Hacker News: rciorba

New comment by rciorba in "Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency"

rciorba — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:05:50 +0000

This is not in-kernel eBPF, this is a userspace eNPF runtime, so I don't see why it would pass fewer boundaries

New comment by rciorba in "Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole"

rciorba — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:32:55 +0000

Because it's an implementation detail, not a change to the language itself. Similarly, when they re-implemented the dict type to preserve insert order, they also introduced it without a pep, because it was a side-effect of an implementation detail. Only later they decided people are so likely to depend on this, that they formalized it through a PEP.

New comment by rciorba in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

rciorba — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:16:06 +0000

I read the first Dune books in Romanian, then re-read the first one in English, and I was amazed at how nice the translation was. I actually prefer it to the original. For example, stillsuit sounds really basic, but distrai, a portmanteau of "a distila" (to distil) and "strai" (old word for clothes) lands differently for me.

New comment by rciorba in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

rciorba — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:59:51 +0000

And the Galaxy S5 that came after it, still had a replaceable battery while being waterproof.

New comment by rciorba in "What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state"

rciorba — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:06:01 +0000

I mean, the "one-queue per consumer" they eventually ended up with, is basically an inbox that the sequential process reads from.

New comment by rciorba in "Why Romania excels in international Olympiads"

rciorba — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:54:35 +0000

Fair enough, this is a sign of clear progress for Eastern Europe.

New comment by rciorba in "Why Romania excels in international Olympiads"

rciorba — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:48:22 +0000

> And the migration exists in the other direction, you'll be amazed by how many French dentists are studying in Romania.

Those people don't really plan to stay in Romania. They intend to get their degrees then move back to Western Europe. Hell, most of my former high-school colleagues who became doctors or dentists, emigrated to Western Europe.

New comment by rciorba in "A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021)"

rciorba — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:59:51 +0000

In Germany you can sometimes find it at Turkish grocery stores. I grew up eating it every autumn. It's still common in my part of Romania.

New comment by rciorba in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

rciorba — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:31:23 +0000

Firefox has such a small slice of the browser market, that I doubt Google will bother.

New comment by rciorba in "Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki"

rciorba — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:26:37 +0000

Just tried it for German. The cards gave me the word without their article. Because grammatical gender is so important and impacts so many aspects (adjectives, case markers, etc), you really should learn the word with the article, otherwise you'll be in a world of pain later.

New comment by rciorba in "The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day"

rciorba — Thu, 09 May 2024 12:36:26 +0000

The seasonality is not an exception. It's not a case of "just this once". It's a well understood thing of "every year, before the tax deadline we have crunch-time, so don't plan on going on holiday in that time". The repeated, unplanned, "just this once" exceptions are a whole different thing.

New comment by rciorba in "Transforming of Communist-era apartment blocks that dominate Eastern Europe"

rciorba — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 06:22:44 +0000

I have lived in several commie block apartments over the 30 some years I lived in Romania, and in every single one every radiator had a manual valve I could use to regulate temperature.

New comment by rciorba in "Neat Parallel Output in Python"

rciorba — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 11:01:32 +0000

Having the workers acquire the lock and update the terminal themselves seems like it would cause lock contention.

An alternative would be to have only the main process do the updating and have the workers message it about progress, using a queue.

New comment by rciorba in "23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached"

rciorba — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:46:59 +0000

if you choose to share data with Bob, you have to accept the consequences of Bob being sloppy with your data

New comment by rciorba in "COP28: Countries launch declaration to triple nuclear energy by 2050"

rciorba — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 08:26:38 +0000

CANDU reactors use un-enriched Uranium. Technology exists, and has been in use for half a century.

New comment by rciorba in "Ask HN: What's your choice for the classic web app stack?"

rciorba — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 23:04:22 +0000

It really depends on the use-case. Async Python is nice for IO-heavy APIs If CPU-heavy workloads are likely, I'd probably look into using go.

In terms of FE, it really depends on the skill-set in the team. I went for Vue over React when we had to have a bunch of backenders whip up a FE simply because it's more opinionated and we didn't want to have to make as many choices when getting started. Also, just rendering HTML on the server side can still get you a long way

For the DB, again, it depends on your use case and what your data-model looks like, but I think a relational DB like postgres is a safe choice 99% of the time. You might need to couple it with something else on occasion (I've reached for elasticsearch more times than I can count)

New comment by rciorba in "Uber's Still Not Profitable"

rciorba — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 08:41:36 +0000

And even before apps became common-place, in Europe it was common to call a dispatch and ask for a cab at an address.

New comment by rciorba in "Why are some egg yolks so orange?"

rciorba — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 13:53:10 +0000

I've ordered from such a place in Munich. The novelty factor made it entertaining to watch and at some point I could identify my order being prepared. Not sure how many people you could deceive before you start to get called out, if the feed was of a different kitchen

New comment by rciorba in "The new dot com bubble is online advertising (2019)"

rciorba — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 10:17:22 +0000

that deal is (was?) only available in few parts of the world, sadly

New comment by rciorba in "uBlock Origin review"

rciorba — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 15:02:26 +0000

Brilliant!