Hacker News: rrdharan

New comment by rrdharan in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

rrdharan — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:11:39 +0000

Both Redis (finally) and Valkey addressed the multithreading scalability issues, see https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-01-21-redis-vs-memcache... and/or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43860273...

New comment by rrdharan in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

rrdharan — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:46:50 +0000

I don't follow this logic.

Forget about dating. If you want the AI to be able to send texts from your number, and you own an iPhone, I think your only other choice would be to port your number to Google Voice?

New comment by rrdharan in "Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones"

rrdharan — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:19:38 +0000

This is often repeated but false - it’s not the vast majority, nor even a majority.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/19/bank-of-america-nearly-half-...

New comment by rrdharan in "Software engineers should be a little bit cynical"

rrdharan — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:40:58 +0000

GitHub is owned by Microsoft which covers most of what GP is alluding to…

New comment by rrdharan in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

rrdharan — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:39:58 +0000

No, there actually aren’t. People just assume there are but the majority of desperate people turn to the barter system before crypto helps them.

New comment by rrdharan in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

rrdharan — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:36:27 +0000

I’m shocked it’s even that high

New comment by rrdharan in "Bronze Age mega-settlement in Kazakhstan has advanced urban planning, metallurgy"

rrdharan — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:29:41 +0000

TIL, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_anthropology founded by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss, not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss.

New comment by rrdharan in "Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud"

rrdharan — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:41:27 +0000

I think the parent has a valid point. The actual README says "inspired by Apple’s Private Cloud Compute".

I think it's more fair to say it implements the same idea but it is not an opensource implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud the way e.g. minio is an implementation of S3, so the HN title is misleading.

New comment by rrdharan in "Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system"

rrdharan — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:55:07 +0000

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2201201 and https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-4v56-3xv... are interesting examples to consider (though I'm curious whether Rust's integer overflow behavior in release builds would have definitely fared better?).

> Unless the end goal is to rewrite the whole thing in Rust piece by piece, solving hidden memory bugs along the way.

I would assume that's the case.

New comment by rrdharan in "Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions"

rrdharan — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:05:30 +0000

Actually Microsoft started this in the 1990s, long before FAANG was a thing. They just all adopted it.

New comment by rrdharan in "Making C and Python Talk to Each Other"

rrdharan — Fri, 30 May 2025 12:43:00 +0000

What is c9k short for?

New comment by rrdharan in "Oracle VM VirtualBox – VM Escape via VGA Device"

rrdharan — Sun, 18 May 2025 02:14:40 +0000

We can agree to disagree. I just don’t think it’s the high order bit in determining the rate of vulnerability discovery - in my opinion the commercial utility (white / black / grey) of the exploits is a more important factor in determining how quickly they are found.

New comment by rrdharan in "Oracle VM VirtualBox – VM Escape via VGA Device"

rrdharan — Sat, 17 May 2025 13:09:09 +0000

It’s really not harder for the folks with this skill set, and plenty of these vulnerabilities have been found in VMware too over the years.

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/KORTCHINSKY...

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/vmware-z...

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/vmw...

New comment by rrdharan in "ZFS: Apple's new filesystem that wasn't (2016)"

rrdharan — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:47:10 +0000

Kind of odd that the blog states that "The architect for ZFS at Apple had left" and links to the LinkedIn profile of someone who doesn't have any Apple work experience listed on their resume. I assume the author linked to the wrong profile?

New comment by rrdharan in "IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol"

rrdharan — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:56:56 +0000

I don't quite understand what happened to SPICE. I know Red Hat deprecated it, and I can't tell if it was ever fully opensourced or not?

https://www.spice-space.org/developers.html

New comment by rrdharan in "Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era"

rrdharan — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:22:00 +0000

That was 2023; more recently Microsoft is losing ground to Google (in 2024).

New comment by rrdharan in "Don't Call It a Substack."

rrdharan — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:30:37 +0000

I disagree, most podcast episodes and ads mention a few popular options plus “or wherever you get your podcasts” and the proprietary gated stuff hasn’t been doing that well!

New comment by rrdharan in "SQLite does not do checksums"

rrdharan — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:03:40 +0000

All the native storage systems at Google do it at every level (block, file, database); I would assume the same is true at AWS and Microsoft.

New comment by rrdharan in "Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan"

rrdharan — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 01:29:22 +0000

Yes that’s one of the sites they bailed on:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/02/google-ends-agreement-with-l...

New comment by rrdharan in "FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Control"

rrdharan — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:55:50 +0000

Try not worrying about as much stuff?

100 years ago well before the invention of so-called surveillance capitalism, people were making soft drinks out of radium, and inhaling asbestos.

Many things are better since then. Some new things are probably worse, but every reasonable measure of human welfare suggests we are better off than we were previously.

Something some subset of us are worried about right now, whether it’s WiFi or 5G or Covid vaccines, will turn out to have had horrible consequences and you can’t really fault the rest of us that we didn’t listen to the crazies.

Just embrace panglossian optimism because the alternative is to just be angry and exhausted and indignant all the time and then you’re no fun at parties.