Hacker News: stonecharioteer

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Why doesn't HN have a mobile app?"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:41:03 +0000

I'm halfway glad HN doesn't have a mobile app. You're not incentivized to maintain karma here like reddit does. HN's unsaid rules make it harder to gain karma and seem to improve the quality overall compared to /r/programming. Have you noticed you can't downvote yet?

Understanding Traceroute

stonecharioteer — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:40:31 +0000

Article URL: https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/traceroute/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656730

Points: 72

# Comments: 9

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

stonecharioteer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:06:54 +0000

Location: Bengaluru, India

Remote: Yes

Remote Preferred: Yes.

Willing to relocate: No

Email: mail at stonecharioteer.com

I'm the one you throw at repetitive problems, tough engineering problems related to latency and performance. I've previously worked at Visa, Flipkart, GKN Aerospace, and I've consulted for startups the last year.

I have been building https://merrilin.ai and my posts hit the HN Frontpage 5 times in the last 6 months. I blog at https://tech.stonecharioteer.com.

Hit me up if you want an IC who can solve performance issues of AI generated code written by juniors. I write Python and Rust predominantly but I picked up Ruby in a week and hit the HN frontpage writing about it.

I Rebuilt Traceroute in Rust and It Was Simpler Than I Expected

stonecharioteer — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:10:22 +0000

Article URL: https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/traceroute/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603640

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by stonecharioteer in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

stonecharioteer — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:27:10 +0000

Hey, OP here. Thanks for the feedback. I will dive deep into this too!

New comment by stonecharioteer in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

stonecharioteer — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:24:00 +0000

Oh lovely. How is your experience with RustDesk? Is it better than VNC?

New comment by stonecharioteer in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

stonecharioteer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:14:25 +0000

Wait, tailscale survives connecting to a locked down wifi? That's insane. I remember not being able to use NordVPN at work. I'd just switch to 4G back then. But if you can't initiate a tailscale connection when connected to the office wifi, what does that mean?

New comment by stonecharioteer in "I Traced My Traffic Through a Home Tailscale Exit Node"

stonecharioteer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:07:27 +0000

Differences between openvpn and tailscale exit nodes? I can run some tests this weekend.

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Ask HN: What is your favorite quote from a book?"

stonecharioteer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:47:42 +0000

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9723074-you-want-stories-th...

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“You want stories?" Thom Merrilin declaimed. "I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.”

Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World.

I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node

stonecharioteer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:46:43 +0000

Article URL: https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/tailscale-exit-nodes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592462

Points: 156

# Comments: 72

Peer-to-peer sync for a reading app with mTLS, CRDTs, and HLCs

stonecharioteer — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:08:56 +0000

Article URL: https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/merrilin-local-sync/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560053

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Personal Encyclopedias"

stonecharioteer — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:55:44 +0000

When does a man die? When he is shot in the heart by a gun? No. When he eats a soup made of a poisoned mushroom? No. You cannot kill me. A man does not die until he is forgotten! I might stop breathing today, but I will live on in memory.

Dr. Hiruluk

Show HN: Merrilin.ai – Code blocks in your books, finally

stonecharioteer — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:10:22 +0000

Our Ebook reading app now supports rich color for coding blocks in EPUBs and PDFs.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397485

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

stonecharioteer — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:18:56 +0000

I tell people that when editing posts on my blog, I rely on AI to fix my code blocks if there are errors but I don't use it to fix typos or grammar. I feel like that keeps my blog human.

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

stonecharioteer — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:34:16 +0000

I'm building the best ebook reader you'll ever find. Supports all devices.

https://merrilin.ai

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

stonecharioteer — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:29:21 +0000

Very useful if you run into him in Georgia or if you want to get his tooth to make a guitar pick.

New comment by stonecharioteer in "GoForGo Updates – Rustlings Style TUI to Learn Go"

stonecharioteer — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:06:51 +0000

Finally got around to making some updates to GoForGo. It's been really exciting learning Go as I work on it.

GoForGo Updates – Rustlings Style TUI to Learn Go

stonecharioteer — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:06:51 +0000

Article URL: https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/goforgo-updates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244534

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

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

stonecharioteer — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:52:06 +0000

Location: Bengaluru, India Remote: Yes Will to relocate: no Technologies: Python, Rust, PostgreSQL, Systems Engineering, DevTooling, Agentic Systems Resume: http://github.com/stonecharioteer/resume/releases/latest email: mail@stonecharioteer.com

Hello!

I'm a software developer who's got an eye for performant and intuitive systems. I've worked at companies in the defense, finance, ecommerce, SaaS and security space. Most recently, I worked on building https://merrilin.ai, and I've written about this here: https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/merrilin/

I've also hit the HN frontpage 4 times last year, writing articles about learning Ruby and its internals.

I'm the guy you hire when you want performant code, something that's scalable in this world of vibe-coded stuff. I'm also excellent at writing deeply technical blog articles and have given talks at PyCon India, RootConf and the Bengaluru Python meetup group BangPypers. I'm also notorious for reading the PostgreSQL documentation on livestream.

New comment by stonecharioteer in "Merrilin – We built an app to read books"

stonecharioteer — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:59:02 +0000

We built https://merrilin.ai, primarily because we weren't happy with the book reading apps out there. Sign up for the waitlist!