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New comment by rekoros in "The vi family"

rekoros — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:22:29 +0000

When I was in college in 2001, I went to the library and checked out Kaare Christian's book called "The UNIX Operating System". One of the early chapters covered vi - I'd telnet into the school's Sun server with a pretty early version of vi (one-level undo) and follow the examples. Never looked back!

New comment by rekoros in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

rekoros — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:57:48 +0000

This should go into dictionary as definition for "fuck around and find out"

New comment by rekoros in "Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban"

rekoros — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:07:07 +0000

Oban is great!

New comment by rekoros in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

rekoros — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:13:35 +0000

A true derailer

New comment by rekoros in "Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?"

rekoros — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:47:22 +0000

One way is to become an apprentice with an experienced plumber - ideally skilled in hydronic heating.

New comment by rekoros in "DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components"

rekoros — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:57:33 +0000

I've been using daisyUI for a couple of years and really love it - it's a quick, reliable way to rig up a nice looking/functioning UI with minimal work, while making things appear reasonably uniform across pages/workflows.

The combination of Tailwind and daisyUI made it possible for me - a backend developer - to pretentd to be somewhat competent in frontendland, which has been incredibly handy, work-wise.

New comment by rekoros in "PDF to Text, a challenging problem"

rekoros — Tue, 13 May 2025 22:51:37 +0000

I've been using Azure's "Document Intelligence" thingy (prebuilt "read" model) to extract text from PDFs with pretty good results [1]. Their terminology is so bad, it's easy to dismiss the whole thing for another Microsoft pile, but it actually, like, for real, works.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/document...

2025

rekoros — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:46:14 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42567630

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rekoros in "Why HNSW is not the answer and disk-based alternatives might be more practical"

rekoros — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 04:28:19 +0000

You're dealing with much larger datasets than I have, so far - mine is only a few million vectors. I have a hard constraint on resources, so had to get things working quickly in a relatively gutless environment.

New comment by rekoros in "Why HNSW is not the answer and disk-based alternatives might be more practical"

rekoros — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 04:23:05 +0000

pgvector - I wasn't able to get HNSW to build/rebuild quickly [enough] with a few million vectors. Very possibly I was doing something wrong, but fun research time ran out and I needed to get back to building features.

New comment by rekoros in "Why HNSW is not the answer and disk-based alternatives might be more practical"

rekoros — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:14:24 +0000

I ended up breaking up/sharding HNSW across multiple tables, but I'm dealing with many distinct datasets, each one just small enough to make HNSW effective in terms of index build/rebuild performance.

The article suggests IVF for larger datasets - this is the direction I'd certainly explore, but I've not personally had to deal with it. HNSW sharding/partitioning might actually work even for a very large - sharded/partitioned - dataset, where each query is a parallelized map/reduce operation.

New comment by rekoros in "Why HNSW is not the answer and disk-based alternatives might be more practical"

rekoros — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:57:16 +0000

Yep, I believe it

HNSW has been great for relatively small datasets (a website with 30K pages), but it’s a dangerous stretch for anything bigger

William Haade, Uncredited Actor

rekoros — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 05:44:46 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Haade

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42374124

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rekoros in "Show HN: Open-source Kibana alternative for logs and traces in ClickHouse"

rekoros — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:19:10 +0000

I've had browser and Linux VM logging to HyperDX with great success, but have been struggling to get OTel logging working with Azure Functions. Turns out, new (currently in Preview) "Flex Consumption" functions [0] natively support OTel and work with HyperDX.

[0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azu...

New comment by rekoros in "We're Leaving Kubernetes"

rekoros — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:46:19 +0000

This may be the one area where some form of autocracy has merit :-)

New comment by rekoros in "We're Leaving Kubernetes"

rekoros — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:53:49 +0000

We've been using Nix flakes and direnv (https://direnv.net/) for developer environments and NixOS with https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs for prod/deploys - takes serious digging and time to set up, but excellent experience with it so far.

Show HN: Supafana, one-click observability for Supabase (MIT)

rekoros — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:48:40 +0000

Heya HN!

We put together a post [0] explaining the motivation for building Supafana in some detail, but in short: we wanted a way to get to database graphs with an effort similar to starting a Supabase project - in essence, in a few clicks.

It feels unusual to open-source what is essentially a SaaS infrastructure project, but it also feels pretty great - all our code is here: https://github.com/fogbender/supafana

We have some discount codes available - let me know if you want one (andrei@fogbender.com).

Thanks for reading!

[0] https://supafana.com/blog/supafana-why-and-how

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41403460

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by rekoros in "Bypassing airport security via SQL injection"

rekoros — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:54:35 +0000

Great work and writing - thank you!

New comment by rekoros in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

rekoros — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 02:31:09 +0000

I’ve been working on (with a couple of friends) a one-click observability solution for Supabase: https://supafana.com

This our first experience in infrastructure SaaS (we opted for Azure) - way harder than we planned for, but seems to work!

New comment by rekoros in "China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia?"

rekoros — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 03:41:56 +0000

I don’t fully understand the words you’ve used, but it feels that RU market is too small to justify building plants?