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Nikita Lapkov
Personal blog · laplab.me/postsprogrammingdata
Nikita Lapkov's personal blog at laplab.me covers programming and data. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “MongoDB’s New Query Engine”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter cites the post on MongoDB's new query engine while reporting faster complex aggregation pipelines in their own test. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal blog of Nikita Lapkov
Most-linked posts?
- MongoDB’s New Query Engine4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-09-18
- Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-01
- How Binary JSON Works in YDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-16
- Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-01
What Hacker News says?
I did a quick test and on my use case the performance improves mainly on a complex aggregation pipeline. I still have to run extensive benchmarks. I think one of the improvements is the New Query Engine: https://laplab.me/posts/inside-new-query-engine-of-mongodb/
Comment linking /posts/inside-new-query-engine-of-mongodb/
on “MongoDB 8.0”Submitted What's that touchscreen in my room? as a story · 1890 points
HN discussionSubmitted Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems as a story · 91 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Binary JSON Works in YDB as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing JIT Compiler on the Plane as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Binary JSON Works in YDB (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching from C++ to Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Streams and Timeouts Gotchas as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MongoDB’s New Query Engine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Query Engine of MongoDB as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM as a story · 1 points
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