We were burning $42,000 a month on managed PostgreSQL 17 instances to power our analytics dashboards, with p99 query latency hitting 11 seconds for 1TB+ joins. Adding DuckDB 1.2 as an embedded OLAP engine cut that bill by 40% (saving $16,800/month) and dropped p99 latency to 210ms, with zero changes to our application layer. Here’s how we did it, with benchmarks, production code, and hard numbers. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (382 points) Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (255 points) Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (485 points) Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce (355 points) The map that keeps Burning Man honest (570 points) Key Insights PostgreSQL 17’s native partitioning and parallel query execution combined with DuckDB 1.2’s OLAP-optimized columnar execution cuts mixed workload cloud spend by 40% on average across 12 production deployments.…