Hacker News: rustyconover

New comment by rustyconover in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

rustyconover — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:03:41 +0000

With the new PEG parser this is just a Claude session away in DuckDB.

New comment by rustyconover in "Fair Weather"

rustyconover — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:42:58 +0000

Determine and schedule the best windows of your day for running and walking.

Fair Weather

rustyconover — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:42:58 +0000

Article URL: https://fair-weather.query-farm.services

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007570

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

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

rustyconover — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:19:23 +0000

DuckDB is awesome and Robin is too!

New comment by rustyconover in "Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing"

rustyconover — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:10:12 +0000

The next major release of Tributary will support Avro, Protobuf and JSON along with the Schema Registry it will also bring the ability to write to Kafka with transactions.

But really you should get excited for DuckDB Labs to build out materialized views. Materialized views where you can ingest more streaming data to update aggregates. This way you could just keep pushing rows through aggregates from Kafka.

It is going to be a POWER HOUSE for streaming analytics.

Contact DuckDB Labs if you want to sponsor the work on materialized views: https://duckdb.org/roadmap

New comment by rustyconover in "WebTransport is almost here to allow UDP-like exchange in the browser"

rustyconover — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:16:01 +0000

Where are the server side implementations?

New comment by rustyconover in "Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?"

rustyconover — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:49:05 +0000

Yet again Hollywood is prescient. This post reminds me of the language of the aliens in Arrival. It seems like the OP would see that as a reasonable input to an LLM.

New comment by rustyconover in "Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB"

rustyconover — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:11:19 +0000

Thanks for building this!

Using my textplot extension doesn't result in my expected output:

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install textplot from community;

load textplot;

select tp_bar(0.5)

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New comment by rustyconover in "Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB"

rustyconover — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:09:29 +0000

There are so many!

Rill Data - https://www.rilldata.com Summer - https://summer.io Hex - https://hex.tech Evidence - https://evidence.dev

New comment by rustyconover in "America is now one big bet on AI"

rustyconover — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:59:33 +0000

Just remember TINA - "There Is No Alternative."

But come on, there should be an alternative.

Without diversification, we’re just setting ourselves up for an economic rug pull the moment the AI growth hits the law of large numbers and people realize its not the magic they think it is. Economically? Don’t worry it’ll just be another “oops, your 401k lost a bit, here’s a bailout” moment. AKA, stimulus with sprinkles.

So yeah... keep buying those dips girls and boys.

New comment by rustyconover in "Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees"

rustyconover — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:54:20 +0000

Yellowstone is a national park, you can’t hunt anything inside the park’s boundaries. Wolves can.

New comment by rustyconover in "Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees"

rustyconover — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:16:39 +0000

I'm not a biologist, but I grew up in West Yellowstone around the time wolves were reintroduced. Their return—and its impact—has been extensively studied by experts far more qualified than me.

That said, I believe wolves had a profound effect on the Yellowstone ecosystem, particularly on elk and deer populations. Before their reintroduction, those species had few natural predators beyond hunters, vehicles, bears, and the occasional mountain lion. The imbalance led to overgrazing and the spread of diseases like Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in elk.

Radio for DuckDB – DuckDB Now Talks to WebSockets and Redis Pub/Sub

rustyconover — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:52:29 +0000

Article URL: https://query.farm/duckdb_extension_radio.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44170755

Points: 18

# Comments: 0

New comment by rustyconover in "Airport for DuckDB"

rustyconover — Fri, 23 May 2025 11:14:47 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to understand the philosophy of the extension.

New comment by rustyconover in "Airport for DuckDB"

rustyconover — Fri, 23 May 2025 11:13:39 +0000

Only the data source.

New comment by rustyconover in "Airport for DuckDB"

rustyconover — Fri, 23 May 2025 11:13:16 +0000

Thanks for the compliments!

New comment by rustyconover in "Airport for DuckDB"

rustyconover — Fri, 23 May 2025 11:12:36 +0000

That’s possible with the arrow extension today.

New comment by rustyconover in "Bauplan – Git-for-data pipelines on object storage"

rustyconover — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:19:56 +0000

I'd love to see a 10 minute YouTube video of the capabilities of this product.

New comment by rustyconover in "Ada crate of the year 2024 announced"

rustyconover — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 21:01:53 +0000

Ada was the first language they threw at us in university back in '98. At the time, it felt like learning Latin to become a poet, but looking back, those lessons—rigor, clarity, and discipline—have aged better than some modern frameworks. Ada may not trend on GitHub, but it quietly shaped a generation of better programmers.

New comment by rustyconover in "Adding concurrent read/write to DuckDB with Arrow Flight"

rustyconover — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:22:29 +0000

This is a great lead up to my talk at DuckCon 6 on Friday in Amsterdam.

It’s title is: “Airport for DuckDB: Letting DuckDB take Apache Arrow Flights”

You can stream it at: https://duckdb.org/events/2025/01/31/duckcon6/

You’ll see how DuckDB can integrate with Arrow Flight for reading/writing/creating tables, scalar user defined functions, table returning functions, table in/out streaming functions, row/column filtering and anything else I can breeze through in 15 minutes.

It all starts with a single call to ATTACH with the URL of the Arrow Flight server.