Hacker News: mad44

PolitePaxos: A New Consensus Variant Where the Proposer Just Asks Nicely

mad44 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:32:41 +0000

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/04/politepaxos-new-consensus-variant-where.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601489

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Taming LLMs: Using Executable Oracles to Prevent Bad Code

mad44 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:51:42 +0000

Article URL: https://john.regehr.org/writing/zero_dof_programming.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533555

Points: 47

# Comments: 20

Claude Code Experiment: Visualizing Hybrid Logical Clocks

mad44 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:49:07 +0000

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/03/claude-code-experiment-visualizing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442338

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by mad44 in "Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass"

mad44 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:46:13 +0000

Does anyone have any explanation or theories about the NVME SSDs pricing anomaly?

New comment by mad44 in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

mad44 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:50:12 +0000

MongoDB Engineering Blog is shaping up well

https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/channel/engineering-blo...

LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right

mad44 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:06:05 +0000

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/12/leaseguard-raft-leases-done-right.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327307

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mad44 in "Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]"

mad44 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:20:46 +0000

I had summarized this talk here: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2020/01/how-to-speak-by-pa...

And a couple more pearls from Prof. Winston here as well. https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/search?q=winston

New comment by mad44 in "Ask HN: Stanford CS 153 help"

mad44 — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:38:32 +0000

Also Mahesh Balakrishnan (Yale, Facebook/Meta, Confluent) https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/search?q=mahesh

New comment by mad44 in "Ask HN: Stanford CS 153 help"

mad44 — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 02:20:47 +0000

Marc Brooker @mjb https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mjb

TLA from First Principles

mad44 — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:59:02 +0000

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/tla-from-first-principles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41916896

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mad44 in "Emacs 2011-2023"

mad44 — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 21:34:09 +0000

I was also unhappy with emacs breaking across versions, but I learnt to adopt to the new and sane keyboard shortcuts for org mode. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2024/01/dude-wheres-my-emac...

Best of 2023 in MuratBuffalo Distributed/Database Systems Blog

mad44 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:23:13 +0000

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2023/12/best-of-metadata-in-2023.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38600868

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mad44 in "How to Read a Paper [pdf]"

mad44 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:52:48 +0000

How I read a research paper https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-i-read-researc...

Epoxy: Acid Transactions Across Diverse Data Stores (VLDB'23)

mad44 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:16:48 +0000

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2023/11/epoxy-acid-transactions-across-diverse.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38278352

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mad44 in "Slack: Our biggest redesign yet came to be"

mad44 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:31:48 +0000

It makes working across other slack workspaces inconvenient by adding another click to select another workspace.

New comment by mad44 in "Slack: Our biggest redesign yet came to be"

mad44 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:29:18 +0000

Yes, the redesign sucks, it is hard to use.

Hints for Distributed Systems Design (2023)

mad44 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:00:12 +0000

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2023/10/hints-for-distributed-systems-design.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37738230

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

How I Learn a Technical Subject

mad44 — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:41:10 +0000

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/12/learning-technical-subject.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37262965

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mad44 in "Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek"

mad44 — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:43:48 +0000

I had written this in 2014 as a short introduction to Dijkstra's EWD notes. https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/09/revisiting-ewds.ht...

Detock: High Performance Multi-Region Transactions at Scale (Sigmod 2023)

mad44 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:36:20 +0000

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2023/07/detock-high-performance-multi-region.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36716335

Points: 4

# Comments: 0