361
Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB
DuckDB can now directly query tables stored in PostgreSQL and speed up complex analytical queries without duplicating data.
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 561 posts.
362
Same Stats, Different Graphs: Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Stats
Why graphical representation and visualization are so important to...
363
Revisiting the principles of data-oriented programming
Principles of Data-Oriented Programming. Benefits and costs of Data-Oriented Programming. DOP vs OOP. DOP vs FP.
364
365
Supabase Wrappers: A framework for building Postgres foreign data wrappers
A framework for building Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers which connects to Stripe, Firebase, Clickhouse, and more.
366
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility
Late last year I told you about our plans to add PostgreSQL compatibility to Amazon Aurora. We launched the private beta shortly after that announcement, and followed it up earlier this year with an open preview. We’ve received lots of great feedback during the beta and the preview and have done our best to make […]
367
Why Cassandra Doesn't Need Vector Clocks
Deepening watsonx capabilities to address enterprise gen AI data needs with DataStax.
368
Moving away from HDF5
Cyrille Rossant,
369
Modelling a Basic Income with Python and Monte Carlo Simulation
Basic Income is a popular policy floating around the internet lately. The idea consists of declaring that the government will pay each living adult a fixed amount of money every month - an amount comparable to a minimum wage job. This policy would then replace all current welfare programs - welfare, unemployment …
370
371
Which topics get the upvote on Hacker News?
Hacker News is a popular social news website, mostly covering technology and startup topics. It relies on user submissions and moderation, where each submitted story can be upvoted and commented by users, which in term determines whether the story reaches the front page and how long it stays there.
372
AuthZ: Scalable permissions system
How we built an authorization system based on Google Zanzibar
373
374
Jepsen: YugaByte DB 1.3.1
2019-09-05: YugaByte’s blog post states YugaByte DB “passes Jepsen tests”. We feel obligated to state that YugaByte DB’s Jepsen test suite does not pass, though it may in the future. Race conditions in YugaByte DB’s schema system can cause correctness errors. For example, inserting rows into a freshly-created table…
375
376
mrjob: Yelp open sources its Elastic MapReduce framework for Python
mrjob: Distributed Computing for Everybody Dave M Search and Data-Mining Engineer Oct 29, 2010 Ever wonder how we power the People Who Viewed this Also Viewed… feature? How does Yelp...
377
Pocket Watch: Verifying Exabytes of Data
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
378
379
380
Large-scale graph computing at Google
Posted by Grzegorz Czajkowski, Systems Infrastructure TeamIf you squint the right way, you will notice that graphs are everywhere. For example, soc...
381
Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
Tailscale and SQLite developers traced maddening corruption incidents to find the WAL-Reset data race, then uncovered a second stale expression index bug.
382
GPT in 500 Lines of SQL
A complete GPT2 implementation as a single SQL query in PostgreSQL.
383
The DuckDB Local UI
The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a local UI for DuckDB shipped as part of the ui extension.
384
385
Common color mistakes and how to avoid them
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
386
CockroachDB 1.0
Launching CockroachDB 1.0, a production-ready release with distributed SQL and multi-active availability in two tiers: CockroachDB Core and CockroachDB Self-hosted.
387
The Problem with Perceptual Hashes
Apple just announced that they will use “perceptual hashing” to detect illegal photos on iPhones. I have some experience to share on this technology.
388
Stop syncing everything
Discover Graft, an open-source transactional storage engine built to solve the challenges of syncing data at the edge. Inspired by lessons from SQLSync, Graft enables lazy, partial, and strongly consistent replication—allowing edge applications to sync only the data they need, exactly when they need it.
389
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
The 2024 Year End Drive Stats Report is here. See the the latest annualized failure rates and data insights for the Backblaze drive fleet.
390
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup
You are brought into a startup to run their three-person data team. This is a story about teams and organization, and how you spend a year getting the team to a good place.