DuckDB Isn't Just Fast(csvbase.com)

88 points by calpaterson 2 years ago | 23 comments

How to check if two SQL tables are the same(github.com)

243 points by remywang 3 years ago | 108 comments

Show HN: NoSQL, but it's SQLite(gist.github.com)

57 points by vsroy 1 year ago | 34 comments

My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website(csvbase.com)

951 points by qsantos 3 years ago | 249 comments

A csvbase blog post showing how to fetch and analyze the European Central Bank's exchange-rate zipfile using curl, sqlite, pandas and gnuplot.

Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server(blog.habets.se)

444 points by guntars 1 year ago | 138 comments

Blog post describing building an HTTPS web server in Rust using io_uring and kernel TLS to avoid system calls on the request path.

Show HN: Centia.io – Open PostgreSQL/PostGIS back end for developers(centia.io)

16 points by mhoegh 1 year ago | 3 comments

Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies(build-your-own.org)

386 points by not_a_boat 1 year ago | 48 comments

Blog post from build-your-own.org arguing complex software like databases can be learned by building a small version, introducing a 3000-line, zero-dependency database.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

Train Your Own LLM from Scratch(github.com)

376 points by kristianpaul 5 months ago | 43 comments

GitHub repository by angelos-p providing code and docs for training your own large language model from scratch.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.