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GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3
403•pella•3h ago•164 comments

Gemini 3.7 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-fl...
815•thisisauserid•15h ago•427 comments

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai
583•pr337h4m•14h ago•235 comments

Hello, me. It's been a while

https://themech.net/2026/08/hello-me-its-been-a-while/
194•somesoftdev•14h ago•94 comments

Show HN: Lumabri – Run Moe Models on a P2P Swarm with Colibri

https://github.com/JustVugg/lumabri
9•vforno•8h ago•1 comments

Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE

https://github.com/ArcadeMakerSources/ArcadeMaker
33•am-gm•2d ago•4 comments

Bluesky Protocol Services

https://atproto.com/blog/introducing-bluesky-protocol-services
160•danabramov•8h ago•30 comments

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

https://deepseek.com/harness/en/
653•bjin•20h ago•271 comments

Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain

https://www.elttam.com/blog/ruby-4-0-universal-rce-deserialization-gadget-chain
21•pentestercrab•2h ago•3 comments

Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun

https://www.frandroid.com/marques/xiaomi/3211257_photo-de-leclipse-on-a-perce-a-jour-la-petite-tr...
22•n_plus_1_acc•1h ago•4 comments

Spaghettifying DRAM

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts
611•matt_d•18h ago•158 comments

Mistral OCR 4.1

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1
337•spelk•15h ago•135 comments

Understanding is the new bottleneck

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck
322•sebg•14h ago•170 comments

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
335•tosh•15h ago•170 comments

What an improv stage can teach you about leading cross-cultural teams in Tokyo

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/yes-and-what-an-improv-stage-can-teach-you-about-leading-cross-...
9•pwim•1w ago•2 comments

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

https://donkeybas.com/
229•jkrauska•15h ago•105 comments

The Library of Ashurbanipal (2025)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/library-ashurbanipal
30•samizdis•3d ago•8 comments

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/nine-pbs-sues-iron-mountain-over-blocked-access-to-archival-data/
306•vinayakborkar•19h ago•175 comments

Blog about things you don't understand yet

https://www.seangoedecke.com/blog-about-things-you-dont-understand-yet/
97•gfysfm•9h ago•31 comments

How Compaction Works in Pi

https://earendil.com/posts/compaction-in-pi/
159•tosh•15h ago•62 comments

Credibility is the barrier to entry in silicon

https://www.siliconimist.com/p/credibility-is-the-barrier-to-entry
23•johncole•3d ago•8 comments

Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

https://0.mk/blog/link-rot
178•tdx•15h ago•164 comments

Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/40262
211•ValdikSS•14h ago•132 comments

NP-overrated

https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-13/
206•theanonymousone•12h ago•142 comments

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/how-organizations-use-chatgpt.pdf
105•malshe•13h ago•63 comments

Finite State Machines in Forth (1994)

https://www.forth.org/literature/noble.html
75•ofalkaed•5d ago•2 comments

The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNXzQ7V1S_k
46•voxadam•4d ago•14 comments

Ordinary Abundance

https://ordinaryabundance.com/
300•yen223•19h ago•157 comments

How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-proof-works-20200714/
103•tzury•13h ago•42 comments

Cave of the Crystals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Crystals
45•ColinWright•5d ago•2 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.