<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bleonard</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bleonard</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:35:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bleonard" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "How GLM built its own inference infrastructure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have been running a lot of agentic benchmarks with the various loops and tool calls on longer threads - we routinely see 90%+<p>Just checking now: recent runs tau3[1] was at 96% and toolathlon[2] was at 90%<p>[1] <a href="https://www.induction.ai/docs/benchmarks/tau3" rel="nofollow">https://www.induction.ai/docs/benchmarks/tau3</a>
[2] <a href="https://www.induction.ai/docs/benchmarks/toolathlon" rel="nofollow">https://www.induction.ai/docs/benchmarks/toolathlon</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:01:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744344</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744344</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been spending all my time recently thinking about LLM costs. From that, I am currently of the mind that the most interesting question is if they can get it to work in the first place. After that, like with "performance" in the past, I believe there are ways to optimize things. We see the code harnesses doing this out of necessity, for example.<p>Some of the tools we use: <a href="https://www.induction.ai/docs/context-management" rel="nofollow">https://www.induction.ai/docs/context-management</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:20:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720618</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A blast from the past. When Taskrabbit was acquired by IKEA, I built several tools that went through the whole catalog via various crawling approaches. One tool was to estimate how long it would be to put each item together for an initial training set.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:04:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590278</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am excited about the Rails defaults where background and cache and sockets are all database driven. For normal-sized projects that still need those things, it's a huge win in simplicity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:32:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749231</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ario | Onsite in Palo Alto, CA | Full-time | heyario.com<p>I recently started at Ario where we are building an app for parents that uses AI to make things easier. We are targeting saving them one hour every day.
Previously, I co-founded Taskrabbit. That was somewhat similar but now it's time to get LLMs in on the action!
It's in the app store, but still early in the game, so we are looking for engineers to build it out. We are using Python and React Native.<p>To learn more: brian at heyario.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:52:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43250075</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43250075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43250075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Airbyte 1.0 – Marketplace, AI Assist, Gen AI Support and Enterprise GA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have to work on the scaling. There is lots of web scraping and LLM calls that we need to make sure works under load. I'm sure there will be quality improvements as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:25:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642406</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Airbyte 1.0 – Marketplace, AI Assist, Gen AI Support and Enterprise GA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AMA: I was on the team that built the AI Assist functionality. Happy to chat about it. I became obsessed with documentation sites for a while there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41638646</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41638646</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41638646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Airbyte 1.0, Marketplace, AI Assist, GenAI Support and Enterprise GA]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi HN friends!<p>We can hardly believe it’s been almost four years since our original HN launch (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917403">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917403</a>). What started as a small project has grown way beyond what we imagined, with over 170,000 deployments and 7,000 companies using Airbyte daily.<p>When we started Airbyte, our mission was simple (though not easy): to solve data movement once and for all. Today feels like a big step toward that goal with the release of Airbyte 1.0 (<a href="https://airbyte.com/v1">https://airbyte.com/v1</a>). Reaching this milestone wasn’t a solo effort. It’s taken an incredible amount of work from the whole community and the feedback we’ve received from many of you along the way. We had three goals to reach 1.0:
- Broad deployments to cover all major use cases, supported by over 1,200 community contributions.
- Reliability and performance improvements (this has been a huge focus for the past year).
- Making sure Airbyte fits with your existing production workflow – from Python scripts to Terraform, API, and UI interfaces.<p>It’s been quite the journey, and we’re excited to say we’ve hit those marks!<p>But there’s actually more to Airbyte 1.0!
- An AI Assistant to help you build connectors in minutes. Just give it the API docs, and you’re good to go. We’ve also added support for GraphQL APIs to our Connector Builder.
- The Connector Marketplace: You can now easily contribute connectors or make changes directly from the no-code/low-code builder. Every connector in the marketplace is editable, and we’ve added usage and confidence scores to help gauge reliability.
- Airbyte Self-Managed Enterprise generally available: it comes with everything you get from the open-source version, plus enterprise-level features like premium support with SLA, SSO, RBAC, multiple workspaces, advanced observability, and enterprise connectors for Netsuite, Workday, Oracle, and more.
- Airbyte can now power your RAG / GenAI workflows without limitations, through its support of unstructured data sources, vector databases, and new mapping capabilities. It also converts structured and unstructured data into documents for chunking, along with embedding support for Cohere and OpenAI.<p>There’s a lot more coming, and we’d love to hear your thoughts!
If you’re curious, check out our launch keynote (<a href="https://airbyte.com/v1">https://airbyte.com/v1</a>) and let us know what you think – are there features we could improve? Areas we should explore next? We’re all ears.<p>Thanks for being part of this journey!</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637452">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637452</a></p>
<p>Points: 58</p>
<p># Comments: 14</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:17:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637452</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Pivotal Tracker will shut down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just came to say, I still think this is the best balance between the many factors of running a dev team. I keep trying to recreate it in every tool I use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:46:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594381</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "ELTP: Extending ELT for Modern AI and Analytics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Airbyte acquired our Reverse ETL company, Grouparoo, 1.5 years ago. There is so much to solve making just the Extract and Load work well and so much value that comes from that, we have been busy there. I'm excited to circle back to publishing next year.<p>I like how the article notes that the stuff we were talking about with Reverse ETL (mostly activating your data in SaaS systems like Salesforce, Zendesk, etc) is one important part of Publishing. But we are also seeing traditional use cases like file uploads and new fancy stuff like vector databases.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:59:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38180383</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38180383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38180383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "IKEA’s knowledge graph and why it has three layers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe some day this will be available in JSON.<p>I built a system for TaskRabbit that scraped all the IKEA products from a variety of sources and ran algorithms to determine their category and predict how long they would take to be assembled. Then there was a Mechanical Turk sort of system for human input. When combined with real-world feedback from the Taskers, it was pretty good.<p>For better or worse, I've personally been through the entire catalog multiple times.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:02:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768389</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Airbyte acquires Grouparoo to accelerate Data Movement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the Grouparoo team, we are so excited to be working with Airbyte to be able to move data anywhere you want it to go.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:02:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30950311</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30950311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30950311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Launch HN: Castled Data (YC W22) – Open-Source Reverse ETL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congrats to the Castled team on the launch.<p>At Grouparoo, this is a primary use case. We have a UI that engineers use locally. This helps gets things right. It outputs a JSON configuration that is checked in. When that is deployed, it does all the syncing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:19:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30080872</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30080872</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30080872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's hard to leave the comparisons dangling, for sure. But I'll defer for now. Congrats on the launch :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 21:13:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29193247</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29193247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29193247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are probably some nuances one level down. Things our users have told us they can do in these areas that, to my knowledge, Hightouch doesn't do:<p>* Combine data from different sources to define a model. We'v seen using Postgres as a source of truth and supplementing with Snowflake data, for example.<p>* Add tags to contacts in mailchimp, zendesk or make lists of them in customer.io, Pardot, etc based on segmentation. I believe Hightouch Audiences is more like a filter.<p>* Full workflow with branches, PRs, test suite in a repo. I saw  Hightouch added git syncing to a known branch yesterday and it looks cool, but it's not the full workflow yet.<p>I'm certainly trying to keep it in the friendly-competition area, especially on this thread :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:44:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29192219</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29192219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29192219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congrats on the launch! Hightouch looks great and this need is real. Things seem to be going well, so I don't think I'm taking too much away by mentioning that we have been been working on Grouparoo, an open source alternative that solves similar pain points.<p>A few differences: git developer workflow focused (branches, CI, PRs, etc), ability to self host, segmentation in destinations (tagging people in mailchimp based on rules, for example)<p><a href="https://www.grouparoo.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.grouparoo.com</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:48:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29191508</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29191508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29191508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Ask HN: What do you think about ETL tools and Data warehousing technology?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We just finished up the Open Source Data Stack conference, which is all about this topic. Feel free to check out the reply.<p>Specifically, open source approaches to the modern data stack where the trend is picking the right tools for the job that revolve around the warehouse central data store.<p>The pieces discussed were around getting data in (Snowplow events, Meltano ELT), transforming it (dbt), reporting (Superset), getting it back into tools (Grouparoo Reverse ETL), and orchestrating things (Dagster).<p><a href="https://www.opensourcedatastack.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.opensourcedatastack.com</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.opensourcedatastack.com/">https://www.opensourcedatastack.com/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676427">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676427</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.opensourcedatastack.com/">https://www.opensourcedatastack.com/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078135">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078135</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:09:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.opensourcedatastack.com/</link><dc:creator>bleonard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bleonard in "Development Workflow for Reverse ETL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We are super excited to share our new developer tooling that makes these integrations so easy. Let me know if you have any questions</p>
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