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Lukas Barth

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Lukas Barth's personal blog at lukas-barth.net covers programming and data. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Benchmarking DuckDB vs. SQLite for Simple Queries”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-17, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2023–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a SQLite vs DuckDB benchmark post. A commenter cited it while asking whether DuckDB 1.0.0 had fixed slow queries on indexed columns.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Homepage of Lukas Barth, algorithm engineer and C++ developer.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Benchmarking DuckDB vs. SQLite for Simple Queries
    4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-11-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Have they fixed the incredibly slow queries on indexed columns? https://www.lukas-barth.net/blog/sqlite-duckdb-benchmark/

    Comment linking /blog/sqlite-duckdb-benchmark/

    on “DuckDB 1.0.0”
  2. Submitted Benchmarking DuckDB vs. SQLite for Simple Queries as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Benchmarking DuckDB vs. SQLite for Simple Queries (2023) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Benchmarking DuckDB vs. SQLite for Simple Queries as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Benchmarking DuckDB vs. SQLite for Simple Queries as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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