select
7 stories and discussions about select, aggregated from every source we track.
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Postgres SELECT DISTINCT performs surprisingly poorly. We explain why and how we mitigated it.
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Make fast binary decisions on selected text.
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Common Crawl publishes petabytes of web crawl data on S3. With DuckDB and MotherDuck you can query the Common Crawl dataset directly, no cluster and no download, and measure how fast the vibe-coded web is growing. |…
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The “Babydust Method” features advice debunked decades ago. Why have tens of thousands of people bought in?
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A slow page, a LONGTEXT column, and a VPN made me stop treating SELECT * as harmless.