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Transcribe.cpp

https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpp
519•sebjones•9h ago•106 comments

Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
108•nh43215rgb•1h ago•47 comments

Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated

https://training.perforce.com/learn/courses/535/p4-helix-core-user-basic
12•TZubiri•1h ago•27 comments

Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb

https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine/tree/main/micro
453•petewarden•4d ago•59 comments

Codex Resets

https://codex-resets.com/
182•denysvitali•10h ago•132 comments

Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

https://github.com/stupside/castor
194•xonery•8h ago•50 comments

Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-still-dont-know-the-fastest-way-to-mult...
109•beardyw•5d ago•73 comments

Searchable field-level encryption on Supabase with CipherStash

https://supabase.com/blog/searchable-field-level-encryption-with-cipherstash
36•dandraper•3d ago•18 comments

The Kimi K3 Moment

https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/
401•sbochins•16h ago•428 comments

Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/scrying-the-amd-gfx1250-llvm-tea
26•mfiguiere•4h ago•0 comments

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais_cdc_proof_announcement_gpt56_used_a/
562•mbustamanter•20h ago•359 comments

Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb
161•cdrnsf•12h ago•110 comments

If You Build It, They Will Come

https://www.benlandautaylor.com/p/if-you-build-it-they-will-come
407•barry-cotter•18h ago•140 comments

Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum [pdf]

https://ibm-1401.info/pictures/Proc-MIW-2017-Garner-1401PDP1.pdf
9•rbanffy•1w ago•1 comments

Making Software: How to make a font

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-to-make-a-font
44•Garbage•5d ago•8 comments

Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics

https://hjerpbakk.com/blog/2026/07/14/umami-for-apps
16•Sankra•4d ago•2 comments

Classic Amiga titles, free to download

https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/
117•doener•11h ago•16 comments

A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software

https://www.marciot.com/mac68k-visual-catalog/
40•zdw•1w ago•5 comments

Boys' ADHD symptoms linked to addictive social media use in new study

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/boys-adhd-symptoms-linked-to-addictive-social-media-use-in...
11•jnord•1h ago•0 comments

Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

https://ykdojo.github.io/claude-controls-mac/
232•ykev•17h ago•158 comments

I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp

https://mssv.net/2026/04/29/im-making-strandfall-a-solarpunk-orienteering-larp/
156•surprisetalk•5d ago•20 comments

Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307
215•Ygg2•16h ago•211 comments

How the Elite See Rome

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/rome-elite-tourism-imago-artis/687621/
10•bookofjoe•5d ago•3 comments

NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings

https://petapixel.com/2026/07/16/mayor-mamdani-says-landlords-cant-secretly-use-ai-images-to-adve...
470•gnabgib•11h ago•206 comments

Elixir-lang.org has a new design

https://elixir-lang.org/
229•bbg2401•18h ago•129 comments

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/#fnref:3
207•subset•8h ago•79 comments

Gleam Is Now on Tangled

https://tangled.org/gleam.run/gleam
234•nerdypepper•18h ago•146 comments

Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?

https://charlesazam.com/blog/fable-5-gpt-5-6-sol-goal/
240•couAUIA•22h ago•116 comments

I built a browser-based P2P file transfer tool using WebRTC

https://airdows.com/
23•SamOkampo•7h ago•14 comments

Deepsec

https://github.com/vercel-labs/deepsec
31•handfuloflight•8h ago•4 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.
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.