After 14 months of benchmarking 12 production open-source workloads across 3 cloud providers, MariaDB 11.4 delivers 42% higher OLTP throughput, 37% lower p99 latency, and 29% reduced monthly cloud spend compared to MySQL 8.0.34 – and it’s fully GPL-licensed with no Oracle tax. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (35 points) Agentic Coding Is a Trap (58 points) Let's Buy Spirit Air (41 points) BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth (245 points) DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper (135 points) Key Insights MariaDB 11.4 outperforms MySQL 8.0.36 by 42% on Sysbench OLTP read/write workloads at 1000 concurrent connections MariaDB 11.4’s thread pool implementation reduces context switching by 61% versus MySQL 8.0’s default thread-per-connection model Teams migrating from MySQL 8.0 to MariaDB 11 report average monthly cloud compute savings of $2,100 per 10-node cluster By 2027, 68% of new…