Hacker News: rishabhjajoriya

New comment by rishabhjajoriya in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

rishabhjajoriya — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:23:35 +0000

The silent password was always a UX decision more than a security one sincee it avoided confusing new users who'd think their keyboard stopped working. removin it makes sense now that linux desktop users are generally more technical than in 1979. I still dream when will macOS people fix their login screen.

New comment by rishabhjajoriya in "How we give every user SQL access to a shared ClickHouse cluster"

rishabhjajoriya — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:14:56 +0000

Curious howw you handle a user who accidentally writes a query that does a full table scan across billions of rows does the quota kick in fast enough or have you had cases where it still causes noticeable impact on other tenants?

New comment by rishabhjajoriya in "ifttt-lint – Google's internal IfThisThenThat linter, reimplemented in Rust"

rishabhjajoriya — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:07:08 +0000

Internal tools like this are always interesting. Once workflows scale, even small inconsistencies can cause a lot of hidden friction in pipelines.

New comment by rishabhjajoriya in "Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP: SCION"

rishabhjajoriya — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:06:32 +0000

BGP has always felt fragile given how critical it is. Interesting to see alternatives like SCION getting real-world traction, especially from a security standpoint.

New comment by rishabhjajoriya in "Morgan Stanley: Running Flux on 500 clusters with 100k+ containers"

rishabhjajoriya — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:06:00 +0000

At that scale, even small inefficiencies can compound quickly. Curious how they track reliability issues across deployments, especially transient failures that don’t always show up clearly in logs.

New comment by rishabhjajoriya in "Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs"

rishabhjajoriya — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:24:52 +0000

Collaborative editing looks deceptively simple until you deal with real-world concurrency and network issues. Operational transforms and CRDTs both introduce their own tradeoffs.

New comment by rishabhjajoriya in "Meta’s Renewed Commitment to jemalloc"

rishabhjajoriya — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:23:04 +0000

Large engineering orgs often underestimate how much CI pipelines amplify performance issues. Even small inefficiencies multiply when builds run hundreds of times a day.

New comment by rishabhjajoriya in "//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner"

rishabhjajoriya — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:53:40 +0000

That was quite insightful read