Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL

Love seeing people experiment with stuff like YQL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Query_Language) taking advantage of all the AI stuff definitely increases the power.

"One user, inigyou, out-commented all of Hacker News in August 2026 — 3,344 comments, 4.4× the runner-up" - https://select.keenable.ai/artifacts/MarIEMVi6t63M4qovQ2cVw

Prompt was "What user on Hacker News made most comments in August, 2026?". Seemed pretty fast, used reasonable sources, results makes sense, pretty good job done by the people building it :)

I wish there was a way to abort/cancel/edit the requests, as I am, like many of you, still human, and therefore do mistakes sometimes, but I do realize them, although sometimes a bit too late.

Assuming this is accurate, the diagram showing movement between different AI labs is pretty interesting: https://select.keenable.ai/r/frontier-ai-researcher-moves-si...

Suggests that when Meta AI started throwing around those multi-million-dollar paychecks they got 12 from OpenAI, 5 from DeepMind, 2 from Thinking Machines Lab and none from Anthropic.

(There's a small print disclaimer about accuracy at the bottom: "This report was generated automatically by Keenable SELECT at a user's request, from publicly available web sources linked herein. Keenable does not review, verify, or endorse its contents and makes no representation as to accuracy, completeness, or timeliness; AI-based extraction may contain errors.")

SEM_EXTRACT, SEM_MATCH, WEB_SEARCH are pretty vague functions. Makes me wonder why you'd bother with the SQL part at that point and not just ask the question.

Echoes of a semantic Web that never was! Showing the prompt trajectories is also a nice touch.

Looks like it thinks rather highly of itself - https://select.keenable.ai/r/the-agent-native-rebuild-of-the....

Otherwise looks really cool!

SQL shall never die, in contrast, it shall grow in scope and utility