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Ghostty is leaving GitHub

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
1511•WadeGrimridge•4h ago•471 comments

ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop

https://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-heres-the-full-attribution-loop/
59•lmbbuchodi•37m ago•15 comments

Before GitHub

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
224•mlex•3h ago•59 comments

Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo

https://dustri.org/b/carrot-disclosure-forgejo.html
77•bo0tzz•2h ago•18 comments

OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs

https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-openai-ceo-sam-altman-and-aws-ceo-matt-garman-abou...
166•translocator•5h ago•62 comments

I won a championship that doesn't exist

https://ron.stoner.com/How_I_Won_a_Championship_That_Doesnt_Exist/
68•SEJeff•3h ago•49 comments

Intel Arc Pro B70 Review

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/intel-arc-pro-b70-review/
95•zdw•4d ago•58 comments

Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity rewires the brain after an experience

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-type-of-neuroplasticity-rewires-the-brain-after-a-single-exp...
47•ibobev•1d ago•0 comments

GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown

https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854
229•bo0tzz•8h ago•58 comments

CJIT: C, Just in Time

https://dyne.org/cjit/
81•smartmic•5h ago•23 comments

Claude for Creative Work

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work
6•elsewhen•44m ago•3 comments

Your phone is about to stop being yours

https://keepandroidopen.org/en/
917•doener•9h ago•454 comments

Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?

https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-wrote
236•senaevren•13h ago•278 comments

Claude system prompt bug wastes user money and bricks managed agents

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/49363
6•thomashobohm•31m ago•1 comments

Warp is now open-source

https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source
138•meetpateltech•8h ago•49 comments

Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages

https://samizdat.dev/phantom-patch/
75•reconquestio•1d ago•20 comments

APL\? (1990)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/97811.97845
14•tosh•4d ago•6 comments

I have officially retired from Emacs

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/04/26/
176•Fudgel•2d ago•107 comments

A playable DOOM MCP app

https://chrisnager.com/blog/doom-runs-in-chatgpt-and-claude/
73•chrisnager•5h ago•27 comments

Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

https://github.com/localsend/localsend
728•bilsbie•12h ago•228 comments

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Full Stack Software Engineers (Remote)

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/infisical/782b9da8-20e1-48b2-919e-6c5430c58628
1•vmatsiiako•7h ago

Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor

https://github.com/trycua/cua
47•frabonacci•8h ago•20 comments

VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI

https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice
311•tosh•12h ago•166 comments

Choo Choo Words: Spell words to make train tracks, stop the train from crashing

https://choochoowords.chyuang.com/
4•yongyongyong•1d ago•2 comments

UAE to leave OPEC

https://www.ft.com/content/8c354f2d-3e66-47f1-aad4-9b4aa30e386d
320•bazzmt•11h ago•453 comments

Waymo in Portland

https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/waymo-in-portland/
237•xnx•6h ago•353 comments

Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

https://status.claude.com/incidents/9l93x2ht4s5w
264•shorsher•6h ago•220 comments

Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/no-fly-zones-around-moving-ice-vehicles-this-drone-pilot-...
161•Bender•4h ago•54 comments

An update on GitHub availability

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/
304•salkahfi•14h ago•207 comments

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie
632•jekude•1d ago•258 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•11mo 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.