Hacker News: kapilvt

New comment by kapilvt in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

kapilvt — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:22:51 +0000

Assuming the Qualcomm ARM lawsuits are what’s preventing the AArch64 debut…

New comment by kapilvt in "Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team"

kapilvt — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:39:42 +0000

Sphinx does have markdown support fwiw

New comment by kapilvt in "What’s on offer at a luxury Bay Area longevity clinic"

kapilvt — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:12:00 +0000

blood test cancer screening (free form dna), provides most of the benefits at a fraction of the costs.

New comment by kapilvt in "Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust"

kapilvt — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:52:31 +0000

Docs links lead to a 403 forbidden for me https://www.ferronweb.org/docs/

New comment by kapilvt in "Case Study: ByteDance Uses eBPF to Enhance Networking Performance"

kapilvt — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:30:10 +0000

This article from isovalent introducing netkit walks through the benefits and tradeoffs

https://isovalent.com/blog/post/cilium-netkit-a-new-containe...

New comment by kapilvt in "What's New in SQLAlchemy 2.1?"

kapilvt — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:11:29 +0000

Sqlalchemy in general is great but the data class integration feels non pythonic to me, due perhaps to catering first to the typing crowd instead of the ergonomic one.

New comment by kapilvt in "Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging"

kapilvt — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:15:12 +0000

yeah. its not great, we had to build out a poetry plugin that worked for our cases to support a mono repo, https://github.com/cloud-custodian/poetry-plugin-freeze?tab=...

the uv support on workspaces (virtual and concrete) has me intrigued.

New comment by kapilvt in "Core Python developer suspended for three months"

kapilvt — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:43:04 +0000

It was a code of conduct discussion wrt to enforcement and changes to bylaws to enable that. The actual threads

https://discuss.python.org/t/for-your-consideration-proposed...

And then a public warning

https://discuss.python.org/t/inclusive-communications-expect...

New comment by kapilvt in "Faster Docker builds using a remote BuildKit instance"

kapilvt — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 02:31:39 +0000

Multiarch via qemu

New comment by kapilvt in "Syd the perhaps most sophisticated sandbox for Linux"

kapilvt — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:06:44 +0000

sort of reminds me of https://github.com/google/gvisor, re syscall interception and checking. gvisor had some significant performance impacts for io/syscall heavy workloads, but potentially seccomp/bpf could do better albeit that's mostly filtering/transform on param re more minimal touchpoint.

New comment by kapilvt in "Plausible Community Edition"

kapilvt — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:25:56 +0000

FAANG & Co won't touch AGPL, ditto for most enterprises. There are some exceptions in countries with weak IP enforcement on smaller players.

New comment by kapilvt in "Show HN: S3HyperSync – Faster S3 sync tool – iterating with up to 100k files/s"

kapilvt — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 06:16:41 +0000

For large buckets key space enumeration is a significant portion of most bulk operations, especially on a potentially non optimized key space (aka hotspots), there’s a few heuristics that can be utilized, but doing an s3 inventory allows skipping that and focusing on transfer with significantly less api calls, albeit requires bucket preparation.

New comment by kapilvt in "Python Has Too Many Package Managers"

kapilvt — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 18:45:49 +0000

fwiw, we built an oss plugin for poetry on option #3 when publishing for repeatable installs to automate translation of published wheel metadata from lock file, also supports mono repos.

https://github.com/cloud-custodian/poetry-plugin-freeze

New comment by kapilvt in "How David Sinkinson Bootstrapped AppArmor to a $40M Exit"

kapilvt — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 17:30:15 +0000

Not to be confused with Linux app armor (lsm) https://apparmor.net/

Instead this is a mobile app/ physical security thingy originating on uni campuses

New comment by kapilvt in "Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work"

kapilvt — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:39:27 +0000

Arstechnica has a solid write up. He did a lot of work making linux wifi and driver ecosystem significantly better.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-w...

I remember cursing ndis wrappers and Broadcom wifi ecosystem a long time ago, Larry helped fixed that, and mentored many others along the way.

quote from the arstechnica article "In a 2023 Quora response to someone asking if someone without "any formal training in computer science" can "contribute something substantial" to Linux, Finger writes, "I think that I have." Finger links to the stats for the 6.4 kernel, showing 172,346 lines of his code in it, roughly 0.5% of the total."

New comment by kapilvt in "AWS Chalice"

kapilvt — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:08:53 +0000

its not quite the same, roughly 60-70% of chalice code by volume is actually helping auto provision. power tools is about 70-80% code by volume is integration with other services/capabilities in aws (tracing, logging, metrics, etc). the overlap is the event routing shims/decorators.

New comment by kapilvt in "AWS Chalice"

kapilvt — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:59:33 +0000

as a previous contributor and user, I would not recommend.

as a project in the GitHub aws organization, it can not accept non amazon external maintainers.

as a project, it has a single maintainer, doing on average, an hr every few months.

as a result of both of those , its not able to keep up, or reach critical mass on community.

it has fallen fairly far behind current lambda feature set. for a simple throw away, its okay, but if you want to grow something or take advantage of new features in the underlying service capabilities or integrations, this is a dead end.

I filed this ticket a few years ago https://github.com/aws/chalice/issues/2067

New comment by kapilvt in "[dead]"

kapilvt — Thu, 30 May 2024 22:14:08 +0000

There’s been a few hacker news threads on it but now we actually have a detailed post mortem from google with real details

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-explain...

New comment by kapilvt in "Crew trapped on Baltimore ship, seven weeks after bridge collapse"

kapilvt — Wed, 15 May 2024 21:47:35 +0000

Not disagreeing but one relevant fact this article seems to leave out, that crew was not in charge of the boat at the time of the crash, which makes their situation atm a bit sad imho.

Harbor pilots were in control and navigating at the time of the crash, also don’t think they did anything wrong either. But unreliable electric systems on big ships isnt something that’s easily planned for, momentum on those things is crazy at that weight.

https://apnews.com/article/ship-pilots-baltimore-bridge-coll...

New comment by kapilvt in "Hacking on PostgreSQL is hard"

kapilvt — Thu, 02 May 2024 20:53:40 +0000

I would also note that the fix prs started landing the day after the initial commit, and other issues noted had fixes within three weeks. And of course postgresql has testing, but at universal distribution and use cases on things that will test both scheduler, network, fs, io drivers (Linux kernel, postgresql, etc, among others), some things need wider audiences or more extreme testing scenarios (SQLite for a strict subset of those considerations), and project health is measured by responding to that in a timely fashion. Afaics this is all about trunk/main, versus releases as well. So while its labeled its hard on the post (from a long time pg contributor), and yeah i might agree (cause maintainer on other software, so yeah all this resonates heavily), I’d also say its an example of things done right.

Seems like a reason to celebrate the open source model, and specifically here on how to do things better. Not to detract from universal issues for any project on maintainer availability. But, imagine a non oss database vendor with that degree of transparency or velocity, i can’t think of any that are doing anything close unless they got popped on a remote cve, aka prioritized above features or politics on a corporate dev sprint. Aka all software has bugs, it’s about how fast things are fixed, and in the context of oss imho fostering evolution among a diverse set of maintainers and use cases seems to be a better way.

As another example of that, ‘twas a PostgreSQL hacker at MS, that prevented Libxz from going wide because of caring due to perf regression and doing the analysis.