Hacker News: rlio

New comment by rlio in "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales"

rlio — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:30:53 +0000

the article mentions lock contention on the global queue, but i think doesn’t mention the other problem with a fixed size global queue: a single slow reader on one channel can block all writes to all channels. (at least this was a failure mode a few years ago! perhaps it’s changed since i last looked)

Every map is wrong, but we made one anyway: an interview with Kyle Kingsbury [video]

rlio — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:40:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xh4kuRa_Rc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211542

Points: 1

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New comment by rlio in "Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability"

rlio — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:28:15 +0000

I interned there a decade ago and still have 1TB free from that; I would have switched away a LONG time ago if not for that. I hate how sending anybody a link spams them with a million pop ups, i think the intrusive ads almost make it seem like they need a dropbox account to view my file. Sending files to my friends is embarrassing, sending files to my grandparents impossible.

New comment by rlio in "<3 Deno"

rlio — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:24:50 +0000

If you work a company with a large monorepo, you often want to vendor all third party dependencies in the tree — you don’t want the build of this massive repo to be down because one of the five package managers it depends on is down. And if there’s a single vendor folder used by all projects, you’re certain that all parts of the tree are using the same version of the external dependency.

Mortalitab–replace your new tab page with a personal reminder that you will die.

rlio — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:42:14 +0000

Article URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mortalitab/adipogapgippjdckceoenmlkkhalpooe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7508529

Points: 1

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New comment by rlio in "Linking to any web page on this Web site is prohibited"

rlio — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 23:01:50 +0000

The relevent text, for the lazy:

> We have a no-tolerance policy regarding the use of our trademarks or names (e.g., of Victoria's Secret, Victoria's Secret Pink, or Pink Nation) in metatags and/or hidden text. Specifically, the use of our trademarks or names in metatag keywords is trademark infringement, and the use of trademarks or names in page text, metatags, and/or hidden text for purposes of gaining higher rankings from search engines is unfair competition. Linking to any web page on this Web site is prohibited absent our express written permission. Associating or juxtaposing our Web site or its Materials (e.g., through framing or inline linking) with advertisements and/or other information not originating from our Web site is expressly prohibited.

New comment by rlio in "How a dad entrepreneur increased revenue by 95%"

rlio — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:03:52 +0000

"The result? Almost 95% of his revenue comes from this suburb."

Maybe I'm just missing something, but wouldn't that be a 1900% increase?