Reading Hacker News Rss with Duckdb
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The post explores using DuckDB to read Hacker News RSS feeds, sparking discussion on the utility and potential applications of this approach.
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>I wanted to see DuckDB in action. Since DuckDB can already read remote text, CSV, JSON, Parquet, and even Excel, it seemed natural to try replacing requests with read_text
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>In the end, this wasn’t about building a reader or replacing RSS clients. It was about bending DuckDB in a direction it wasn’t designed for and seeing how far it could go. I like DuckDB because it makes small data fun again: quick to set up, light to use, and surprisingly flexible when you throw odd formats at it.