Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (December 20, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for December 20, 2023 :</p>
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Trying chDB, an embeddable ClickHouse engine
Summary: chDB is an embeddable, in-process SQL OLAP engine powered by ClickHouse, designed for smaller machines. It provides language bindings for Python, Node.js, Go, Rust, and C/C++. chDB supports ClickHouse's SQL syntax, including joins, CTEs, set operations, aggregations, and window functions. It also supports various input and output formats, such as CSV, SQLInsert, JSON, and XML. Users can define functions in Python and use them in chDB SQL queries. The chDB Python package adheres to the Python DB API (PEP 249).
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Minimal implementation of Mamba, the new LLM architecture, in 1 file of PyTorch
Summary: GitHub user johnma2006 has created a simple, minimal implementation of Mamba, a linear-time sequence modeling architecture, in one PyTorch file. The implementation features equivalent numerical output as the official version for both forward and backward pass but does not include speed optimizations or proper parameter initialization.