Hacker News: kchoudhu

New comment by kchoudhu in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

kchoudhu — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:17:38 +0000

What valuation is this at?

New comment by kchoudhu in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

kchoudhu — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:32:57 +0000

What will they be reinventing from scratch for no reason?

New comment by kchoudhu in "The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed"

kchoudhu — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:22:33 +0000

It's the only book they've read, most likely.

New comment by kchoudhu in "OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel"

kchoudhu — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:02:40 +0000

I cannot believe it can be too hard to write something that takes the output of dtrace and shoves it into a span collector.

New comment by kchoudhu in "OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel"

kchoudhu — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:16:37 +0000

We should be using USDTs to emit trace ids that can be consumed by dtrace and shoved into whatever backend we want for tracing.

New comment by kchoudhu in "OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel"

kchoudhu — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:02:21 +0000

There is very much an alternative. Looking at the execution of your code should never alter its fundamental performance the way otel is built to do. This was a solved problem at least a decade and a half ago, but the cool kids decided to reinvent the wheel, poorly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45845889

New comment by kchoudhu in "OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel"

kchoudhu — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:59:59 +0000

OpenTelemetry won observability mindshare, but it is entirely the wrong architectural choice: by buying into its ethos your code is held hostage by the least stable otel monitoring library for your dependencies.

Sadly, there was always an alternative that no one took: dtrace. Add USDTs to your code and then monitor progress by instrumenting it externally, sending the resulting traces to wherever you want. My sincere hope is that the renewed interest in ebpf makes this a reality soon: I never want to have to do another from opentelemetry. import ever again.

New comment by kchoudhu in "Swift on FreeBSD Preview"

kchoudhu — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:07:03 +0000

I'm not complaining, but also why?

New comment by kchoudhu in "The profitable startup"

kchoudhu — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:25:12 +0000

Businesses

New comment by kchoudhu in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

kchoudhu — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:05:25 +0000

It's still a leveraged buyout.

New comment by kchoudhu in "Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? – The Old New Thing"

kchoudhu — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 13:54:49 +0000

Given how awful performance on my Windows desktop is, I am shocked that Microsoft is still investing in performance.

New comment by kchoudhu in "Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance"

kchoudhu — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:33:59 +0000

Perfect.

New comment by kchoudhu in "Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance"

kchoudhu — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:36:06 +0000

Can someone please write a '"considered harmful" considered harmful' piece.

New comment by kchoudhu in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

kchoudhu — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:57:27 +0000

Personally naturalized via marriage a long time ago but the birthplace/nationality arb is super interesting!

New comment by kchoudhu in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

kchoudhu — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:54:58 +0000

Wait -- is it country of birth or country of citizenship? If I was born in Switzerland but held a Bangladeshi passport could I possibly use the former's priority queue?

New comment by kchoudhu in "Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs"

kchoudhu — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:37:32 +0000

The hedge fund effect.

New comment by kchoudhu in "Github.com added to URLHaus malware database"

kchoudhu — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:01:52 +0000

Well, that explains why I couldn't diff across forks.

New comment by kchoudhu in "Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral"

kchoudhu — Fri, 02 May 2025 05:48:12 +0000

After hours market prices aren't indicative. I'd wait until tomorrow mroning to see what happens.

New comment by kchoudhu in "Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4"

kchoudhu — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:32:43 +0000

I've suspected that there are consistency issues on RDS for a while now: if you push large quantities of data (e.g. 1MM+ rows) into a database quickly and then try to read the same data out on another connection, you'll periodically get null return sets.

We've worked around it by not touching the hot stove, but it's kind of worrying that there are consistency issues with it.

New comment by kchoudhu in "I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil (2015)"

kchoudhu — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:52:13 +0000

As good as the DailyWTF story is, it's not real. Coal is unfortunately cash settled.

Even oil, which is physically delivered settles physically in discrete locations. It would be pretty funny if someone delivered tankers full of oil to your office though lol.