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A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

https://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/
655•lwhsiao•5h ago•132 comments

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/
136•sohkamyung•2h ago•31 comments

Iroh 1.0

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1
922•chadfowler•10h ago•282 comments

I Love the Computer

https://michaelenger.com/blog/i-love-the-computer/
131•speckx•5h ago•83 comments

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

https://tinywind.io
587•tinywind•9h ago•122 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

659•cloudking•10h ago•326 comments

Why I email complete strangers

https://www.goodinternetmagazine.com/why-i-email-complete-strangers/
65•karakoram•3h ago•34 comments

Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible

https://gmalandrakis.com/writings/ad-economicum.html
83•l0new0lf-G•4h ago•138 comments

My Homelab AI Dev Platform

https://rsgm.dev/post/ai-dev-platform/
233•rsgm•10h ago•46 comments

US battery manufacturing output continues to break records

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPG33591S
151•epistasis•4h ago•122 comments

Hetzner Price Adjustment

https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/#cloud-servers
323•tuhtah•11h ago•467 comments

What every coder should know about Gamma Correction

https://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/09/21/what-every-coder-should-know-about-gamma/
54•sph•2d ago•18 comments

What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes

https://notnotp.com/notes/what-job-interviews-taught-me-about-kubernetes/
81•chmaynard•5h ago•72 comments

Fox to buy Roku

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9
271•thm•12h ago•362 comments

How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data

https://roszigit.com/en/blog/timescaledb-compression-hypercore
114•lkanwoqwp•7h ago•14 comments

Game Engine White Papers Commander Keen

https://forgottenbytes.net/commander_keen.html
152•mfiguiere•7h ago•52 comments

An O(x)Caml book that runs

https://kcsrk.info/ocaml/oxcaml/teaching/nptel/llm/2026/06/13/an-oxcaml-book-that-runs/
21•anirudh24seven•2d ago•7 comments

Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B

https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2026/06/15/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-t...
272•colesantiago•13h ago•207 comments

Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins

https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/copper-drug-restores-memory-and-clears-toxic-alzheimers-prot...
247•bookofjoe•10h ago•92 comments

Cohere's First Model for Developers

https://cohere.com/blog/north-mini-code
5•hmokiguess•4d ago•1 comments

Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture

39•PrimalNick•8h ago•50 comments

Factoring "short-sleeve" RSA keys with polynomials

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/12/factoring-short-sleeve-rsa-keys-with-polynomials/
74•ledoge•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding

https://fata.dev
75•djoume•4d ago•44 comments

Claude Corps

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-corps
75•Mustan•7h ago•55 comments

How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/2026/06/15/how-memory-safety-cves-differ-between-rust-and-c-cpp.html
107•nicoburns•9h ago•102 comments

Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes

https://maurycyz.com/projects/glass/1/
126•zdw•1d ago•40 comments

Boot Naked Linux

https://nick.zoic.org/art/boot-naked-linux/
93•abnercoimbre•9h ago•48 comments

Show HN: Vet turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis

https://grassdx.com/
35•andrewbr•7h ago•31 comments

The ghost domain problem in DNS, and what we're doing about it

https://ohdear.app/news-and-updates/the-ghost-domain-problem-in-dns-and-what-were-doing-about-it
7•Mojah•3d ago•1 comments

Typst 0.15.0

https://typst.app/docs/changelog/0.15.0/
276•schu•7h ago•77 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.