Tech and Non-Tech Stacks to Run Listen Notes (2025)(listennotes.fm) I wrote about the tech stack of Listen Notes in early 2018 (with a slight update in 2019) in a blog post that got shared several times on Hacker News. It’s 2025 now, and with the evolution of our product lineup, my mindset, and technology itself (plus the decay of outdated tools), I think it’s time for a refresh.
Do It Yourself Database CDN with Embedded Replicas(turso.tech) Imagine you have a user in Singapore, and your database is in the US. Every time the user makes a request, it has to travel halfway around the world, which can lead to high latency and poor performance.
Show HN: Spice.ai OSS 1.0 – data query and AI-inference engine built in Rust(spiceai.org) 🎉 Today marks the 1.0-stable release of Spice.ai Open Source—purpose-built to help enterprises ground AI in data. By unifying federated data query, retrieval, and AI inference into a single engine, Spice mitigates AI hallucinations, accelerates data access for mission-critical workloads, and makes it simple and easy for developers to build fast and accurate data-intensive applications across cloud, edge, or on-prem.
Show HN: Cerbos. Open source, horizontally scalable, stateless authorization(github.com/cerbos) Cerbos is an authorization layer that evolves with your product. It enables you to define powerful, context-aware access control rules for your application resources in simple, intuitive YAML policies; managed and deployed via your Git-ops infrastructure. It provides highly available APIs to make simple requests to evaluate policies and make dynamic access decisions for your application.
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System Intiative is generally available(systeminit.com) I’m incredibly proud to announce the general availability of System Initiative. It’s a revolutionary technology that is the future of how you will build DevOps automation.