Hacker News: tananaev

New comment by tananaev in "Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API"

tananaev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:20:13 +0000

Good catch, thanks. Updated the readme. The planet can be downloaded directly from OSM.

New comment by tananaev in "Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API"

tananaev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:17:58 +0000

Most or all existing solutions are universal (not just reverse geocoding) and rely on database. The purpose of this project is to make it super fast to do one thing. The result is 100x - 1000x speed of Pelias and other universal tools like that.

New comment by tananaev in "Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API"

tananaev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:16:06 +0000

It took about 8-10 hours for me on a 192GB Hetzner cloud machine. The resulting index was just 18GB, so once the index is created it's really efficient and you can easily run it on a small VM.

New comment by tananaev in "Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API"

tananaev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:38:51 +0000

Self-hosted reverse geocoder with sub-millisecond query latency. C++ builder parses OSM PBF files into a compact binary index using S2 geometry cells. Rust server memory-maps the index and serves a Nominatim-compatible API. Docker support with automatic HTTPS.

Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API

tananaev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:38:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/traccar/traccar-geocoder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440309

Points: 66

# Comments: 12

New comment by tananaev in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

tananaev — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:25:59 +0000

I've been using WeChat. My hope is they won't dare to block Chinese messenger. China is pretty much the only remaining lifeline for Russia.

New comment by tananaev in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

tananaev — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:45:12 +0000

Russia has been slowly cracking down on popular communication and media platforms. First they slow down connection to unusable speeds. This happened to YouTube at some point last year. At first they even said that it's something wrong with Google and it's not them. I think the intention is to slowly get people off the platform without completely blocking it. Then eventually they block access completely. Same happened to messaging apps, like WhatsApp and Telegram. Telegram is still working for messaging, but not calls. It's kind of funny because Telegram is used by Russian military to coordinate a lot of things, so they complain a lot about the block.

New comment by tananaev in "Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android"

tananaev — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:07:18 +0000

No link to source and just says "The source code is available from Open Camera's SourceForge page." Why not link it?

New comment by tananaev in "Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt"

tananaev — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:44:51 +0000

Maybe they’re trying to DDoS it, and once an error is returned, they assume that no robots.txt file exists and then crawl everything else on the site?

New comment by tananaev in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

tananaev — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:53:06 +0000

I think it's really poor argument that AGI won't happen because model doesn't understand physical world. That can be trained the same way everything else is.

I think the biggest issue we currently have is with proper memory. But even that is because it's not feasible to post-train an individual model on its experiences at scale. It's not a fundamental architectural limitation.

New comment by tananaev in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

tananaev — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:10:16 +0000

Are you serious? It's open source. And there's less than 1000 lines total. Get Codex or Claude to review it if you're paranoid.

New comment by tananaev in "Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance"

tananaev — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:42:17 +0000

I recommend checking history of deregulation of agricultural industry in New Zealand. It didn't lose the industry. Actually the opposite happened.

Persistent government subsidies are almost never a good idea long term. I understand that some temporary support might make sense in some cases, but not permanent one. It prevents innovation and optimization. And in the long run it usually makes more damage.

New comment by tananaev in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

tananaev — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:58:40 +0000

I was very skeptical about Codex at the beginning, but now all my coding tasks start with Codex. It's not perfect at everything, but overall it's pretty amazing. Refactoring, building something new, building something I'm not familiar with. It is still not great at debugging things.

One surprising thing that codex helped with is procrastination. I'm sure many people had this feeling when you have some big task and you don't quite know where to start. Just send it to Codex. It might not get it right, but it's almost always good starting point that you can quickly iterate on.

Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT

tananaev — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:27:29 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/developers-can-now-submit-apps-to-chatgpt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306456

Points: 191

# Comments: 125

New comment by tananaev in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

tananaev — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:07:45 +0000

Is it just a Bluetooth mic in a form of a ring? Or is there something more to this device?

New comment by tananaev in "Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots"

tananaev — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:12:15 +0000

We've had purpose built machines for a while now. I think the whole point is to have an adaptable machine that can replace remaining humans.

New comment by tananaev in "The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says"

tananaev — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:03:45 +0000

Read the article, but couldn't understand how they measured it.

To be fair, I think it's definitely a bubble, but it's hard to compare something like this.

New comment by tananaev in "CocoaPods trunk read-only plan"

tananaev — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:03:28 +0000

From the official docs it sounds more like experimental support that's still under development.

New comment by tananaev in "Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]"

tananaev — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:11:02 +0000

I'm kind of surprised by this. Google is already under a lot of heat, especially in Europe. All sorts of lawsuits everywhere because of they monopoly abuse. And they decide to pull this move?

New comment by tananaev in "How to stop Google from AI-summarising your website"

tananaev — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:17:18 +0000

I suspect this will penalize your site in one way or another.