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AWS to acquire DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB

hiyer — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:26:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/aws-ducklabs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457285

Points: 3

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New comment by hiyer in "CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back"

hiyer — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:08:15 +0000

It's not about the post, but the fact that he's referred to as "ceo who fired 900 people on zoom". Nobody calls Mike Cannon-Brookes (Atlassian ceo) as "ceo who fired 1600 people by 6am email", for example.

New comment by hiyer in "CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back"

hiyer — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:44:15 +0000

Why is a layoff on zoom considered worse or more controversial than layoff by 4-6AM emails (which is what other companies like Meta, Oracle, Atlassian, etc did)?

New comment by hiyer in "Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack"

hiyer — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:13:01 +0000

Already done, though not by Emmerich - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombeavers

New comment by hiyer in "Making Postgres queues scale"

hiyer — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:44:56 +0000

In a recent interview I was asked to design a job queue and I went with postgres with the first and third optimizations mentioned here. For the scale of the question - 1000 concurrent jobs - I argued that postgres would easily scale. But the interviewer - maybe because they were from aws - felt it wouldn't and wanted me to go with sqs instead.

New comment by hiyer in "Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4"

hiyer — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:03:45 +0000

I never understood what Atlassian saw worth $ 1 billion in this company (DX). That's even more than what they paid ($700m) for Loom. Loom is at least useful as a screen recorder, and its notetaker (in Zoom calls) is pretty good as well.

Indian startup builds motors without permanent magnets

hiyer — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:29:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/features/story/look-ma-no-magnets-how-an-indian-startup-is-using-software-to-break-chinas-rare-earth-monopoly-2946039-2026-07-12

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48905080

Points: 3

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New comment by hiyer in "Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era"

hiyer — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:49:56 +0000

We used to get these books in the annual international book fair in Delhi back in my childhood days. I still have 2 of them (Mathematics Can Be Fun and How The Steel Was Tempered), but I'm pretty sure we had several more at the time. They were fun reads, and the illustrations used to be great!

ClickHouse is winning the observability wars

hiyer — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:31:06 +0000

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/clickhouse-is-winning-the-observability-wars/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772926

Points: 2

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New comment by hiyer in "100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time"

hiyer — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:11:27 +0000

My next 100 passwords are sorted.

New comment by hiyer in "Stdx, Rust's extended standard library"

hiyer — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:44:23 +0000

IIUC this just pulls in various other crates with some vibe-coding on top. I'm not familiar with the Rust dependency system, but what is the need to have copies of the code? Would it not suffice to just have an "empty" crate that just depends on the original crates?

New comment by hiyer in "First G-SHOCK with a heart rate monitor, also featuring Smartphone Link"

hiyer — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:55:56 +0000

Very poor. Hardly lasts a week with step tracking and heart rate enabled. Like someone else mentioned, go for a Garmin instinct 2 or 3 solar. My 2 Solar lasts more than 30 days on a full charge.

New comment by hiyer in "Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?"

hiyer — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:54:03 +0000

Not unlikely given the crash in Atlassian's share price over the last year or so. When I was in NetApp a long time back, such rumours would often do the rounds when the share price took a dip, with Oracle and IBM usually touted as the likely buyers. NetApp is still doing strong more than a decade later :-).

New comment by hiyer in "TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video]"

hiyer — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:35:35 +0000

Amazing. Easily the most learning I've had in 18 minutes (I watched at 1.2x speed) in my life.

New comment by hiyer in "S3 Files"

hiyer — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:21:29 +0000

I was thinking of using it with Duckdb as well but seems it would be of limited benefit. Parquet objects are in MBs, so they would be streamed directly from S3. With raw parquet objects, it might help with S3 listing if you have a lot of them (shave off a couple of seconds from the query). If you are already on Ducklake, Duckdb will use that for getting the list of relevant objects anyway.

New comment by hiyer in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

hiyer — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:41:22 +0000

I was thinking the same - if JSONata was a priority for them, why not choose a language with good support, like JS or Java? OTOH if development language was a priority why not choose a format that is well supported in it?

New comment by hiyer in "Java is fast, code might not be"

hiyer — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:11:43 +0000

Thanks! I'm using Instant.parse at present and this is supposedly 37x faster. Will definitely give it a try.

New comment by hiyer in "Java is fast, code might not be"

hiyer — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:50:00 +0000

I ran into 5 and 7 in a Flink app recently - was parsing a timestamp as a number first and then falling back to iso8601 string, which is what it was. The flamegraph showed 10% for the exception handling bit. While fixing that, also found repeated creation of datetimeformatter. Both were not in loops, but both were being done for every event, for 10s of 1000s of events every second.

New comment by hiyer in "How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just what?"

hiyer — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:41:10 +0000

> documentation survives when it lives next to the code. 15+ years ago, this was pretty much the standard. Every decision - whether major or just a hack to handle a corner-case - used to be recorded in the code itself. Then tools like Jira and Confluence came in and these things moved to undiscoverable nooks and corners of the organization. AI search tools like Glean and Rovo have improved the discoverability, though I'd still prefer things to remain in the code.

New comment by hiyer in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

hiyer — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:07:59 +0000

Rovo dev cli is pretty good though. Though that may just be because it talks to claude or openai in the backend.