Hacker News: andrewmatte

Show HN: Color Name Game

andrewmatte — Sun, 11 May 2025 20:47:30 +0000

How well do you know the 700 plus named colours? No penalties, no ads, no tracking, just guess the colour name. Feedback welcome.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957014

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New comment by andrewmatte in "Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7"

andrewmatte — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 04:31:33 +0000

jonhohle, thanks. Do you know of examples of when milliseconds are part of the session tokens or accounts being created has been exploited?

New comment by andrewmatte in "Zap – Fast backends in Zig"

andrewmatte — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:21:58 +0000

There might also be a chance you can have your webserver included in the techempower benchmarks for their next round. Their code is submitted by experts and open-source: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks

New comment by andrewmatte in "Zap – Fast backends in Zig"

andrewmatte — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:20:36 +0000

Congratulations! This is really great. I am going to try it.

In your benchmarks, consider adding actix which is also in Rust but considerably faster than rust axum according to: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...

New comment by andrewmatte in "Big meat can’t quit antibiotics"

andrewmatte — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:57:02 +0000

I am not a doctor - I just write code... I remember being up in arms about weird stuff in my food when I first heard about it but now I think about the wellbeing of the animals while they're alive and shit, man, if I were sick I'd want antibiotics too. When is it excessive? Is it because they're all so close together in the factory "farm"? What do the veterinarians say about this?

New comment by andrewmatte in "Wikipedia is not short on cash"

andrewmatte — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:30:37 +0000

If you use wikipedia and you think they would be reliable if they were poor service, you are living a lie.

Show HN: ML-Powered Search Demo

andrewmatte — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 19:07:41 +0000

Before NLP-powered text search, it was difficult to handle synonyms or text records with different languages. This demo is a note-taking app that can accommodate 16 languages for semantic search that makes searching through your content way better than substrings.

Please feel free to ask any questions and leave comments about your impressions. There is no CSS - it's intentional. Function over form :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32770476

Points: 2

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New comment by andrewmatte in "Embodiment is indispensable for AGI"

andrewmatte — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:09:50 +0000

I'm glad someone else is saying it: AGI will emerge from sexbots.

New comment by andrewmatte in "Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision"

andrewmatte — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:24:11 +0000

I have not given transformers enough attention... but my impression is that this is still storing entities in the weights of the neural network instead of in a database where the can be operated on with CRUD. What are the knowledge discovery researchers doing with respect to transformers? And the SAT solver researchers?

Here is an article on KDNuggets that explains transformers but doesn't answer my questions: https://www.kdnuggets.com/2021/06/essential-guide-transforme...

New comment by andrewmatte in "Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code"

andrewmatte — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:37:07 +0000

This doesn't account for synonyms. I'd rather use a document embedding search.

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andrewmatte — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 20:33:07 +0000

Article URL: https://angel.clearbanc.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26267889

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New comment by andrewmatte in "20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower"

andrewmatte — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 02:29:52 +0000

90M requests daily from India? I wonder if KaiOS is checking whether it's got internet access.

New comment by andrewmatte in "Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser"

andrewmatte — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 23:34:01 +0000

I'll take that as a compliment! Thanks.

New comment by andrewmatte in "Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser"

andrewmatte — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 23:33:10 +0000

Eventually ads but, as the head of tech of this venture, we have no plans to sell browsing history. Also, we've taken care to never expose your email address. Deleting a post genuinely deletes the data from our database, unless the post has been reported as violating standards. What other privacy concerns would you like to see addressed?

New comment by andrewmatte in "Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser"

andrewmatte — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:50:05 +0000

Post directly on a page for the rest of the community to see. Share privately or publicly, reply, like, mention your friends, hashstag your interests.

Mobile app built in Flutter, backend with python+postgres+redis

Your public posts get showcased on a board like this: https://prod.hvr.world/profile?referrerId=58&u=Andreud&inten...

Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser

andrewmatte — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:50:05 +0000

Article URL: https://hvr.world/?referrerId=58

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860200

Points: 9

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New comment by andrewmatte in "Write Libraries, Not Frameworks"

andrewmatte — Sat, 09 May 2020 14:20:29 +0000

I like microframeworks because they do one thing well and they don't in the way - like a library. When I use batteries-included frameworks, I end up not using a lot of what they offer.

New comment by andrewmatte in "Ask HN: I've saved up $80k USD. What should I do with it?"

andrewmatte — Wed, 06 May 2020 23:05:28 +0000

Dollar cost averaging means you aren't trying to time the market.

New comment by andrewmatte in "Ask HN: I've saved up $80k USD. What should I do with it?"

andrewmatte — Wed, 06 May 2020 11:05:11 +0000

I used to be a stock broker. But right now I am not your stock broker. This is not advice.

Great fundamental wisdom is that you can't (consistently) time the market but you should try to Buy Low, Sell High. That said, we experience a massive COVID crash. It's a great time to buy, but we don't know how long it will last or whether it will be long recession afterwards.

Index investing through ETFs is a great way to get diversity in a single financial instrument such as the S&P (large companies), NASDAQ (tech), or the Russell (small companies.) The NASDAQ has largely recovered but the Russell still has a long way to go back to February prices.

I have an old friend whose parents sold their home recently and gave him a sum. He's putting in 10% per month for the next 10 months, all in the S&P.

New comment by andrewmatte in "Show HN: Full Text Search on Podcasts"

andrewmatte — Fri, 01 May 2020 13:13:32 +0000

Cool idea for an add-on!

I've noticed that I feel better about giving feedback to uncompensated developers using "this is great and" instead of "this is great but."

It could make or break someone's day.