Please compare with FineReader.
Readit Newslokl commented on Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models ocrarena.ai/battle... · Posted by u/kbyatnal
Hi everyone — I'm one of the maintainers of Manticore Search. Huge thanks to @klaussilveira for submitting this — we really appreciate the interest and the thoughtful discussion here.
A few points that came up in the thread and are worth clarifying:
- We do get compared to Elasticsearch a lot. While we support some of its APIs, Manticore isn't a drop-in replacement. We've focused on performance, simplicity, and keeping things open-source without vendor lock-in. Our own SQL-based query language and REST endpoints are part of that philosophy. - @mdaniel was right to question the "drop-in" wording — that's not our goal. - As @sandstrom pointed out, tools like Typesense and Meilisearch are part of this evolving search space. We see Manticore fitting in where users want powerful full-text and vector search capabilities with lower resource overhead and SQL capabilities (we support JSON too though)
We'd love to hear from you: - What are your main use cases for search or log indexing? - Which Elasticsearch features (if any) are absolutely essential for you? - Are there performance comparisons or scaling challenges you'd like to see addressed?
Happy to answer any questions or dive deeper.
I've been using Sphinx for 20 years for full-text search with a custom stemmer. I considered switching to Manticore, but didn't see a huge need to do so, because Sphinx still works well for me and requires zero maintenance. Any big new features that might entice me to switch? (I only have a few GB of indexes, covering a few million documents.)
Reading this makes me so sad and reminded me of a book I read years ago: Hiroshima by John Hersey - about the first-person narrative account of survivors who witnessed the impact of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima that morning.
If you have the opportunity to visit, I recommend Nagasaki over Hiroshima and especially these two places in Nagasaki:
Shiroyama Elementary School
Nagai Takashi Memorial Museum Nagasaki
These felt much more personal than anything I saw in Hiroshima and there were zero (other) tourists to interrupt the experience (very much unlike the museum in Hiroshima).
lokl commented on Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera? arslan.io/2025/06/14/fuji... · Posted by u/farslan
Used cameras and lenses can offer tremendous value.
Tried with a few historical handwritten German documents, accuracy was abysmal.
lokl commented on How Copyover MUD Servers Worked jackkelly.name/blog/archi... · Posted by u/_jackdk_
MUDs were the most enjoyable social networks I ever experienced, and the least harmful to society.
lokl commented on Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming tomsguide.com/computing/p... · Posted by u/amichail
We'll see. As of the latest testing, mechanicals still show the best single-key latency performance.
I got an ROG Azoth awhile back for that reason.
Would be nice to see how far they can push the technology though!
Given that the time to physically press the key down is a part of the latency, Hall Effect could easily beat out Mechanical in the long run. After all, you can make it almost arbitrarily sensitive.
EDIT: Looks like wired mechanicals at the top end are tied (0.8ms) with the best Halls (0.8ms) and a bit better than the best wireless 2.4Ghz (1.7ms). Mea culpa. We still need more test data on Halls in general though. Removed my comment about Wireless being better - though generally wireless 2.4 GHz beats out all but the top-end wired keyboards.
Lower latency than PS/2?
Contact (and, if you can, visit) one of the top ophthalmologists in the world, as soon as possible. You cannot take a risk that your local doctor is good enough.
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Audio-Technica ATR2100x, bought it for Zoom during the pandemic, very pleased. If you're in the market for an inexpensive upgrade, read the reviews for this. You will probably want to add a pop filter, even a very basic one makes a big difference. I use mine with a boom arm clamped to my desk.
I would say Rust is quite good for just letting something churn through compiler errors until it works, and then you're unlikely to get runtime errors.
I haven't tried Haskell, but I assume that's even better.