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New comment by rkuzsma in "Dopamine Fracking"

rkuzsma — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:15:45 +0000

The strawberry example reminds me of the Instant Mashed Potatoes non-book review [0].

> Since World War II and the large-scale industrialization it fully unleashed, a core method driving ‘progress’ across many different fields of human endeavor has been to shred something real and reconstitute it into a faster, easier, less appealing IMPish substitute for what we used to make out of it. This is the parsimonious recipe for industry to fulfill our urges. We’ve got the food processor whirring, and absolutely everything is going in.

[0] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-my-fathers-inst...

New comment by rkuzsma in "VectorChord: Store 400k Vectors for $1 in PostgreSQL"

rkuzsma — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:38:32 +0000

Would you be willing to speculate on how VectorChord's ingestion and query performance might compare to Elasticsearch/OpenSearch for dense vector and sparse vector search use cases, particularly when dealing with larger full text data sets (>5M records)?

New comment by rkuzsma in "Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct"

rkuzsma — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:54:26 +0000

“There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.

But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!”

― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

New comment by rkuzsma in "Losing two jobs in one year"

rkuzsma — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 09:41:58 +0000

I was moved by your personal story, Irina. Thank you for sharing it with the world. I hope others who are struggling through similar challenges discover this article and find new hope and perspective in your words. I am happy you found your voice again.

New comment by rkuzsma in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)"

rkuzsma — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 13:46:38 +0000

Elastic | elastic.co | REMOTE | Software Engineers

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the ELK stack, is hiring Senior and Principal software engineers, Tech Leads, Designers, and Team Leads. Elastic is built upon a distributed, asynchronous working environment with over 1,900+ employees in 30+ countries. View our jobs and apply online at: https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/department/engineering#/

New comment by rkuzsma in "Tamale King: ecommerce website from 1990s"

rkuzsma — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:45:39 +0000

For fun, I built a search experience for their product catalog using App Search this morning. https://agitated-heyrovsky-08b108.netlify.app/

New comment by rkuzsma in "Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?"

rkuzsma — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:21:02 +0000

I recently found Checkvist for note taking. The progressive web app is really fast to load. The best part is extensive keyboard shortcuts for everything. Prior to finding Checkvist, I used text files for years.

New comment by rkuzsma in "How we manage plans and features in our SaaS app"

rkuzsma — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 10:26:13 +0000

Another idea I have heard is to encode your feature flags and entitlements as a bitwise string, and include this string in your customer's signed auth token. This way, your front end and back end don't have to hit your entitlements API all the time. When they change plans, just refresh the auth token.