Hacker News: flarco

New comment by flarco in "Guide to data tools landscape for developers"

flarco — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:45:02 +0000

Nice guide. One addition in the ingestion section: sling (https://slingdata.io/). it's a single go binary, cli-first.

New comment by flarco in "Ask HN: Is our data warehouse setup normal or over-complicated?"

flarco — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:03:44 +0000

It does seem over-engineered.

Normally you'd keep all the transformation in one place in the "data warehouse", which could be Postgres/Redshift/Snowflake/Clickhouse etc. Using some el tools (like sling cli for example) to load into the DW, and then using a transformation tool (like dbt for example) to do all the transformations in SQL, source controlled. It's advantageous to keep all of the transformation logic in one place (to avoid mismatches as you've mentioned). And from the DW, after data is ready, various tools/clients can consume it (such as BI tools, CRMs, APIs, AI, etc). All aligned.

New comment by flarco in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

flarco — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:08:47 +0000

Working on https://slingdata.io Platform for moving data around. Also has a free CLI. You can use YAML or even Python.

New comment by flarco in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"

flarco — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:50:29 +0000

Another complement to easily moving data off cloud, check out https://github.com/slingdata-io/sling-cli. Use CLI, YAML or Python to run etl jobs.

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

flarco — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:47:18 +0000

For anyone looking to easily ingest data into a Postgres Wire compatible database, check out https://github.com/slingdata-io/sling-cli. Use CLI, YAML or Python to run etl jobs.

New comment by flarco in "Current ETL/ELT tools solve one problem, but seems lacking on E2E solution"

flarco — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:39:02 +0000

Check out https://github.com/slingdata-io/sling-cli

New comment by flarco in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

flarco — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:07:17 +0000

https://slingdata.io

An alternative tool to Extract/Load data via YAML, Python or CLI.

New comment by flarco in "MotherDuck launches managed DuckLake svc for scaling to petabytes with DuckDB"

flarco — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:59:08 +0000

Awesome. If anyone is looking to mass ingest data into ducklake (databases or files), check out sling (https://docs.slingdata.io). It works great with MotherDuck as well.

Reading Apache Iceberg Data with Sling

flarco — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:59:32 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.slingdata.io/reading-apache-iceberg-data-with-sling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41378522

Points: 1

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New comment by flarco in "Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)"

flarco — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 18:01:19 +0000

Who else still listens to the StarCraft music OST? I listen to it a few times a year and get in the zone.

Using JMESPath with Sling for Loading Nested JSON Data

flarco — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:16:39 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.slingdata.io/using-jmespath-with-sling-for-loading-nested-json-data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39368329

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by flarco in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

flarco — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 09:53:31 +0000

For those who prefer GUI apps, dbnet is an option to serve via HTTP. Run it remote side, access in the browser.

https://github.com/dbnet-io/dbnet

Show HN: Sling – Powerful Data Integration CLI Tool

flarco — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:12:05 +0000

Article URL: https://slingdata.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37261957

Points: 2

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New comment by flarco in "Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on"

flarco — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 02:40:05 +0000

https://github.com/dbnet-io/dbnet

dbNet is a web-based SQL IDE using Go as a backend, and your browser as front-end. I built it because I was unsatisfied with the database clients out there. Alot of them are top-heavy, unintuitive, slow or expensive.

Here are some of the databases it connects to:

Clickhouse Google BigQuery Google BigTable MySQL Oracle Redshift PostgreSQL SQLite SQL Server Snowflake DuckDB

New comment by flarco in "Haiti’s President Is Assassinated"

flarco — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 22:20:04 +0000

My parents live in Haiti. This looks like it was an inside job/collaboration. He was assassinated inside his home, in the middle of the night. His home has multiple gates/barriers to get inside, very secured by guards, yet only him died. No guards or 3rd parties were injured. No resistance or loud gun exchanges to prevent them from getting in. His wife was shot and injured, but is currently stable in a US hospital. From what I heard, the gunmen were all Spanish speaking. 5-7 of them arrived in multiple cars, killed him and left without issues. Very disturbing, but that's the world we live in.

New comment by flarco in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

flarco — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:06:29 +0000

Really cool. Can you share on what lib/3rd party tool you use on the backend to send WhatsApp messages (such as the automated cart abandoned message)?

New comment by flarco in "Show HN: Shellvault – Cloud SSH terminal accessible from any browser"

flarco — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:49:25 +0000

Nice. Here is an open-source, self-hosted option: https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/butterfly

New comment by flarco in "Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?"

flarco — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:53:11 +0000

Can you elaborate on why you think he should not listen to a personal wealth manager (assuming that's the same as a financial advisor)?

New comment by flarco in "Ask HN: How to become a remote contractor?"

flarco — Fri, 11 May 2018 18:46:42 +0000

Awesome. Can you share with us how it's going with getting more clients on your platform to hire contractors? I know competing with upwork and toptal must be a challenge.

New comment by flarco in "Put a Fork in Caddy; It's Done"

flarco — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:47:57 +0000

Seems the OP lacks objectivity, especially with the religious reference. With that said, I agree that telemetry should not be on by default, but prompted.