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Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent

https://www.engadget.com/2254419/muse-the-band-lost-its-social-media-handles-to-muse-meta-s-new-a...
145•_djo_•1h ago•58 comments

iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
853•thecosmicfrog•6h ago•1650 comments

Shopify acquires Tailwind

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify
879•EdwinHoksberg•11h ago•349 comments

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html
355•evakhoury•1d ago•217 comments

AirPods 5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-act...
365•awad•7h ago•301 comments

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe
201•bookofjoe•7h ago•366 comments

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/
266•meetpateltech•7h ago•278 comments

No Man's Sky Cosmos

https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/
290•Limb•9h ago•309 comments

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and
340•ModelForge•10h ago•119 comments

Apple Watch Series 12

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/introducing-apple-watch-series-12-with-the-all-new-health-...
204•Lealen•7h ago•239 comments

Factoring RSA 260

https://cognition.com/blog/factoring-rsa-260
14•samyok•4h ago•2 comments

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

https://gist.github.com/wsxiaoys/e0286dc6bb624ff5fdf49e7f4c528ba3
166•wsxiaoys•7h ago•69 comments

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/
386•willwhitedc•13h ago•92 comments

GNU Radio in the browser

https://gnuradioworld.com/
168•kristianpaul•9h ago•23 comments

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/
356•xlii•13h ago•217 comments

Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/
153•davidfischer•9h ago•51 comments

Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzard-workers-win-historic-union-contract-that-could-set-a-n...
69•dbg31415•2h ago•3 comments

Planet Labs' open satellite feed

https://tech.marksblogg.com/planet-labs-open-satellite-feed.html
141•marklit•9h ago•26 comments

Use Vsock with Libzmq

https://blog.remijouan.net/posts/libzmq-vsock-pyzmq/
24•remijouannet•2d ago•2 comments

Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 (2014)

https://labguysworld.com/Project_ESCRTs_001.htm
11•userbinator•1d ago•2 comments

Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please

https://blog.hofstede.it/bespoke-a-programming-language-for-people-who-say-please/
121•birdculture•3d ago•29 comments

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

https://ai.meta.com/muse/
639•yks•1d ago•703 comments

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/once-popular-for-attacking-ai-ascii-smuggling-is-embrace...
44•utiiiD•4d ago•23 comments

Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y75dl0jpko
46•bookofjoe•2d ago•9 comments

Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue

https://opusfived.dev/
1001•matthieu_bl•15h ago•392 comments

Scanned, segmented, and animated my keyboard. Now you can type on my keyboard

https://chyuang.com/gaussian-splats/
4•yongyongyong•1d ago•0 comments

What will our economic future look like?

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/econ-scenarios
171•oumua_don17•11h ago•326 comments

Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09153
43•omarsar•7h ago•13 comments

Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up

https://www.jamescherti.com/emacs-consult-speed-async-searche-grep-ripgrep-fd-find/
45•mpweiher•7h ago•19 comments

Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/KuVVqSh-content-systems-builder-editor
1•zman0225•13h ago
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Anatomy of a SQL Engine

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-04-25-sql-engine-anatomy/
168•ingve•1y ago

Comments

jimbokun•1y ago
Very nice write up enumerating all the stages of SQL query execution. Interesting even if you don’t care about the DoIt database specifically.
Austizzle•1y ago
Man, this title tripped me up for a minute because I pronounce it with the letters like Ess-Queue-Ell

So the "A" in "A ess-queue-ell" engine felt like it should have been an "An" until I realized it was meant to be pronounced like "sequel"

perching_aix•1y ago
Not necessarily, I see native speakers completely ignore this a lot.

Have you ever considered pronouncing it as squirrel by the way?

kreetx•1y ago
Many (most?) non-native English speakers do pronounce it as ess-queue-ell, especially in their own languages, so yes, the use of "a" instead of "an" does look off from that perspective.
SloopJon•1y ago
When I read SQL for Dummies almost thirty years ago, it made a point of distinguishing "sequel" as a historical predecessor to standard "SQL." As I recall, the author even asserted that SQL is not an acronym/initialism for structured query language. I felt funny saying sequel for the next decade or so, because I wasn't an old timer experienced with this pre-SQL technology.

Now I usually say sequel because everyone else does. That and it rolls off the tongue better than S-Q-L.

jtolmar•1y ago
I prefer "ess queue ell" these days, but the first DBA I ever worked with pronounced it "squirrel".
gopalv•1y ago
This is a great write up about a pull-style volcano SQL engine.

The IR I've used is the Calcite implementation, this looks very concept adjacent enough that it makes sense on the first read.

> tmp2/test-branch> explain plan select count() from xy join uv on x = u;

One of the helpful things we did was to build a graphviz dot export for the explains plans, which saved us days and years of work when trying to explain an optimization problem between the physical and logical layers.

My version would end up displayed as SVG like this

https://web.archive.org/web/20190724161156/http://people.apa...

But the calcite logical plans also have that dot export modes.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-4197

th0ma5•1y ago
This is really great!!
gavinray•1y ago
Calcite also has a relatively-unknown web tool for plan visualization that lets you step through execution.

It's a method from "RuleMatchVisualizer":

https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/36f6dddd894b8b79edeb5...

Here's a screenshot of what the webpage looks like, for anyone curious:

https://github.com/GavinRay97/GraphQLCalcite/blob/92b18a850d...

ignoreusernames•1y ago
I recommend anyone who works with databases to write a simple engine. It's a lot simpler than you may think and it's a great exercise. If using python, sqlglot (https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot) let's you skip all the parsing and it even does some simple optimizations. From the parsed query tree it's pretty straightforward to build a logical plan and execute that. You can even use python's builtin ast module to convert sql expressions into python ones (so no need for a custom interpreter!)
Abde-Notte•1y ago
Second this - building even a simple engine gives real insight into query planning and execution. Once parsing is handled, the core ideas are a lot more approachable than they seem.
albert_e•1y ago
Sorry for slight digression.

In a larger system we are building we need a text-to-sql capability for some structured data retrieval.

Is there a way one could utilize this library (sqlglot) to build a multi-dialect sql generator -- that is not currently solved by directly relying on a LLM that is better at code generation in general?

LtdJorge•1y ago
This is a SQL to X library, though. I don’t think it’s what you need.
gavinray•1y ago
You can use an LLM to generate query-builder expressions from popular libraries in whatever language.

For example, on the JVM there is jOOQ, which allows you to write something like:

  select(field("foo"), avg("bar")).from(table("todos"))
And then it will render dialect-specific SQL. It has very advanced emulation functionality for things like JSON aggregations and working around quirks of dialects.

Alternatively, you can ask an LLM to generate a specific dialect of SQL, and then use jOOQ to parse it to an AST, and then render it as a different dialect, like:

    val parser= DSL.using(SQLDialect.POSTGRES).parser()
    val parsedQuery = parser.parseQuery(postgresQuery)
    val renderedMySQL = DSL.using(SQLDialect.MYSQL).renderInlined(parsedQuery)
    println(renderedMySQL)
Unsure if functionality like this exists in other Query Builder libraries for other languages.
KyleBrandt•1y ago
Using dolthub's go-mysql-server for Grafana's upcoming SQL expressions feature (private preview in Grafana 12, but in the OSS version with a feature toggle).

GMS lets you provide your own table and database implementations, so we use GMS to perform SQL queries against Grafana's dataframes - so users can join or manipulate different data source queires, but we don't have to insert the data into SQL to do this thanks to GMS.

genai-analyst•1y ago
another digression here... sorry... i see you're trying to diy text-to-sql—at some point you're gonna hit a bunch of hiccups. like, the model writes a query that “almost” works but joins the wrong tables, or it assumes column names that don’t exist, or it returns the wrong agg because it misread the intent. and retries won’t always save you—it’ll just confidently hallucinate again.

we’ve been through all of that at wobby.ai we ended up building a system where the data team defines guardrails and reusable query templates, so the agent doesn’t just make stuff up. it can still handle user prompts, but within a safe structure. if you want to save yourself from debugging this stuff endlessly, might be worth checking out wobby.ai.