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Who ClickHouse Competes With (And Who It Doesn't)

benjaminwootton — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:34:00 +0000

Article URL: https://newcadence.io/insights/who-clickhouse-competes-with

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50204845

Points: 1

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New comment by benjaminwootton in "Mistral raises €3B"

benjaminwootton — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:56:40 +0000

It’s thought to be because it’s a private company but it’s very well cited.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data"

benjaminwootton — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:29:18 +0000

Of course they have a say in it. It’s bordering on neglect to give a 10 year old that junk.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

benjaminwootton — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:52:56 +0000

It’s been on the long slow decline for a decade. It used to be filled with interesting content and made it easy to access interesting people and get your message out. It’s really in the dregs now but I still open it and post to it more out of habit than anything. I’ve deleted the app and just use it from my laptop to try and break the habit and it’s very questionable ROI.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

benjaminwootton — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:39:21 +0000

Every big business in the world biases towards risk reduction and cost reduction over getting an edge.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "An oral history of Bank Python (2021)"

benjaminwootton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:44:19 +0000

I was lucky enough to start my career sat on the next desk across from Kirat. Genius programmer and nice guy! He later went on to found Beacon platform which was the same again, as a cloud hosted service.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

benjaminwootton — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:35:41 +0000

You can vibe code a clone of Trello in 30 minutes.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

benjaminwootton — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:24:05 +0000

Brilliant framing. If you understand a domain and understand software architecture then you are in an extremely strong position right now.

Deploying Agentic Analytics in Financial Services

benjaminwootton — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:46:47 +0000

Article URL: https://benjaminwootton.com/insights/agentic-analytics-financial-services

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036208

Points: 1

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New comment by benjaminwootton in "Google Workspace CLI"

benjaminwootton — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:07:14 +0000

They need something like this as it's hard and flaky to automate Google apps with AI. However, step 2 drops me to a fairly technical looking page where I have to configure Google Cloud. If they had a one click installer to automate Google Apps it would be an absolute killer use case for AI for me.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "ClickHouse Agentic Data Stack"

benjaminwootton — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:11:40 +0000

A demo of using an LLM/agent to analyse data stored in ClickHouse. This stuff is getting really good!

ClickHouse Agentic Data Stack

benjaminwootton — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:11:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubQOsCfjMTI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013299

Points: 3

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New comment by benjaminwootton in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

benjaminwootton — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:37:01 +0000

I’ve been saying the same and the same about data more generally. I don’t want to go and look, I want to be told about what I need to know about.

What's the Point of Clawdbot?

benjaminwootton — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:24:07 +0000

I personally don't get it.

I can interact with ChatGPT and Claude directly using apps on my phone.

I can already upload pictures and files from my phone to both the above.

Before long those apps will be able to access other data sources on my phone directly such as email, Google Drive with better integration.

I never need to work with files stored on my Mac mini remotely when I'm out and about. Most of my stuff is in the cloud anyway.

We already have Cowork, computer use, addons for Chrome for trying to connect AI to a browser.

All of these options are quite janky and unreliable even with the most useful use case for AI - email management and calendar management.

I personally see zero value or real use cases in this outside of a fun hack but the influencers are going wild.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780322

Points: 3

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New comment by benjaminwootton in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

benjaminwootton — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:39:38 +0000

I wish I knew the difference. I’ve ran or been close to tens of businesses over the last 20 years and we’ve always paid the Google tax, but I’m not sure it’s ever had a positive ROI.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

benjaminwootton — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:35:36 +0000

The AdWords platform is extremely complicated nowadays, and try as I might I can’t get any impressions from it. I then went through a period with an AdWords specialist from their team who also couldn’t get any impressions. It’s like they don’t want or need my money.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

benjaminwootton — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 10:15:42 +0000

It’s yet another way for investors to screw early employees whose face doesn’t fit.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument"

benjaminwootton — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:04:42 +0000

The bigger issue is that LLMs haven’t had much training on Q as there’s little publically available code. I recently had to try and hack some together and LLMs couldn’t string simple pieces of code together.

It’s a bizarre language.

New comment by benjaminwootton in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

benjaminwootton — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:05:17 +0000

There is some truth in this. I fit into a few of these buckets and I don’t think I could ever recommend their enterprise stuff after having my favourite consumer products pulled.

Note to My Present Self

benjaminwootton — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:31:34 +0000

Article URL: https://yewjin.substack.com/p/note-to-my-present-self

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45471038

Points: 2

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