Hacker News: shutty

Benchmarking SlateDB vs. RocksDB

shutty — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:11:00 +0000

Article URL: https://nixiesearch.substack.com/p/benchmarking-slatedb-vs-rocksdb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353934

Points: 3

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Show HN: MurrDB: A RocksDB-based NVMe/S3 cache for AI inference workloads

shutty — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:21:54 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281858

Points: 1

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Lies, damned lies, and Elastic's benchmarks

shutty — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:13:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gouthamve.dev/lies-damned-lies-and-elastics-benchmarks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105941

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Firefox Smart Window

shutty — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:45:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/smart-window/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852016

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

Memento Mori Motivator

shutty — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:47:30 +0000

Article URL: https://mmmotivator.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046484

Points: 1

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New comment by shutty in "We Didn't Pick Rust"

shutty — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:40:38 +0000

TLDR: we didn't pick rust because we're a Java shop.

New comment by shutty in "Accessing LLMs with a Fax [DE]"

shutty — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:24:23 +0000

I originally thought it was a joke, but it's not.

Accessing LLMs with a Fax [DE]

shutty — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:24:23 +0000

Article URL: https://simple-fax.de/fax-ki

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943672

Points: 1

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Fine-tuning Qwen3 at home to respond to any prompt with a dad joke

shutty — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:50:33 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/nixiesearch/fine-tuning-qwen3-at-home-to-respond-to-any-prompt-with-a-dad-joke-633dc4f2d4c5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324792

Points: 1

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The Day Our Own Queries DoS'ed Us: Inside Zalando Search

shutty — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:06:11 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2025/12/we-hacked-ourselves-so-you-dont-have-to.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324099

Points: 1

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Show HN: Fine-tuning Qwen3 at home to respond to any prompt with a dad joke

shutty — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:43:51 +0000

Article URL: https://nixiesearch.substack.com/p/fine-tuning-qwen3-at-home-to-respond

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314082

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

Show HN: I benchmarked read latency of AWS S3, S3Express, EBS and Instance store

shutty — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:58:02 +0000

Article URL: https://nixiesearch.substack.com/p/benchmarking-read-latency-of-aws

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108902

Points: 3

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New comment by shutty in "I put a real search engine into a Lambda, so you only pay when you search"

shutty — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:19:37 +0000

Surprisingly, 3GB is a real practical RAM limit for aws lambdas in 2025: you can only have more than that if you submit a support ticket. But it's not really mentioned anywhere in the docs.

I put a real search engine into a Lambda, so you only pay when you search

shutty — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:02:51 +0000

Article URL: https://nixiesearch.substack.com/p/i-put-a-real-search-engine-into-a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032694

Points: 48

# Comments: 13

We found embedding indexing bottleneck in the least expected place: JSON parsing

shutty — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:34:40 +0000

Article URL: https://nixiesearch.substack.com/p/we-found-an-embedding-indexing-bottleneck

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800944

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shutty in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

shutty — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:53:52 +0000

Building a search engine on top of Apache Lucene and S3 block storage. Think Elasticsearch done right: https://github.com/nixiesearch/nixiesearch

Show HN: Nixiesearch, an open-source alternative to Elasticsearch Serverless

shutty — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:18:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nixiesearch/nixiesearch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44533963

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Finite State Transducers

shutty — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:09:01 +0000

Article URL: https://msfroh.github.io/lucene-university/docs/FiniteStateTransducers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445435

Points: 1

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New comment by shutty in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

shutty — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:23:29 +0000

https://github.com/nixiesearch/nixiesearch

A Lucene-based search engine on top of S3 block storage.

Index schema is immutable (but supports migrations), so you cannot just screw up your index.

Separate indexer/searcher tiers, so heavy indexing load does not affect search latency.

And embedding/reranker local inference, so you can run the whole AI search within a single docker container.

How [NOT] to Evaluate Your RAG

shutty — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:28:33 +0000

Article URL: https://nixiesearch.substack.com/p/how-not-to-evaluate-your-rag

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44420817

Points: 5

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