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Coiled
Company blog · docs.coiled.io/blogprogrammingdata
Coiled is the company blog at docs.coiled.io, writing about programming and data. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “DataFrames at Scale Comparison: TPC-H [Spark, Dask, DuckDB, Polars]”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Coiled docs post as the origin of the One Trillion Row Challenge, which Coiled proposed in 2024. Commenters cite it as background on a DuckDB 1T-row aggregation benchmark.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
👋 Welcome to Coiled! Coiled is a lightweight cloud computing platform that lets data engineers and scientists easily scale their code without dealing with Docker or Kubernetes. Your developer exper...
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/1trc.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-24
- DataFrames at Scale Comparison: TPC-H [Spark, Dask, DuckDB, Polars]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-23
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, pretty misleading it feels like. For background, here is the initial ideation of the "One Trillion Row Challenge" challenge this submission originally aimed to participate in: https://docs.coiled.io/blog/1trc.html
Comment linking /blog/1trc.html
on “A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation challenge in 5 sec”Submitted Dask DataFrame Is Fast Now as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThe One Trillion Row Challenge was proposed by Coiled in 2024. https://docs.coiled.io/blog/1trc.html
Comment linking /blog/1trc.html
on “A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation challenge in 5 sec”Submitted Embarrassingly parallel workloads on AWS without the infrastructure overhead as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-contained Python scripts with uv and Coiled for easy cloud execution as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven Stages of Open Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python deserves better than EMR as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DataFrames at Scale Comparison: TPC-H [Spark, Dask, DuckDB, Polars] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DataFrames at Scale Comparison: TPC-H as a story · 1 points
HN discussion