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Stack is the company blog at stack.convex.dev, writing about programming and web. Since 2023, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “How Convex Works”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Stack, Convex's engineering blog, for posts on caching, CRDTs, transactionally consistent subscriptions and how Convex works internally. Most links are cited as sources or pointers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- How Convex Works5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-04-02
- Databases Are Spreadsheets3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-18
- Fullstack-Bench3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-24
- Caching In: Defining, Optimizing, and Invalidating Your Cache2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-21
- The Magic of Embeddings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-24
- I reimplemented Mastra workflows with my own durable functions and I regret it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-03
What Hacker News says?
I find that I remember models being a lot better than they were, even when I remember them being not very good - because of a novelty factor ("whoa it can do that now?") mostly. And then I go back and look at them and its like, what how did I find this impressive. A funny example - I remember thinking "yeah sonnet 3.5 is a really good coding model" https://stack.convex.dev/using-cursor-claude-and-convex-to-b... >Pro…
Comment linking /using-cursor-claude-and-convex-to-build-a-social-media-scheduling-app
on “Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is”Submitted How Convex Works as a story · 96 points
HN discussionThere's no service, hosted or otherwise! It's a specification and open-source implementation for the data structure maintenance alone, and expects that users write their own backend as desired. https://stack.convex.dev/automerge-and-convex is a decent overview of many of the considerations.
Comment linking /automerge-and-convex
on “The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types”Submitted Fullstack-Bench as a story · 11 points
HN discussionConvex's queries[0] are another example, with perhaps a somewhat simpler approach to the tracking and invalidation. [0] https://stack.convex.dev/how-convex-works
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on “Materialized views are obviously useful”Submitted The "full-stack framework" fallacy as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThis is a good deep dive into the complexity around caching: https://stack.convex.dev/caching-in Having caching by default (like in Convex) is a really neat simplification to app development.
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on “Replacing a cache service with a database”Submitted How Convex Works as a story · 6 points
HN discussionConvex provides transactionally consistent subscriptions on arbitrary data joins/fetches out-of-the-box, simplifying complex data management challenges. Their recent blog post at https://stack.convex.dev/how-convex-works explains how this works under the hood.
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on “How to stream PostgreSQL CDC to Kafka and use Propel to get an instant API”Submitted A Map of Sync as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSolving the problem of having a transactionally consistent subscription on arbitrary data joins / fetches is hard, but it's so nice to have. If you haven't checked it out yet, Convex provides this out of the box. A blog post on how it works just landed today: https://stack.convex.dev/how-convex-works
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on “How to stream PostgreSQL CDC to Kafka and use Propel to get an instant API”Submitted Databases Are Spreadsheets as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI played around with Convex and tried an integration with dbcrust, but it feels quite different from conventional databases. I really like the idea of moving business logic as close as possible to the database, but I can’t see a natural way to integrate it — it feels a bit forced. I read this article: https://stack.convex.dev/translate-sql-into-convex-queries , but it suggests that dbcrust would need to deploy tasks…
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on “DBCrust – A modern database CLI”Submitted It's not you, it's SQL as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's an open source alternative with context retrieval and message storage: https://github.com/get-convex/convex-ai-chat (there are also versions using Assistants API and LangChain, linked from here: https://stack.convex.dev/ai-chat-using-openai-assistants-api )
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on “Show HN: CopilotKit- Build in-app AI chatbots and AI-powered Textareas”Submitted Introducing Convex Auth as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOne public comparison on latency is https://db-latency.vercel.app/ For comparisons, you can check out: https://stack.convex.dev/convex-vs-firebase https://stack.convex.dev/convex-vs-relational-databases https://www.convex.dev/compare/supabase https://www.convex.dev/compare/mongodb I'll save you more of a marketing pitch, since you seem to have enough of my pitching Convex in the article:) The bullet points at the bo…
Comment linking /how-convex-works
on “The "full-stack framework" fallacy”Submitted Are Vector Databases Dead? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agents Need Durable Workflows and Strong Guarantees as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fullstack-Bench as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Magic of Embeddings as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Site Up. Costs Down: Optimizing OpenClaw's 1M Weekly Active Users as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Convex MCP Server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fullstack-Bench as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Object Sync Engine for Local-First Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an AI bot for my personal blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Databases Are Spreadsheets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who's on Call? Learn to Sync Pagerduty with Slack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Pinecone and Embeddings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Convex Triggers as a story · 1 points
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