DuckDB
7 mentions across all digests
Open-source SQL database engine that developed and released the DuckLake lakehouse format specification
Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage
Rust-based Rocky brings Git-style version control and compile-time data contracts to SQL pipelines, solving schema drift detection and column-level lineage tracking for data warehouses.
Running Local LLMs Offline on a Ten-Hour Flight
Running Gemma 4 31B and Qwen 4.6 36B locally on an M5 Max shows open-source LLMs match frontier model quality for narrow tasks, but hit hard thermal (70-80W) and battery (1%/min drain) limits in offline scenarios.
Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)
YourMemory brings biological memory decay to AI agents via the Ebbinghaus curve, achieving 59% recall on LoCoMo-10 (2× Zep Cloud) with zero infrastructure overhead using DuckDB.
DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser
DuckDB 1.5.2 achieves production-ready lakehouse status with DuckLake v1.0 and Iceberg compatibility, signaling a maturation from analytical engine to full data platform.
3.4M Solar Panels
GM-SEUS dataset v2 expands to track 3.4M solar panels including rooftop arrays, enabling comprehensive geospatial analysis of distributed US renewable infrastructure with modern tools like DuckDB spatial extensions.