Hacker News: shikharbhardwaj

InboxWhiz: Declutter Your Gmail Inbox

shikharbhardwaj — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:08:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/InboxWhiz/gmail-declutter-extension

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963298

Points: 2

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PostgreSQL Is Enough

shikharbhardwaj — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 11:37:08 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f06dbb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45845448

Points: 2

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Software Update Deletes Everything Older Than 10 Days [video]

shikharbhardwaj — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:22:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkm8BuMc4sQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721324

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Rebuilding Uber's Apache Pinot Query Architecture

shikharbhardwaj — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:47:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.uber.com/en-NL/blog/rebuilding-ubers-apache-pinot-query-architecture/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609187

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Are We Trek Yet?

shikharbhardwaj — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:09:09 +0000

Article URL: https://nicolaiarocci.com/are-we-trek-yet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45606353

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Preparing for the Long Winter Ahead

shikharbhardwaj — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:41:41 +0000

Article URL: https://ashleyjanssen.com/preparing-for-the-long-winter-ahead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45593378

Points: 3

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Localization in Ruby on Rails: Yes/No, On/Off

shikharbhardwaj — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:22:18 +0000

Article URL: https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/ruby-on-rails-loading-locales-with-yes-no-on-and-off

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45589106

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by shikharbhardwaj in "AI Coding: A Sober Review"

shikharbhardwaj — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:52:19 +0000

Hi! Author of the blog post here.

I completely agree, getting an objective measure for the developer experience from these various tools is not easy. On one hand, you have a series of benchmarks from LLM providers. While reflecting some degree of fitness to specific tasks, they often fail to translate to real-world usage. On the other hand, you have the tool providers with different features and product claims, and user anecdotes for very different use-cases.

The attempt with this post was to summarize my experience across some of these tools and highlight some specific features which worked better for me vs others. Given how quickly things are changing in this space, the primary conclusion is that using a tool day-to-day, discovering its strengths and deficiencies and working to eliminate the ones with high hit-rate is best at this point.

Qwen/QwQ-32B released on Hugging Face

shikharbhardwaj — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:46:47 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/QwQ-32B

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43274778

Points: 4

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Supabase is deprecating Fly’s managed Postgres offering on March 14, 2025

shikharbhardwaj — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:57:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/33413

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43264806

Points: 1

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How I use LLMs by Andrej Karpathy [video]

shikharbhardwaj — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 10:48:36 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43229187

Points: 2

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Building on Quicksand

shikharbhardwaj — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1788

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43172223

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shikharbhardwaj in "ACM Tech Talk: Tradeoffs in the Software Workflow"

shikharbhardwaj — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:20:11 +0000

A few takeaways from this talk:

1. Workflow cost optimization has many inputs and constraints, and good solutions come up gradually when considering the tradeoffs between time, cost and risk.

2. The overall goal should be reducing the aggregate of defect costs over time.

3. Human effort is the universal unit of cost and benefit.

4. Software engg is 50 years old, best practices are still being figured out. Best practices are changing, and we need to continuously measure and make progress on making them better.

5. Software engg is not the same as programming, avoid hyperbolic discounting and focus on building things that last.

ACM Tech Talk: Tradeoffs in the Software Workflow

shikharbhardwaj — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:16:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY4QgcXkWR4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120311

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by shikharbhardwaj in "Obsidian is now free for work"

shikharbhardwaj — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:09:38 +0000

Git works well, but you don't get realtime/live sync.

For my setup, I use the obsidian-livesync [1] plugin with a self-hosted CouchDB instance which has worked well for me.

I periodically do commit things to a git repo as a backup if the live sync breaks somehow.

[1]: https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

New comment by shikharbhardwaj in "Are SSDs more reliable than hard drives? (2021)"

shikharbhardwaj — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:16:00 +0000

I run a hybrid setup which has worked well for me: HDDs in the NAS for high-capacity, decent-speed persistent storage with ZFS for redundancy, low-capacity SSDs in the VM/container hosts for speed and reliability.

New comment by shikharbhardwaj in "Are SSDs more reliable than hard drives? (2021)"

shikharbhardwaj — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:50:56 +0000

It started out as intermittent I/O errors, where the system would boot fine and run for a few hours and then lock up to the point where I could not even SSH into it. I tried replacing the cables and connecting to a different power cable but the problem remained.

Within a couple of days, the drive stopped being detected. I tried one last time using an external USB3-to-SATA enclosure but got the same outcome. I'm guessing that the controller gave out, as the wear level stats were fine last time I checked (a couple of weeks ago).

This was being used 24x7 for the last few years as a boot drive for my Proxmox server, for which I run nightly backups so I was back up and running within an hour or so after replacing the drive.

New comment by shikharbhardwaj in "Are SSDs more reliable than hard drives?"

shikharbhardwaj — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:46:13 +0000

My experience is anecdotal, but as a general consumer using these drives in a home environment, HDDs simply have not been kind to me over the years.

On the other hand, I just had my first SSD (Samsung 850 Evo) fail on me yesterday, after chugging along for about 7 years. Compared to numerous hard drive failures over the years, to the point that I've made a rule to keep my workstation hard drive free for most of the last decade.

New comment by shikharbhardwaj in "Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks"

shikharbhardwaj — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:56:50 +0000

We're already seeing reports of the 12HPWR connector not being able to handle the power the 5090 demands [1]. It seems that for this generation, NVIDIA left little headroom. Might be best to run these undervolted to have some of that headroom back.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndmoi1s0ZaY

[2]: https://youtu.be/8PDYJI0W6Gk?t=430

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks

shikharbhardwaj — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:32:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx5090-linux

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43086969

Points: 21

# Comments: 8