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Supabase
Company blog · supabase.com/blog · on HN as inianprogrammingdata
Supabase is the company blog at supabase.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2021, 292 different Hacker News readers have linked it 620 times, most often “Superbase – Open-source Firebase alt. – Build in a weekend Scale to billions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Supabase's blog posts and docs for its Postgres-based backend: row-level security, auth, realtime, edge functions, self-hosting, and product launches. Commenters often point to them as references.
- Recommended for · 3 comments
- One commenter called a Supabase realtime post an interesting read, another an approachable introduction to its auth, and another said a blog post may be of inte
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings. Start for free.
Most-linked posts?
- Superbase – Open-source Firebase alt. – Build in a weekend Scale to billions30 people · 33 mentions · first linked 2021-11-30
- Postgres WASM10 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2022-10-03
- /pricing8 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2022-01-21
- Supabase Acquires OrioleDB7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-04-15
- /7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-01-30
- Show HN: Supabase Clippy – ChatGPT for Supabase Docs6 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2023-02-07
- Multigres: Vitess for Postgres6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2025-06-10
- Should I Open Source my Company?6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-03-25
- Pgvector: Embeddings and vector similarity – Supabase Docs6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-03-26
- Choosing a Postgres Primary Key5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-09-08
What Hacker News says?
Here's a vendor, but the underlying functionality is shipped with Postgresql server https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level...
Comment linking /docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-security
on “"We ran out of columns"”Submitted Postgres WASM as a story · 887 points
HN discussionI was wondering about Supabase as well. It appears that they are well on thier way to supporting all possible runtimes. https://supabase.com/compute
Comment linking /compute
on “Cloudflare acquires Deno”Submitted Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol as a story · 501 points
HN discussion(Supabase employee) Edge Functions are built on the Deno runtime today, but importantly, we operate our own infrastructure and don't depend on Deno's hosted services. While Deno is winding down active development over the next year, the Deno team has committed to contributing bug and security fixes until then. And we'll continue our work with the Deno team to incorporate critical improvements to the Edge Function ru…
Comment linking /compute
on “Cloudflare acquires Deno”Submitted Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL as a story · 431 points
HN discussionThis has been tried with Supabase using electricsql https://supabase.com/partners/integrations/electricsql Interestingly the team at electricsql are now rewriting their solution because it didn’t scale and was too complex https://next.electric-sql.com/about
Comment linking /partners/integrations/electricsql
on “Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase”Submitted OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community as a story · 413 points
HN discussionhttps://supabase.com/blog/react-native-offline-first-waterme... may be of interest. https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-crdt seems to be abandoned but would be the next logical step beyond this.
Comment linking /blog/postgres-crdt
on “I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously”Submitted Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface as a story · 366 points
HN discussionFree postgres you say? Check out Supabase: https://supabase.com/
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on “Removal of Heroku free product plans”Submitted Supabase – Realtime: Multiplayer Edition as a story · 356 points
HN discussion> The real risk is having one person build it all > having to pretend to have a team In case you're talking specifically about supabase here, we're a full team: https://supabase.com/humans.txt
Comment linking /humans.txt
on “Postgres WASM”Submitted Should I open source my company? (2022) as a story · 341 points
HN discussion[3] https://supabase.com/.well-known/security.txt That "What we promise:" section reads like a not so subtle threat framing, rather than a collaborative, even welcoming tone one might expect. Signaling a legal risk which is conditionally withheld rather than focusing on, I don't know, trust and collaboration would deter me personally from reaching out since I have an allergy towards "silent threats". But, that's jus…
Comment linking /.well-known/security.txt
on “Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database”Submitted Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest as a story · 338 points
HN discussionSupabase engineer here working on MCP. A few weeks ago we added the following mitigations to help with prompt injections: - Encourage folks to use read-only by default in our docs [1] - Wrap all SQL responses with prompting that discourages the LLM from following instructions/commands injected within user data [2] - Write E2E tests to confirm that even less capable LLMs don't fall for the attack [2] We noticed that…
Comment linking /.well-known/security.txt
on “Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database”Submitted Postgres Auditing in 150 lines of SQL as a story · 313 points
HN discussionI'm surprised we haven't seen more "real" attacks from these sorts of things, maybe it's just bc not very many people are actually running these types of MCPs (fortunately) in production. Wrote about a similar supabase case [0] a few months ago and it's interesting that despite how well known these attacks feel even the official docs don't call it out [1]. [0] https://blog.sshh.io/i/161242947/mcp-allows-for-more-pow…
Comment linking /docs/guides/getting-started/mcp
on “Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database”Submitted We are moving to General Availability as a story · 272 points
HN discussionhttps://supabase.com/pricing - 500MB, 2GB download/month (can be used as plain PostgreSQL) https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing - 5GB, 250M "request units"/month (distributed, PostgreSQL-ish https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/postgresql-compati... ) I was not aware of the other portions of the free compute tier from Fly.io, was looking into Oracle Cloud. ( Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier? Sep 20…
Comment linking /pricing
on “Free Postgres databases for small projects”Submitted Supabase Edge Functions as a story · 268 points
HN discussion> Over time the limitations of MCP have started to emerge. The most significant is in terms of token usage: GitHub’s official MCP on its own famously consumes tens of thousands of tokens of context, and once you’ve added a few more to that there’s precious little space left for the LLM to actually do useful work. Supabase MCP really devours your context window. IIRC, it uses 8k for its search_docs tool alone, just o…
Comment linking /docs/guides/getting-started/mcp
on “Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP”Submitted Supabase is acquiring Turso as a story · 222 points
HN discussionThis is good advice for techies, who are usually good at the “do things” and but not the “tell people”. The same principle applies to a startup/side-project. At supabase we call this “ship and shout”, which is about as simple as it sounds (Ant wrote about our full “process” here: https://supabase.com/blog/2021/11/26/supabase-how-we-launch ) The other one that took us some getting-used-to was being repetitive on plat…
Comment linking /blog/2021/11/26/supabase-how-we-launch
on “Do things, tell people (2012)”Submitted GraphQL is now available on Supabase as a story · 222 points
HN discussionIf you are building using Supabase stack (Postgres as DB with pgVector), we just released a built-in embedding generation API yesterday. This works both locally (in CPUs) and you can deploy it without any modifications. Check this video on building Semantic Search in Supabase: https://youtu.be/w4Rr_1whU-U Also, the blog on announcement with links to text versions of the tutorials: https://supabase.com/blog/ai-infere…
Comment linking /blog/ai-inference-now-available-in-supabase-edge-functions
on “Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer”Submitted Supabase Vault as a story · 198 points
HN discussionthis is basically supabase. their entire stack (and product) can be hosted as a series of something like 10+ docker containers: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting/docker however, like always, 'complexity has to live somewhere'. I doubt even Opus 4.5 could handle this. as soon as you get into database records themselves, context is going to blow up and you're going to have a bad time
Comment linking /docs/guides/self-hosting/docker
on “Go ahead, self-host Postgres”Submitted Implementing "seen by" functionality with Postgres as a story · 197 points
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