7.11.25 | AI's impact on open-source productivity, Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY scalability issues, Grok searches X for Elon Musk's messages

Hacker News Highlights · Jul 11, 2025 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 11, 2025.

Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale

https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490510

Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527190

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