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.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?

https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/nic.de
502•warpspin•4h ago•224 comments

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/
423•amrrs•8h ago•189 comments

Write some software, give it away for free

https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026
108•nohell•3h ago•73 comments

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/
297•palashawas•7h ago•156 comments

Three Inverse Laws of AI

https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html
342•blenderob•9h ago•242 comments

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI
212•brudgers•8h ago•49 comments

Why most product tours get skipped

https://productonboarding.com/articles/why-product-tours-get-skipped
53•pancomplex•3h ago•41 comments

NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5807918/polymarket-panama-prediction-market
151•ilamont•2h ago•68 comments

Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

https://paletteinspiration.com/
93•ouli•6h ago•36 comments

Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say

https://apnews.com/article/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-publishers-lawsuit-llama-5609846d4d840014974a8...
87•jethronethro•2h ago•10 comments

GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752
104•gmays•6h ago•23 comments

Agents for financial services and insurance

https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents
190•louiereederson•9h ago•141 comments

I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph

https://mohibulsblog.netlify.app/java/100daysofjava/graph/
21•celurian92•2d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

89•mtricot•9h ago•15 comments

I'm scared about biological computing

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/I%27m-Scared-About-Biological-Computing
134•kuberwastaken•8h ago•116 comments

California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php
249•littlexsparkee•6h ago•311 comments

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
1217•john-doe•16h ago•830 comments

Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723
242•adrianmsmith•12h ago•327 comments

Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013)

https://www.audubon.org/news/urban-birds-are-rising-earlier-because-traffic-noise
22•thunderbong•2d ago•5 comments

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

https://www.robert-glaser.de/when-everyone-has-ai-and-the-company-still-learns-nothing/
304•youngbrioche•15h ago•215 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring- 200k for junior engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/L3copvK-founding-engineer
1•pablo24602•7h ago

Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?

https://distr.sh/blog/running-docker-in-production/
346•pmig•5d ago•255 comments

IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260505-00/?p=112298
293•SeenNotHeard•7h ago•170 comments

Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer

https://physicsworld.com/a/researchers-print-structural-colour-with-an-inkjet-printer/
45•zeristor•2d ago•7 comments

Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publ...
229•spankibalt•6h ago•164 comments

iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

https://walletwallet.alen.ro/blog/ios-27-wallet-create-pass/
374•alentodorov•12h ago•284 comments

Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/underwater-robot-tracks-sperm-whale-conversations-re...
50•thedebuglife•2d ago•10 comments

The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory

https://academic.oup.com/logcom/article/34/6/1032/7158523
20•danny00•2d ago•0 comments

Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/xbox-ceo-ends-copilot-ai-development-overhauls-leadership-3361353/
24•gmays•1h ago•1 comments

Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/02/comparing-the-z80-and-6502-to-their-relatives/
107•ibobev•2d ago•23 comments
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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.
genai-analyst•12mo 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.

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.