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usql

Universal command-line interface for SQL databases

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26Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
10.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

Universal command-line interface for SQL databases

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year26 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-12-23 12:11:44 UTC to 2026-06-05 12:33:23 UTC.

0123452017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 3 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 3 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC330
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC431
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

5 sources
119K 2024-07-12 02:01 /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl 737K 2024-07-15 01:01 /usr/local/bin/pg_dump 528K 2024-07-15 01:09 /usr/local/bin/pg_restore 8.1M 2024-07-12 02:01 /usr/local/bin/postgres 848K 2024-07-12 02:01 /usr/local/bin/psql /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped /usr/local/bin/pg_dump: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped /usr/local/bin/pg_restore: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped /usr/local/bin/postgres: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped /usr/local/bin/psql: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped https://github.com/xo/usql/r
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eleases/download/v0.19.12/usql_s... 185M 2024-10-24 07:58 usql_static usql_static: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=33c121e6b03ea90eb1dc1b79190b5ef71658f120, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped 185M! Wow. I just want to query postgres with socat.
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