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New comment by vunderba in "Ask HN: What are some rock solid open source vector databases"

vunderba — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:26:01 +0000

Hi timvisee,

Thanks for your work on Qdrant! I actually don't really have any complaints at this time. I'm using it in conjunction with Qwen3-VL to autocaption/describe images and then place them in a large vector Qdrant db so its easy to semantically search through ~100k worth of image assets.

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time"

inemesitaffia — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:58:44 +0000

It can.

Datacamp, which hosts lots of them has very good peering

New comment by immibis in "Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time"

immibis — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:12:15 +0000

It actually can, depending on where it is. Paperclip optimizers don't optimize for route length - they optimize for paperclips received. When Vodafone or Deutsche Telekom gets your packet, they try to send it to one of their customers, because their customers pay them to receive traffic, even when it's a longer route.

If you're sending a packet from German Shittytel to German Okaytel, and Okaytel just happens to buy a connection to Singapore from Asiatel to get packets to Asia, and Singapore Internet Corp just happens to buy a connection to German Shittytel to get packets to Europe, they'll be glad to send your packet all the way to Singapore so Asiatel will have to pay them for it. But if you sent your packet to a VPN server in Berlin with a neutral peering with both ISPs, the packet would take a nearly common sense route.

In practice, these situations don't happen, at least not this extreme. Partly because ISPs are trying their best not to be the recipient of this. Okaytel doesn't want their packets to be round-tripped through Singapore - that's a bad user experience and they're ultimately paying for it in money as well. So they might negotiate with Asiatel that Asiatel won't tell Shittytel that it's able to deliver packets to Okaytel - in fact there are often BGP attributes they can set to do this automatically. Business is incredibly cut-throat and incredibly stupid. I guarantee Shittytel has a lot more money than Okaytel because they are better at "extracting value". Not only the ISP business is like this btw.

New comment by toast0 in "Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time"

toast0 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:34:04 +0000

If the shortest route is congested, a longer route can be advantageous if it avoids congested hops.

New comment by bruce343434 in "Keeping a long shell history"

bruce343434 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:41:35 +0000

Doesn't work for bash

New comment by talhah in "Keeping a long shell history"

talhah — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:38:16 +0000

And if you're using fish shell, you can start a private session with fish --private or fish -P for short

New comment by LaputanMachine in "Keeping a long shell history"

LaputanMachine — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:35:51 +0000

This feature can also be be enabled in macOS by adding the following line to ~/.zshrc:

    setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE