Hacker News: random42

New comment by random42 in "GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP"

random42 — Wed, 28 May 2025 06:23:14 +0000

But… there is no S in MCP

New comment by random42 in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

random42 — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:58:35 +0000

How do you define a unit of work for your purposes?

New comment by random42 in "India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir"

random42 — Wed, 07 May 2025 06:41:18 +0000

It’s not a proxy war. Not every world event is about the US.

Source: I am an Indian.

New comment by random42 in "DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language"

random42 — Wed, 07 May 2025 06:28:42 +0000

1. Generate a story.

2. Make it available for all (major) languages.

3. Profit!

Also, integrate with captcha + rate limit to prevent abuse. Authentication alone is not strong enough deterrent to a motivated adversary.

New comment by random42 in "Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library"

random42 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:51:07 +0000

They are not "ripping" off other's work. The animations are created by the OP. There is nothing wrong in getting inspired by great ideas.

lol, Do you believe every idea you have is entirely original? Also, whats with the hell speak? grow up.

New comment by random42 in "Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library"

random42 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:10:28 +0000

It’s such a hateful and mean comment. OP, please ignore this.

If you want to spend time building your own library, like OP has , and release it , god speed — that is if you can. In the meanwhile, OP actually spent energy to build and launch something, which is commendable.

New comment by random42 in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

random42 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:53:51 +0000

I am currently at the same place, with no reasonable place out. How did you solve it?

New comment by random42 in "Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE"

random42 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:17:35 +0000

You mean "posterity", not "prosperity" :)

New comment by random42 in "My Time Working at Stripe"

random42 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:57:32 +0000

Making high performance teams is part of their job description though, and there is research to indicate that teams with strong social bonds perform better.

New comment by random42 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

random42 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:10:15 +0000

Oh wow! this is _exactly_ I was looking for (and still am) a couple of days ago. Please let us know once its ready.

New comment by random42 in "Ask HN: How do I stop being obsessed with software architecture?"

random42 — Thu, 30 May 2024 19:10:29 +0000

Get a job where you are being paid to obsess over software architecture.

New comment by random42 in "Show HN: A fast HNSW implementation in Rust"

random42 — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:24:45 +0000

Great job shipping. The README / repo however could definitely benefit with a benchmarking report in them.

New comment by random42 in "Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless programmer in the winter (AB, Canada)?"

random42 — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 23:53:50 +0000

What kind of red flags?

New comment by random42 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2024)"

random42 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:28:23 +0000

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I specialize in, Backend/Python development — POCs, rapid prototypes, load/performance testing etc.

    Server side/DB performance optimizations & design to scale.

    Big Data consulting — Hadoop Ecosystem + Cassandra. Have evaluated Mongo, Couchbase, Riak, DynamoDB, EMR and redshift as well for client requirements. 

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New comment by random42 in "IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023"

random42 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:57:38 +0000

funny?

New comment by random42 in "LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud"

random42 — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 18:48:00 +0000

> this is Microsoft porting their LinkedIn service from whatever servers came along with LinkedIn, to their own servers

Nope, LinkedIn executes completely independently.

New comment by random42 in "Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?"

random42 — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 12:44:28 +0000

I left my job in July, and took a bit of break to introspect, focus on my health, spend time taking care of my family members, did a few investments, read up a lot and figuring out what I want to do next.

I have just started to talk to people wrt to different jobs, although I am not sure I want to take up another job. will figure it out in due time.

New comment by random42 in "Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce"

random42 — Tue, 05 May 2020 20:04:27 +0000

Such an odd 'I told you so' comment in a thread about thousands losing their livelihood.

New comment by random42 in "Engineering code quality in Firefox"

random42 — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:34:02 +0000

No need to get nasty.

You don't know him at all, apart from a short anecdotal incident, where even OP does not portray him in a bad light.

New comment by random42 in "Tell HN: Launch HN Test"

random42 — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:18:00 +0000

> That can't be right though.

Unsolicited advice, but please don't have this mindset towards system failure. More things go wrong than you anticipate.