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Kensho
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Kensho is the company blog at blog.kensho.com, writing about ai, data and programming. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Engineering blog of Kensho, an analytics and machine learning company serving finance, healthcare and national security. HN comments only mention it as a place to follow the company's tools and open-source work.
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What Hacker News says?
Kensho Technologies | Data Scientists/Engineers across the stack | Full-time/Onsite | (Cambridge/Boston)/NYC/DC Kensho is a leading analytics and machine learning company serving the financial, healthcare, and national security sectors. We are backed by investors as diverse as Google, Goldman Sachs, and In-Q-Tel (the venture arm of the CIA). We recruit world-class engineers, data scientists, designers, scientists an…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Submitted Compiled GraphQL as a database query language as a story · 23 points
HN discussionI have to question the "relational" part. SQL is an absolutely massive language, to the point where "we support SQL" is almost an empty statement because there's no single SQL to support. While revamping the database, consider a smaller query language. I built a GraphQL-based database query language in my GraphQL compiler project[1], and it's been a huge success at my company so far[2][3]. Here's a demo of cross-dat…
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on “The database I wish I had”Submitted Database-agnostic querying is unavoidable at scale as a story · 8 points
HN discussionGraphQL can in fact be a graph query language -- my company has built and open-sourced a tool that makes that possible. Here's a blog post that describes how it works: https://blog.kensho.com/compiled-graphql-as-a-database-query... If you want to try it out: pip install graphql-compiler
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on “Amazon Neptune – Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud”Submitted Grift: a clean approach to app configuration as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIf you use a graph database, something like the GraphQL compiler project might be useful: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/graphql-compiler Primer on how to use it: https://blog.kensho.com/compiled-graphql-as-a-database-query... I work at Kensho and we use it with queries that are 10+ levels of nesting with no problems.
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on “Apollo Server 1.0 – GraphQL Server for Node.js Frameworks”Submitted How the ML community can make progress by looking to economics as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe GraphQL compiler project also implements the 3) approach: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/graphql-compiler Primer on how to use it: https://blog.kensho.com/compiled-graphql-as-a-database-query... Full disclosure: I wrote it, and open-sourced it just yesterday.
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on “Apollo Server 1.0 – GraphQL Server for Node.js Frameworks”Submitted Separation of Concerns in Machine Learning Systems as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMy company has built and open-sourced a tool that can turn your ad-hoc graph queries into database queries. We've completely abandoned GraphQL's resolver-based execution model, and we simply turn the GraphQL directly into a database query and run it on the database itself. Check out our blog post: https://blog.kensho.com/compiled-graphql-as-a-database-query... Open-sourced tool: https://github.com/kensho-technologie…
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on “Build Better GraphQL APIs: Thinking in Graphs”Submitted What I learned at Kensho this summer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was very disappointed with the same thing! However, it is very easy to get rid of the resolver-based execution model and turn it into a generalized graph query language. We've done that at my company and it's been working well for us -- here's our blog post: https://blog.kensho.com/compiled-graphql-as-a-database-query... We also open-sourced the GraphQL compiler code that lets us write graph queries: https://githu…
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on “Build Better GraphQL APIs: Thinking in Graphs”Submitted Every waking moment in a day in the life of an ML engineer at Kensho as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHi! Happy to answer any questions. We are also starting to ramp up our public technology presence by contributing more of our tools to open source and starting an engineering blog. https://blog.kensho.com/latest Stay tuned for more updates over the summer. Additionally, Kensho recently closed a $50m Series B from a consortium of the six largest global banks, as well as Google. We are growing rapidly (in Harvard Squa…
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on “Ask HN: Why is there no buzz about Kensho?”Submitted Database-agnostic querying is unavoidable at scale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset for NLP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auto-generate Python type annotations from your pytest unit tests as a story · 1 points
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