Hacker News: sir_eliah

New comment by sir_eliah in "Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped"

sir_eliah — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:47:11 +0000

Is there a point in changing a phone so often if it's not broken?

New comment by sir_eliah in "Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel"

sir_eliah — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:54:06 +0000

Every day we're getting closer to the tech-world in the "Starfish" from Peter Watts.

New comment by sir_eliah in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

sir_eliah — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:49:26 +0000

Some time ago I also thought that no 3.5mm jack is a deal-breaker, but I bought super cheap jack-usbc adapter that is 5cm long and it works pretty well.

New comment by sir_eliah in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

sir_eliah — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:53:27 +0000

I think there are better ways to spend $200k than fight with deranged patent/trademark system.

New comment by sir_eliah in "PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator"

sir_eliah — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:58:55 +0000

I think the commenter meant that once the new syntax is approved and adopted by the community, you have no choice to not use the syntax. You'll eventually change your project and will be forced to deal with reviewing this code.

New comment by sir_eliah in "Tiniest Flying Robot (Wingspan <1cm) Soars Thanks to Magnets"

sir_eliah — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:56:20 +0000

I came here to post exactly this! Maybe I have very limited imagination, but I cannot fathom how tiny propeller without internal power source could be any use for the search and rescue operations.

New comment by sir_eliah in "Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser"

sir_eliah — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:30:34 +0000

Probably you can also add Dragit[1], which is a desktop p2p file sharing tool for local network with automatic host discovery. Currently supporting Linux and Windows. (author & maintainer here) I'm not sure if I should keep on working on the tool, considering the length of the list so far. :D

[1]: https://github.com/sireliah/dragit

New comment by sir_eliah in "Hyperspace"

sir_eliah — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:19:18 +0000

There's a cross-platform open-source version of this program: https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

New comment by sir_eliah in "Working from home is here to stay"

sir_eliah — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:55:54 +0000

This sounds like a labour law horror story. I'm so happy now that I stayed on ordinary 40h/week work contract (no overtime) in the beginning of my career. Otherwise I'd end up with burnout and/or health issues pretty soon.

New comment by sir_eliah in "Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)"

sir_eliah — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:02:30 +0000

> If you use ctx.Value in my (non-existent) company, you’re fired

What a nice attitude.

New comment by sir_eliah in "The Smallest Thing in Go"

sir_eliah — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:01:44 +0000

It's one of my major pain points with Go. When can we have proper enum support with compile-time checks whether all the enum values are exhausted?

New comment by sir_eliah in "What excessive screen time does to the adult brain"

sir_eliah — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:04:32 +0000

Touché!

New comment by sir_eliah in "Clojure 1.12.0 is now available"

sir_eliah — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:19:29 +0000

A lot of banking/finance use cases.

New comment by sir_eliah in "Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less"

sir_eliah — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 14:49:19 +0000

Could you please elaborate?

New comment by sir_eliah in "Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming""

sir_eliah — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:01:58 +0000

Golden comment.

New comment by sir_eliah in "Ask HN: What are your hobbies?"

sir_eliah — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:05:52 +0000

Rock climbing.

New comment by sir_eliah in "Sentry: From the Beginning"

sir_eliah — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:07:12 +0000

That's both positive and inspiring for people working on open source projects. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by sir_eliah in "What is a Vector Database? (2021)"

sir_eliah — Fri, 05 May 2023 13:21:38 +0000

Maybe I was not precise, I in fact use OpenSearch, but since it's a fork to ES, I consider this to be the same DB, architecture-wise.

New comment by sir_eliah in "What is a Vector Database? (2021)"

sir_eliah — Fri, 05 May 2023 12:28:35 +0000

Thanks for the input! I asked about the scale of items and traffic, because my use case actually requires separate piece of infrastructure. It's around 100 millions of items and live production traffic from millions of users with high latency demand. So it's not a batch job that can be performed in memory, as I understand your case.

Currently I use Elasticsearch with the Open Distro approximate kNN plugin by the way.

New comment by sir_eliah in "What is a Vector Database? (2021)"

sir_eliah — Fri, 05 May 2023 11:07:52 +0000

Does anyone have some real, production experience with milvus? I'm interested this database performs in larger scale. Let's say, you have millions of vectors and traffic reaching thousands requests/s.