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RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax

21 points - today at 4:02 PM

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  • AlotOfReading

    today at 5:25 PM

    It's a little weird to truncate the history [0] of your open source project and lock the v1 commits in a separate repo with limited access [1]. Are the authors embarrassed of the commit history?

    [0] https://github.com/RayforceDB/rayforce/pull/166

    [1] https://github.com/RayforceDB/rayforce2/blob/master/README.m...

      • AnEro

        today at 5:40 PM

        I just did this recently to reduce the noise I got for using 'superpower's skill for an internal library. Personally trying to find the right git ops balance of observability/transparancy of agent work while keeping human readablity. I haven't seen any accepted standards or workflows, its really interesting to watch dev culture evolve with this

    • zcw100

      today at 5:15 PM

      I was just thinking yesterday that some of what these AI generated sites have exposed is just how vacuous and low information content a lot of websites have become. The difference is previously you could at least say, "hey, someone at least spent a little money to create this" now that cost is pretty much zero. I think the answer is to simply demand more from people who have real products. If you have a product, I want to see a screenshot. Even better a demo and I'm not hitting the "schedule a demo" button. Either you step up and demonstrate capability or you're going to get lost in the noise.

      • christoff12

        today at 5:27 PM

        The claim of "built for teams that measure latency in microseconds" is conflicted by the pseudo demo showing a simple query that takes 4 seconds. I could assume that this is slowed down for effect, but the glowing green label[1] tells me this is a "real engine run" so now I'm confused.

        My core question is why would I use this instead of duckdb and writing SQL as God intended[2]?

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        [1] A clear indication of AI generation

        [2] This is a joke.

          • throw-qqqqq

            today at 6:05 PM

            FWIW I liked your joke :D

        • zX41ZdbW

          today at 5:26 PM

          Let's add it to ClickBench: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/

          • opem

            today at 4:48 PM

            At this point, I see an AI generated site I quit.

            this might be good stuff, but I'm not even interested anymore!

              • ARandomerDude

                today at 4:52 PM

                How can you tell it's AI generated?

                  • ktm5j

                    today at 6:03 PM

                    You start with a hunch and then dive into their github repo to confirm that Claude is a top contributor. At least, that's my strategy.

                    • icedchai

                      today at 5:05 PM

                      It has the look: fonts, style, layout, too many em-dashes, and weird phrasing like "Every surface reaches the same optimizer and execution core."

                      • pianoben

                        today at 5:44 PM

                        Just like you can recognize Hemingway's prose voice from a few sentences. After dozens-to-hundreds of hours with Claude, you can tell.

                • tosh

                  today at 5:35 PM

                  afaiu this is a kdb-adjacent columnar runtime and query engine

                  think SIMD, morsels and so on ~ Clickhouse, DuckDB …

                  but more like a lisp-like vector language and execution engine at its core + allowing for numeric and analytics adjacent use-cases instead of the other way round

                  • hnea3ekp5i

                    today at 4:42 PM

                    The honesty is what makes it good

                    • esafak

                      today at 5:00 PM

                      A graph analytics database? Could you talk about the motivation, and competition?