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New comment by blef in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

blef — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:42:50 +0000

I am building nao, an open-source analytics agent. With nao you can connect all your sources of context (from warehouse to your knowledge base) using a CLI, and then you have an agent that sits on top of it.

You can use the agent from any client (web, Slack, Teams but also other harnesses).

We think most of data analytics work will be transformed (and is already being transformed) from SQL monkeys to chat to analyses, but all the UI/UX are not designed for this and this is what nao is, being open-source because knowing how the context is managed is key.

With nao you can have a conversation and then shared the output on the form of a story, that can be either static or live replacing what old dashboards were.

We are close to 1k stars on Github: https://github.com/getnao/nao

New comment by blef in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

blef — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:54:46 +0000

I really like the YouTube app to be honest and I really dislike the web version, so to me it does not work.

New comment by blef in "Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics"

blef — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:40:51 +0000

Reminds me https://www.agentsview.io/.

New comment by blef in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

blef — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:54:18 +0000

Ironic to see how popular this post is when you see the amount of generated AI companies are at YC (here I also take the blame).

Nonetheless I like this policy as well.

New comment by blef in "React library to add mentions in textarea"

blef — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:18:05 +0000

Thank you! I have to put the Storyboard online and a few screen of what you can do with it

React library to add mentions in textarea

blef — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:55:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/getnao/prompt-mentions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323304

Points: 2

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New comment by blef in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

blef — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:06:12 +0000

I'm working most of my time on nao [1] (an open-source analytics agent).

With nao we are exploring the fact that agents are good to work with filesystems, so we help people getting the context into the filesystem and then you can plug our agent loop on top (on anything else).

The most exciting part is working with sandboxes and emulating filesystems. So at the moment the filesystem is local, but it could be a bucket or a database that we emulate as real filesystem for the agentic loop, all of this can also be mounted to sandboxes, and in the end you can do data transformations all in isolation with control on the context.

[1] https://github.com/getnao/nao

ISON Format

blef — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:10:56 +0000

Article URL: https://ison.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259406

Points: 2

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Nimble gets $75M to build web datasets for AI agents

blef — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:07:53 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/nimble_data/status/2026288589735403716

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139577

Points: 2

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Data teams should become context teams

blef — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:25:01 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewaiorder.substack.com/p/data-teams-should-become-context

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946246

Points: 2

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New comment by blef in "The foundation powering modern AI agents"

blef — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:48:37 +0000

I feel it's a bit weird to redirect "Get started" to a Stripe page. When clicking on Get started i'd love to see more what's behind like it's used to be.

Nonetheless i like the idea.

New comment by blef in "Mistral Launches Vibe 2.0"

blef — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:17:49 +0000

Not sure about the naming, wouldn't something with Mistral naming better to understand what it is? Like Mistral Code or Mistral CLI or Clistral (lol)

New comment by blef in "I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor"

blef — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:14:40 +0000

The title would have been event better if: "I had ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then it called my doctor"

Comparison of 14 data analytics agents

blef — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:23:13 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewaiorder.substack.com/p/i-tested-14-analytics-agents-so-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46640900

Points: 1

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New comment by blef in "Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access"

blef — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:38:00 +0000

Supporting Iceberg is eventually having people leaving you because they have better elsewhere, but this is birectionnal, it means you can welcome people from Databricks because you have feature parity.

New comment by blef in "Against SQL (2021)"

blef — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:28:48 +0000

Feels old when you see how it played out to become SQL for everything in the data ecosystem lately.

Even though SQL as flaws, maybe a lot, it has one upside which is: it's so easy to onboard people on it, in the data ecosystem (warehousing etc.) it means that we can do way much stuff faster than before and hire less technical people, which is great

New comment by blef in "Ex–Stellantis CEO says Tesla could exit the car industry and may not exist in 10"

blef — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 07:34:05 +0000

sad it's paywalled, but the title is interesting

New comment by blef in "Django 6.0 beta 1 released"

blef — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:40:51 +0000

I'm curious to see how you successfully got working well the types as I'm lost in the nightmare for a few days.

New comment by blef in "Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica"

blef — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:05:21 +0000

What could go wrong.

Dbt Labs open source MetricFlow

blef — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:46:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dbt-labs/metricflow/pull/1905

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582171

Points: 1

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