Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing

kept by eddie dec 12, 25

SQLFlow uses DuckDB to enable stream processing of Kafka data with SQL, claiming setup in under 5 minutes.

IBM to acquire Confluent
Hacker News commenters react to IBM's acquisition of Confluent with widespread skepticism, citing IBM's history of poor acquisitions and suggesting Kafka alternatives.
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ADD / XOR / ROL: The missing OS
Large-scale distributed infrastructure lacks a complete datacenter OS analogous to a single-machine OS, with only fragmented proto-OS components existing today.
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GitHub - columnar-tech/databow at console.dev
databow is a command-line tool for querying databases via ADBC, offering an interactive SQL shell, syntax highlighting, formatted output, and file export.
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Ironclaw — AI CRM, hosted locally on your Mac
DenchClaw is an open-source AI CRM and workflow automation tool that runs locally on a Mac, using a Chrome profile to automate tasks like database queries, lead enrichment, and outreach.
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