Exploring HackerNews Trends with ETL, Embeddings, Kmeans, and MotherDuck Setup Experience

·Jul 21, 2026 08:47 PM(edited)·

Hi all! I tried my hand with MotherDuck it at was a really nice experience setting it up. I created an ETL project to explore trends in HackerNews posts, using embeddings, Kmeans, DuckDB locally or using MotherDuck with Flights. Do check it out at github.com/el10savio/hnTrends

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Exploring HackerNews Trends with ETL, Embeddings, Kmeans, and MotherDuck Setup Experience

Elton V.

·Jul 21, 2026 08:47 PM(edited)·

Hi all! I tried my hand with MotherDuck it at was a really nice experience setting it up. I created an ETL project to explore trends in HackerNews posts, using embeddings, Kmeans, DuckDB locally or using MotherDuck with Flights. Do check it out at github.com/el10savio/hnTrends

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Jacob M.
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yo this is great!!! would love to see a dive submitted to the dive gallery that captures that superset dash! 🙏 since the data is already in MD - you could make your share global and any user could attach it and use it on their own compute
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Elton V.
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Hey Jacob M., thanks! Sure thing, I'll check it out and get it set up by tomorrowish
Jacob M.
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amazing !!
Elton V.
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Share link for the last 7 days (the timeseries is built from the cluster_timeseries table)
-- Run this snippet to attach database ATTACH 'md:_share/hn_clusters/8f63cdb7-7cef-49c0-90de-bbf993ca9980';

Jacob M.
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yo this is great!!! would love to see a dive submitted to the dive gallery that captures that superset dash! 🙏 since the data is already in MD - you could make your share global and any user could attach it and use it on their own compute
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Elton V.
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Hey Jacob M., thanks! Sure thing, I'll check it out and get it set up by tomorrowish
Jacob M.
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amazing !!
Elton V.
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Share link for the last 7 days (the timeseries is built from the cluster_timeseries table)
-- Run this snippet to attach database ATTACH 'md:_share/hn_clusters/8f63cdb7-7cef-49c0-90de-bbf993ca9980';