Show HN: Dbt-Workbench – an open-source UI for exploring dbt projects, lineage
Hi HN, I’ve been working on dbt-Workbench, an open-source UI for working with dbt projects beyond the CLI.
The goal is simple: make dbt artifacts (models, sources, tests, lineage, runs) easier to see and reason about, especially for larger projects where dbt docs starts to feel limiting.
This started as a personal pain point while working with complex dbt setups, and I decided to clean it up and release it openly.
It’s early, opinionated, and definitely not perfect. I’d really appreciate feedback, especially from people using dbt at scale. Happy to answer questions or hear why this is a bad idea
Repo: https://github.com/rezer-bleede/dbt-Workbench
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Z.ai GLM-OCR: SOTA performance, optimized for complex document understanding
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Switch becomes Nintendo's best selling hardware
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Why Deborah Cameron's "The Myth of Mars and Venus" still matters
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The world is trying to log off U.S. tech
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Generous child care policies cut 80% of 'motherhood penalty' for working mothers
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Show HN: O(1) memory attention – 512K tokens in 3.85 GB (eval binary)
Show HN: MRO — Enforce truth in your repositories
The Maintenance Release Operator is a Kubernetes controller that manages the lifecycle of maintenance releases for software applications running in a Kubernetes cluster. It automates the process of upgrading and rolling back applications, ensuring consistent and reliable updates.
A Community-Curated Nancy Drew Collection
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Show HN: Metricsense – Turn unstructured user feedback into engineering specs
Hi HN,
We built Metricsense to solve a problem I was facing daily: reading through thousands of chat logs and support tickets to decide what to build next, then manually writing specs for engineers.
What it does: Metricsense acts as an intelligence layer. It connects to your feedback channels (chat logs, linear, etc.), uses LLMs to identify recurring patterns/pain points, and automatically generates detailed, engineering-ready specifications for your team.
How it works: Instead of generic summaries, we focus on extracting "implementation details." It spots that 40 users complained about "pricing visibility" and drafts a spec including the context, the user quotes, and the suggested technical change.
The goal is to close the loop between "User said X" and "Engineer builds Y" without the manual translation layer in between.
I’d love to hear your feedback on the generated specs or how you currently handle this workflow.
Thanks!
The Startup Rush for Europe's New War Chest
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The Wayland–X11 feud nobody needs
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Research: Most Trusted AI Humanizer Tools 2026
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Researchers sue X for access to Hungarian election data
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CiderStack – Native macOS VM manager, pay once, no subscription
I'm one of the developers behind CiderStack. It's a local-first macOS VM tool for Apple devs who need clean installs, older Xcodes, or a safe place to test things without bricking their main machine. Spin up → snapshot → break things → delete → repeat. Why no subscription? CiderStack runs on your hardware. It doesn't need my servers. It doesn't phone home. So why would you pay me every month? I'm tired of SaaS fees for tools that could easily be a one-time purchase. Tired of losing access to software because a card expired. Tired of workflows held hostage behind subscriptions. Buy it once. Own it forever. Free updates for the major version. That's the deal. Who it's for:
Solo devs testing across macOS versions without buying multiple Macs IT admins safely testing betas and MDM profiles before rollout CI/CD teams spinning up ephemeral macOS runners Homelabbers with a rack of Mac minis (we built this for people like us)
14-day free trial, no account required. Just shipped v1.0.3 (found a few bugs pretty early on) Happy to answer questions.
Ask HN: Is there a surge of spam emails slipping past filters across providers?
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Career Ladder Is Rewarding the Wrong Behavior
Adobe Animate Shuts Down
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Transparent Toilets Take Tokyo's Culture of Hygiene to the Next Level
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MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk
Operation Sovereignty: Bundestag Plans a Breakthrough from Microsoft and Co
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Show HN: Keepsanity.ai – an AI newsletter for busy engineers
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The Ozzy Tape I Never Played: A Little Piece of Rock History Found in an Attic
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I built an offline SEO site auditor for Windows (no SaaS, no tracking)
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