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You are right.

AWS did not acquire the DuckDB technology itself, which is MIT-licensed open source and governed by the DuckDB Foundation which holds most of the related IP [1].

What they did acquire is DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based services and development company behind the technology which is owned by and employs the creators and major contributors.

And MotherDuck is a US-based venture-funded commercial company, whose cloud-based data platform is centered around DuckDB but has been significantly expanded recently, including Python pipelines, an agentic context layer, and a visualisation layer.

[1]: https://duckdb.foundation/

[2] https://ducklabs.com/

[3] https://motherduck.com/

Is it the first for similarly high—profile companies?

Previous discussions:

- Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge (2021) - 177 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26370572

- Dolt is Git for data (2020) - 191 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22731928

Speaking about 2-paneled file managers, I’m still a fan of Far Manager on Windows.

It's interesting to compare the trajectory of Databricks with Snowflake.

Last February, Snowflake raised its last funding round, $479M at a $12.4B valuation. Snowflake then went on to a gigantic, record breaking IPO in September.

This time it's Databricks, with a 2x investment at a 2x valuation. The eventual IPO will be something to watch.

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2020/cloud-data-platform-giant-snow...

It's interesting to see the visitor stats [0] on the blog itself , provided by Simple Analytics:

12K hits for the blogpost, HN is the top traffic source with 7,5K referrals.

[0]: https://simpleanalytics.com/blog.leavemealone.app

I can confirm that the bug also present in IOS 9.2.1, running on an iPad Air 2

> In particular, all of your bookmarks will certainly be analyzed on Yahoo servers. Whereas I trust Maciej not to perform experiments on random people's bookmarks.

Well, there is this blog entry from August:

Researching Link Rot "This week I'll be running a little experiment in link rot,in preparation for an upcoming conference talk" https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/08/researching_link_rot/

Oracle actually has upsert functionality. It is called Merge and has been available for quite a long time: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/statem...