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GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
93•ilreb•48m ago•51 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
34•prophittcorey•47m ago•10 comments

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
149•gregsadetsky•1d ago•54 comments

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp
187•deadxwarrior•10h ago•96 comments

Fingerprints are the new cookies

https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
606•royfish•18h ago•294 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
33•djfergus•4h ago•1 comments

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
197•lukaslalinsky•11h ago•75 comments

French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/french-supermarket-chains-cyberattack-forced-115141288.html
95•thinkcontext•1h ago•65 comments

Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crq5nzxv9q4yo
34•cataflam•1h ago•12 comments

Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/93njd414rpbx
118•dkpk•4h ago•107 comments

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

https://nanolathe.gg
625•jttnr•22h ago•232 comments

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search
147•bookofjoe•1d ago•125 comments

An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/an-unmade-film-shaped-hayao-miyazaki
38•vinhnx•2h ago•5 comments

Calculus with Julia

https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/
215•subset•2d ago•41 comments

QGIS bans AI assisted contributions

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387
323•bwnkl•5h ago•348 comments

Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby

https://blog.julik.nl/2026/10/the-weimar-of-ruby
52•julik•6h ago•13 comments

Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad

https://github.com/Geramy/LemonSeed-Studio
71•joshcsimmons•1d ago•19 comments

Choreographic Programming in Rust

https://github.com/hibanaworks/hibana
43•o8vm•1d ago•29 comments

I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google

https://simonkoeck.com/writeups/google-devsite-flask-session-pickle-rce
64•soeckly•9h ago•31 comments

Bag of Decisions Reranker

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/10/08/bag-of-decisions.html
60•zdw•1d ago•10 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
479•Anon84•1d ago•471 comments

Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
306•edent•21h ago•62 comments

Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deep-dive-into-azure-maia-300-architecture/
16•azhenley•2h ago•2 comments

Doory – Open-Source Canva

https://github.com/shaongitbd/doory
182•acley•16h ago•68 comments

Muse Wonder

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
9•meetpateltech•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

111•Ixander•1d ago•116 comments

Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/french-supermarket-chain-intermarche-hit-by-cybe...
18•salaryman777•2h ago•2 comments

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
613•albertzeyer•20h ago•880 comments

AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/12/ai-less-regulated-than-milk-microsoft-presiden...
49•nephihaha•4h ago•48 comments

Passkeys are a trap

https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them
924•laurex•19h ago•481 comments
Open in hackernews

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.