Ask Hacker News: mute notifications while driving
A Hacker News user asks if there is an app or setting to pause phone notifications while driving. The post invites community recommendations for silencing notifications until the drive is complete.
Translatable is a Python library providing ORM-agnostic internationalization (i18n) support by storing translations in JSON columns, allowing developers to handle multilingual content without database schema changes.
Translatable is a Python library providing ORM-agnostic internationalization (i18n) support by storing translations in JSON columns, allowing developers to handle multilingual content without database schema changes.
A Hacker News user asks if there is an app or setting to pause phone notifications while driving. The post invites community recommendations for silencing notifications until the drive is complete.
GolemUI is an open-source JavaScript library that dynamically generates forms from JSON definitions. It offers 28 headless components, a typed authoring layer, framework-agnostic rendering (React, Angular, Vue, Lit, Vanilla JS), and a deterministic MCP to validate LLM-generated form definitions.
A developer built and open-sourced Voice-to-SQL, a tool that uses Llama 3.3 70B via Groq to convert plain English business questions into read-only SELECT SQL queries against a sample SaaS database, displaying the generated SQL. The project's code is available on GitHub.
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The post argues that with AI acting as a "super compiler," the current data language is natural human speech rather than Python, R, or SQL. The author predicts future data engineers will not need to learn SQL, as AI translates speech into JavaScript, which can run on both browsers and servers.
The author argues that Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) often create more problems than they solve by hiding SQL complexity, and that developers should instead invest time in properly learning SQL for better database performance and understanding.
SlateDB is a new open-source embedded database built as an "object-native" LSM-tree that stores its base SST files directly in cloud object storage (like S3 or GCS) rather than on local disk, aiming to simplify stateful workloads in serverless and cloud environments.
Translatable is a Python library providing ORM-agnostic internationalization (i18n) support by storing translations in JSON columns, allowing developers to handle multilingual content without database schema changes.