Hacker News: bendangelo

New comment by bendangelo in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"

bendangelo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:04:14 +0000

This never happens on the deepseek api. It’s always a different provider using lower quants.

New comment by bendangelo in "SQLite Is All You Need"

bendangelo — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:29:59 +0000

litestream is good for this.

New comment by bendangelo in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

bendangelo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:22:16 +0000

Yeah it’s all a pain. One thing that helped was using hotwire native. It is basically a web view but it bridges the mobile app with your website and wraps it into a mobile app. This is the only way I can make apps now. Flutter never worked well for me.

New comment by bendangelo in "Looking Ahead to Postgres 19"

bendangelo — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:29:06 +0000

Litestream solves the backup issue. I use it and it’s great.

New comment by bendangelo in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

bendangelo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:50:59 +0000

Yes, you'll be hard pressed to find any Canadians at any fast food restaurants now. It's a common scam to pay a Tim Hortons owner 20-30k and he'll make you a manager at the franchise, then he'll give you a shared room where you pay monthly to live there. Then you work for free. The UN literaly wrote how Canada has created a neo-slavery system.

New comment by bendangelo in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

bendangelo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:10:14 +0000

Hi, I used to work at a startup in Toronto that did compete against ticketmaster called Uniiverse. In the end they go bought out by ticketmaster. I don't know the details because I left way before then but this is one example of a company trying.

New comment by bendangelo in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

bendangelo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:27:09 +0000

I use planning mode in opencode. It has a prompt to tell it to plan it out etc. Then I execute with a smaller model. it works well

New comment by bendangelo in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

bendangelo — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:28:22 +0000

Basically means, “good enough” attitude.

New comment by bendangelo in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

bendangelo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:13:36 +0000

Which product?

New comment by bendangelo in "An Update on Heroku"

bendangelo — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:17:18 +0000

Kamal works well

LLM astroturfing is killing Reddit

bendangelo — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:43:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bendangelo.me/2026/02/02/llm-astroturfing-is-killing-reddit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858807

Points: 4

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New comment by bendangelo in "Tuning Semantic Search on JFMM.net – Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual"

bendangelo — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:37:30 +0000

I didn't know sqlite had a vector extension. I'm also using nomic 1.5 with 256 size vectors. After about 44k entries searching is way too slow. I'm thinking about reducing the size to half. What size are you using?

For text search, I'm using lnx which is based off of Tantivy.

I disabled the vector search feature for now but I will re-enable it after some optimization. The site is at https://stray.video

New comment by bendangelo in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

bendangelo — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:25:41 +0000

https://bendangelo.me

I blog about learning Chinese, game development, Ruby on rails and self hosting.

New comment by bendangelo in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

bendangelo — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:51:33 +0000

When the Nintendo Switch became hackable, ie can play any game, Nintendo saw a massive decrease in sales in Spain. Btw people in Spain pirate the most games in Europe. The decrease was at least 40%. The idea that this is a service issue and piracy doesn’t affect sales is just PR speak. If the game is offline, it’ll be pirated a lot.

New comment by bendangelo in "Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?"

bendangelo — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:48:59 +0000

I’ve done something like this before. Meilisearch will not be viable, because it indexes very slow and it takes up a lot of space.

In my experience only Tantivy can index this much data. Check out Lnx.

New comment by bendangelo in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

bendangelo — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:46:07 +0000

I'm working on an open-source Pivotal Tracker. I just started a week ago but if anyone is interested in following please checkout the repo: https://github.com/bendangelo/Iterator

I'll have a working project in about a month. But for now it's just a readme.

New comment by bendangelo in "Crystal 1.16.0"

bendangelo — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:30:52 +0000

It's Ruby like syntax is awesome. It reads like psuedo code.

New comment by bendangelo in "Coqui TTS: Free Text-to-Speech"

bendangelo — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:42:07 +0000

This is dead. I recommend Kokoro TTS https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS

New comment by bendangelo in "Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries"

bendangelo — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 05:30:21 +0000

There are bots that scrape https registration sites thats how they usually find you.

New comment by bendangelo in "Ruby 3.4.0"

bendangelo — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 04:12:36 +0000

Most gems with native extensions won't work. Gems that listen to filesystem changes like guard can be buggy. I recommend using Mac or Linux for Ruby on Rails development.