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Hey Hacker News, Today we're launching Equals. Equals is a spreadsheet with native connections to your SQL databases and data warehouses. You can write SQL right in your spreadsheet. Equals was born out of a shared frustration of me and my co-founder. Despite the avalanche of new data tools over the last decade – nothing actually seemed better than a spreadsheet. Nothing was as flexible, malleable, and as easy to just dive in and play around with some data. In fact, you nearly always ended back in a spreadsheet regardless of what fancy set up you had: when something broke, when a chart in a…

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