Hacker News: shrikant

Wez Furlong returns to WezTerm maintenance

shrikant — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:53:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/6341

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490381

Points: 5

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TCS ties up with Anthropic to roll out Claude access to 50k employees

shrikant — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:02:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/tcs-ties-up-with-anthropic-to-roll-out-claude-ai-access-to-50-000-employees-13946875.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489779

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by shrikant in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

shrikant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:49:44 +0000

Well, there's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution...

Anthropic enables self-service data analytics with Claude

shrikant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:09:50 +0000

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/how-anthropic-enables-self-service-data-analytics-with-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444896

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shrikant in "NPM packages from RedHat have been compromised"

shrikant — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:01:50 +0000

Oooh now I'm wondering if this may have contributed to their Docker image distribution service getting disrupted earlier today... https://status.redhat.com/incidents/jn6r256zc62c

New comment by shrikant in "The worst job interview I ever had"

shrikant — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:11:38 +0000

Wow, why do you think the communication was so off? (I don't know much about French)

My guess would be that the intervewing manager was just translating English sentences directly into their French worded equivalent without actually following the rules/grammmar, and so it was confusing -- right?

I initially thought they might be attempting to read off a Google Translate conversion but I suppose if that interview was face to face then that'd be implausible.

New comment by shrikant in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

shrikant — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:59:31 +0000

I can easily remember a few multi-hour AWS incidents from the last few years, since I've had to handle the resulting fires at my various employers at those times. Not sure how you missed these, or do they not count as "global outages" for some reason?

December 2021: https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/aws-outage-takes-do...

June 2023: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-52

October 2025: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/amazon-web-services-outage-t...

Each of these were massive outages impacting very large services across the web.

New comment by shrikant in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

shrikant — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:14:59 +0000

Page 68 of this PDF (https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05...), section G2 titled "Testing and Operations Data" has some high level information. I know the details because I designed and built the first version when I was at Deloitte, so I suppose it depends on how much you believe me...

New comment by shrikant in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

shrikant — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:41:45 +0000

The core data platform for NHS Test and Trace was not Excel based at all. It was a reasonably simple but solid AWS setup using S3, Glue and the smallest Redshift instance at the time, on top of which were Tableau/Quicksight/PowerBI dashboards. Some organisations insisted on enabling an "export to CSV" feature which was...not a good idea for so many reasons, and Public Health England (PHE) in the article found out one of those reasons the hard way.

Muxy – A macOS terminal built with SwiftUI and libghostty

shrikant — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:46:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/muxy-app/muxy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860850

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by shrikant in "AI that copied musical artist files copyright claim against artist [updated]"

shrikant — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:10:30 +0000

Standard BTF nonsense.

(BTF = Blue Tick Fucker, an initialism I'm trying to get to take off, primarily in my WhatsApp groups where there's loads of self-proclaimed geopolitics experts claiming to know exactly what's going on and what will happen and why.)

New comment by shrikant in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

shrikant — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:06:04 +0000

Yeah I can see that, even when a recruiter contacted me a few years back for a data engineering position, they were looking strictly for experience in JVM-based languages.

New comment by shrikant in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

shrikant — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:58:56 +0000

I tend to bounce around between Ubuntu Mono, Fira Code and Comic Mono. Comic Mono is not amongst the participants in this game, and my finalists were Ubuntu Mono and Fira Code, so I guess I'm pretty pleased that I've stayed consistent as well!

New comment by shrikant in "GitHub is once again down"

shrikant — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:39:45 +0000

...or you keep fighting forward with the migration, because if it's seen as a failure then some pretty big heads will have to roll...

New comment by shrikant in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

shrikant — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:15:07 +0000

Just fyi, myopathy is a general term for diseases that affect some types of muscles, while myopia is short-sightedness -- assuming the latter is what you were going for!

New comment by shrikant in "LotusNotes"

shrikant — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:36:48 +0000

Baffling to see this, in every place I've worked at that used Lotus Notes, it was an absolute dog on the system. Clunky, slow, and ground everything else to a halt. And this was the case even on a relatively modern laptop in 2019. Not what I'd call performant at all!

New comment by shrikant in "'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)"

shrikant — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:42:17 +0000

> Doesn't pay attention to plot

> Claims plot is terrible

People who complain about aspects about movies they didn't like should all be as forthright as GP in explaining why exactly they didn't like that aspect, so I can decide whether to entirely disregard the opinion.

New comment by shrikant in "Trump: Republicans 'should take over the voting' and 'nationalise' US elections"

shrikant — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:17:00 +0000

"He says it like it is! No wait, here's what he actually meant..."

New comment by shrikant in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

shrikant — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:52:06 +0000

Reminds me of this post: https://dannorth.net/blog/the-worst-programmer/

Discussed here a couple of times as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361947 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452649

New comment by shrikant in "Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit"

shrikant — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:17:55 +0000

That's beautiful, I'd love a monospaced variant of this to replace Comic Mono in my IDE/Fira Mono in my terminal. IANA font expert though, would that even be possible?