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KxSystems
cookbook
C2020–2023
KxSystems / cookbook

cookbook

Companion files to the kdb+ Knowledge Base

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
87GitHub stars
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Companion files to the kdb+ Knowledge Base

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-01-10 08:57:34 UTC to 2023-02-05 22:40:07 UTC.

012020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Author has a page [1] listing a few diff implementations of "K" [2]: * A proprietary array processing language * A variant of APL with elements of Scheme * K serves as the foundation for kdb+, an in-memory, column-based database * Advocates of the language emphasize its speed, facility in handling arrays, and expressive syntax. 1: https://ngn.bitbucket.io/k.html 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language) Edit: some examples of idiomatic code (I assume...) * https://github.com/KxSystems/cookbook * https://code.kx.com/phrases/ * https://github.com/KxSystems/javakdb
In ngn/k, an AGPL K interpreter

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