I don't completely disagree with your hypotheses but it feels like the hard part of his TIN stuff isn't BM25 (which has been around for donkeys years) it's all the hardcore storage engine work around it. And is an LLM particularly good at e.g. segment merging under a thousand updates a second? I've had a few situations where I've been told "we've hit the perf floor" by Claude only to have persisted myself and shaved substantial amounts off still.

More damning for the theory might be that I think paradedb's pg_search predates the agentic coding by a few years?

ParadeDB/pg_search developer here. Yes, we started the project before LLMs. Moreover, our project is now much more than just full-text search.

I do agree with the sentiment here that many of the other FTS-in-Postgres projects in recent years have been heavily enabled by vibe coding.

The second skill has this before/after example:

> BEFORE: "There's a problem when a lesson inside a section of a course is made 'real' (i.e. given a spot in the file system)"

> AFTER: "There's a problem with the materialization cascade"

It claims the second is easier reading. Is it just me, or does anyone else prefer the first?

It makes sense if you look at the file[1] he's taking about. It's explicitly declaring jargon so you don't need to redescribe $THING every time.

https://github.com/mattpocock/course-video-manager/blob/076a...

What does this comment actually contribute? Please go read the guidelines [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I don't want want you reported (or even to follow the rules for their own sake) I suggested you go read/consider the guidelines as they are a good write-up on internet etiquette in general.

Engaging in a positive way on the internet requires more from us than blindly posting every arbitrary thing that pops into our heads and I think it's right to hold each-other to account. Sorry if that seems sanctimonious

> Your ISP proactively shares your web history with the state.

How so? I'm with AAISP and I'd be very surprised if they were doing this. What are you referring to here?

Good choice, but most other people are using capitalismslop ISPs that maximize value extraction. I hear prices are a bit higher at A&A.

Yeah bit dearer but it's only ~£55 a month and feels like money well spent. They're an awesome company

Really enjoyed this

You're about 12 years older than me so the post was simultaneously nostalgic and a great insight into what work in our industry was like in the decade before I really got properly started professionally

Thanks for sharing and happy 50th for his year

I think about this a lot as someone living in the north of England (in a nice town and quite well off) maybe ignorance is bliss but I just don't know how life could get much better, but then I guess some Japanese person living a prosperous life in a nice community might feel the same about where they live (and might not rate the type of life I lead) so I guess it's subjective..

As I said I think idly about this a lot because when you feel like you've found a sort of eudaimonia you want to share it. But whilst personally, I feel like I won life's lottery being in the place and time I am, but that doesn't mean it's the one true way.

Wherever people are, I hope it's the right place for them personally

This is so great and such a great example of the sociolinguistic prestige given to certain types of words in English.

It's so funny how all this is doing is naming things in almost exactly the same manner we did name them but using germanic words instead of latin or french words and yet words like "stuff" feel so plain whilst "matter" feels much more erudite.

It's 2026 and we still have this incredibly strong bias which probably originally arose when the roman empire carved europe into civilised and uncivilised parts. A bias which has been reinforced by medieval scholars, the normans and various others until it's part of the bones of english. Latin = clever, Germanic = plain/direct.

Justice for Anglish!

I won second try with hares on medium, I think the trick is to:

A) make sure you get at least one hare to one of the central two spots (will always be possible) and camp it there. Keep your other hare moving around on your side.

B) the opponent will have to bring two hounds over to catch your other hare. To do this they will have to create a gap between the first and second hound in the middle spot above/below your camped hare. As soon as this happens, move your camped hare upwards.

It's pretty easy after that TBH. The AI has usual burnt a load of moves by that point and you have so many options from that position

I've been using kmonad[1] on my laptop for years which looks similar. Highly recommend it, it's brilliant.

[1] https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad

What's the key to fire? I've tried everything

Space key