Hacker News: kondu

New comment by kondu in "Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf]"

kondu — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:49:26 +0000

John Hughes is also one of the investors of property based testing

New comment by kondu in "Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files"

kondu — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:02:10 +0000

Docker containers aren't safe enough to run untrusted code, there are privilege escalation vulnerabilities reported fairly often.

New comment by kondu in "The death of partying in the USA"

kondu — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:41:25 +0000

How much of that is because of the difference in how severely the legal/policing systems punish this kind of harmless activity now vs back then?

New comment by kondu in "OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D"

kondu — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:17:36 +0000

This is not true. There's a TCS of 20%, which is an advance tax payment that you can claim back in your income tax returns at the end of the year, and it not an additional tax. This is just a (bad) mechanism to stop black money from leaving the country.

New comment by kondu in "Changes to the Kubernetes Slack"

kondu — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:17:26 +0000

I'm sure they considered hosting matrix or zulip, I wonder what the estimated monthly cost of that would be for a community of their size

New comment by kondu in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

kondu — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:11:21 +0000

The worst thing about LLMs getting commoditized and becoming cheaper is seeing slop like this pollute every meaningful discussion on the internet

New comment by kondu in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

kondu — Mon, 12 May 2025 07:42:11 +0000

I'd love to try it, could you please share an invite? My email is on my profile page.

Tim Tang Test – The Longest and Hardest Online Puzzle in the World

kondu — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 02:58:21 +0000

Article URL: http://www.timtang.com/ttt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41892547

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kondu in "Airport security line cutters are target of first-in-the-nation California bill"

kondu — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:12:36 +0000

That's $800 for a family of 4. With the median household income at under $80,000, it's ridiculous to think the average person can afford to spend that much just to skip a line a couple times a year.

New comment by kondu in "The roots of Japan's Indian curry"

kondu — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 10:17:31 +0000

You seem to have missed the obvious Tharakaari (the Kannada word for vegetables)?

New comment by kondu in "Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?"

kondu — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 19:17:52 +0000

Unfortunately, you don't always know if on-call will be involved until you start at the job. Often many companies don't even hire you with a particular role in mind, instead you are matched to a team after you're signed on. (Especially for new grads). And sometimes on-call is introduced in an existing role, it can be difficult to refuse, especially for people in more junior roles.

But definitely ask about on-call when interviewing, in case they say they have it you can bail out before you sign.

New comment by kondu in "Ask HN: What is your current side-project?"

kondu — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 05:41:01 +0000

Hey, I used one of those vaccine booking projects to get my own shot in India, and it made use of kvdb.io. great work!

New comment by kondu in "Launch Your App: Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)"

kondu — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:55:44 +0000

Perhaps you're talking about jpackage - https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/392

New comment by kondu in "Show HN: Skruv – No-dependency, no-build, small JavaScript framework"

kondu — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:21:27 +0000

What's your opinion on svelte?

New comment by kondu in "Death by 1k Tabs: Confessions of a Tab Hoarder"

kondu — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:46:38 +0000

A tab retains the history (could hit back and go to the page that led me there), a booknark does not.

New comment by kondu in "Architecture.md"

kondu — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 20:16:52 +0000

That sounds a bit excessive. If your project is going through a lot of changes and refactoring, the multiple architecture.md files will be hard to keep up-to-date

New comment by kondu in "Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?"

kondu — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:42:18 +0000

Do you mind telling us which one each was?

New comment by kondu in "Signal WhatsApp Chats Import"

kondu — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:22:14 +0000

You were partially correct: wechat is big in China, Whatsapp is big in the Indian subcontinent

New comment by kondu in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?"

kondu — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 08:35:47 +0000

Care to elaborate on your second point? Doesn't really seem to have been forgotten cries in spring

New comment by kondu in "Controversial Programming Opinions (2012)"

kondu — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 01:19:49 +0000

Thankfully, plugins like Lombok partially solve this issue - while we still have unnecessary accessors, atleast they don't pollute the source code and make it hard to read and navigate.