kdawkins
Re:Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go
on Thursday October 09, 2025 @02:26PM (#45531287)
This is very cool! Your readme is intersting and well written - I didn't know I could be so interested in the internals of a full text search engine :)
What was the motivation to kick this project off? Learning or are you using it somehow?
Re:Why Self-Host?
on Thursday October 09, 2025 @01:18PM (#45530514)
Agreed - Effort/Cost/Time is what always nips my self-host projects out of the gate. I start working down the recursive thought experiment of everything I "need" to get an email server working (for example) and bail when I see the list.
Convincing the family to buy in is hard too because (as you put) I can't promise the same level of redundancy/service guarantees.
Re:Show HN: Hypertune – Visual, functional, statically-typed configura...
on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:16PM (#35277088)
Super cool!