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Mehdio's Tech (Data) Corner
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Mehdio's Tech (Data) Corner is a personal blog at mehdio.substack.com about data and programming. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “DeepSeek's smallpond: Bringing Distributed Computing to DuckDB”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Links to posts on distributed DuckDB processing and DAG parallelism with Ray and 3FS, covering the smallpond framework. One commenter says they enjoyed parts of it.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- DeepSeek's smallpond: Bringing Distributed Computing to DuckDB4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-02-28
What Hacker News says?
Mehdi just wrote about this. Mainly starting DAGs parallelism using Ray (core) and their filesystem 3FS. See https://mehdio.substack.com/p/duckdb-goes-distributed-deepse... .
Comment linking /p/duckdb-goes-distributed-deepseeks
on “Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS”Submitted DeepSeek's smallpond: Bringing Distributed Computing to DuckDB as a story · 198 points
HN discussionSmallpond. Runs on their RDMA powered 3fs ("fire-flyer file system") filesystem. https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200793 I didn't find anything of value in this article. Did enjoy https://mehdio.substack.com/p/duckdb-goes-distributed-deepse... some, which eventually talks about smallpond being built on Ray, and… Smallpond actually running multiple partitioned duckdb ins…
Comment linking /p/duckdb-goes-distributed-deepseeks
on “Understanding Smallpond and 3FS”Submitted DuckDB goes distributed? DeepSeek's smallpond takes on Big Data as a story · 7 points
HN discussion