Hacker News: Cidan

New comment by Cidan in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

Cidan — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:12:45 +0000

I think the whole point is for it to be a static site that is easily distributed with little-to-no overhead, as it probably receives a non-trivial amount of traffic.

New comment by Cidan in "World Labs is Joining AMD"

Cidan — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:46:37 +0000

Amusingly, an LLM could probably figure this out in seconds.

New comment by Cidan in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

Cidan — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:58:25 +0000

Typing this from Zen browser as we speak, can't suggest it enough.

New comment by Cidan in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

Cidan — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:28:43 +0000

Google's internal tooling is still, hands down, better than anything that exists for the scale they operate at, and it's not even close.

Google's processes, however, is hands down the worst thing to exist for the scale they operate at, and it's not even close.

New comment by Cidan in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

Cidan — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:24:09 +0000

CEO of at Google (not Alphabet) was always an informal title. There is no CEO of Cloud, CEO of YouTube, or CEO of DeepMind within Google internally -- it's always been an SVP role.

New comment by Cidan in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"

Cidan — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:49:50 +0000

You don't really need to tmux at all for Claude Code CLI. Claude Code CLI supports streaming json input, and streaming json output; you can use stdin/out as a pipe to control Claude Code CLI.

I'm doing this today in https://github.com/Cidan/ask -- works great.

New comment by Cidan in "Google’s in-house desktop Linux"

Cidan — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:35:22 +0000

Yeah, agreed. This isn't even close to true, not sure where he got that from.

New comment by Cidan in "Google Kubernetes Engine adds support for Arm nodes"

Cidan — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:45:39 +0000

Also, the PM's are going to do an AMA for this on reddit tomorrow:

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/vy8hx3/ama_wit...

Come join us! Also, hi Moles :)

New comment by Cidan in "Google now deleting health clinic searches from location history automatically"

Cidan — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 20:16:54 +0000

Googler here.

We have very strict and very well engineered data retention systems. When we say data is deleted, we mean it. Various levels of automation ensure the data is purged, and all data is tracked meticulously for violations across every datastore.

It's one of those systems I wish we talked about more -- it's a marvel to behold just how much work goes into retention policies and the automation that drives it.

New comment by Cidan in "A $230k debt and a LinkedIn message led an ex-CIA officer to spy for China"

Cidan — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 15:20:04 +0000

Many years ago, I worked for a contractor where we required clearance. We hired this one sysadmin "stick it to the man" type of guy that was extremely well educated and talented.

When he got to the part of the form that asked if he has ever consumed drugs, he said "yes" as he should have by being honest. The follow up question asks something along the lines of, "If yes, will you ever consume drugs again?"

The jack-ass decided to answer "I won't not do them again..." We fired him a few days later.

New comment by Cidan in "Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena"

Cidan — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:30:02 +0000

BigQuery on GCP does this as well, without any extra work.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google)

New comment by Cidan in "OpenAI Five"

Cidan — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:01:51 +0000

(I too work for Google Cloud)

I agree. One of the most amazing things about watching this project unfold is just how quickly it went from 0 to 100 with minimal overhead. It's amazing to watch companies and individuals push the boundaries of what is possible with just the push of a button.

New comment by Cidan in "Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine"

Cidan — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 06:49:07 +0000

It already is! It's available in open beta for all customers, with a GA release coming in the near future.

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud

New comment by Cidan in "BeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee Access"

Cidan — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:56:15 +0000

Take a look at Google Cloud IAP -- it's essentially a stripped down version of BeyondCorp for public use on Google Cloud. I've used this as a customer of Google's with great success, it really does just work.

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.

New comment by Cidan in "Google used a tax loophole to shelter $19.2B"

Cidan — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 02:42:53 +0000

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

Literally the first three words.

Sheep: A simple, but powerful, counter service written in Go

Cidan — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 06:36:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Cidan/sheep

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15668353

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Cidan in "America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning"

Cidan — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:32:21 +0000

> Let's make towns have downtowns, with beautiful brick roads, scenic ponds with some ducks, perhaps a waterfall, some nice cafes, a lawn with benches, some parks, some nature, trees, live music, a library and museums.

You would think! I live in Santa Monica, California, and we have exactly that in our downtown area. The retail shop turnover is insane -- a large amount of shops come and go from the area, despite the massive amount of foot traffic the area sees every weekend (and most weekdays during the summer).

New comment by Cidan in "GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region"

Cidan — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:51:18 +0000

Vendor lock-in is most certainly not the only competing point we have against AWS. From BigQuery, to BigTable, to Spanner, to our private network, to our live migration of compute, to our hosted Kubernetes, the list goes on and on.

AWS does a lot of things right, and we're more than happy to go toe-to-toe with them in the areas they have us beat. Competition is a sign of a healthy economy where everyone benefits. How can you compete if you don't even try to match the people you are competing against?

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.

New comment by Cidan in "Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory"

Cidan — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:31:21 +0000

Came here to post this -- moving our infra from AWS to GCP was the best decision I've ever made.

New comment by Cidan in "Improving GCE boot times with custom images"

Cidan — Fri, 26 May 2017 02:22:46 +0000

We've accomplished much of the same by using GKE and making artifacts out of containers. New instances scale up within a few seconds (and less than a second if we pre-pull the image).

It's pretty amazing.