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Snowflake AI Data Cloud
Company blog · snowflake.com/blogdatasystems
Snowflake AI Data Cloud is the company blog at snowflake.com, writing about data and systems. Since 2018, 111 different Hacker News readers have linked it 151 times, most often “Snowflake Arctic: LLM for Enterprise AI — Efficiently Intelligent, Truly Open”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link snowflake.com pages as references to the Snowflake product: its collaboration features, telecom data partnerships, pricing, customer list, and FoundationDB engineering posts. Many comments are job postings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-04-20
- Snowflake Arctic: LLM for Enterprise AI — Efficiently Intelligent, Truly Open5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-04-24
- /pricing/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-12-02
- Unistore, Snowflake’s Workload for Transactional and Analytical Data4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-06-14
- Looking Ahead to Postgres 193 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-06-18
- Pg_lake 3.5: Universal Iceberg REST Catalog Support for Postgres3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-10-13
- Polaris Catalog: An Open Source Catalog for Apache Iceberg3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-03
- Approximations and Sampling in Postgres3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-05
- /en/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-snowflake-metadata-forward/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-08
- How We Pushed CDC into Postgres2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-07-24
What Hacker News says?
One of the usecases of Snowflake is to give access to a dataset to multiple teams in your company, while filtering what each team can see : https://www.snowflake.com/en/data-cloud/workloads/collaborat... Service A can access the dataset with the location hidden while Service B can access the dataset with the timestamp hidden while Service C can access the full dataset. So Snowflake probably has the full dataset, and…
Comment linking /en/data-cloud/workloads/collaboration/data-clean-rooms/
on “AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach”Submitted Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post as a story · 80 points
HN discussionHere's Snowflake bragging about helping telcos sell location data: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/telecom-data-partnerships/
Comment linking /blog/telecom-data-partnerships/
on “AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach”Submitted How Snowflake Rebuilt Its AWS Stack on Azure as a story · 46 points
HN discussionJoining the dots on the facts so far, people don't seem to have grasped the apparent huge significance: - guessing it was some GenAI startup looking into consumer tracking, alternate credit scoring, surveillance or other national-security use-case. - Very unusually, the DOJ ordered two ~month-long "delay periods" in disclosure: ("The Justice Department determined on May 9 and again on June 5 that a delay in providin…
Comment linking /blog/telecom-data-partnerships/
on “AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach”Submitted Looking Ahead to Postgres 19 as a story · 25 points
HN discussionIt's not "internal analytics", because a) 90% of the data was former customers and b) it has location data but timestamps were removed, so it's social-graph information plus location. Start asking yourself what sorts of end-users want to pay for the entire social-graph of 77m, regardless whether those customers never make a phone call again. "Alternate credit scoring, hyper-targeted marketing and more... an emerging…
Comment linking /blog/telecom-data-partnerships/
on “AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach”Submitted Snowflake Launches Text-Embedding Model for Retrieval Use Cases as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSome new news in the article and comment: - [security expert] "This [logs without timestamps] isn’t one of their main databases; it is metadata on who is contacting who. Its only real use is to know who is contacting whom and how many times." - [commenter] "I have a theory that this call log was being used for a national security investigation. Otherwise why would this rise to the level of public safety/national sec…
Comment linking /blog/telecom-data-partnerships/
on “AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach”Submitted Snowflake Arctic: LLM for Enterprise AI — Efficiently Intelligent, Truly Open as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSnowflake might want to take this page down in light of today's news. https://www.snowflake.com/en/customers/all-customers/case-st...
Comment linking /en/customers/all-customers/case-study/att/
on “AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach”Submitted How We Pushed CDC into Postgres as a story · 18 points
HN discussionDepending on your size / budget / needs Snowflake may interest you. https://www.snowflake.com/product/architecture/ . I haven't used it but have been given a presentation by them on it, and it was very very good. They store data in S3 and use FoundationDB for indexes. You can feed it JSON and it'll index it and let you query it on a massive scale shockingly fast. Obviously they are not aimed at small hobby projects…
Comment linking /product/architecture/
on “Simdjson – Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second”Submitted Snowflake Postgres Is Now Available in Public Preview as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> other than: it makes migrating to competitors cost-prohibitive in a subset of cases My theory: it forces third party services into the same cloud. Suppose you use AWS and you want to pay a third party SaaS provider for some service involving moderate-to-large amounts of data. Here’s one of many examples: https://www.snowflake.com/en/data-cloud/pricing-options/ And look at this remarkable choice: you get to pick AW…
Comment linking /en/data-cloud/pricing-options/
on “Cloud Egress Costs”Submitted Snowflake Launches Practical Text-Embedding Model for Retrieval Use Cases as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIn short, something very similar to https://www.snowflake.com/ . An event-based system sitting on top of s3, indexed with a postgresql, influxDB, or anything else.
Comment linking /
on “Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing”Submitted Unistore, Snowflake’s Workload for Transactional and Analytical Data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionEffectively, this is a pretty cool way to get an OSS version of something like https://www.snowflake.com/guides/public-data . Also something like a lighter version of https://datasette.io/ . The thing it's kinda missing for me is the ability to compose multiple SQLite databases, possibly provided by different domains. It'd be nice to join together different public datasets. In a weird personal example, if Strava exp…
Comment linking /guides/public-data
on “Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite”Submitted What Is Happening with PostgreSQL 19? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSnowflake | Software Engineers | Onsite/Hybrid | Full Time | Berlin, DE (relocation possible) | https://snowflake.com We're looking to expand our presence in Berlin across our product teams. The Berlin office is one of five engineering centers globally and is growing very quickly. We work on tons of different parts of the core Snowflake platform; however, our mission is to make Snowflake more flexibile and more perf…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted 30 Years of Postgres Architecture as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis two sources[1][2] shows 1500-2500 token/per second on 8*H100. [1]: https://lmsys.org/blog/2024-07-25-sglang-llama3/?ref=blog.ru... [2]: https://www.snowflake.com/engineering-blog/optimize-llms-wit...
Comment linking /engineering-blog/optimize-llms-with-llama-snowflake-ai-stack/
on “Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference”Submitted Approximations and Sampling in Postgres as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSnowflake | Software Engineers | Onsite/Hybrid | Full Time | Berlin, DE (relocation possible) | https://snowflake.com We're looking to expand our presence in Berlin across our product teams. The Berlin office is one of five engineering centers globally and is growing very quickly. We work on tons of different parts of the core Snowflake platform; however, our mission is to make Snowflake more flexibile and more perf…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted Snowflake Strengthens Security with Default MFA and Stronger Password Policies as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Wow their statement about not participating in benchmarking wars is alarming. I found the Snowflake statement pretty reasonable. [0] Vendor benchmarks are largely propaganda. What actually counts is performance on real-world workloads, starting with your own. Plus good bencharks are costly to do well. If vendors are going to invest in load testing, it's way better to do it as part of the QA process, which directly…
Comment linking /legal/acceptable-use-policy/
on “Why is Snowflake so expensive”Submitted Query Engineering as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSnowflake is a bit generic to easily find - and the article has no hyperlinks - anybody have a one sentence summary? EDIT: There it is: https://www.snowflake.com/ Data warehousing, basically.
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on “Why is Snowflake so expensive”Submitted Snowflake Partners with and Invests in Anaconda as a story · 4 points
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