Hacker News: nathcd

pg_textsearch 1.0: How We Built a BM25 Search Engine on Postgres Pages

nathcd — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:19:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/pg-textsearch-bm25-full-text-search-postgres

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587783

Points: 3

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The end of progress against extreme poverty?

nathcd — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:55:26 +0000

Article URL: https://ourworldindata.org/end-progress-extreme-poverty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954118

Points: 3

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New comment by nathcd in "Why I love OCaml (2023)"

nathcd — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:19:15 +0000

There's Borgo: https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo

I've never used it so can't speak from any experience, and unfortunately it doesn't seem particularly active (and doesn't mention a current status anywhere), and doesn't have a license, so shrug. When it's been posted here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211891), people seemed pretty excited about it.

New comment by nathcd in "CharlotteOS – An Experimental Modern Operating System"

nathcd — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:23:52 +0000

Looks like it's explained here: https://github.com/charlotte-os/Catten/blob/main/License/cla...

Specifically, "Users may link this kernel with closed-source binary drivers, including static libraries, for personal, internal, or evaluation use without being required to disclose the source code of the proprietary driver.".

New comment by nathcd in "I Switched from Flutter and Rust to Rust and Egui"

nathcd — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:50:05 +0000

> I think, similar to Preact, Mithril skips the VDOM, which makes it "more immediate" than React.

Both Mithril and Preact use virtual DOMs:

https://mithril.js.org/vnodes.html

https://preactjs.com/tutorial/01-vdom

New comment by nathcd in "Guess I'm a rationalist now"

nathcd — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:19:09 +0000

Some of the comments here remind me of online commentary about some place called "the orange site". Always wondered who they were talking about...

Something remarkable is happening with violent crime rates in the US

nathcd — Sun, 25 May 2025 10:32:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vox.com/good-news-newsletter/414368/violent-crime-rate-homicide-police-baltimore-pandemic-covid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086853

Points: 6

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New comment by nathcd in "David Lynch has died"

nathcd — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:19:21 +0000

Ha, I kind of agree with you, and I'm a little embarrassed it's as upvoted as it is. I just love the silly little video of him saying it and then cracking up. It pops into my head a lot and gives me a laugh. I just felt like sharing it to be goofy. Didn't imagine it would end up at the top of the thread!

New comment by nathcd in "David Lynch has died"

nathcd — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:26:20 +0000

"What a heavy load Einstein must've had. Fuckin' morons, everywhere."

David Lynch

New comment by nathcd in "JavaScript garbage collection and closures"

nathcd — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:33:23 +0000

> Technically the engines could be optimizing it when no eval used is detected or when in strict mode (which blocks eval),

I just learned about direct vs indirect eval (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...), which I imagine makes this a bit easier. The parent scope is only captured in a direct eval.

New comment by nathcd in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"

nathcd — Thu, 23 May 2024 16:56:54 +0000

Looks nice! I think I'd only get it if I could use it as a monitor though. Displaying more than grayscale colors would be a plus too. Still glad to see it though.

New comment by nathcd in "How I Use AI"

nathcd — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 19:29:49 +0000

> Occasionally I come across comments that make me think “wait, there’s still developers out there who don’t use AI? Like, not at all?” Not just programmers who think that AI is overhyped, no, but programmers who don’t use AI in any shape or form: no ChatGPT, no Copilot, no Cody, no local models, nothing.

Surely this is feigning surprise. The oldest thing in that list is like 18 months old or something, and he's surprised to find literally any programmers that don't use them? I bet I could find a programmer out there who's never used Google, let alone brand new subscription AI services.

New comment by nathcd in "Very, Very, Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole"

nathcd — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 01:18:50 +0000

The paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add8080

New comment by nathcd in "Bright flash is a black hole jet pointing at Earth, astronomers say"

nathcd — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:13:32 +0000

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.16537.pdf

New comment by nathcd in "Pinboard vs. Raindrop"

nathcd — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:48:48 +0000

> Do we know if he's okay?

He last commented on HN four days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords

New comment by nathcd in "After roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google dumps it from Pixel 6A"

nathcd — Fri, 13 May 2022 00:33:05 +0000

Is the average user mostly using Bluetooth now? Genuinely curious if there's any empirical data.

And regardless of the numbers, I also wonder at what rate people are actively switching to Bluetooth because they want to vs. because that's what their preferred phone line is forcing them into.

New comment by nathcd in "JS_of_OCaml: A Bundle Size Study"

nathcd — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:25:14 +0000

OP, the link is doubled up in the URL field. Maybe edit it if you can, otherwise re-submit?

New comment by nathcd in "Consider SQLite"

nathcd — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 21:36:32 +0000

Presumably ATTACH: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_attach.html

New comment by nathcd in "Consider SQLite"

nathcd — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 21:33:24 +0000

SQLite has ATTACH (https://sqlite.org/lang_attach.html) for cross database operations. I've never tried it for foreign key constraints across databases, but I think it would work?

New comment by nathcd in "Redirector – Browser extension to redirect to privacy respecting front-ends"

nathcd — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:34:59 +0000

I'm sorry, but suggesting that I move to a no-name chromium fork maintained by one person because I miss a Firefox extension is absurd. Perhaps I should also leave my country because my local grocery store doesn't carry the cereal I like.

> why do you just take it?

Must be my insatiable masochism.