Hacker News: rganesan

New comment by rganesan in "Ask HN: Cheapest way to host a back end"

rganesan — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:19:08 +0000

Have you looked at Amazon Lightsail? It's relatively cheap if you don't need a lot of scale, compared to other cheap alternative. Oracle free tier is another option.

New comment by rganesan in "Beej's Guide to Git"

rganesan — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:38:49 +0000

This is a repost but I highly recommend this guide. It's a very readable and fast paced intro to git.

New comment by rganesan in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)"

rganesan — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:17:24 +0000

Arista Networks | Software Engineer | Hybrid (Dublin, Ireland) / Remote (many EU countries) | Fulltime

Arista Networks has multiple open positions the following roles which require C++/python systems programming experience on Linux:

https://www.smartrecruiters.com/AristaNetworks/7440000010863...

https://www.smartrecruiters.com/AristaNetworks/7440000434896...

https://www.smartrecruiters.com/AristaNetworks/7440000432106...

We also have one open position for a k8s systems engineer:

https://www.smartrecruiters.com/AristaNetworks/7440000432176...

Please mention you saw the openings on HackerRank when applying. You'll find more open positions in our Careers page.

New comment by rganesan in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

rganesan — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:06:03 +0000

zig is coming along quite nicely. If you've not heard about zig, take a look at https://ghostty.org/ (a terminal for Linux/Mac and Windows in future), https://tigerbeetle.com (a database for financial accounting) and http://bun.sh (a modern, faster alternative to nodejs).

New comment by rganesan in "Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia"

rganesan — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 17:24:18 +0000

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-d... :-)

New comment by rganesan in "Ask HN: What is your default notes app?"

rganesan — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:47:12 +0000

1. org-mode. Why? Text based. For org-mode, I just sync the notes across using syncthing. Also WhatsApp for transient notes like a shopping list.

2. Nope.

3. Productivity? It's a tool and it works well, that's all I care.

4. I haven't given it much thought.

5. Rarely.

New comment by rganesan in "Ask HN: How is your job search going?"

rganesan — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:57:38 +0000

My wife has been looking for a Javascript/React developer role for the last 6+ months in London with no luck. Not even a single interview call. We relocated from India to the UK for my job. She has 5+ years react experience in a startup in the business analytics space. She also has some backend experience in python, springboot, postgresql etc. She's comfortable in a Linux development environment.

I thought getting a web developer job in London should be easy because like everyone needs a web developer, right? But it's shocking to see rejections after rejections just at a resume level, even for a position in a company in a similar business analytics domain :-(.

New comment by rganesan in "What was the Golden Age of Antibiotics, and how can we spark a new one?"

rganesan — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:51:26 +0000

I posted to HN an article about 3 new antibiotics discovered in India and it didn't get much attention :-(.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80vrjkkrero

Dtrace.conf(24) Kris Van Hees – eBPF and DTrace [video]

rganesan — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:47:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMOmaWQ18d4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42492889

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rganesan in "Three New Antibiotics from India"

rganesan — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:34:17 +0000

I am surprised this isn't getting wider attention. With increasing antibiotic resistance (granted India is contributing significantly to this), I would have expected three brand new antibiotics would be a big deal. Especially since everyone bemoans that big pharma doesn't invest in discovering new antibiotics.

Three New Antibiotics from India

rganesan — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:25:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80vrjkkrero

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42389391

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by rganesan in "Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases?"

rganesan — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:21:35 +0000

Xbox with Kinect. I was impressed by the original Wii and thought, hey, kinect can do it with bare hands. It didn't work all that well and I am not much of a gamer, so the whole thing was a waste. To top it off I even bought a spare controller because it was available for sale on Prime day and didn't even open the box!

New comment by rganesan in "Dtrace for Linux Based on BPF"

rganesan — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:26:10 +0000

Available under a OSS compliant license (https://opensource.org/license/UPL), it's a shame that this completely user space implementation based on BPF hasn't got wider attention. Looking at the activity on dtrace-devel it seems like it's actively maintained by a team of dedicated developers.

The Linux "native" alternative bpftrace is fantastic but it's not practical to use it in an embedded environment because it pulls in llvm-libs.

Dtrace for Linux Based on BPF

rganesan — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:23:03 +0000

Article URL: https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/dtrace-devel/2024-July/004952.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42247027

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by rganesan in "How the ZX Spectrum became a 1980s icon"

rganesan — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:29:37 +0000

I had ZX Spectrum+ which I think had a much better keyboard. I never used the original ZX Spectrum with rubber keys, so I can't really compare.

New comment by rganesan in "59% of 18-25 year olds in the United States are overweight or obese"

rganesan — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 04:23:53 +0000

10% Human book Alanna Collen is worth a read (https://www.harpercollins.com/products/10-human-alanna-colle...). The theory is that our gut microbiome has a lot do with obesity than we realize. It explores various factors from excessive use of antibiotics to lack of fibre in the diet and a lot more.

New comment by rganesan in "Ask HN: Are job referrals worthless now?"

rganesan — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 03:59:46 +0000

In my company a strong referral certainly carries a lot of weight. There is however a big difference between a casual referral (as in, I barely know this guy but he reached out to me) vs a strong referral (as in, I've worked with him and will vouch for him and I would like him on the team).

New comment by rganesan in "Best books, courses to learn fundamental concepts on Operating Systems?"

rganesan — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 08:13:32 +0000

Though a bit dated, I highly recommend "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD operating System". I have read several operating systems book classics including the book by Silbershatz and Galvin that you referred to and "Unix Internals" by Maurice Bach and the "Magic Garden Explained". I found the Design and Implementation of the BSD operating system much more readable and getting into details at just the right level.

New comment by rganesan in "Ask HN: What is the most enlightening concept that changed how you program?"

rganesan — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 05:53:25 +0000

I'm a grumpy old programmer now but one of the early enlightening concepts I learnt was recursion and how it applied to so many problems. As the saying goes, "To understand recursion, you have to first understand recursion" :-).

New comment by rganesan in "Netflix End of Series 1"

rganesan — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 14:08:24 +0000

I've followed you awesome work on Linux performance tuning over the years. All the best for whatever you're doing next and I hope it ends up in another book for us mere mortals to read :-).