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Trying to make an Automated Ecologist: A first pass through the Biotime dataset

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-an-automated-ecologist
1•crescit_eundo•1m ago•0 comments

Watch Ukraine's Minigun-Firing, Drone-Hunting Turboprop in Action

https://www.twz.com/air/watch-ukraines-minigun-firing-drone-hunting-turboprop-in-action
1•breve•2m ago•0 comments

Free Trial: AI Interviewer

https://ai-interviewer.nuvoice.ai/
1•sijain2•2m ago•0 comments

FDA Intends to Take Action Against Non-FDA-Approved GLP-1 Drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
1•randycupertino•3m ago•0 comments

Supernote e-ink devices for writing like paper

https://supernote.eu/choose-your-product/
1•janandonly•5m ago•0 comments

We are QA Engineers now

https://serce.me/posts/2026-02-05-we-are-qa-engineers-now
1•SerCe•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Measuring how AI agent teams improve issue resolution on SWE-Verified

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01465
2•NBenkovich•6m ago•0 comments

Adversarial Reasoning: Multiagent World Models for Closing the Simulation Gap

https://www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning
1•swyx•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley.com – Follow people, not podcasts

https://poddley.com/guests/ana-kasparian/episodes
1•onesandofgrain•14m ago•0 comments

Layoffs Surge 118% in January – The Highest Since 2009

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/layoff-and-hiring-announcements-hit-their-worst-january-levels-si...
7•karakoram•15m ago•0 comments

Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad

https://p114.homemade.systems/
1•mwenge•15m ago•1 comments

DicePit – Real-time multiplayer Knucklebones in the browser

https://dicepit.pages.dev/
1•r1z4•15m ago•1 comments

Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
2•PaulHoule•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

https://github.com/dshearer/misatay
2•dshearer•18m ago•0 comments

Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•18m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•22m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
1•SirLJ•24m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
3•randycupertino•25m ago•2 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-preble-used-helios-laser-to-zap-four-drones-in-expanding-testing
3•breve•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•31m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
3•ks2048•31m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•34m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•34m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
3•mltvc•39m ago•1 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•39m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•40m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
3•SchwKatze•40m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•41m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
8•guerrilla•42m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

VectorDB bench now support S3Vector

https://github.com/zilliztech/VectorDBBench/pull/570
19•redskyluan•6mo ago

Comments

falcor84•6mo ago
For context for those like myself who weren't familiar with Amazon's S3 Vectors, it's a relatively new S3 bucket type that's optimized for storing vectors for RAG and similar purposes, claiming to the be up to 90% cheaper than storing them in a regular bucket.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/features/vectors/

throwaw12•6mo ago
GitHub PR shows Vespa on the image, but I can't find Vespa results on the VDBBench website https://zilliz.com/vdbbench-leaderboard

Am I missing anything? (I love Vespa.ai)

lemursage•6mo ago
It seems that the leaderboard doesn't contain the results for all of the supported DBs (I was looking for the pgvector myself).

The README.md contains a screenshot from local testing that's got more results included: https://github.com/zilliztech/VectorDBBench?tab=readme-ov-fi...

antirez•6mo ago
Please note that the Redis supported there is not "Vector Sets" (the new Redis data type) but one of the indexes types of RedisSearch.

And, about such benchmarks: I tested another vector db benchmark, investigated it a bit, found that it was mostly measuring client implementation latencies and other internal inefficiencies...

In Redis with VSIM I can easily get 50k vSIM/seconds with 300 components vectors with redis-benchmark, yet when I tried to write a quick test for one of those engines I got a lot lower numbers because simply vectors are large (makes serialization in Python slow if not well coded), often these tests are written in high level languages, don't account for differences in client libraries speeds.

TLDR? Benchmarking is hard, for vector systems it is harder, and the results of most of such tests are totally irrelevant.

throwaw12•6mo ago
> found that it was mostly measuring client implementation latencies and other internal inefficiencies...

As you said benchmarking is hard, but isn't the end to end latency customers will see in their workloads is usually including the client library overheads?

IMO, benchmarks should closely resemble the real world scenarios (excluding variables, e.g. network latency of different cloud providers)