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New comment by real_faxenoff in "The lamps in my house"

real_faxenoff — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:23:06 +0000

I like all those cute little home decor items, too.

But honestly, I'd love for the entire ceiling to be one controllable light source. That would be perfect.

New comment by real_faxenoff in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"

real_faxenoff — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:14:13 +0000

I was impressed by bun from the very beginning, and that continued until I needed to use native GPU calls. I had to switch to Node.js subprocesses.

When comparing Bun and Node.js for my tasks, I keep finding more advantages in Bun’s optimizations. I'll handle GPU processes through BFFI. Node.js is also prone to unstable memory behavior with native processes, so it doesn’t make sense to use it as an extra layer.

For those looking for stability, Node.js is definitely the better choice.

New comment by real_faxenoff in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"

real_faxenoff — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:05:43 +0000

Is there any kind of geeky service that lists the range of political views held by the founders of all popular software products? Otherwise, maybe half the software on my computer was made by fascists, and I don't even know it.

For example, Linux — how fascist, communist, or monarchist is it? I'd also be interested to know which NVIDIA drivers are more supportive of the LGBT community—the open-source ones or the proprietary ones?

I had never even thought about this until your comment.

New comment by real_faxenoff in "Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have"

real_faxenoff — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:13:49 +0000

Text is a great format, no doubt about it. But it's not structured. Maybe we should surround certain parts of the text with special characters to create some structure? But wait a minute...

New comment by real_faxenoff in "Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust"

real_faxenoff — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:33:32 +0000

As I understand it, this is a tool for small datasets with an unknown schema and a required history? I'm struggling to find examples of real-world scenarios where this would be used.

LLM memory.. let's say, architecturally, its suitable for storing and processing queries - is questionable, but okay. But what real-world use case would generate such queries? It seems to me that the context for formulating and processing the results would be orders of magnitude greater than simply writing down what's needed in plain text. If my notebook took the form of a temporal multiverse of entities, I'd lose the ability to use it properly.

But maybe I'm just too old to quickly get the hang of every new type of Pokémon.

P.S. I'm using the built-in SQLite to store a graph with up to 10 million edges in an MCP app I'm developing for working with code.

New comment by real_faxenoff in "RIP, vector database"

real_faxenoff — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:02:01 +0000

I’m developing a local “code graph mcp tool” (not yet published) and followed a similar path, though I may have been able to go further since I have fewer vectors in my database (even on projects with 50M LOC).

At first, I tried all those popular vector databases and was disappointed with their performance. In the end, the best and fastest solution turned out to be building a multi-database system on SQLite, compiled with everything related to multi-client operations removed. Only exclusive mode was left. Everything is as binary as possible. The index is completely separate — an IVF with pre-training — and is built on the GPU (250K vectors are built, processed, and saved in 4 seconds). Right now, my biggest problem is frequent data changes, and I need to implement optimizations to reduce recalculations.

So far, I haven’t seen any vector database implementations that are heading in the right direction. Maybe only Lancedb looks promising, but it’s too heavy for my needs.