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TLDR: we didn't pick rust because we're a Java shop.

I originally thought it was a joke, but it's not.

Surprisingly, 3GB is a real practical RAM limit for aws lambdas in 2025: you can only have more than that if you submit a support ticket. But it's not really mentioned anywhere in …

Building a search engine on top of Apache Lucene and S3 block storage. Think Elasticsearch done right: https://github.com/nixiesearch/nixiesearch

https://github.com/nixiesearch/nixiesearch A Lucene-based search engine on top of S3 block storage. Index schema is immutable (but supports migrations), so you cannot just screw up…

Wow, I perhaps need a kubernetes cluster just for a demo: CONTAINER ID IMAGE 0f2f86615ea5 nvcr.io/ohlfw0olaadg/ea-participants/nv-ingest:24.10 de44122c6ddc otel/opentelemetry-colle…

We're at nixiesearch.ai building a yet another search over HN, but we found no public datasets of the actual submission texts available - so we scraped one! TLDR: 2.1M texts, aroun…