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  "id": 100375,
  "title": "Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse-to-establish-clickhouse-labs",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-03T14:09:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hacker News Best",
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    "url": "https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "I'm excited to share that I have joined ClickHouse to create and oversee a new research team called ClickHouse Labs. My career journey began as a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department in 2013, where I focused on understanding modern database management system (DBMS) internals. I have been closely following ClickHouse since its open-source launch in June 2016, initially doubting its capabilities but later recognizing its potential, especially its SIMD optimizations. Over the years, I've closely monitored its growth and development, even donning a ClickHouse shirt during my remote lectures during the pandemic. The ClickHouse co-founders approached me to establish this research group, an opportunity I couldn't refuse. This collaboration will be akin to a hip-hop supergroup, working closely with ClickHouse's engineering team, customers, and partners to develop and share innovative ideas that keep ClickHouse at the forefront. Our goal is to conduct research with scientific value and transform these findings into impactful technologies. We aim to achieve the same influence as renowned research organizations like IBM Research and Microsoft Research. The ClickHouse team has already published comprehensive technical material on its work, and I plan to help accelerate the process of validating and implementing these ideas. Additionally, we will explore how DBMSs like ClickHouse and PostgreSQL can adapt to emerging AI and agentic technologies. This includes investigating new hardware, algorithms, data structures, execution strategies, and novel ways of building and operating DBMS software. With ClickHouse's solid relational model foundation, we are well-positioned to evolve alongside these data-intensive workloads.",
  "summary": "Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156011 Points: 212 # Comments: 46",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}