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New comment by rrvsh in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

rrvsh — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:13:10 +0000

oh my god working with a dendritic nix repo at work would be a DREAM

you might like my tools repo if you enjoy these kinds of setups :) i worked really hard on making one file one concern: https://github.com/rrvsh/tools

love the article, thanks for sharing! should post it on here if you havnt

New comment by rrvsh in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

rrvsh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:22:33 +0000

A Nix flake for a GregTech New Horizons server updated to the latest daily build. This normally requires quite a lot of administration with a ton of manual bootstrapping steps, and even though there are solutions for normal modded Minecraft servers, GTNH requires a bit more legwork. My hope is to make it an extremely simple home-manager module that works on NixOS and darwin that syncs the manifest to a configured server (had to patch Caedis' gtnh-daily-updater to achieve this), and a NixOS module that manages said server. It's already up and running on my personal machine, so I just have to refactor it to be configurable - I love working with Nix so much I wish I could do it for a job T.T

New comment by rrvsh in "Using XDG-Compliant Config Files (2024)"

rrvsh — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:12:29 +0000

What is your point here?

New comment by rrvsh in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

rrvsh — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:42:13 +0000

Having a diverse population != multiculturalism in the way that we were discussing. Singapore promotes "racial harmony" where every "race" is given equal public holidays, equity, and inclusion in government etc. This is not wholly true, as the majority ethnic group is overrepresented in positions of power, and foreign workers making up (the bottom) 40% of the workforce does not change that. This extends beyond ethnic lines - the monoculture is not only Chinese > over the rest, but also the dampening of any freedom in expresssion, art, etc. - this is easily verifiable by 1. speaking to any Singaporean 2. looking at the education system and 3. looking at how much cultural impact Singapore has had compared to other "global" cities. You are also clearly misrepresenting my comment about pacification, and I do not appreciate it. I am clearly not referring to some conspiracy where people are disappeared. I am talking about a decades-long government campaign to supress alternative voices and _pacify_ (in the correct sense of the word) dissent.

New comment by rrvsh in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

rrvsh — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:37:09 +0000

You don't need to quote my own country's government propaganda to me. My family has been here for seven generations. I made no claims that multiculturalism is wholly correlated with "more/less technical". The point is that monocultures are easier to control and a multicultural society is harder. The monoculture is cultivated so that the government has an easier time servicing their main goal of economic growth, because multiculturalism is NOT a priority, just a PR tactic to allow them to achieve what they actually want. Quoting a .gov.sg source has literally zero bearing in this.

New comment by rrvsh in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

rrvsh — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:16:51 +0000

The corruption is not as blatant as you will see in other nations, and it works to make people believe the lie that its not corrupt, as you can see in the other thread in the replies to your comment.

The way corruption manifests in Singapore is legally and baked into the system - we are a city smaller than NYC but have _five_ mayors, none of which an average citizen can name or even have heard of having a mayor. Party politicians sit on the boards or occupy high C-suite positions of major companies and collect salary from all of them. Government politicians and high-ranking civil servants enjoy the best quality of life possible in Singapore, funded by taxpayer dollars, and barely have to do any work for it once they are in the position due to the single party system and only having to vote along party lines to keep it.

New comment by rrvsh in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

rrvsh — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:10:57 +0000

That's largely PAP propaganda. The sentiment on the ground is divided into these groups:

1. (an increasingly smaller portion) The PAP has done this well thus far and brought us to the first world 2. (a large portion) The PAP has too much power and can silence all its opposition - I don't want to suffer the consequences it has historically delivered upon its detractors by voting against them 3. (an increasingly larger portion) The PAP is good but it has too much power and has been allowed to engage in rampant authoritarianism and ivory tower bullshit - the opposition politicians would do a better job 4. The PAP is unequivocally bad and should never be in power (due to their historic actions like underpaying the Malay population for their land, operation Coldstore, etc.)

Additionally, the government blatantly engages in any tactics they can to get more votes, with documented widespread gerrymandering, holding snap election dates right after major PAP wins to capitalised on increased positive sentiment without giving opposition parties time to prepare, silencing/deplatforming opposition politicians, and enacting laws that prevent anyone but their chosen caste to be elected to positions of power

New comment by rrvsh in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

rrvsh — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:02:38 +0000

This is a false dichotomy - the nature of the colony matters a LOT more than you allude to here. Singapore got a heck of a lot better deal as a colony than e.g. African colonies because we didn't get ruthlessly exploited and instead just used for our seaport primarily

New comment by rrvsh in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

rrvsh — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:01:07 +0000

+1, it is absolutely safe but just not that free, which is touted as a requirement for safety

New comment by rrvsh in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

rrvsh — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:59:15 +0000

It is not nonsensical in the slightest. The government does their best to maintain a monoculture while promoting the farce of multiculturalism, because a monoculture facilitates easier economic growth which is the overall aim of the government rather than cultural development. Multiculturalism is essentially pacification because obviously this is unpopular

New comment by rrvsh in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

rrvsh — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:57:18 +0000

The reason for your last point is that Singaporeans are taught in school that we were nothing but a fishing village until first colonialism (and Chinese immigrants) arrived and turned us into a major port, then the PAP (Lee Kuan Yew's party) turned us into a first world nation. It's really propaganda, and of course you wouldn't bother looking up information that you were taught to see as truth when you were a young child

New comment by rrvsh in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

rrvsh — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:55:47 +0000

  Location: Singapore
  Remote: Open to on-site
  Willing to relocate: Yes!
  Technologies: Python, HTMX, Alpine.js, Nix, Rust, TF, Postgres, Docker, GHA
  Résumé/CV: https://rrv.sh/static/cv.pdf
  Email: rafiq@rrv.sh

I've been coding pretty much my whole life and love meaty systems problems. I've been working in a startup in automation for PR operations, but recently the CEO decided to outsource the eng team. I'm a builder at heart and can work pretty much with any stack (especially with how good agents are now). Also, I use Vim :)

New comment by rrvsh in "Leave Me Behind"

rrvsh — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:47:55 +0000

No, I'm not jumping on you. I'm asking why not base your personal software on Immich so you get the benefits of a mature (ish) software. Sorry if it came off that way, but I'm not saying you need to share it - I'm saying why not make a personal fork instead of building your own from scratch

New comment by rrvsh in "Google, I Dump Your Ass"

rrvsh — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:45:58 +0000

Sure, I understand the interface - I'm primarily asking what URLs you pass to the cli

New comment by rrvsh in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

rrvsh — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:15:17 +0000

What? I don't think anyone has given up on chess because of computers in my lifetime

New comment by rrvsh in "Google, I Dump Your Ass"

rrvsh — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:06:02 +0000

How do you search with curl?

New comment by rrvsh in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

rrvsh — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:36:57 +0000

Do you also have .DS_Store tracked? If not, you are obviously not who the commenter is referring to and missing the point

New comment by rrvsh in "AltTab is introducing a Pro version and staying open source"

rrvsh — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:30:11 +0000

This is a horrible title. The developer has kept the entire source code open and you can build from source to get all paid features, and offers a free 14 day trial for all new users. The core functionality of Alt Tab to switch windows is staying free.

New comment by rrvsh in "Leave Me Behind"

rrvsh — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:30:17 +0000

It resonates with me. I grew up coding with basically zero network - software engineering basically only became viewed as a viable career in my country when it became lucrative, right as I was beginning my schooling i.e. I walked into a snakepit of people who were only in it for the money. I thought going into the industry would help this and let me finally meet a community of other passionate devs, but then LLMs got good right as I started work. It does really suck - I feel you on it feeling solitary as a baseline, and now ever more so. I wish I could somehow experience the early SV era hacker culture first hand, but alas

New comment by rrvsh in "Leave Me Behind"

rrvsh — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:19:59 +0000

> > I've been programming since I was 13

> Congrats, you're in a small minority of people.

Why did you respond to this? I fail to see how it relates to your point whatsoever.