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Pete Doherty
Personal blog · peterdohertys.website/blog-posts · on HN as ethagnawlprogrammingdata
Pete Doherty's personal blog at peterdohertys.website covers programming and data. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “A Dab of DuckDB”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover DuckDB, including full-text search and querying or joining data from many sources. One comment points to an earlier post by the author describing DuckDB's features.
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.
Pete Doherty is a NYC based software developer
Most-linked posts?
- A Dab of DuckDB3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-24
What Hacker News says?
Location: New York / NYC Metro Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Make me an offer! Technologies: Python (app dev, ML ops, uv maximalist), all things AWS, DevOps, IAC (Terragrunt/Terraform/OpenTofu), Docker, DuckDB, Postgres (pgvector), Rust, Linux sysadmin, security, etc. Website: https://peterdohertys.website/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdoherty926/ Résumé/CV: https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/pdoh…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)”Submitted A Double Shot of DuckDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: New York / NYC Metro Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (app dev, ML ops, uv maximalist), all things AWS, DevOps, IAC (Terragrunt/Terraform/OpenTofu), Docker, DuckDB, Postgres (pgvector), Rust, Linux sysadmin, security, etc. Website: https://peterdohertys.website/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdoherty926/ Email: pdoherty+hn@protonmail.com I'm just coming off of a very fun pro…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)”Submitted Full-Text Search with DuckDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm relatively new to DuckDB (coming from SQLite) and I love it so far. Some parts are magical (described in the previous article by the same author: https://peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/dab-of-duck.html ) You can point DuckDB to almost any data source and boom, you get an SQL table that you can search, sum, or join to any other data. Or you can attach existing databases from completely independent db systems, a…
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on “Full-Text Search with DuckDB”Submitted A Dab of DuckDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim Abbreviations – The Lightning Talk That Didn't Strike as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mystery on DuckLake: A Time-Travelling Whodunit Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Dab of DuckDB as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creative Tech Tips and Tricks as a story · 1 points
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