Hacker News: aloknnikhil

New comment by aloknnikhil in "Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs"

aloknnikhil — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:57:11 +0000

The typical issues I have seen with LLMs / Agents tend to be reactive in their fixes. So they tend to "patch" the symptom more than "fix" the root cause. Interested to see how you solve this problem.

New comment by aloknnikhil in "Claude Design"

aloknnikhil — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:29:31 +0000

You could have stopped at

> The folks at Wall Street do not understand

Google Public CA is down

aloknnikhil — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:05:33 +0000

Article URL: https://status.pki.goog/incidents/5oJEbcU3ZfMfySTSXXd3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055696

Points: 279

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New comment by aloknnikhil in "Anyone seeing issues with Google Trust Services for their ACME certs?"

aloknnikhil — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:38:47 +0000

https://status.pki.goog/ is not reporting any issues

Anyone seeing issues with Google Trust Services for their ACME certs?

aloknnikhil — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:38:47 +0000

Article URL: https://status.pki.goog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651284

Points: 2

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New comment by aloknnikhil in "Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes"

aloknnikhil — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:51:30 +0000

Since when did having isolated environments for dev / test and prod become a bad pattern?

New comment by aloknnikhil in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

aloknnikhil — Fri, 30 May 2025 21:25:32 +0000

It's not that entry-level jobs / interns are irrelevant. It's more that entry-level has been redefined and it requires significant uplevelling in terms of skills necessary to do a job at that level. That's not necessarily a bad thing. As others have said here, I would be more willing to hand-off more complex tasks to interns / junior engineers because my expectation is they leverage AI to tackle it faster and learn in the process.

New comment by aloknnikhil in "DiceDB"

aloknnikhil — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:41:18 +0000

In the list of things that DiceDB is at the top, you should add "an in-memory database". Pretty critical thing to leave out right at the top.

New comment by aloknnikhil in "AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M"

aloknnikhil — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 18:22:49 +0000

At first glance, that just seems like a bunch of libraries linked together to form a binary. That is not open-source. I completely agree with you that there is just not enough clarity out there. For my education, following up with my earlier example, can I remove the layers that have references to all chapters / laws in the constitution except for the ones meant for real-estate? How would I do that with the approaches you mentioned here?

Fundamentally, if I have to "reverse-engineer" something, then it's not open-source.

New comment by aloknnikhil in "AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M"

aloknnikhil — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:59:28 +0000

I completely disagree with you. The fundamental problem with your concept of open source is it goes against what open source really is. The ability for you to completely change what a piece of software can do. IMO, even with LLMs, models are "executables" and weights are "configuration". Yes, of course you can tune the weights by changing the values, but that's the most I can do. Can I actually add "features" to the model? Perhaps you "open-sourced" an LLM model trained on the United States Constitution. Can I change the model to then be a specialist in real estate law? Not with weights. I need it to learn case histories to extend its "feature-set". Without data and the mechanism to reproduce the model, how is this "open-source"?

New comment by aloknnikhil in "How Uber tests payments in production"

aloknnikhil — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 04:54:43 +0000

I couldn't bother myself to read the whole article. Got GPT-4 to summarize the main points. Not as much insight as I thought I would get going in.

1. *Testing in Staging vs. Production*: - Most engineers prefer testing in staging due to a sense of control. - There's a misconception that it's an either/or situation between staging and production testing. In reality, both are necessary.

2. *Importance of Production Testing*: - Staging environments can’t replicate all possible real-world scenarios. - Production testing is essential to identify complex, real-world issues missed in staging.

3. *Uber's Approach to Testing*: - Uber tests its payment systems in production. - They have developed tools (Cerberus and Deputy) to facilitate transparent interaction with real systems and gather responses effectively.

4. *Every Deployment as an Experiment*: - Every deployment is treated as a hypothesis to be validated against business metrics. - Metrics and monitoring are crucial to determine the success of deployment.

5. *First Rollout Region*: - Uber chooses a specific first rollout region to minimize risk and impact. - Initial rollouts are conducted in regions that are small but significant for practical monitoring.

6. *Canary Deployments*: - Uber conducts canary deployments to a subset of users to detect and mitigate potential issues early. - This approach helps in identifying and fixing issues with minimal impact.

7. *Examples of Issues Discovered Early*: - Uber detected significant issues with GooglePay during its cautious rollout in Portugal, which would have been difficult to identify in a staging environment alone.

8. *Philosophy on Software Quality*: - True robustness and resiliency come from real-world usage and the continuous fixing of encountered issues. - Only production can provide the real stakes and conditions needed for thorough validation.

9. *Author and Newsletter*: - Alvaro Duran, author of “The Payments Engineer Playbook”, emphasizes the importance of sharing and learning from real-world experiences in payments systems. - Encourages readers to engage with the content and share it with colleagues for broader impact.

New comment by aloknnikhil in "From Anthropic Claude MVP to SaaS: Seeking advice on rapid no-code launch"

aloknnikhil — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 00:19:43 +0000

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New comment by aloknnikhil in "[dead]"

aloknnikhil — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:52:19 +0000

It's down again today

Startups scramble to assess fallout from Evolve Bank data breach

aloknnikhil — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:31:34 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/startups-scramble-to-assess-fallout-from-evolve-bank-data-breach/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40822880

Points: 5

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New comment by aloknnikhil in "The hottest place on Earth is cracking from the stress of extreme heat"

aloknnikhil — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:06:10 +0000

I thought the hottest place on the planet was the Lut Desert. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1505/

New comment by aloknnikhil in "Ask HN: Any one still using MySQL?"

aloknnikhil — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:08:01 +0000

Very cool! Thanks for sharing mydumper

New comment by aloknnikhil in "Ask HN: Any one still using MySQL?"

aloknnikhil — Wed, 08 May 2024 15:45:24 +0000

Fair question. My motivation was mainly to understand if there was something specific that drove that choice. Better question for you maybe: For any new project, which one would you choose and why?

Ask HN: Any one still using MySQL?

aloknnikhil — Wed, 08 May 2024 14:58:05 +0000

Do you manage your own MySQL installation? - If not, what managed provider do you use? - Either way, what’s your biggest pain point?

Why not Postgres?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40298808

Points: 21

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FalkorDB: A Knowledge Graph for LLM (KG-RAG)

aloknnikhil — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:52:25 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138769

Points: 2

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New comment by aloknnikhil in "6.2 GHz Intel Core I9-14900KS Review"

aloknnikhil — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:50:38 +0000

But with all the background OS activity, will this chip ever sustain turbo to 6.2 for noticeable periods? Pure benchmarking win imo.