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Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/
57•prakashqwerty•3h ago•25 comments

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-disco...
300•DamnInteresting•10h ago•93 comments

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html
80•dougdude3339•2d ago•11 comments

Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?

https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001YQLdMKAX/why-is-vivado-20261-dropping-linux-...
203•zdw•7h ago•88 comments

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam/
175•spike021•11h ago•79 comments

Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler

https://github.com/ClickHouse/silk
46•animetyan•3d ago•5 comments

Wake up! 16b

https://hellmood.111mb.de/wake_up_16b_writeup.html
281•MaximilianEmel•11h ago•19 comments

The C64 Dead Test Font

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2026/c64-dead-test-font
60•masswerk•8h ago•8 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-alexander-grothendieck-revolutionized-20th-century-mathematics...
79•anujbans•8h ago•14 comments

All Lean Books and Where to Find Them

https://lakesare.brick.do/all-lean-books-and-where-to-find-them-x2nYwjM3AwBQ
15•atomicnature•3h ago•0 comments

Time to talk about my writerdeck

https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/
384•hggh•17h ago•231 comments

Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.70079
50•mpweiher•4d ago•18 comments

Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1072657/394b87abd7cc215e/
11•mkesper•3d ago•0 comments

On The <dl> (2021)

https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/
404•ravenical•23h ago•118 comments

My two-part desk setup (2025)

https://arslan.io/2025/11/18/my-two-part-desk-setup/
302•James72689•3d ago•167 comments

The Art of Money Getting

https://kk.org/cooltools/book-freak-210-the-art-of-money-getting/
308•dxs•23h ago•164 comments

Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility

https://sales-and-dungeons.app/
103•hyperific•2d ago•32 comments

My I3-Emacs Integration

https://khz.ac/software/i3-integration.html
84•nosolace•12h ago•25 comments

Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization

https://aresluna.org/key-in-sight/
17•anotherevan•4d ago•4 comments

Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out

https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/
235•RyeCombinator•7h ago•83 comments

Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo

https://github.com/arashthr/hugo-flow
6•arashThr•3d ago•1 comments

Judson's Last Ride

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/22/judsons_last_ride_154150.html
109•NaOH•23h ago•5 comments

Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah

https://www.milwaukeemag.com/schlitz-is-gone/
36•NaOH•2d ago•16 comments

Neoclassical C++: segmented iterators revisited

https://boostedcpp.net/2026/05/18/neoclassical-c-segmented-iterators-revisited-1/
32•ibobev•1d ago•14 comments

Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/green-card-changes-trump.html
915•tlhunter•1d ago•1521 comments

Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street

https://victoriaritvo.com/blog/hengefinder/
154•evakhoury•1d ago•35 comments

Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/kindle-loyalists-scramble-amazon-turns-page-old-...
177•cf100clunk•4d ago•209 comments

80386 microcode disassembled

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/
255•nand2mario•23h ago•49 comments

-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code

https://olano.dev/blog/dangerously-skip/
161•fagnerbrack•1d ago•156 comments

Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html
105•elpocko•19h ago•21 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.
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.

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.