Hacker News: sairamkunala

New comment by sairamkunala in "Distributed Systems 4th Edition"

sairamkunala — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 14:55:56 +0000

received almost immediately.

New comment by sairamkunala in "Bug, $50K+ in bounties: how Zendesk left a backdoor in companies"

sairamkunala — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 05:52:56 +0000

(as a devops/security minded engineer) ...and companies wonder how supply chain attacks are possible

New comment by sairamkunala in "Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?"

sairamkunala — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 14:13:04 +0000

I recall there was an outage 6 years ago. And many companies migrated to dot com over night.

https://hackernoon.com/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-produc...

New comment by sairamkunala in "Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads?"

sairamkunala — Sat, 04 May 2024 18:41:46 +0000

My previous company used Cloudinary for the purpose and amazingly lot of time was saved.

New comment by sairamkunala in "Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks"

sairamkunala — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:29:35 +0000

Most Indian Banking services, Payment endpoints, OTT platforms have adapted phone numbers as identity.

Your phone number is your identity. You can receive or send money only through your phone if the SIM is installed and validated by sending an SMS.

Getting a replacement SIM card requires physical verification using Aadhar (Identity service) with One Time Password validation (Email/SMS). Once the new SIM is active, you will not receive any SMS for the first 24 hours after getting a replacement SIM card. This is to reduce the attack surface of SIM Swap attacks.

Show HN: NPM like package ecosystem for Prompts

sairamkunala — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:36:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sugarcaneai.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38252105

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sairamkunala in "AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay"

sairamkunala — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:26:10 +0000

AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24839887

https://gist.github.com/atoonk/b749305012ae5b86bacba9b01160d...

AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses(https://github.com/seligman/aws-ip-ranges) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28177807

New comment by sairamkunala in "SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says"

sairamkunala — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 08:22:09 +0000

Wait! Why not bitcoin?

New comment by sairamkunala in "Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India"

sairamkunala — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:32:06 +0000

Pointing to cloudflare dns circumvents the issue for now.

move away from ISP DNS to 1.1.1.1 to temporarily solve the issue.

New comment by sairamkunala in "Cloud Pricing Comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud Platform in 2022"

sairamkunala — Fri, 06 May 2022 09:30:53 +0000

Standard marketing page for improving SEO.

Short answer: it depends

4G Setup for WFH

sairamkunala — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 04:25:38 +0000

Article URL: https://suraj.dev/blog/my-4g-setup-for-working-remotely-from-anywhere

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30827141

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sairamkunala in "I’m Disappointed with 1Password"

sairamkunala — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 03:31:03 +0000

Subscriptions lock you in on various levels. It’s very similar to renting a house. You can get kicked out by the owner.

Subscriptions for individuals is different from subscriptions for companies. Companies want to optimise time, individuals may want to optimise cost

personally, I am inclined to pay for IDEs as I spend more than 50% of the time on it, but not so much similar amounts when I use tools no more than 5-10 times a day.

New comment by sairamkunala in "I’m Disappointed with 1Password"

sairamkunala — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 03:28:56 +0000

I let my subscription expire about 3 months ago. (CC handling changes in India, you know)

I have only updated about 3-4 passwords out of 100s of items I store. This has been a realisation for me.

1pass, leaves the account in read only mode since it comes from your local storage anyway.

I need to get familiarised with the Bitwarden UI, its not very similar to 1pass, so there is a adoption curve. Hosted Bitwarden with the rust variant option is an option to consider.

New comment by sairamkunala in "The hardest thing about engineering is requirements"

sairamkunala — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:01:11 +0000

Yes agreed. Assuming software engineering context here, not civil or mechanical or other mature industries which usually require millions to create, validate, test and release a new product.

Negotiation of requirements is a problem based on limitations like recources (money, people), known knows and known unknowns.

New comment by sairamkunala in "The hardest thing about engineering is requirements"

sairamkunala — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 04:40:30 +0000

Requirements is a communication and expectation problem. Not an engineering problem.

Software or hardware engineering is a solution. You can solve the same with a pen and paper if you know what the user needs.

Agile is a way to iteratively validate expectations and revisit and update things with minimal wastage

Gitlab Outage

sairamkunala — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:27:57 +0000

Article URL: https://status.gitlab.com/pages/incident/5b36dc6502d06804c08349f7/60edf8a9aa26544291e58cdc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27826531

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sairamkunala in "Show HN: Open-source real-time transcription playground (React, Python, GCP)"

sairamkunala — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 17:34:45 +0000

Voice to Text via https://speechtyping.com/voice-to-text-english

I have bookmarked this a while ago. May not be open source, and does not use the internet to convert. Would work for many use cases, but wont be as good as Google's AI.

works with just the browser with help of webkitSpeechRecognition built into the browser. Works on both Chrome and Safari (not Firefox).

New comment by sairamkunala in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

sairamkunala — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:17:49 +0000

previously present as Friendfeed (till it was shutdown) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed

New comment by sairamkunala in "Ask HN: Where to get cheap VPS with big storage?"

sairamkunala — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 16:11:37 +0000

bandwidth through Cloudflare or the alliance they formed is free.

New comment by sairamkunala in "My million dollar domain hobby"

sairamkunala — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:45:10 +0000

.app names list by some other seller - https://offbyonenames.com/