Hacker News: erikcw

New comment by erikcw in "Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire"

erikcw — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:02:54 +0000

Thanks for releasing this! How do you handle DDL queries? Are table changes synchronized to the Iceberg table automatically?

Also, I recently started looking into olake[0] to serve the same purpose. What would you say differentiates Streambed?

[0] https://github.com/datazip-inc/olake

New comment by erikcw in "Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes"

erikcw — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:54:22 +0000

How does Lakebase compare to Ducklake[0]?

[0] https://ducklake.select/

Should the Grizzly Return to California?

erikcw — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:46:24 +0000

Article URL: https://amp.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article315602357.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029783

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by erikcw in "DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser"

erikcw — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:17:45 +0000

I’ve had very good experience with it last year. I used it at large scale with data that had been in iceberg previously and it worked flawlessly. It’s only improved since. Highly recommend.

New comment by erikcw in "Run a 1T parameter model on a 32gb Mac by streaming tensors from NVMe"

erikcw — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:37:40 +0000

Simon Willison wrote a good post about Dan Woods’ work on “Autoresearching Apple's "LLM in a Flash" to run Qwen 397B locally”.

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/18/llm-in-a-flash/

DuckDB 1.5.0

erikcw — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:41:19 +0000

Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/03/09/announcing-duckdb-150

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317775

Points: 46

# Comments: 5

New comment by erikcw in "Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing"

erikcw — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:49:05 +0000

I use them both depending on which feels more natural for the task, often within the same project. The interop is easy and very high performance thanks to Apache Arrow: `df = duckdb.sql(sql).pl()` and `result = duckdb.sql("SELECT * FROM df")`.

New comment by erikcw in "Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other"

erikcw — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:01:41 +0000

Link to the lectures?

New comment by erikcw in "650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark"

erikcw — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:54:35 +0000

Data inlining is also currently limited to only the DuckDB catalog (ie it doesn't work with Postgres cataglogs)[0]. It's improving very quickly though and I'm sure this will be expanded soon.

[0] https://ducklake.select/docs/stable/duckdb/advanced_features...

New comment by erikcw in "I built Foyer: a Rust hybrid cache that slashes S3 latency"

erikcw — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:02:21 +0000

This looks really useful! Am I correct that there isn’t an S3 compatible API, just the “fetch” API?

Being able to set an S3 client’s endpoint to proxy traffic straight through this would be quite useful.

DuckDB 1.3.0

erikcw — Thu, 22 May 2025 01:04:29 +0000

Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2025/05/21/announcing-duckdb-130.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057776

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by erikcw in "BlackSheep: Fast ASGI web framework for Python"

erikcw — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 01:23:40 +0000

I’ve started using Granian[0] recently with good results.

[0] https://github.com/emmett-framework/granian

New comment by erikcw in "Helium: Lighter Web Automation with Python"

erikcw — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:04:10 +0000

I've used SikuliX[0] in the past for similar purposes. Unfortunately the author hasn't had much time to maintain it recently.

[0] https://github.com/RaiMan/SikuliX1

I Talk to Robots While Driving

erikcw — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:41:41 +0000

Article URL: https://tomtunguz.com/working-with-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42089857

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by erikcw in "FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal"

erikcw — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:13:02 +0000

I've always wished that there was an option to whitelist certain area codes. I've had the same number for 20 years, and now live in a different part of the country. I get very little spam from local area codes -- but a ton spoofing my phone number's area code. Sending all calls all those calls to voicemail while continuing to ring for local would be the right balance (kids' school, doctors office, etc...).

New comment by erikcw in "As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California"

erikcw — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:51:20 +0000

https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx

New comment by erikcw in "My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter"

erikcw — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:50:39 +0000

I thought my ThermoWorks Signal had a dead/defective battery after trying to charge it on a standard USB power adapter. Device booted up and and functioned fine, except the battery wouldn't charge. Plugged it into the provided adapter and it started charging again.

Thanks for the PSA, I'll be sure to get that adapter off my kitchen counter right away!

New comment by erikcw in "Ruff v0.1.0"

erikcw — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 02:38:45 +0000

I’ve been meaning to find time to get ruff-lap working on Doom Emacs side by side with pyright. Is anyone who’s already managed to get it working willing to share their config?

PyIceberg 0.5.0

erikcw — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 05:14:53 +0000

Article URL: https://tabular.medium.com/announcing-pyiceberg-0-5-0-ab067bb75b2b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699537

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by erikcw in "DuckDB 0.9"

erikcw — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:18:41 +0000

How about the Relational API[0] or the new PySpark compatible API[1] added in this release?

[0] https://duckdb.org/docs/archive/0.8.1/api/python/relational_... [1] https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/pull/8083