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znpy··on Tin: full-text search for Postgres
it's a weak point if you think about it. there are licenses to protect against that.

grafana does that, for example, living at the two extremes:

- proprietary stuff for what they need to run in the cloud for their own managed services offering

- gplv3 for everybody else

znpy··on Why China Isn't Getting Existential About A.I
archive link: https://archive.ph/VHTw9
znpy··on Executive order on H-1B nonimmigrant visa administration
some theories say that when occupy wallstreet was happening something was needed to shift the attention off the class war.

some people call that a conspiracy theory, but looking back (how the attention to workers rights basically vanished and got replaced with other topics, and how the capitalist world got so much richer) it explains a lot of things very well.

znpy··on Tin: full-text search for Postgres
ot reply, congrats
znpy··on Tin: full-text search for Postgres
This was already posted and ignored at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751888 so i’ll ask the same question: again:

I don’t see any github link, is this 21st century embrace, extend, extinguish ?

znpy··on Build Distributed Systems from Scratch
so cool!
znpy··on GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
> A model with a 10M context window that retains it's intelligence up to 2M tokens would be a big breakthrough.

so the true next frontier might not be just raw intelligence but rather larger context window?

znpy··on Prepare your iPhone 18 Pro Max to ship
most things are "fine" if it's okay for you to break the law.

"tax fraud? a lot of people do it and it's just fine"

znpy··on Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years
Nice!
znpy··on GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
Maybe this is OT but I wonder if openai/anthropic have private versions of their models with wider context windows (4M tokens? 10M tokens?).

We know that the us government usually has private/custom versions of technology available to the general public, but much better.

znpy··on Executive order on H-1B nonimmigrant visa administration
> 1. did not call him "amazing"

you don't get to police how people talk or feel about other people, duh

znpy··on Executive order on H-1B nonimmigrant visa administration
> The fact that a large tech company lays 10,000 people off and then immediately turns around and petitions for thousands of H-1B employees is criminal.

the craziest thing is that this has to come from right-wight politicians. really gives you a sense of how much the left is f'd-up in 2026.

znpy··on Tin: full-text search for Postgres
I don’t see any github link, is this 21st century embrace, extend, extinguish ?
znpy··on Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now
A meter?
znpy··on Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years
Would this allow, at learning in theory, to build and run a modern Linux distro to run on the ps2 ?
znpy··on Java 27
Java is open source and you can get jvm and jdk from other vendors (eg: Red Hat).

You can essentially live all your java life without ever interacting with Oracle.

znpy··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
And that’s why i keep ubuntu far from my computers…
znpy··on HP ZGX Fury Is Now Orderable: GB300 Superchip, 748GB Unified Memory
aye! 'twas so jolly in ye ol' days when only the master could afford a large computer! /s
znpy··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
scraping content is mostly legal, redistributing content is not.

if you started doing the same to, say, instagram content both meta and individual creators would sue you as well.

sites like archive.ph are in a similar bucket btw, and yet nobody's complaining (except websites seeing people evading their paywall). but at the end of the day it's not really fair to apply laws differentially on the basis of whose political ideas we like more.

znpy··on Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time
When reality and data disagree, data is clearly wrong.
znpy··on Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time
“Gestures everywhere” really? Is that your argument?
znpy··on Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time
> My read of the research is its mixed at best

Research is irrelevant, we have empirical evidence now: new generations can’t read and show overall lower cognitive abilities.

znpy··on Ask HN: What would make you pay $1 per month for a social media?
1. No advertising

2. A well defined recommendation algorithm, with parameters can tune to fit my taste

3. Separate sections for discovering new content, to see content from people i follow and to see content from people i know irl

4. Possibly of completely reset the learning “the algorithm” has done about me

znpy··on Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
In other words: “guy on top says no more guys should try and get on top”
znpy··on Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time
I don’t believe it’s purely “screen time” but rather a mix of what is on that screen as well as the standard that students are kept on at school.

I used to come back from school and spend my day in front of the computer (crt screen and everything) but my screen time was much higher quality that modern day kids. Also, back in my day there was no moronic “no child left behind” kind of policy: if you needed to repeat a year of school, you just did. It felt harsh in the moment but looking back oh boy it was the correct thing to do.

znpy··on 118M Queries per Second on Neki
Hey, just to clarify: i’m not the person you’re responding to (my comment is gp comment) and i’m not criticising your product and your work. It truly is a great achievement.

However, in general i would not trust a product that is not open source (foss).

I do like what grafana has been doing for example, with licensing options at the two extremes: gpl/lgpl v3 on one side and proprietary hosted saas version on the other.

We run our own grafana/lgtm stack at work, we’re outgrowing it and we’re evaluating the saas offerings.

But then again, not criticising your work and product, you know better than me about it and about your business, just writing down my proverbial two cents.

znpy··on Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat
We run litellm at work and not once anybody cared about those 700mb.
znpy··on Omarchy Is a Power Grab
I do the same but you have to understand that some people just can’t get over the fact somebody else has different opinions, different takes on life or software and decide to chart and walk their own path at their own pace.

Btw ggwp to dhh and omarchy’s team.

Ormarchy/arch is not my cup of tea but kudos to them for doing their own thing.

znpy··on AfD's new state MPs include ex-Stasi officer, former porn actor, and neo-Nazis
So diverse, so inclusive! /s
znpy··on 118M Queries per Second on Neki
If this is closed source then i have zero interest in it.
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