Hacker News: bendangelo

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

# Comments: 0

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.

New comment by bendangelo in "Ruby 3.4.0"

bendangelo — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:20:26 +0000

Use rvm to install ruby. Ruby dev sucks on Windows, mac only.

Failed Attempt at Creating a Video Search Engine

bendangelo — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:25:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bendangelo.me/2024/07/16/failed-attempt-at-creating-a-video-search-engine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986295

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by bendangelo in "Ask HN: Why has no one replaced Ticketmaster?"

bendangelo — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 01:02:14 +0000

I worked at a startup that tried to compete with them. Eventually we just sold to them. I don’t know the details sorry.

New comment by bendangelo in "Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click"

bendangelo — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:10:35 +0000

This won't down vote everything. Votes get throttled, so I guess a setTimeout has to be used.

New comment by bendangelo in "Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click"

bendangelo — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:08:29 +0000

I unsubscribed from all emails and still get them.

New comment by bendangelo in "The Grep Test"

bendangelo — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:07:54 +0000

Yes there is Cling for c++. Its really awesome. http://blog.coldflake.com/posts/2012-08-09-On-the-fly-C%2B%2...

New comment by bendangelo in "EntityJS - HTML5 Javascript Game Engine"

bendangelo — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:06:58 +0000

The demo was written in the old version of Entity. You can try out the new demo by installing the gem. Those issues have been addressed but I think you're missing the point.

Its the potential of the engine which matters, take a look at the features page to see whats possible.

Thanks for trying the demo!

EntityJS - HTML5 Javascript Game Engine

bendangelo — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:03:26 +0000

Article URL: http://entityjs.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3618570

Points: 11

# Comments: 13