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New comment by bomewish in "Twelve years of distributed SQLite"

bomewish — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:06:09 +0000

Yeah it felt like claudeslop to me too — and such a strange choice. Maybe dude dictated it and said Claude to write it up. Save some time. Even so.

New comment by bomewish in "Gemini 4 Argon is now available for everyone"

bomewish — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:39:00 +0000

I also really dig the model and it’s new and super useful for another take. But google is so awful with basically everything else. They can’t get out of their own way.

New comment by bomewish in "Show HN: Yila – A Codex for Scientific Research"

bomewish — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:42:07 +0000

Prospects look grim for these kind of light agent wrappers …?

New comment by bomewish in "ParadeDB Search Performance Improvements"

bomewish — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:28:01 +0000

Just a giant hetzner bare metal we’ve been on for years before they jacked up the prices - thank goodness. Avg record is maybe 1-2k words. Search is very fast, but it’s an internal product and so we’re not dealing with a large user population. Anyway parade all the way. You get a proper relational database but also proper fts without having to deal with elastic etc. Just a dream, so glad they came along.

New comment by bomewish in "ParadeDB Search Performance Improvements"

bomewish — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:08:30 +0000

Love to see this. Am a huge paradedb user (we running over 100m records in prod, index is 4tb or so) and I just loved this read.

New comment by bomewish in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

bomewish — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:40:21 +0000

I really like the idea of turning the search index into a public utility. It is one of those natural monopoly coordination problem things. Just quasi nationalise it for economic efficiency. Ofc google can still sell adds against their own ui (like everyone else). Hopefully this move will move that idea closer to reality.

New comment by bomewish in "My Mental Model of AI Broke on September 8"

bomewish — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:10:37 +0000

It may also have been a social test — ie the polite thing to do in that circumstance is to say “oh wow, I thought I knew that one, weird. I’ll have to look that up again thank you” even if you know 100% that you’re correct. Weird social expectation thing.

New comment by bomewish in "We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon"

bomewish — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:22:32 +0000

This seems great tech but the obvious obvious LLM slop writing is just so incredibly off-putting. We read LLM slop everyday ourselves, but now we have to read it everywhere else too. Is this stuff so hard to just write oneself ??

New comment by bomewish in "Analysis of Opus 5's 'Contrition'"

bomewish — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:03:31 +0000

Bit frustrating. any kind of benchmark or even a few examples showing that this produces better outputs would have been nice.

New comment by bomewish in "Plex debuts 5-year membership pass for $250"

bomewish — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:41:31 +0000

Plex + Tailscale = access it from “localhost” wherever you are. Just set up Tailscale serve to serve it in your tailnet.

Problem solved. Plex is free again

New comment by bomewish in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

bomewish — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:09:42 +0000

The “from scratch” is doing a lot of work here!

New comment by bomewish in "How much? The hidden costs of restaurant dishes"

bomewish — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:45:09 +0000

Forgive my ignorance. It sounded super yuppie.

New comment by bomewish in "How much? The hidden costs of restaurant dishes"

bomewish — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:46:02 +0000

Seriously ? These are not sympathetic! The first seems like a whole lot of pointless faff for nothing much at all — who needs an emulsion made out of salvaged organic chickpea bubbles — and the second complains about not being allowed to raise prices… yet she can! It’s just that you’d get fewer customers.

Also - this is presumably profit after all the wages are taken out including for owners of the place? If so it kinda depends on what their wages are to know if this whole situation seems super unfair.

New comment by bomewish in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

bomewish — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:19:26 +0000

And at least save us the pain of trying to scroll through the bs intro. Just put the 10 or whatever bullet points right there.

New comment by bomewish in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

bomewish — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:16:49 +0000

He was appalled and said, “but that’s a lot more work for us.”

This made me really, really angry.

New comment by bomewish in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

bomewish — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:42:02 +0000

Why would yc fund them given how obvious the risk is ? Esp since a Mac mini farm is capital intense.

New comment by bomewish in "AI Engineering from Scratch"

bomewish — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:09:16 +0000

I really think people should learn first and primarily from books written by people. Think about it: the LLMs are trained on that data. So they cannot actually be better than the best original texts. Get good quality original books then learn them in conjunction with AI, but don't try to learn using this. How to downvote?

New comment by bomewish in "Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting"

bomewish — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:57:14 +0000

So two different parts of the state use favoured journalists as methods to publicise information that they could not make public directly. When they do this they also get to shape the framing.

What a rather unpleasant business.

New comment by bomewish in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

bomewish — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:06:04 +0000

Guy couldn’t even bother to write his own damn post mortem. My goodness. No wonder they got owned by the ai.

New comment by bomewish in "Claude Opus 4.7"

bomewish — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:42:50 +0000

If you cared so bad you could make your own evals.