Hacker News: just_mc

New comment by just_mc in "The Fatal Flaw of 911"

just_mc — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:36:53 +0000

This is the correct answer.

New comment by just_mc in "U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues"

just_mc — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:27:56 +0000

US Treasuries happen to be a significant part of many peoples retirement savings. So I think your hot take is pretty uninformed.

New comment by just_mc in "India's surprise baby bust"

just_mc — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:03:44 +0000

> A lot of the decrease is also correlated with access to birth control which drastically reduced accidental pregnancies which were a decent amount of the fertility rate

This was my first intuition.

New comment by just_mc in "SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB"

just_mc — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:14:55 +0000

Its interesting, especially the size for edge applications. That being said, for something thats been worked on for two weeks by one person, you are going to have to bring a LOT of data and architectural explanation to convince folks this is better than DuckDB in any way. For example, where are the TPC and LDBC benchmarks?

New comment by just_mc in "List, inspect and explore OCI container images, their layers and contents"

just_mc — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:54:29 +0000

Dive is a very nice tool. I've been using it for years.

New comment by just_mc in "Mirror-bridge – Making Python bindings frictionless"

just_mc — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:28:45 +0000

This looks very exciting. I have a NodeJS binding I've been contemplating using SWIG. This appears to be much more straight forward. Looking forward to trying it out.

New comment by just_mc in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

just_mc — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:59:38 +0000

I guess you aren't married. Lol.

New comment by just_mc in "C++ implementation of SIP, ICE, TURN and related protocols"

just_mc — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:15:50 +0000

Robust and mature SIP stacks which are still maintained are a rarity these days. I was pleasantly surprised recently to learn just how well this very mature library is being maintained. It seems like a great deal of effort has been invested to keep both the code and feature set relevant and up to date. Kudos to the maintainer.

Most other open source SIP stacks available either don't have the feature depth and breadth required for a serious SIP project: are only usable from a specific programming language, have been long abandoned, or have impermissive licenses.

New comment by just_mc in "Heartbeats in Distributed Systems"

just_mc — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:18:00 +0000

You have to consider the tail latencies of the system responding plus the network in between. The p99 is typically much higher than the average. Also, may have to account for GC as was mentioned in the article. 500ms gets used up pretty fast.

New comment by just_mc in "Heartbeats in Distributed Systems"

just_mc — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:14:00 +0000

Check out SWIM and its extensions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIM_Protocol https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00788

New comment by just_mc in "Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?"

just_mc — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:03:24 +0000

We are using Lit and MobX for a very complex real time communication and collaboration application. It is very simple and we have not had any issues with performance or flexibility.

New comment by just_mc in "Being blocked from contributing to lodash"

just_mc — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:37:20 +0000

I see a lot of folks complain about not getting help on OSS projects; I also see a lot of people turning a blind eye to people trying to help (however naively it may be). It's an intesting dichotomy.

New comment by just_mc in "VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong"

just_mc — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:18:18 +0000

Check out Harvester: https://harvesterhci.io/

New comment by just_mc in "Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]"

just_mc — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:46:21 +0000

What you've done is awesome. Ignore the haters and build your mosquito scope.

New comment by just_mc in "The Deno Standard Library"

just_mc — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:16:44 +0000

Had no idea they were targeting the browser environment with the Deno standard lib. I've been thinking about how cool that would be for a while.

New comment by just_mc in "The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)"

just_mc — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 11:34:43 +0000

100%. Very insightful.

Follow the money.

I used to be a huge news junky. After a while I realized it's all designed as entertainment to drive ad revenue. Gave it up and I've been happier ever since.

New comment by just_mc in "Use context-free grammars instead of parser combinators and PEG"

just_mc — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:31:02 +0000

Well said.

New comment by just_mc in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)"

just_mc — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:26:21 +0000

Ryzyliant | Remote (US) or Onsite (Birmingham, AL) | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | https://ryzyliant.com

Our mission is to save lives by streamlining the 911 emergency response workflow.

Ryzyliant provides solutions for 911 Call Centers (PSAPs) in the United States. Existing PSAP solutions in the US are generally comprised of very poorly integrated systems from several different vendors all of which must be used in parallel to complete the emergency dispatch process. Imagine having your IDE on one computer, your email client on another and your browser on yet another and there is an emergency in progress; this is the work environment of dispatch operators in the US. Our mission at Ryzyliant is to provide a unified and streamlined tool that is designed to facilitate the end to end workflow of the dispatch operator, speeding dispatch operations and reducing errors.

We are using leading edge local-first browser applications to provide the benefits of the cloud with the stand-alone survivability of traditional on-premise solutions.

We are seeking one or more Senior Developers who have some or all of the following skills:

  - Advanced TypeScript
  - Design patterns and best practices for TypeScript/JavaScript
  - Object-Oriented Design
  - Automated testing (Vitest)

Specific skill which are nice to have:

  - Communications Technologies (WebRTC, SIP, RTC, WebAudio)
  - Web Mapping / GIS
  - Progressive Web Applications and/or Web Workers
  - Browser Local Persistence (eg. IndexedDB, Origin Private File System)

Ryzyliant offers the following benefits:

  - Flextime and Remote work
  - Early-Stage Equity
  - Two Weeks Vacation

Find more details in the link below.

Apply Here: https://ryzyliant.com/careers/

Email: jobs at ryzyliant dot com

New comment by just_mc in "Swedish higher court rejects Tesla's appeal to release license plates"

just_mc — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 13:28:25 +0000

What happens when Tesla decides to have the cars go on strike? /lol

New comment by just_mc in "Quint: A specification language based on the temporal logic of actions (TLA)"

just_mc — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:36:15 +0000

This looks really nice. It's the first thing I have seen that appears to be approachable from a developer's perspective.