-10
12 What are ivfflat indexes in pgvector and how they work? 2023-06-30
12 Scaling Document Data Extraction with LLMs and Vector Databases 2024-11-15
10 Timescale acquires PopSQL 2024-04-04
10 Visualizing IoT data at scale by Michael Stonebraker 2023-05-18
9 What InfluxDB Got Wrong 2023-10-05
8 SkipScan Under Load 2024-11-07
6 How We Made PostgreSQL as Fast as Pinecone for Vector Data 2024-06-11
6 Teaching Postgres New Tricks: SIMD Vectorization for Faster Analytical Queries 2023-11-15
5 Petabye Postgres 2024-09-20
5 Why RAG is more than just vector search 2024-09-16
4 A Brief History of AI: How Did We Get Here, and What's Next? 2024-07-18
4 Vector Search Queries with Time Filters in Pgvector 2024-04-01
4 Building Columnar Compression for Large PostgreSQL Databases 2023-11-14
3 State of Postgres (2023) 2023-12-25
3 Why we moved away from K8s StatefulSets 2024-10-10
3 How We Built a Content Recommendation System with PostgreSQL 2024-10-05
3 Hyperstore: A Hybrid Row-Columnar Storage Engine for Real-Time Analytics 2024-09-16
3 Dynamic PostgreSQL 2023-12-28
3 Top PostgreSQL Extensions 2023-11-10
3 Wrangling Table Bloat in Large PostgreSQL Tables 2023-11-04
3 The Problem with Locks and PostgreSQL Partitioning (and How to Fix It) 2023-10-12
3 How to Reduce Your PostgreSQL Database Size 2023-10-07
3 Pg_partman vs. Hypertables for Postgres Partitioning 2023-09-13
3 How to Work with Time Series in Python 2023-08-01
3 Timescale’s storage is becoming usage-based [pdf] 2023-06-14
3 Timescale — Postgres for time-series data 2023-05-02
2 The New Timescale 2023-05-24
2 Function pipelines: Building functional programming into PostgreSQL using custom 2024-08-05
2 A Beginner's Guide to Vector Embeddings 2024-04-30
2 Common Connection Errors in PostgreSQL and How to Solve Them 2024-04-25
2 State of Postgres 2023 2023-12-15
2 Creating a Fast Time-Series Graph with Postgres Materialized Views 2023-11-28
2 The PostgreSQL job scheduler you always wanted (use with caution) 2023-10-13
2 Optimizing Postgres indexes for performance tuning 2023-09-21
2 Key Postgres parameters to fine tune 2023-09-20
2 When to Consider Postgres Partitioning 2023-09-12
2 Best Practices for Picking PostgreSQL Data Types 2023-08-24
2 Understanding AWS RDS Cost 2023-07-07
2 Timescale storage is now usage-based 2023-06-29
2 A PostgreSQL Developer’s Perspective: 5 Interesting Patches from Jan Commitfest 2023-03-08
1 Postgres GUI, Reimagined with AI: Code Smarter with SQL Assistant 2024-11-13
1 Boost Postgres Performance by 7x with Chunk-Skipping Indexes 2024-09-18
1 What We're Excited About PostgreSQL 17 2024-09-12
1 What Is ClickHouse and How Does It Compare to TimescaleDB for Time Series? 2024-08-01
1 Pgai Simplifies Workflows for RAG Applications on PostgreSQL 2024-06-19
1 Best Practices for Query Optimization on PostgreSQL 2023-12-09
1 Real-Time Analytics in Postgres: Why It's Hard (and How to Solve It) 2023-10-16
1 Is Postgres Partitioning That Hard? An Introduction to Hypertables 2023-10-12
1 Allowing DML operations in highly compressed time-series data in PostgreSQL 2023-10-03
1 Estimating RDS Costs 2023-07-24
1 How to Fix Transaction ID Wraparound 2023-05-11
4 Boosting Postgres Insert Performance by 50% with Unnest 2024-11-16
4 How to Create (Lots of) Sample Time-series Data with PostgreSQL (2021) 2024-11-23
2 Benchmarking PostgreSQL Batch Ingest 2024-12-03
3 Understanding DiskANN 2024-12-10
5 Stop Paying the OpenAI Tax: The Emerging Open-Source AI Stack 2024-12-18
3 Evaluating general purpose vs. domain specific models for financial RAG 2024-12-20
4 Stop Over-Engineering AI Apps 2025-02-19
3 How to Build a RAG System with Anthropic Claude on AWS 2025-03-12
2 Timescale architecture for real-time analytics [pdf] 2025-03-21
1 Speed Up Triggers by 7x with Transition Tables 2025-03-20
3 Postgres vs. Qdrant Vector Database Comparison 2025-04-29
1 Architecting Agentic AI: Lessons Learned Engineering Timescale's SQL Assistant 2025-05-20