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New comment by 120bits in "Tim Curry has died"

120bits — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:39:08 +0000

My first movie that introduced me to Tim Curry was Home Alone 2. It was maybe first few Hollywood Movies that I watched with parents(non-english speaking).

Now I'm 42yrs old, and when my parents visit me, I watch Home Alone 2 with them. It has somewhat become a family tradition now.

Thank you Tim for such a memorable moments. Great actor!

Ask HN: Looking for AI Video Upscaler

120bits — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:07:22 +0000

Hi.

Are there any good video upscaler that uses AI. I don't have much experience in this domain. I googled and found this https://www.topazlabs.com/

I wanted to an idea if folks here have tried something or suggest something better? Both Local or Cloud options are fine.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712332

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New comment by 120bits in "More Lessons from 14 years at Google"

120bits — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:54:47 +0000

> 8. Avoid hero culture. Build systems that don’t require heroes.

This right here is the what I always have encountered at every team I have ever worked. There will be a production outage, one person comes in and be like "Oh, let me do this.." Magically fixes things that was never documented becomes a hero and then we do a root cause analysis and then never address the fact that, what that one person knew that service that no one else on the team did.

Ask HN: Is anyone else having AWS issues?

120bits — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:59:48 +0000

Hi,

I noticed some S3 503s few days ago and my ECS services are acting up. EC2 instances status are unhealthly. MSK Connectors are having issues.

Thanks.

EDIT: AWS dashboard showing everything up. But folks are reporting issues.

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416067

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New comment by 120bits in "Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012)"

120bits — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 05:38:30 +0000

Almost 12 years ago, I wrote my first web server in C. It was for a router/firewall device running Linux From Scratch(LFS), I can't recall the kernel version(2.6.x?).

Reading this just took me back and made me realize even though we have progressed so far with tech stack and new technologies(LLMs), there is so much joy in just writing plain C code. To me its just feels like working on a classic old 68 mustang and getting your hands dirty. What a joy!

New comment by 120bits in "CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage"

120bits — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:19:23 +0000

So now its dereference a null uber eats code?!

New comment by 120bits in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

120bits — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:40:40 +0000

Funny how I got rejected today from crowdstrike because I couldn’t code a hard leetcode problem under 40mins. I guess leetcode isn’t true software engineering after all.

New comment by 120bits in "Ask HN: What single line of code would you put on a programming shirt?"

120bits — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:06:12 +0000

Fast inverse square root

0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );

https://github.com/scienceetonnante/Fast-Inverse-Square-Root...

New comment by 120bits in "Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel"

120bits — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:53:01 +0000

During my early days in my tech career. I joined a small tech firm that did linux kernel programming and embedded stuff. It was my first job out of college and I was really excited. My mentor was a 50+ guy whom I walked everyday from work to back my home. It didn't started out like that, we would leave work around different times and one day it was raining, so we waited and then it became sort of habit. I learned so much about programming and life in general. Made me a better programmer for sure. I'm always grateful!

New comment by 120bits in "Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays"

120bits — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:01:30 +0000

I switched companies and I had to use teams. From my experience coming Slack, teams feels heavy app. The bootup is slow and overall it felt like its bloated app. I'm using M1Pro Mac.

What I don't like the most of the teams app is, the freaking code editor. If I paste code in teams, it feels hard to read, in Slack it looks much better. Also, I hate it when on teams having some serious chat about prod issue and some in the group post a random message and whole thing just goes side ways. Lack of threads is bad experience for me. I can go on..

New comment by 120bits in "15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps"

120bits — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:43:30 +0000

OK, I wasn't going crazy then. I had recently used Google Maps for a road trip that I was planning and I asked my GF if it looks weird. My initial thought was if someone changed my monitor settings. (I use different one for just gaming) . The design and graphics reminds me of Apple Maps a lot(the mac version). The look and feel was slightly off and it felt dullish. Not sure how I can explain it.

The suggestions are definitely good in the post. I like to have a clean maps panel and rest can be hidden away.

New comment by 120bits in "Ask HN: How to Be a Good Mentor?"

120bits — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:28:13 +0000

Thank you! Great advise.

Ask HN: How to Be a Good Mentor?

120bits — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:19:35 +0000

I have been recently asked to mentor and this is my first time being a mentor. I have over 12+ years of software engineering experience and have fair share of life experiences that has taught lot of valuable lessons.

I wanted to know if you have any tips and guidelines and how should I be a better mentor.

Thanks.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37931748

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HTTP/2 rapid reset attack impacting Nginx products

120bits — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:04:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nginx.com/blog/http-2-rapid-reset-attack-impacting-f5-nginx-products/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37861589

Points: 232

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New comment by 120bits in "Linux from Scratch Version 12.0"

120bits — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 20:33:12 +0000

LFS taught me so many things in my beginning for software engineer career(2011). 5 years later, we moved to minimal centos7.

I also remember working on getting LFS work on AWS EC2 back then.

New comment by 120bits in "A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews"

120bits — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:58:10 +0000

My urge to work for FAANG company is faded away. Being in my late 30s I don;t want to grind leetcode anymore. I had interviews in Apple/Google/Facebook and I felt luck played a huge part of that. I got some live coding questions that prepared the day before and I aced them and in some cases I practiced so much and couldn;t even write more than 10 lines of code.

New comment by 120bits in "Apple Reveals 'Vision Pro' Headset"

120bits — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:56:16 +0000

I really want to watch Interstellar in 4K on Vision Pro. I do wear glasses so I'm not sure how long I can wear this.

Counter Strike 2: Sub-tick updates and More

120bits — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:01:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.counter-strike.net/cs2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35389969

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New comment by 120bits in "Ask HN: Which company is most likely to become SkyNet?"

120bits — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:13:40 +0000

Tesla.

They already have army robots on the streets. Some day the cars will become fully aware and then can replicate. They will make better versions of themselves.

New comment by 120bits in "Tell HN: Happy New Year"

120bits — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:36:50 +0000

A Happy New Year!

I'm always optimistic and I believe humans will do good thing. Looking forward to more advancement in AI, curing cancer, moving to more cleaner energy.

Going to watch some good ol star wars my girlfriend and enjoy my Macallan sherry oak 18