Hacker News: TheChetan

New comment by TheChetan in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

TheChetan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:05:18 +0000

I had a similar experience reading the “Count of Monte Cristo”. I gave up multiple times when reading the first translation.

I Love Meta Platforms

TheChetan — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:45:54 +0000

Article URL: https://chetan343.substack.com/p/i-love-meta

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366178

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by TheChetan in "The time when Shopify and EC2 disliked each other"

TheChetan — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:23:03 +0000

Please give me your feedback, I want to improve.

The time when Shopify and EC2 disliked each other

TheChetan — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:14:45 +0000

Article URL: https://chetan343.substack.com/p/ec2-and-shopify-dislike-each-other

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264905

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Oops I ran the tests on prod

TheChetan — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:43:59 +0000

Article URL: https://chetan343.substack.com/p/oops-i-ran-the-tests-on-prod

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238316

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Origami Simulator

TheChetan — Fri, 06 May 2022 05:45:07 +0000

Article URL: https://origamisimulator.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31281700

Points: 96

# Comments: 7

New comment by TheChetan in "BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet"

TheChetan — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:24:48 +0000

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...

Dijkstra does a commendable job in explaining how people map new ideas to old ones and never really end up looking at things in a new way.

Why the last Pringles Chip doesn't crack while shipping

TheChetan — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 12:28:37 +0000

Article URL: https://interestingengineering.com/geometry-of-pringles-crunchy-hyperbolic-paraboloid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25264577

Points: 11

# Comments: 6

New comment by TheChetan in "What’s expected of us (2005)"

TheChetan — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:11:36 +0000

Where can I buy one of these predicators? I searched amazon, ebay etc and found nothing.

New comment by TheChetan in "Ask HN: How to manage burnout / jadedness and job hunt?"

TheChetan — Fri, 29 May 2020 03:16:55 +0000

Have you tried automating some of your work? It helps if the works is automatable and mundane.

New comment by TheChetan in "Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life"

TheChetan — Thu, 07 May 2020 12:58:46 +0000

I read somewhere on the internet that, "If grass is greener on the other side, you aren't watering enough".

Sure some people get lucky, but on the long term, the ones who consistently make better decisions and work harder are the ones who are benefitted more often.

New comment by TheChetan in "Ask HN: Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?"

TheChetan — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 09:19:41 +0000

What about things like credit card rewards? Lots of companies just keep competing by giving better offers and cashbacks etc.

Also another thing is funding for startups. Smaller companies don't stand a chance against giants like Amazon because of the way they crush startups or just acquire them.

New comment by TheChetan in "Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS?"

TheChetan — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 03:42:29 +0000

In 2012 Facebook had 1BN users and 180K servers. 1,000,000 users / 180,000 servers = 5,556 users per server In 2017 Facebook has close to 2BN users. 2,000,000 users / 5556 users per server = 360,000 servers

Notice how the 1B has only 6 zeros. The awesome part is that this mistake evens itself out later, yielding a correct number for "The of servers".