Hacker News: sudoshred

New comment by sudoshred in "Parallel Parentheses Matching"

sudoshred — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:50:09 +0000

Petition to have the question added to leetcode. Two variants one with a single type of parens such as () and one with mixed parens (),{},[]. In each problem implement the map method which takes a chunk sequence of the overall input, the reduce method which takes an array of map method output for each chunk and returns the overall answer.

New comment by sudoshred in "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events"

sudoshred — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:23:09 +0000

Also consider RTS elements, like assigning certain schedulers to handle workloads which are swappable and tuneable, maybe with some skill tree unlocks.

New comment by sudoshred in "Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon"

sudoshred — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:00:32 +0000

Same people complaining "no one wants to work these days".

New comment by sudoshred in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

sudoshred — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:32:32 +0000

Depends. I can certainly offer to rewrite my old code that contributed to the memory shortage, for a price.

New comment by sudoshred in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

sudoshred — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:35:18 +0000

Safety of their IPO

New comment by sudoshred in "The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite"

sudoshred — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:47:11 +0000

Statistically impossible to inadvertently generate a collision using UUID keys. UUID is designed to be unique when generated across any computer system. Practically speaking if you have an exactly matching pair of UUIDs from disparate system you have found the exact record match. The name gives a hint "Universally unique identifier". -Not a cryptographer.

New comment by sudoshred in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

sudoshred — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:30:47 +0000

sounds like a compliment to the implementation

New comment by sudoshred in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

sudoshred — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:50:14 +0000

Much like most office jobs

New comment by sudoshred in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

sudoshred — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:39:28 +0000

imminent danger pay

New comment by sudoshred in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

sudoshred — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:35:44 +0000

nearly retired

New comment by sudoshred in "Flipper One – we need your help"

sudoshred — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:36:03 +0000

bitshifting screen renders directly to pixels on custom hardware, if I had to bet

New comment by sudoshred in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

sudoshred — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:38:26 +0000

Some people enjoy vendor locked managed services for their core infrastructure. Typically this decision is made when building from zero to one in resource constrained environments, and the long term play is to move to your own table/db when it becomes sustainable to do so. The only reason to move to a managed service after having done the work to setup self owned systems is when you need to either a) CYA or b) reduce headcount

New comment by sudoshred in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

sudoshred — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:50:26 +0000

Bite selection is akin to bin packing, now that I think about it.

New comment by sudoshred in "Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO"

sudoshred — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:54:59 +0000

You missed the killer feature, even more diffusion of responsibility.

New comment by sudoshred in "Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024"

sudoshred — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:08:41 +0000

"internet chum" is a good one, it echoes "slop bowl".

New comment by sudoshred in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

sudoshred — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:20:26 +0000

Essential is contextually defined by whoever implemented the that part of the front-end basically.

New comment by sudoshred in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

sudoshred — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:02:15 +0000

It not a killer feature, granted. I would be willing to bet that the cost of the engineering to develop and support this feature as a default capability for the fleet of all vehicles would be less than the value of energy saved ammortized over the lifetime of all relevant vehicles.

New comment by sudoshred in "Apache Arrow is 10 years old"

sudoshred — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:30:03 +0000

Intuitively appreciating that these "boring fundamentals" are the default bottlenecks is a aign of senior+ swe capability.

New comment by sudoshred in "Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel"

sudoshred — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:03:31 +0000

If it wasn't sold as the next big buzzword you could easily hire 10 new SDR employees who would sell it that way.

New comment by sudoshred in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

sudoshred — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:33:03 +0000

For the type of buyer you describe this vehicle parked in the garage, to speculate, may be capable of doing double duty as an automated battery backup for the estate nearby to store energy during times of excess grid capacity and to discharge during periods of high demand or grid interuptions. I would be interested to know if the vehicle includes this capability, or if it could be easily modified to offer this capability. Probably is preferable to an onsite diesel generator for example even if it is not an exactly comparable situation, just due to lower local emissions.