{"slug": "discourse", "name": "Discourse", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 6, "commenters": 20, "warners": 5, "score": 2.711, "rising": 2.02, "first": "2025-11-26", "latest": "2026-09-29", "why": "The nice thing about Discourse is, I feel like threads are more permanent.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 7, "compare": 3, "warn": 5}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 2, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "The nice thing about Discourse is, I feel like threads are more permanent.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "discourse.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.discourse.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Discourse"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 798212896, "item_id": 49888306, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49888306", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-09-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The nice thing about Discourse is, I feel like threads are more permanent.", "excerpt": "It takes a ton of work to run a forum. In the case of the two examples I linked, there's simply no alternative on Reddit, so it's not an option to use Reddit. Those communities are vastly more knowledgeable, organized, kind, fairly moderated, etc, compared to r/privacy. I guess you get what you put into it in terms of community. I used to be more interested in succulents. It's a shame mine have to stay under grow lig", "context": "", "use_case": "community forums", "switched_from": "", "story": "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"}, {"id": 793914960, "item_id": 49619685, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619685", "by": "Operyl", "date": "2026-09-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It is pretty easy to do plugins and custom themes in Discourse", "excerpt": "It is pretty easy to do plugins and custom themes in Discourse, most look the same just because the UX is good enough and we don't live in an era of hyper customization that early 2000s forums did. A good example of a pretty customized Discourse install is the Blizzard forums: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/blizzard/ and Unreal: https://forums.unrealengine.com/categories?tag=unreal-engine", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker"}, {"id": 791359169, "item_id": 49459948, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459948", "by": "reachableceo", "date": "2026-08-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use redmine and discourse.", "excerpt": "It\u2019s called using systems of record. I use redmine and discourse. Jointly with my stack of agents (COO) (managed by four very high trust humans via OWUI interacting with scoped Hermes profiles ). I\u2019m adopting this stack under me (CTO) and integrating it into agent zero", "context": "CTO adopting an agent stack", "use_case": "system of record for agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"}, {"id": 782145104, "item_id": 48884069, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884069", "by": "guerby", "date": "2026-07-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "discourse combines web forum and email, people can use either one as they see fit.", "excerpt": "discourse combines web forum and email, people can use either one as they see fit. https://github.com/discourse/discourse", "context": "", "use_case": "forum with email", "switched_from": "", "story": "Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media"}, {"id": 751300032, "item_id": 46956252, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956252", "by": "reddalo", "date": "2026-02-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Except for that, I love Discourse.", "excerpt": "I just wish that the whole badges thing was off by default. It's a forced gamification that's just annoying and doesn't really teach anything. Except for that, I love Discourse.", "context": "", "use_case": "community forum", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 785026960, "item_id": 49064185, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064185", "by": "cube00", "date": "2026-07-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's concerning that they're going with Discourse tags instead of categories so  project maintainers will never be allowed to moderate their own spaces.", "excerpt": "It's concerning that they're going with Discourse tags instead of categories so project maintainers will never be allowed to moderate their own spaces. The way sponsors will be allowed to \"gain visibility within a growing targeted audience\" is also vague. 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(I tried Discourse and it sucks.)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers"}, {"id": 765940960, "item_id": 47871310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871310", "by": "muzani", "date": "2026-04-22", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "The founders went on to found Discourse which has the exact same problems in community", "excerpt": "I believe everyone understands the root cause - people are afraid to ask questions, which stems from crappy moderation, which stems from the karmic system. The founders went on to found Discourse which has the exact same problems in community, which hints heavily that it's a problem with the system. What I would fix is the karma system. 1) Don't give mod powers and responsibilities to people with high karma; moderati", "context": "", "use_case": "community forum", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?"}, {"id": 751679152, "item_id": 46979947, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979947", "by": "zahlman", "date": "2026-02-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Discourse which defaults to an infinite-scroll view", "excerpt": "As a heads-up, the \"?page=N\" linking style is a bit wonky on discuss.python.org, as it's using Discourse which defaults to an infinite-scroll view using JavaScript. You can directly link posts by including a post ID (and also the thread title slug is irrelevant), thus: https://discuss.python.org/t/_/104854/121 Glad to see this one accepted. The absence of such a type has been conspicuous for me for years, although I ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Python Steering Council pleased to accept PEP 814 \u2013 Add frozendict built-in type"}]}], "who": [{"by": "reachableceo", "context": "CTO adopting an agent stack", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459948", "date": "2026-08-27"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["forum software", "community forum", "forum via cli wrappers", "community forums", "system of record for agents", "forum software for ruby community"], "compared": [{"slug": "redmine", "name": "Redmine", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "pgvector", "name": "pgvector", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "open-webui", "name": "Open WebUI", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 751272016, "item_id": 46954501, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954501", "by": "mjrbrennan", "date": "2026-02-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "if you want to self-host there have been a bunch of improvements in the setup process recently", "excerpt": "I responded to the other comment, but I work at Discourse. As a site admin you can disable badges (which is our gamification system) entirely, or you can get rid of individual badges. If you're interested in trying Discourse, our lowest hosting plan is $20/month, or if you want to self-host there have been a bunch of improvements in the setup process recently, see https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-j", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally"}, {"id": 751271392, "item_id": 46954462, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954462", "by": "mjrbrennan", "date": "2026-02-09", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I work at Discourse.", "excerpt": "I work at Discourse. As a regular user, if you want to prevent these new user badges (and notifications), head to /u/yourusername/preferences/interface and check \"Skip new user onboarding tips and badges\". It is in our plans to eventually rework how this new user education and notification system works, and I suppose eventually with https://id.discourse.com/ the intent would be that your preferences follow you to eve", "context": "works at Discourse", "use_case": "Community forum software", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally"}, {"id": 732916432, "item_id": 45807277, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45807277", "by": "xfalcox", "date": "2025-11-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Yes, all use PGvector.", "excerpt": "> what does the rag for uploaded files do in discourse? You can upload files that will act as RAG files for an AI bot. The bot can also have access to forum content, plus the ability to run tools in our sandboxed JS environment, making it possible for Discourse to host AI bots. > also, when i run a discourse search does it really do both a regular keyword search and a vector search? how do you combine results? Yes, i", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Case Against PGVector"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945742", "title": "Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755731", "title": "Bring Back Crappy Forums", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798479", "title": "The Case Against PGVector", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896604", "title": "Dots: Always-on agents", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877678", "title": "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49598921", "title": "Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"warn": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 3, "recommend": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-03": {"compare": 1}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1}, "2026-05": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"compare": 1, "neutral": 1, "recommend": 2, "warn": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 1, "compare": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 798406806, "item_id": 49900425, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900425", "by": "reachableceo", "date": "2026-09-29", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "redmine / discourse / GLPI", "excerpt": "I mean it\u2019s not exactly tin foil hat. I suspect when we see the s1 drop for these companies , the business plan will be essentially exactly what you just said. OpenWebUI has allowed me to avoid this. Combined with OpenTerminal. I am using zcode with GLM5.3 flash from z.ai due to the extra usage / air drops etc . However nothing I\u2019m doing is tied to that harness. When I moved from crush to Zcode , the first thing I di", "context": "", "use_case": "forum via CLI wrappers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dots: Always-on agents"}, {"id": 798212896, "item_id": 49888306, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49888306", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-09-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The nice thing about Discourse is, I feel like threads are more permanent.", "excerpt": "It takes a ton of work to run a forum. In the case of the two examples I linked, there's simply no alternative on Reddit, so it's not an option to use Reddit. Those communities are vastly more knowledgeable, organized, kind, fairly moderated, etc, compared to r/privacy. I guess you get what you put into it in terms of community. I used to be more interested in succulents. It's a shame mine have to stay under grow lig", "context": "", "use_case": "community forums", "switched_from": "", "story": "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"}, {"id": 793914960, "item_id": 49619685, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619685", "by": "Operyl", "date": "2026-09-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It is pretty easy to do plugins and custom themes in Discourse", "excerpt": "It is pretty easy to do plugins and custom themes in Discourse, most look the same just because the UX is good enough and we don't live in an era of hyper customization that early 2000s forums did. A good example of a pretty customized Discourse install is the Blizzard forums: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/blizzard/ and Unreal: https://forums.unrealengine.com/categories?tag=unreal-engine", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker"}, {"id": 791359169, "item_id": 49459948, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459948", "by": "reachableceo", "date": "2026-08-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use redmine and discourse.", "excerpt": "It\u2019s called using systems of record. I use redmine and discourse. Jointly with my stack of agents (COO) (managed by four very high trust humans via OWUI interacting with scoped Hermes profiles ). I\u2019m adopting this stack under me (CTO) and integrating it into agent zero", "context": "CTO adopting an agent stack", "use_case": "system of record for agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"}, {"id": 788117010, "item_id": 49257313, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257313", "by": "tolarianwiz", "date": "2026-08-11", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Discourse and Zulip are better for things that should be preserved", "excerpt": "Hi HN, I built Earde because none of the community tools I was using felt like it was designed for open-source projects. Discord is good for realtime chat, Discourse and Zulip are better for things that should be preserved, but I kept wanting one place that did both and was actually tied to the project itself. So on Earde you connect a public GitHub repo and get: -live chat -a public forum indexed by search engines -", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Connect a GitHub repo, get a community for your OSS project"}, {"id": 786636365, "item_id": 49164772, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164772", "by": "arkadzi_rakousk", "date": "2026-08-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I volunteer with Discourse", "excerpt": "Location: Belarus Remote: yes, or hybrid Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: ReactJS and SolidJS, Redux, MobX, Logux, HTML/CSS/JS/TS, Next.js, NodeJS/NestJS, Rust, WebAssembly, Vite, Webpack, and AI tools like Cursor, Claude, and OpenCode R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arkadzi-rakouski/ Email: arkadyrakovsky@gmail.com I\u2019m Arkadzi, a product engineer and a teammate with 7+ years of experience. I\u2019ve worked o", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"}, {"id": 785026960, "item_id": 49064185, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064185", "by": "cube00", "date": "2026-07-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's concerning that they're going with Discourse tags instead of categories so  project maintainers will never be allowed to moderate their own spaces.", "excerpt": "It's concerning that they're going with Discourse tags instead of categories so project maintainers will never be allowed to moderate their own spaces. The way sponsors will be allowed to \"gain visibility within a growing targeted audience\" is also vague. [1] [1]: https://products.rubyforum.org/sponsors#:~:text=gain%20visibility%20within%20a%20growing%20targeted%20audience", "context": "", "use_case": "Forum software for Ruby community", "switched_from": "", "story": "Calling all open source maintainers working with Ruby"}, {"id": 782145104, "item_id": 48884069, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884069", "by": "guerby", "date": "2026-07-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "discourse combines web forum and email, people can use either one as they see fit.", "excerpt": "discourse combines web forum and email, people can use either one as they see fit. https://github.com/discourse/discourse", "context": "", "use_case": "forum with email", "switched_from": "", "story": "Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media"}, {"id": 780236928, "item_id": 48764808, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48764808", "by": "realityfactchex", "date": "2026-07-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Discourse has one major technical challenge currently, that I know about. It doesn't work (for being logged in and interacting) on iOS 15 and older as of the past year. It's view-only for those devices. Because of a load-bearing CSS attribute, as I understand it. So, it's hard to consider it a web-standards supportive platform anymore. Or, at least, it's a web platform with a technical challenge of not being interact", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bring Back Crappy Forums"}, {"id": 780167267, "item_id": 48760454, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760454", "by": "ptx", "date": "2026-07-02", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "using Discourse", "excerpt": "FreeBSD forums, using XenForo which doesn't seem to be open source: https://forums.freebsd.org/ Arch Linux forums, using FluxBB: https://bbs.archlinux.org/ Free Pascal forums, using Simple Machines Forum: https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/ Python forums, using Discourse: https://discuss.python.org/ Nim forums, using their own nimforum software written in Nim: https://forum.nim-lang.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bring Back Crappy Forums"}, {"id": 780106801, "item_id": 48756675, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756675", "by": "unsungNovelty", "date": "2026-07-01", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Definitely better than Discourse.", "excerpt": "Forums are communities which are curated. If it has a good owner, it will nurture good discussions. Because they have to adhere to rules. Or be banned. There was a tech magazine forum in India which was crazy cool. Learned a lot from it. But most forums go through a learning process. Way too many great discussions and it gets popular. And then some new/old idiots will start pushing the lines which will lead to over m", "context": "", "use_case": "forum software", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bring Back Crappy Forums"}, {"id": 773388833, "item_id": 48336802, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336802", "by": "ksec", "date": "2026-05-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I wonder when will Discourse move to Ember 7.0?", "excerpt": "I wonder when will Discourse move to Ember 7.0? And Apple is still using Ember? I seems to remember they moved off it some years ago.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ember.js 7.0"}, {"id": 769319136, "item_id": 48082446, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082446", "by": "whyoh", "date": "2026-05-10", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I tried Discourse and it sucks.", "excerpt": "Why, is there a better alternative to the PHP-based forums? (I tried Discourse and it sucks.)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers"}, {"id": 765940960, "item_id": 47871310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871310", "by": "muzani", "date": "2026-04-22", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "The founders went on to found Discourse which has the exact same problems in community", "excerpt": "I believe everyone understands the root cause - people are afraid to ask questions, which stems from crappy moderation, which stems from the karmic system. The founders went on to found Discourse which has the exact same problems in community, which hints heavily that it's a problem with the system. What I would fix is the karma system. 1) Don't give mod powers and responsibilities to people with high karma; moderati", "context": "", "use_case": "community forum", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?"}, {"id": 756505713, "item_id": 47281607, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281607", "by": "ValentineC", "date": "2026-03-06", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Spectrum [1] was far better than Discourse", "excerpt": "Not exactly chat, but I thought Spectrum [1] was far better than Discourse as a modern, \"open\" forum. Then it got acquired by GitHub in 2018, presumably integrated into the main product, and their separate offering disappeared from the web (taking lots of valuable discussion with them). [1] https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic, Please Make a New Slack"}, {"id": 751679152, "item_id": 46979947, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979947", "by": "zahlman", "date": "2026-02-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Discourse which defaults to an infinite-scroll view", "excerpt": "As a heads-up, the \"?page=N\" linking style is a bit wonky on discuss.python.org, as it's using Discourse which defaults to an infinite-scroll view using JavaScript. You can directly link posts by including a post ID (and also the thread title slug is irrelevant), thus: https://discuss.python.org/t/_/104854/121 Glad to see this one accepted. The absence of such a type has been conspicuous for me for years, although I ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Python Steering Council pleased to accept PEP 814 \u2013 Add frozendict built-in type"}, {"id": 751406656, "item_id": 46962916, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962916", "by": "pseudalopex", "date": "2026-02-10", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Discourse was free to self host in 2024.", "excerpt": "Discourse was free to self host in 2024.[1] This changed? [1] https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-still-free-to-self-host/305454", "context": "", "use_case": "forum software", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"}, {"id": 751300032, "item_id": 46956252, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956252", "by": "reddalo", "date": "2026-02-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Except for that, I love Discourse.", "excerpt": "I just wish that the whole badges thing was off by default. It's a forced gamification that's just annoying and doesn't really teach anything. Except for that, I love Discourse.", "context": "", "use_case": "community forum", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally"}, {"id": 751180384, "item_id": 46948774, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948774", "by": "__jonas", "date": "2026-02-09", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Seems to work okay in general.", "excerpt": "Every single forum I see now is using this: https://github.com/discourse/discourse Seems to work okay in general. I'm not a big fan of the gamified notification system it seems to have - whenever I sign up for an instance, it'll send me things like \"Super reader achievement unlocked! You read 10 threads.\" or whatever. I suppose it can be turned off since it's OSS.", "context": "", "use_case": "Community forum software", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally"}, {"id": 749740225, "item_id": 46858764, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858764", "by": "gus_massa", "date": "2026-02-02", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "but I'm not sure how civilian friendly it is", "excerpt": "Most groups here in Argentina run on WhatsApp. You get like a hundred messages per day. Luckily someone pins the important messages, she deserves a medal. Racket is using https://www.discourse.org/contact , but I'm not sure how civilian friendly it is.", "context": "", "use_case": "Forum software", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?"}, {"id": 745910128, "item_id": 46619383, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619383", "by": "xfalcox", "date": "2026-01-14", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "That is a great fit for the GIF integration in Discourse.", "excerpt": "That is a great fit for the GIF integration in Discourse. I was able to quickly add support for it at https://github.com/discourse/discourse-gifs/pull/107 Love to see WEBP support. Do you plan on adding support for AVIF? Also, this is used by many Discourse sites, we should talk.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down"}, {"id": 737004816, "item_id": 46062801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062801", "by": "ErroneousBosh", "date": "2025-11-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'd far rather see those back over endless Discourse/Discord/reddit/facebook etc.", "excerpt": "For similar reasons, a while ago I created a forum and registered https://rangerovers.pub - it's about Range Rovers, and we thought about doing it while we were in a pub. The Bon Accord in Glasgow, to be specific, after a lot of very fine curry in the Koh-I-Noor (gone now, sadly). Gosh, now I look, it's ten years old in December. It's a pub. Where you talk about crappy old Landrovers and their ailments. It's also an ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "An Homage to 90s \u2013/Public_HTML Hosting"}, {"id": 732786593, "item_id": 45799162, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799162", "by": "xfalcox", "date": "2025-11-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We do at Discourse, in thousands of databases", "excerpt": "> Nobody\u2019s actually run this in production We do at Discourse, in thousands of databases, and it's leveraged in most of the billions of page views we serve. > Pre- vs. Post-Filtering (or: why you need to become a query planner expert) This was fixed in version 0.8.0 via Iterative Scans (https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector?tab=readme-ov-file#iterative-scan-options) > Just use a real vector database If you are running", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Case Against PGVector"}]}