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Muse Spark 1.3

https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/
160•bvaldivielso•1h ago•82 comments

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-c...
677•bratao•5h ago•397 comments

I wanna live an NPC life

https://signalundefied.bearblog.dev/i-wanna-live-an-npc-life/
45•conferza•57m ago•20 comments

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html
112•donohoe•6h ago•51 comments

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds
30•surreal_•1h ago•6 comments

Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-fo...
323•teekert•8h ago•138 comments

Wendell Berry has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.html
68•Curiositry•1d ago•34 comments

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-p...
209•randycupertino•7h ago•59 comments

Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/65/async-rust-vs-rtos-showdown/
29•kooi•2h ago•10 comments

Qantas Airbus A380 catastrophic engine failure in 2010 (2023)

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62d...
25•gumby•2h ago•8 comments

Exit the Cave

https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave
161•akkartik•6h ago•42 comments

A practical guide to running 8x RTX PRO 6000's

https://www.gpupartner.com/blog/a-practical-guide-to-running-8x-rtx-pro-6000s
12•Retell15•2d ago•10 comments

Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them

https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/
158•mdp2021•7h ago•71 comments

SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods

https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15597
84•HelloUsername•5h ago•47 comments

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-released-september-1-1982/
297•giuliomagnifico•12h ago•152 comments

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cache-transcoding/
36•torutofu•1d ago•11 comments

A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards

https://clui.org/collections/los-alamos-business-cards/selection-cards
118•1970-01-01•2d ago•25 comments

AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens

https://www.rosenfeld.page/articles/programming/2026_09_02_ai_agents_and_the_refactoring_that_nev...
14•rosenfeld•59m ago•15 comments

Making the Internet Boring

https://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/08/30/making-the-internet-boring/
41•zdw•3d ago•21 comments

Poisson Disk Sampling

https://stripeacross.com/posts/poisson-disk-sampling/
102•vismit2000•7h ago•16 comments

Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

https://forums.paint.net/topic/134562-paintnet-52-alpha-build-9739/
142•judah•3h ago•117 comments

A note on subscription prices from LWN

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090585/
649•rwky•7h ago•128 comments

WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine

https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm
66•saikatsg•6h ago•16 comments

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/
248•jakobgreenfeld•6h ago•116 comments

Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x

https://frontierharness.org
58•shiqimei•4h ago•31 comments

Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]

https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea...
5•Eridanus2•42m ago•0 comments

I Don't Have a Smartphone

https://ploum.net/2026-09-02-i_dont_have_a_smartphone.html
170•speckx•2h ago•166 comments

Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form

https://nooshu.com/blog/2026/03/09/using-cloudflare-workers-and-recaptcha-v3-for-a-static-site-co...
9•speckx•2h ago•2 comments

Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf]

https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/consensus-policies/rsep-2026013-name-request-15-04-2026-en.pdf
43•greyface-•1d ago•34 comments

Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers and designers [Berlin, on-site]

https://careers.telli.com/
1•sebselassie•12h ago
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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.