nb: Engs and academics leading the development of DuckDB don't work for MotherDuck (yet).

It will be interesting to see what MotherDuck is. Is it going to be like juniper notebooks but DuckDB? It it going to be something that scales vertically in the cloud? Hard to tell from the marketing so far :p

my impression from a short chat with their cofounder is think "firebase for duckdb". pretty solid initial plan, at least

offtopic question - what is the meaning of the follow: list in your hn bio? is it ingested in some tool somewhere?

No tool; mostly a reminder-to-self to keep an eye on comments from those users. Also helps when researching keywords on hn.algolia: For ex, "gpu pcwalton", "trust mjg59", "advice nostrademons" etc

See also: tptacek's must-read list https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek