Hacker News: cckolon

New comment by cckolon in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

cckolon — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:43:50 +0000

There might be a mine here

New comment by cckolon in "Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes"

cckolon — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:44:28 +0000

Reminds me of Atuin runbooks!

https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-runbooks-that-run/

New comment by cckolon in "Too AI; Didn't Read"

cckolon — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:20:48 +0000

Ironic that this itself is an obvious slop site

It's Hard to Learn from Machines

cckolon — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:54:30 +0000

Article URL: https://carlkolon.com/2026/09/22/learning-from-machines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805422

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Building (and Selling) AI for the Government

cckolon — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:32:59 +0000

Article URL: https://carlkolon.com/2026/08/17/ai-for-government/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347222

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

An American Mosaic (interactive map of ancestry census data)

cckolon — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:32:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/01/us/america-ancestry-census-data-map.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321515

Points: 29

# Comments: 8

Comparing React and Htmx for Building Chatbots

cckolon — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:47:26 +0000

Article URL: https://carlkolon.com/2026/08/14/htmx-react-chat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302166

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cckolon in "Carl's Required Reading"

cckolon — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:40:20 +0000

Thank you :)

New comment by cckolon in "Carl's Required Reading"

cckolon — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:18:50 +0000

I love these! “Not Quite the Same” sounds a lot like “The Wrong Abstraction” from my list. It’s a really important point and I’m glad to see there are more articles about it!

New comment by cckolon in "Carl's Required Reading"

cckolon — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:19:39 +0000

Thanks for the callout! I have much more experience with geography but you’re totally right. I’ll add a note

Carl's Required Reading

cckolon — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:51:15 +0000

Article URL: https://carlkolon.com/reading/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135457

Points: 237

# Comments: 31

New comment by cckolon in "What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?"

cckolon — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:43:48 +0000

The US Navy still uses nomograms for chemistry control on nuclear reactors!

New comment by cckolon in "Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX"

cckolon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:23:14 +0000

This is so cool. I would have loved this in college.

New comment by cckolon in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

cckolon — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:42:33 +0000

I’m implementing the Lox programming language (from Crafting Interpreters [0]) in Rust.

https://github.com/cckolon/rlox

[0] https://craftinginterpreters.com/

New comment by cckolon in "Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo"

cckolon — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:39:30 +0000

Exploration-exploitation tradeoff strikes again

New comment by cckolon in "Flightradar24 for Ships"

cckolon — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:03:40 +0000

How does this differ from something like MarineTraffic?

747s and coding agents

cckolon — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:22:00 +0000

Article URL: https://carlkolon.com/2026/02/27/engineering-747-coding-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182986

Points: 176

# Comments: 90

New comment by cckolon in "72M Points of Interest"

cckolon — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:53:44 +0000

Your computer is a sweet machine

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

cckolon — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:15:10 +0000

Nice, that’s really cool.

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

cckolon — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:03:03 +0000

I use full length vectors (512 dimensions) and have seen very fast lookups with pgvector (HNSW index) and sqlite-vec on 20k vectors. I think any decent vector database should be able to handle 44k entries… which one are you using now?