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Rill
Company blog · rilldata.com/blogdataai
Rill is the company blog at rilldata.com, writing about data and ai. Since 2023, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Rill as a DuckDB-powered analytics tool and compare its visualizations and pivot tables with other DuckDB UIs. The links are product references, not comments on writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rill's Agentic Analytics goes beyond dashboards with a natural language interface that powers instant, visual, and verifiable insights.
Most-linked posts?
- Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-08
- Rill: Transform data sets into powerful, opinionated dashboards using SQL3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-26
- Scaling Beyond Postgres: How to Choose a Real-Time Analytical Database2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-03-11
- Data Talks on the Rocks 4 – Alexey Milovidov, ClickHouse2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-08
- The Rise of the Declarative Data Stack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-16
- BI-as-Code and the New Era of GenBI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-05
What Hacker News says?
The UI aesthetics look similar to the excellent Rill, also powered by DuckDB: https://www.rilldata.com/ Rill has better built in visualizations and pivot tables and overall a polished product with open-source code in Go/Svelte. But the DuckDB UI has very nice Jupyter notebook-style "cells" for editing SQL queries.
Comment linking /
on “The DuckDB Local UI”Submitted Like MS Excel, Pivot tables never die as a story · 30 points
HN discussionThere are so many! Rill Data - https://www.rilldata.com Summer - https://summer.io Hex - https://hex.tech Evidence - https://evidence.dev
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB”Submitted Scaling Beyond Postgres: How to Choose a Real-Time Analytical Database as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis also came to my mind when I heard `rill`, coming from https://www.rilldata.com/ .
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: Rill – Composable concurrency toolkit for Go”Submitted BI-as-Code and the New Era of GenBI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Open Table Format Revolution: Why Hyperscalers Betting on Managed Iceberg as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of the Declarative Data Stack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Talks on the Rocks 4 – Alexey Milovidov, ClickHouse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Reveals Why BI Still Matters (Hint: It's Not Dashboards) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an Agent-Friendly, Local-First Analytics Stack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Table Format Revolution: Why Hyperscalers Are Betting on Managed Iceberg as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Beyond Postgres: How to Choose a Real-Time Analytical Database as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Beyond Postgres: How to Choose a Real-Time Analytical Database as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Pivot Tables Never Die as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rill: Transform data sets into powerful, opinionated dashboards using SQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Talks on the Rocks 3 – Lloyd Tabb as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of the Declarative Data Stack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI agents can query your data – but who stewards the answers? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Beyond Postgres: How to Choose a Real-Time Analytical Database as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted BI-as-Code and the New Era of GenBI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alexey Milovidov, ClickHouse (Data Talks on the Rocks) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Talks on the Rocks 4 – Alexey Milovidov, ClickHouse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Instant analytics for your open source GitHub projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Built Rill with DuckDB as a story · 1 points
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