Hacker News: asalahli

New comment by asalahli in "Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time"

asalahli — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:11:22 +0000

This is giving the same vibe as Windows Subsystem for Linux[0] - it kinda makes sense once somebody explains it, but is confusing as hell when you first see it

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/t952...

New comment by asalahli in "Jerry's Map"

asalahli — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:45:54 +0000

I should check that out. Thank you

New comment by asalahli in "Jerry's Map"

asalahli — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:21:04 +0000

Not the person you replied to, but like them, I too liked to draw imaginary maps when I was a kid, mainly of medieval towns. I also tend to like the world-building aspects of strategy games, arguably more than the actual strategy parts.

Cities: Skylines have been in my wishlist since shortly after it came out but I never got around to playing it until about a month ago, and... didn't like it at all. It felt too "micro-manage-y" (for the lack of a better word) while also having the pressure of the ticking time.

Needless to say, I was very disappointed after looking forward to it for ~10 years.

New comment by asalahli in "Boot Naked Linux"

asalahli — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:48:31 +0000

> Somewhere, a LLM is trained on this code as we speak :)

Had a similar thought when I saw

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1

New comment by asalahli in "Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++"

asalahli — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:22:27 +0000

There was a similar CppCon talk[0] in 2018. Highly recommended (by me, fwiw), as is any other talk by Richard Powell

0. https://youtu.be/Grveezn0zhU

New comment by asalahli in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

asalahli — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:51:10 +0000

I wonder if she knew about the woman at the post office!

New comment by asalahli in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

asalahli — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:19:19 +0000

Wrong thread?

New comment by asalahli in "Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider"

asalahli — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:50:54 +0000

It baffles me why VPS providers don't display the fingerprints on their dashboards or expose them through the API.

New comment by asalahli in "Why most product tours get skipped"

asalahli — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:55:44 +0000

Even then, a new user account doesn't necessarily mean a new user.

Every time I start on a new job, I have to click through Slack's, Github's and many other dev tools' stupid guided tours for the hundredth time

New comment by asalahli in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

asalahli — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:37:37 +0000

Where are you getting a ~$10/month VPS with 12GB RAM from?

New comment by asalahli in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

asalahli — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:20:20 +0000

Any way to follow the progress of the project?

New comment by asalahli in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

asalahli — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:43:53 +0000

https://archive.is/J3n3q

New comment by asalahli in "Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite"

asalahli — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:46:22 +0000

Canvas, celery's orchestration system, leaves a lot to be desired

New comment by asalahli in "Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering?"

asalahli — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:12:07 +0000

Check out The Payments Engineer Playbook[0]. I don't work on financial systems but I'm subscribed and like the occasional distributed systems insights.

One of the posts turned up on HN front page a year ago[1]. Thats how I discovered it

0. https://news.alvaroduran.com/

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269227

New comment by asalahli in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

asalahli — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:34:20 +0000

Recently I've been wanting to build a chat server that works over ssh. And by that I don't mean it uses the ssh protocol but that you ssh into the server and the shell you get is the chat client.

One day, maybe

New comment by asalahli in "Become unbannable from your email"

asalahli — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:34:20 +0000

AliExpress is one of them, as far as I know

New comment by asalahli in "Litestream v0.5.0"

asalahli — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:42:05 +0000

Avoiding N+1 doesn't have to mean limiting yourself to 1 query. You can still fetch the posts in one query and the comments of _all_ posts in a separate query, just don't issue a query for _each_ post.

More formally, the number of queries should be constant and not linearly scaling with the number of rows you're processing.

New comment by asalahli in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

asalahli — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:02:49 +0000

FWIW I like Level 2 Jeff more and I would watch the videos with or without the clickbait-y titles. As you've said I've never found your titles deceptive so if they bring you more money, then more power to you

New comment by asalahli in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

asalahli — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:32:37 +0000

I don't think dang was a moderator at that time

New comment by asalahli in "The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are"

asalahli — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 06:51:07 +0000

> the original/popular definitions were so incredibly abstract and disconnected from real life usage that they ended up being whatever the person implementing it wanted it to be.

This is what happened with REST too, and it frustrates me more than it probably should.

The original pattern is such a good idea and not even remotely abstract. It's a well defined architectural pattern for a well defined problem yet people still managed to bastardize it to the point that the term REST barely means anything today