Hacker News: croshan

New comment by croshan in "Take this on-call rotation and shove it"

croshan — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:59:37 +0000

This works if you're on call for your systems. In many situations (ranging from small startups to big tech), you're also on-call for the systems of sister teams.

Not that there aren't other ways to fix that. But fixing the erroring service isn't practical in all cases.

New comment by croshan in "Malware found on NPM infecting local package with reverse shell"

croshan — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:54:47 +0000

It's quite easy, actually. We did this at work, recently.

Bun is two things. Most commonly, it's known for its Node-competitor runtime, which is of course a very invasive change. But it can also be used purely as a package manager, with Node as your runtime: https://bun.sh/docs/cli/install

As a package manager, it's much more efficient, and I would recommend switching over. Haven't used pnpm, though--we came from yarn (v2, and I've used v1 in past).

We still use Node for our runtime, but package install time has dropped significantly.

This is especially felt when switching branches on dev machines where one package in the workspace has changed, causing yarn to retry all packages (even though yarn.lock exists), where bun only downloads the new package.

New comment by croshan in "Proof of location for online polls"

croshan — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:25:37 +0000

A bit aggressive. No, wouldn't connecting to a slow 3g tower affect ping times to all global servers proportionately?

The proposal has other flaws, but phone to tower latency isn't one.

New comment by croshan in "YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design"

croshan — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:56:57 +0000

An interpretation that makes sense to me: humans are non-deterministic black boxes already at the core of complex systems. So in that sense, replacing a human with AI is not unreasonable.

I’d disagree, though: humans are still easier to predict and understand (and trust) than AI, typically.

New comment by croshan in "Apple acquires Pixelmator"

croshan — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:18:02 +0000

In general, the way a walled garden wins is by providing everything its villagers need inside.

And Apple’s products seem to create walled gardens in order to prioritize [first creative, then economic] control.

Based on the demographic that a significant portion of their marketing seems targeted towards (artists and creative types), I think your theory sounds likely.

New comment by croshan in "Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care"

croshan — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 01:16:45 +0000

This sounds depressing. I’m sorry that you had that experience.

It’s a frustrating position to be in, and you can feel quite helpless.

In my experience, it’s less about “do only what’s asked”, and rather “say no”.

I.e. explain “I can do X, but if I do that then Y will suffer, and Y is a priority”. (Y being another company priority, or even your own mental health). Stated in these terms, it’s easier to negotiate your time with your coworkers.

New comment by croshan in "Show HN: Monogo – Evolve your go workspace to a real monorepo"

croshan — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:40:09 +0000

Go bootstraps itself (Go is compiled by Go) but Gofmt does not format itself (an even simpler job).

New comment by croshan in "Please do not attempt to simplify this code"

croshan — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 04:08:43 +0000

Nice find. I think you're right.

FWIW, I don't think the code style in [2] is less simple (slightly more readable, to use `if (X) {} else {}` rather than `if (!X) {} else {}`, for example).

So to me, this reads as the author of [1] is just overcorrecting by adding process, when some test cases or code review would've been more helpful in preventing whatever incident [2] caused.

New comment by croshan in "Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years"

croshan — Fri, 10 May 2024 18:01:55 +0000

Stay tuned! We’re building this out soon. :)

Men's waistbands have risen and fallen through history

croshan — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:52:18 +0000

Article URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8487106.stm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091769

Points: 2

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How I made my water filtering bowls and started Pratt ceramics

croshan — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:46:00 +0000

Article URL: https://prattceramics.com/blogs/news/how-made-my-water-filtering-bowls-and-started-pratt-cermics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39717028

Points: 2

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I got shocked in the bathtub so you don't have to

croshan — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:35:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2019/07/31/you-really-can-get-shocked-bathing-during-lightning-storm-brittany-crocker/1813023001/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39556139

Points: 1

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Basal Metabolic Rate

croshan — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:45:48 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39296385

Points: 1

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Query your Gmail account by hand using IMAP

croshan — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 04:34:32 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cyrusroshan.com/post/query-imap-by-hand

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39212749

Points: 4

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Building a Network Stack for Our Browser Extension

croshan — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:35:39 +0000

Article URL: https://jam.dev/blog/building-a-network-stack-for-our-browser-extension/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205037

Points: 5

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New comment by croshan in "Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services"

croshan — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 03:50:15 +0000

real users have more CPU than a literal toaster (or smart air fryer, or IP camera, or many other common botnet devices)

New comment by croshan in "Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age"

croshan — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 17:02:01 +0000

Exactly. I know if medication were to be developed, checking "are GDF15 levels significantly lowered" would be part of the trials.

But how often does the medication development process check the result we care about: "does this medication then go on to reduce the chance of dementia?"

My first 5 weeks switching from Engineering to Product Management

croshan — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:44:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cyrusroshan.com/post/first-weeks-being-pm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36724721

Points: 8

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New comment by croshan in "If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython"

croshan — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 16:50:21 +0000

Posting a Wikipedia link without commentary or context is essentially a text meme. It doesn’t invite discussion.

What are you trying to say?

(Not that I disagree with your point, but it’s unclear.)

New comment by croshan in "Where in the USA is this?"

croshan — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 23:19:10 +0000

You’re both right—a better world emerges, when we each look towards ourselves to solve the problems we see.