Hacker News: jatorre

Attach open data like a database: Iceberg tables over a CDN

jatorre — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:05:21 +0000

Article URL: https://lakehousebox.com/blog/public-iceberg-from-a-cdn/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151369

Points: 3

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Testing DuckDB 2.0 on our Iceberg datasets

jatorre — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:34:50 +0000

Article URL: https://lakehousebox.com/blog/duckdb-2-on-iceberg-measured/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091592

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Hacienda-CLI – CLI to reconcile Spanish tax returns with the tax agency

jatorre — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:12:57 +0000

I built a CLI to programmatically interact with Spain's tax agency (AEAT) for income tax filing (Modelo 100). It authenticates via Cl@ve using Playwright, downloads your tax data, validates XML against the official XSD, and uploads it to AEAT's EDFI system for reconciliation. The problem: AI agents can do a good job organizing financial data from multiple brokers, banks and crypto exchanges, but there was no way to programmatically check that against what the tax agency already knows about you. This CLI bridges that gap. It does NOT file or submit anything. The user is always responsible for manual review and submission.

Maybe a bit specific for the spanish community, but if you always wish there was a CLI to do your taxes here is an unofficial one.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768365

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Shell abandons its plan to offset CO2 emissions

jatorre — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:44:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-31/shell-silently-abandoned-its-100-million-a-year-plan-to-offset-co2-emissions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37336299

Points: 291

# Comments: 307

New comment by jatorre in "Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF)"

jatorre — Thu, 11 May 2023 07:07:21 +0000

Having Google followed an OGC standard is an incredible good step forward for the google maps ecosystem. This can really speed up developments on the clients side. It was not that useful to have the best client if there was always a place where the data looked better. Kudos to google.

New comment by jatorre in "Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data"

jatorre — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 09:28:58 +0000

And if you are interested on encoding Geospatial Data there is a format called Geoparquet that is on the way of standarization: https://geoparquet.org/ Essentially adding metadata on the extensible schema metadata streucture that parquet supports. Think of WKB in a column. With more exciting stuff coming that way.

New comment by jatorre in "Leaflet was created 11yrs ago by Vladimir Agafonkin, a Ukrainian citizen in Kyiv"

jatorre — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 15:31:42 +0000

Hey Vlad, just came to say hi and wish you the best. You are one of the best engineers I have ever met, and one of the nicest persons too. It is really sad to see you and your entire country going through this. Will keep following your advice on how to support Ukraine and if there is any mapping support or anything else, well, you know where we are. We are following you closely. Big hug.

Google Patent for BigQuery ML

jatorre — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:06:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2018/0357565.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29964716

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Visualising every single person vaccinated in US

jatorre — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:22:38 +0000

Article URL: https://react-apps.carto.com/vaccination/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26823457

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Visualizing 434M OpenStreetMap buildings in BigQuery

jatorre — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:23:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF6hJTbBUoY&feature=youtu.be

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26104344

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Spatial Functions in BigQuery

jatorre — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:57:42 +0000

Article URL: https://carto.com/blog/spatial-functions-bigquery-uber/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21382662

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

PostGIS 3.0 just released with major speed improvements

jatorre — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:19:43 +0000

Article URL: https://carto.com/blog/postgis-3-release/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21321652

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by jatorre in "Uber pays –$29M/year for Google Maps"

jatorre — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:36:32 +0000

Here is the actual contract https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519... It includes other topics like Uber has to share their location data to Google and can not use any other 3th party provider at the same time as Google Maps.