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viggy28/streambed: Stream Postgres to Apache Iceberg on S3 via logical replication, queryable over the Postgres wire protocol. · GitHub

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Postgres-to-Iceberg CDC engine. Offload analytical queries from your production database without changing your application. streambed streams WAL changes via logical replication, writes Parquet files to S3, and commits Iceberg metadata. Query the result with any Iceberg-compatible engine -- or use the built-in query server, which speaks the Postgres wire protocol so you can connect with psql. Same analytical query on pgbench (1M accounts, 500K history rows). Postgres on the left, Streambed on the right. No ETL. No Spark. Just Postgres + S3. # Start…

Netball Super League: Manchester Thunder finished first with a last-gasp win over Lightning while London Pulse finished second

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🔥 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: London Pulse finished second to the Thunder thanks to their 62-51 win over Nottingham Forest on Sunday.Olivia Cheney led the way for the Pulse with 48 goals while Anya Williams was top scorer for Forest with 31 goals.The Pulse win helped them finish on 36 points and move one point above Loughborough who jumped into second place.Thunder and Pulse will compete in the 'Main' semi-final with the winner qualifying directly to the Grand Final.Third-placed Lightning play fourth-placed Forest in the 'minor' semi-final.The winner of…

Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Well, that was fast. Less than 24 hours after Valve announced renewed availability of the Steam Deck OLED (at a massively increased MSRP), the handheld is once again listed as “out of stock” in the US and Canada. Spot checks of other regional Steam stores on Thursday morning showed the hardware as still available across Europe and Australia for the time being, as well as in Asian countries through Valve’s sales partner Komodo. While it’s hard to know from the outside just how many…

The two biggest movies this weekend were directed by YouTubers

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🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,backrooms,Curry Barker,Kane parsons,obsession,YouTube 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The horror pipeline from YouTube to prestige looks pretty strong this weekend. No. 1 at the box office is "Backrooms," a feature film expansion of Kane Parsons' YouTube video series featuring bizarre found footage of a mysterious office space (taken from a 4chan thread) that defies physics. Backrooms, directed by Parsons, is expected to gross an estimated $81 million at the domestic box office this weekend alone. This is the biggest opening ever for independent studio A24 - the previous…

Scientists found that the creatine supplement millions take for muscle gains is quietly raising brain energy levels and slowing early Alzheimer’s cognitive decline by 30%

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Tens of millions of people take creatine every day. They bought it for their muscles. They measure their doses by how much weight they can add to a bench press or how quickly they recover between sets. Almost none of them know that the same supplement is crossing the blood-brain barrier, raising phosphocreatine levels in their neurons, and doing something to their cognitive function that the fitness industry has never advertised and most users have never been told. A comprehensive review published in the…

“This is good” artist KC Green reaches agreement with artificial intelligence startup Artisan

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✨ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,Startups,artisan,kc green 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After criticizing a startup called Artisan for misusing his work, artist KC Green — creator of the popular "This is Fine" meme — said he has reached an agreement with Artisan. The dispute arose after the startup appeared to be using a version of Green's art to promote its AI assistant Ava. In Artisan's bus and subway ads, Green's signature dog sat amidst recognizable flames, but instead of saying "That's good," he announced, "My pipeline's on fire," while the ad urged…

The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Note: These are personal reflections on how my workflow has shifted over the past year, not a pitch for any tool. Your mileage will (and probably should) vary. A few years back I wrote about my love of throwaway prototypes; those little proof-of-concepts that exist purely to get an idea out of your head and into something tangible. At the time, my biggest bottleneck was me; the time it took to scaffold a project, wire up the boring bits, and get to a place…

Understanding the controversy surrounding AI psychosis

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🔥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,AI,Google,Aaron Levie,DuckDuckGo,Equity podcast,ai psychosis 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Box founder Aaron Levy got us talking this week with a social media post suggesting that tech CEOs are “uniquely vulnerable to AI psychosis.” In the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosik, Sean O'Kane, and I did our best to explain Levy's comment. For one thing, we note that he does not disavow AI tools, but merely insists that CEOs actually need them is used Those tools to understand. This is a relatively mild note of skepticism compared to other…

Talk is Cheap – by Jake

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This is a continuation of the discussion in How I’m thinking about the value of LLMs. I’m arguing elsewhere that LLMs will never be geniuses. This is not part 2 of The Ontology Argument.In How I’m thinking I said I wasn’t ready to take a stance on LLM value creation. That changes in this post. Here is the stance I’m taking:On average, how we’re using LLMs is likely destroying value.My stance originates from stumbling on Faros.ai - a software development telemetry firm. They have products…

TechCrunch Mobility: It doesn’t matter that people hate Ferrari Los

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✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,Ferrari,jony ive,Waymo,Rivian,robotaxis,techcrunch mobility,slate auto ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation, and now, more than ever, how AI plays a role. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free – just click TechCrunch Mobility! If you're a fan of electric cars or sports cars, you've surely seen the fight over Ferrari The first fully electric car, Los. Reaction has been swift and scathing for the five-seat electric car designed by an Apple veteran Jony Ive Its price is…