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Hacker News - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 7:34pm
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Ask HN: What do you think of xsight labs?

Hacker News - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 7:30pm

Anyone heard or xsight labs (https://xsightlabs.com/)? They are making networking gear for AI and spacex satellites. I'd be curious if anyone can shine a light on:

- Does full switch programmability actually matter in production, or is it one of those things that sounds great in a slide deck but nobody uses?

- Is "on-path cores" in a DPU genuinely better than Pensando's P4 approach or NVIDIA's off-path model, or does it converge at scale?

- Can you actually swap merchant silicon under SONiC in practice, or is Broadcom lock-in deeper than the software layer?

- Is there a real market for a power-optimised 12.8T switch when the spine is moving to 51.2T+, or does the spine vendor always drag the leaf along?

- How big a deal is open-sourcing the ISA? Do people buying this really care to pay up for this type of thing?

Thanks!!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838806

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Telling Stories with Data (2023)

Hacker News - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 7:27pm

Article URL: https://tellingstorieswithdata.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838779

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Xsight labs - anyone talking about these guys?

Hacker News - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 7:21pm

Article URL: https://xsightlabs.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838716

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Show HN: Schema_ferry – Continuous schema migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL

Hacker News - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 7:10pm

There exists several schema migration tools from MySQL to PostgreSQL, pgloader as one of the most popular ones.

All off them, as far as I have seen, is designed to be a single shot schema migration tool, so if MySQL schema was changed due to continuous development after pgloader was executed, developers have to sync them to PostgresQL in some kind of manual, or custom-made script. (custom-made script seems like the most common way when I searched it online) Another aspect of the existing ones is that how the schema is migrated tends to be a black box, and the configuration file didn't seem fully customizable to me. For example, you cannot do something like excluding an index for a certain table.

This tool can resolve both cases.

How it works consists of 3 steps:

1. parse MySQL schema into ruby-handleable objects by using rails ActiveRecord

2. combine 1., pre-defined general migration rules, and user-defined dsl to generate a PostgresQL schemafile

3. apply 2. using ridgepole(a common rails schema management tool in japan) to PostgresQL, which checks the diff between 2. and the actual PostgresQL schema and generates/runs the exact DDL necessary to apply

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838597

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Tripping on Acid

Hacker News - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 6:40pm
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Show HN: A shallow lake's report on itself

Hacker News - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 6:32pm

A few weeks back as the US export ban news hit, and while I still had access to Fable, I asked it to create a blog from his own POV.

Of course I "prompted" this and it would be silly to try to state otherwise, but regardless I think its thinking and thus writing are interesting enough to share.

The full contents of this site are written by the LLM. From text to code to svg's.

It made several articles, I think they're also a bit short and shallow like the lake's itself is, but I'll leave that opinion up to you guys.

PS: As i prompted this, i remember there was some "I dont want your AI slop making the headlines of HN that day". The whole point of this site was to let the AI experiment, not to put myself or intersect any humanity from it, the text is interesting cause it approaches thinking about the differences between human and artificial minds, I think.

If you hate it just don't visit it idk what to tell you.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838256

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