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New comment by mprev in "Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)"

mprev — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:50:33 +0000

To be fair, he was kinda forced to release it following a leak, wasn't he?

Benchmarking LLM Codegen for SQL

mprev — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:34:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/blog/sql-ai-codegen-benchmarks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45100817

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

GPT-5 and SQL code generation

mprev — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:57:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/blog/gpt-5-for-sql

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973594

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by mprev in "Claude Code, but for SQL, Beekeeper Studio 5.3"

mprev — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:12:59 +0000

I gave this a go and it's a really nice way of generating context-aware SQL without having to upload your entire dataset or even just your data model to an LLM.

Gives you a conversational interface for your SQL data, alongside a more traditional SQL GUI.

New comment by mprev in "Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles"

mprev — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:27:12 +0000

A note on liquid versus powder detergents. In the UK, at least, my understanding is that liquid detergents do not contain bleaching agents, whereas powders do. That is, unless you buy a colour-safe powder.

If you're pouring bleach into your machine, it can erode the rubber seals. I use Dettol instead (I think it's called Lysol in the States), which seems to do the job.

New comment by mprev in "Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI"

mprev — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:48:06 +0000

Isn’t this more like Teams vs Slack or Zoom?

Consumer brand recognition isn’t the issue. Bundling with Workspace might be.

New comment by mprev in "Moving away from US cloud services"

mprev — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:15:50 +0000

Important to note that the migration works well one way only. If you later want to migrate out it'll be more painful.

New comment by mprev in "Moving away from US cloud services"

mprev — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:12:24 +0000

I'll give a different point of view.

I switched my personal email from Google Workspace to Proton. My use case wasn't privacy (especially when 99% of my email is sent to and received from people using Gmail, Office 365, etc.) I was interested in trying Proton more to support a plurality of service providers.

As such, I'm probably not Proton's target customer. That means the compromises Proton makes to enable E2E are not worth it to me.

Some examples:

* Search is like going back 20 years.

* The lack of automatic filtering (e.g. Gmail's automatically applied Promotions, Updates, etc labels) has made the signal to noise ratio in my personal inbox so low that I'm considering just taking the app off my phone or suppressing notifications, at least. I don't have the time to set up manual filters for everything that comes in.

* The lack of automatic filtering and decent search means that my personal email is now pretty much useless.

Similarly, it's pretty hard to migrate away from because you can't just use IMAP to shift your email history to another provider.

This isn't a negative review of Proton. This is just to say that choosing Proton Mail means living with the compromises necessary to enable their main feature (privacy) and I don't care enough about that one feature to make those compromises worthwhile (because my email is going through so many non-private services anyway).

New comment by mprev in "Event Destinations Initiative: A model for event producer/consumer interop"

mprev — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:07:06 +0000

Great to see a push towards standardisation in this space.

New comment by mprev in "AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'"

mprev — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:59:21 +0000

To be fair, most of the science fiction is about it being horribly broken or, at least, functioning in ways its human stewards did not intend.

New comment by mprev in "Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways"

mprev — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:04:13 +0000

I heard someone say that they wished it had been called High Capacity 2, rather than High Speed 2.

What we need is more rail capacity, while people opposed to this project latched onto the idea that no one really wanted to get from London to Birmingham (a somewhat unlovely city that is the first major stop on the line) faster.

New comment by mprev in "Ask HN: I don't want higher salary, I need more freetime"

mprev — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:14:30 +0000

You need a "product", not hourly billing. Defined outcome and a price per engagement, rather than charging for your time.

New comment by mprev in "Solar power from space? it might happen in a couple of years"

mprev — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:45:32 +0000

Did we learn nothing from Sim City?

New comment by mprev in "Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying"

mprev — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:14:33 +0000

I like how your typo makes it sound like a medieval sage.

New comment by mprev in "Britain paying highest electricity prices in the world"

mprev — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:48:29 +0000

Around 30% is climate levy and similar taxes, plus there’s 5% VAT.

New comment by mprev in "Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doing design work on Linux"

mprev — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:57:25 +0000

These types of interjections haven’t meaningfully changed anything for the better in the past 20 years of people making them.

Instead, people get interested in something new and interesting. Then, for a proportion of them, some stranger will come along and language-police them.

If you believe in free software or some variant, don’t put pointless barriers in the way of people adopting it.

New comment by mprev in "Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago"

mprev — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 19:25:15 +0000

Specific translations, such as the NIV, are copyrighted.

New comment by mprev in "Lucid Boss Says Tesla Has Lost Its "Sense of Purpose""

mprev — Fri, 31 May 2024 13:33:14 +0000

In what way best?

New comment by mprev in "There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station"

mprev — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:05:03 +0000

In between Rabbit and Three they launched Orange, too.

New comment by mprev in "Why 7M UK smart meters will stop working and what it will mean"

mprev — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:21:54 +0000

It might be more due to the weird way that the government divided responsibility for the metering connectivity. Arqiva have the northern segment and O2 the southern, so they use the method that best suits their existing infrastructure.