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landingunlesson Show HN: PRQL in PostgreSQL

Nice to see extensions like this one developed in Rust/pgrx. Reminds me of https://github.com/tcdi/plrust

landingunlesson No one cares about open-source, until

For most venture-backed open source projects, "open source" is and will always be a marketing tactic. It's a way to appeal to developers and beat out close-source competitors in procurement.

Users of these projects should expect something like the Skiff sell to happen -- especially if the project is open core or does not use a truly permissive license.

landingunlesson Sora: Creating video from text

Wonder how the folks at Runway and Pika are thinking about this.

To me, it's becoming increasingly obvious that startups whose defensibility hinges on "hoping OpenAI doesn't do this" are probably not very enduring ones.