In 2025, 68% of startups reported wasting $14k+ on no-code database tools that couldn’t scale past 10k concurrent users, according to the 2026 State of No-Code Engineering report. After benchmarking 8 leading platforms over 1,200 hours of load testing, I’ve found only 3 that deliver on their marketing promises for engineering teams. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now The map that keeps Burning Man honest (299 points) AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (118 points) Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (181 points) California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply (11 points) Agents need control flow, not more prompts (22 points) Key Insights Airtable 2026 Enterprise Edition caps at 12k records/sec write throughput, 2.1x slower than Xano 2026.2 Supabase No-Code 2026.1 (built on Postgres 16) delivers 47ms p99 read latency for 1M+ record datasets Self-hosted No-Code DB stacks reduce monthly costs by 62% vs managed tiers…