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How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel
1•CortexFlow•26s ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding
1•phi-system•37s ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8
1•vkelk•1m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD
1•mmoogle•2m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
1•saikatsg•3m ago•0 comments

Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw
2•ykdojo•7m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3
3•gmays•8m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
2•dhruv3006•9m ago•0 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
2•mariuz•10m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
2•RyanMu•13m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
2•ravenical•16m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
3•rcarmo•17m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
2•gmays•18m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
2•andsoitis•18m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
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Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
2•Malfunction92•22m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
2•carnevalem•22m ago•1 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•24m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
2•rcarmo•25m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•26m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•26m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

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3•Brajeshwar•26m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

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2•Brajeshwar•26m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•27m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
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Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•35m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
2•zdw•35m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

What UI do you use on top of data engineering tools to look at data?

1•platypii•1mo ago
Tools like DuckDB Wasm and data engineering platforms like Iceberg leverage Parquet’s built-in indexing to very efficiently query files over the network. But as I’ve been building data tools myself, the stack gets complicated fast, especially once you try to visualize or explore the data instead of just querying it. I’m intrigued by some of the modern tricks people are using to do more data engineering client-side.

With OPFS + Parquet + Wasm, the browser already has everything it needs to handle multi-GB LLM datasets client-side.

Is the world of data UIs evolving? Are there new data tools and best practices beyond notebooks and DuckDB?

Comments

rawgabbit•1mo ago
Having tried a variety of tools, I usually return to Snowflake. Within Snowflake, I don't use notebooks; instead, I prefer to create database Views to contain my code. I may have Views that call other Views etc. I like Snowflake because for every query in its UI, it automatically profiles the results it returns. e.g., for each column it gives a frequency distribution histogram of the values within the column. In short, I like the ability to store my code in something I can easily backup and re-use without adding a lot of other tools.
platypii•1mo ago
Makes sense. I'm not currently in snowflake because I'm mostly working with local parquet files. Would prefer not to have to pay for snowflake just to explore my data. I'm interested in better data UIs though so I might need to check it out.
rawgabbit•1mo ago
To keep costs down. I use standard edition with x-small data warehouse. The biggest cost driver is CPU or how long queries run.