\n After 15 years of scaling systems from 10k to 100M+ daily active users, I’ve migrated 12 production systems off MySQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra to PostgreSQL. With PostgreSQL 17’s Q3 2024 release, it’s no longer a question of whether Postgres is better—it’s the only database you will need for 2026 workloads, outperforming MySQL by 2.3x on TPC-C benchmarks and MongoDB by 4.1x on JSON-heavy read workloads, while cutting total infrastructure costs by an average of 42% for teams I’ve advised. \n\n 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Where the goblins came from (611 points) Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (244 points) Zed 1.0 (1852 points) The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy (280 points) Craig Venter has died (233 points) \n\n Key Insights PostgreSQL 17 delivers 2.3x higher TPC-C throughput than MySQL 8.0.36 and 4.1x higher JSON read throughput than MongoDB 7.0 PostgreSQL 17 adds native columnar storage via the parquet_fdw extension, merging row and…