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New comment by timvisee in "Put the zip code first"

timvisee — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:18:49 +0000

The majority of comments complains about non-USA. But the author clearly states:

> Fine, maybe country first

It's an example - limit typing. But adjust it to your own use case.

New comment by timvisee in "Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam"

timvisee — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:09:50 +0000

I've also received about 40 messages, on mail adresses I've never used before.

New comment by timvisee in "Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022)"

timvisee — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:39:20 +0000

I have dyslexia, and I hate them. It makes me read slower and not better.

I do have two friends who like it. Maybe it's subjective?

Either way, I'm very happy people put effort in developing reading aids like this.

New comment by timvisee in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

timvisee — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:44:32 +0000

In my 5 years I was basically only allowed to use Microsoft tools. It's one of the most stupid things I've ever seen.

New comment by timvisee in "Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time"

timvisee — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:03:43 +0000

A VPN won't make your route shorter

New comment by timvisee in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

timvisee — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:04:42 +0000

The email I have in that list is invalid and must be generated. It's on a domain I own.

New comment by timvisee in "Servo v0.0.1"

timvisee — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:32:07 +0000

I'm seriously impressed on how far this has come. Tried a few websites in the experimental mode, it renders quite well.

New comment by timvisee in "JavaScript Trademark Update"

timvisee — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 16:11:27 +0000

If not now, maybe in the future

New comment by timvisee in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

timvisee — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:03:19 +0000

I do have a good use case for magic links.

I creates a bar management/sales platform for our group of friends. It's self service so people purchase their products on their phone and pay later.

People get... intoxicated... after which passwords appear to become quite the problem. Magic links solved that.

To solve the multi device and in-app browser problem people can also open the links on another device. That'll show a short code they can enter on the original device to actually log in. It's not perfect, but it works.

I do fully agree that passwords should always be an option as well.

New comment by timvisee in "Frosted Glass from Games to the Web: HTML glass UI inspired by AAA game dev"

timvisee — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:18:27 +0000

I always feel rendering such blurred panes takes quite a performance hit. Do we have any numbers on this?

I might just be old - when this was done on the CPU.

New comment by timvisee in "We Love Writing Software So Much, We're Willing to Do It for Free"

timvisee — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 08:49:53 +0000

While I agree FOSS doesn't give you the right to users money.

It is especially painful if (big) companies make big money with your free product.

New comment by timvisee in "Git cheat sheet [pdf]"

timvisee — Mon, 27 May 2024 06:44:14 +0000

`git rebase --onto FIRST_ID^ NEW_PARENT`

is also super powerful to put a series of commits on top of a new parent when history has changed.

That happens with PRs and squash merges quite often.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/29916361/1000145

New comment by timvisee in "Beware of Base64 Encoded Strings"

timvisee — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:00:35 +0000

Does it still do this when piping into things?

New comment by timvisee in "Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover"

timvisee — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:20:52 +0000

It does for me. Firefox on Android.

Qdrant 1.8.0

timvisee — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:38:29 +0000

Article URL: https://qdrant.tech/articles/qdrant-1.8.x/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39715336

Points: 3

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New comment by timvisee in "My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)"

timvisee — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 07:56:04 +0000

I don't like this kind of smoothing at all. It feels slow to me. Please just toggle without animations instead. And yes, I know these examples have been slowed down.

New comment by timvisee in "Show HN: R2R – Open-source framework for production-grade RAG"

timvisee — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:03:02 +0000

Qdrant does this as well, with 100% accuracy. But it's not on small categories, but rather on small segments.

You could put different categories in different shards though, resulting in the same effect.

You can also specify exact=true to do the same on any size, but this can get rather slow when your collection grows.

Disclaimer: I'm part of Qdrant.

New comment by timvisee in "We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed"

timvisee — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:14:28 +0000

And auto vectorization isn't all that common. In many cases you need to structure your code in a certain way, in which case you're better off doing it yourself if you want the vectorization benefit.

New comment by timvisee in "Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round"

timvisee — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:43:28 +0000

With regards to competitors picking similar things up, we've this article explaining why a dedicated vector search service is a good idea: https://qdrant.tech/articles/dedicated-service/

Pre-computed vector embeddings available on HuggingFace

timvisee — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:45:29 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/Qdrant

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39090005

Points: 14

# Comments: 0