alt Hacker NewsI noticed some AI tells, but found overall the article not too bad. It did seem to waffle at times though.
> Storing a lake as thousands of 1 MB Parquet files is a bad practice anyway, and 2.0 does not rescue it.
The "does not rescue it". No human would write like that.
> I'll explain what that means on a table you already know.
No I don't already know that table.
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> and claims 40x on graph reachability
Is really hard to parse.
The section on recursive CTEs wasn't well written and didn't explain how the optimisation was done. This article explains how the recursive CTEs were improved https://duckdb.org/2026/08/25/how-duckdb-runs-recursive-ctes...
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> The "does not rescue it". No human would write like that.
On the contrary. It is unnatural for a native speaker, which I don't think the author is. For someone that speaks English as a second language, it is not uncommon to use expressions literally translated from their first language, which may be understandable but weird for native speakers.
> The "does not rescue it". No human would write like that.
This is what I don’t understand. Supposedly LLMs are trained on human text. Why do they come up with such unrealistic prose? Is it intentional because the companies want the tells to be obvious?