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banditelol··on Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach
Yesssss

The video version is also a lot of fun to watch while doing dishes

banditelol··on Building durable workflows on Postgres
For some interesting alternative for postgres as queue (actually more like kafka log), I like what pgque does https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque rather than using select for updates and other semantic, it uses snapshot and table truncate to reduce bloat. I havent used it for my dayjob but the different approach is refreshing to see and interesting for different system trade off.
banditelol··on Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents
Sounds cool, I want to try this kind of things out, but do you have or planned to have a sandboxing environment, where the agent can try running the query in let say duckdb first to confirm its validity/result before sending it over to bq? Or use something like tablesample when developing the query to reduce cost? One more thing, how do you compare with nao ( https://github.com/getnao/nao ), it's something I've followed for a while and seem to answer similar issue as what ktx build
banditelol··on I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support
what model you used with llama_cpp?
banditelol··on Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base
Probably this one (Tolaria) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882697
banditelol··on Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator
Cool, I've tried localstack before and cant wait to give it a try

Anyway, do anyone know if there're similar stuff but for gcp? So far https://github.com/goccy/bigquery-emulator helped me a lot in emulating bigquery behaviour, but I cant find emulator for the whole gcp environment.

banditelol··on Show HN: Seapie – a Python debugger where breakpoints drop into a REPL
Cool, can you share your setup for python and your current ide?
banditelol··on A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go
https://github.com/MedUnes/go-kata-solutions seems like they intended to create the solutions too, but seems like there's no progress yet
banditelol··on Go ahead, self-host Postgres
One of the things that made me think twice for self hosting postgres is securing the OS I host PG on. Any recommendation where to start for that?
banditelol··on Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator
I tried this before, but since I often need to open different browser even if a link came from the same app, I ended up moving to https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus

Not to say you cant use both tho

banditelol··on Fivetran to acquire Census
I've tried airbyte, sling, and dlt (besides building several tools from scratch)

My best bet for now will be dlt if you have dedicated DE team, but sling will get you a long way for moving data around your warehouse

banditelol··on Fivetran to acquire Census
Hi, I've been loking something like this! Any of your custumer has success story migrating off bigquery to your platform? And how do you compare to motherduck? (Looks like you built some of ypur stack on top of duckdb)
banditelol··on Show HN: Benchmarking VLMs vs. Traditional OCR
Anyone have tried comparing with Qwen VL based model? I heard good things about its performance on ocr compared to other self hostable model, but haven't really tried benchmarking its performance
banditelol··on Show HN:Free Online Tool to Experience Microsoft's MarkItdown
Now you make me wonder if I could run this entirely inside pyscript
banditelol··on Demystifying Git Submodules
I think you want something aling the line of dvc (github.com/iterative/dvc)
banditelol··on Show HN: BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics
Looking at the syncer it seems like copying data to csv from the whole table everytime (?) Code: https://github.com/BemiHQ/BemiDB/blob/6d6689b392ce6192fe521a...

I cant imagine until at what scale can you do this and is there anything better we can do before using debezium to sync the data via cdc?

Edit: add code permalink

banditelol··on Cats are (almost) liquid
Lol I automatically read C&H as Cyanide and Happiness
banditelol··on Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
I'm curious what kind of quick calculation do you usually use llm for?

Edited for clarity

banditelol··on Web scraping with your web browser: Why not?
If we're talking about chrome extension, yes.

But firefox extension expose API to inspect the response stream.

banditelol··on Self-hosted offline transcription and diarization service with LLM summary
From the context it seems to mean Joint Venture?
banditelol··on Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers
Congrats on the launch!

I've been evaluating evidence and observable framework for a while, and this seems like a nice addition as alternative

But I just realized you require login when using vs code, what is it used for? And can I completely self host this?

Thans!

banditelol··on Optimizing ClickHouse: Tactics that worked for us
> We opted to use the ClickHouse Kafka Connect Sink that implements batched writes and exactly-once semantics achieved through ClickHouse Keeper.

Just a heads up, You've got repeated line there

banditelol··on Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
Have you compared it with poetry or pip-tools? I'm thinking of trying pixi but still can't muster up energy to do it. Especially since for my use case poetry and pip-tools cover most of it.
banditelol··on That's a Lot of YAML
I ended up reading from their github https://github.com/ghuntley/noyaml/blob/master/index.html
banditelol··on Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
I'm also quite surprised there's no option for self hosting metadata on the free tier. To be fair, in my experience having managed metadata server for prefect (while they have similar Bring Your Own Server model) is quite hard to get right. But at the end we decided to keep maintaining it because our company prefer having all the data in our servers (including metadata).

But I'm still excited to try this, since at least now I could play around (and learn) with a partially kafka compatible system, without the burden of maintaining all of Kafka parts (and costs). Thanks!

banditelol··on Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered
I noticed it uses fixed Auth header, is it from your session or consistent across session/user?
banditelol··on Over 40% of the latest YC batch are AI/ML startups
> Not all the steps (->) here are trivial: Contrast HF to Explosion (great folks behind spacy).

Can you elaborate more on this? about contrasting HF to Explosion?

banditelol··on Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in
Nice app and concept

I'm wondering if you considered or is using RDF for the linking (since Wikipedia, imdb, etc. seems to implement some kind of ontology)

banditelol··on Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time
What does the author mean by "degrade gracefully through time" ?
banditelol··on Advancing our approach to digital currency
> Today their research is focused on new mechanisms to improve scalability and enable offline digital currency transactions.

I'm a bit lost here about offline digital currency transactions, I have no clue on what concept can make it possible, can anyone enlighten me please?

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