Hacker News: tharakam

Property Graph Support in PostgreSQL 19

tharakam — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:16:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/19/ddl-property-graphs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564140

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by tharakam in "DNS is for people, not for IT infrastructure"

tharakam — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:46:23 +0000

"It is not really true that DNS is for people only" Yes, "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection... except for the problem of too many layers".

DNS is one mechanism of adding a layer of abstraction.

New comment by tharakam in "Leave Me Behind"

tharakam — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:46:51 +0000

I can relate to this article. My reaction to what is happening is also: "Leave me behind".

However, missing the joy of the old-school way of growing as a developer is not only the wrong reason, but also very dangerous according to Darwin.

Our customers don't care about how it is made after all, but they do care about long-term support, costs, and predictability, etc.

But I'm not sure whether we can say we made a real net positive progress in the industry. The whole thing is a big mess. In many cases, AI moves us in the same direction in turbo mode, making it not only messier and more expensive but also dangerous.

I tell them, "Leave me alone", as I see this mess as an opportunity if you think the right way, starting from the first principles.

2025 ACM Prize in Computing Goes to Apache Spark Creator Matei Zaharia

tharakam — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:46:49 +0000

Article URL: https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/zaharia_8851855

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714109

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tharakam in "Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code"

tharakam — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:43:20 +0000

I guess it is clearer if expressed like "Native application took only x% of WASM equivalent".

New comment by tharakam in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

tharakam — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:55:32 +0000

Yes. A short video I watched mentioned that even touching these thermal papers with normal gloves is unsafe.

New comment by tharakam in "Owls in Towels"

tharakam — Mon, 26 May 2025 23:30:28 +0000

I expected something Semantic Web-related. https://www.w3.org/OWL/

New comment by tharakam in "Eyechat"

tharakam — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 01:37:32 +0000

Exactly! lol

New comment by tharakam in "Ask HN: Should I consolidate my blogs into one?"

tharakam — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:44:29 +0000

IMO, is this Good advice for hacker news itself. It contains diverse topics in one stream, such as history, Botany, and Coding. You can argue it is a feature or a bug.

New comment by tharakam in "Greece introduces 'growth-oriented' six-day working week"

tharakam — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 04:18:35 +0000

In almost every way imaginable, I think this is counter-productive. This is just shallow thinking of the policymakers. Do they think human productivity works like machines in a factory? Good luck!

New comment by tharakam in "The Getty makes nearly 88k art images free to use"

tharakam — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 02:52:06 +0000

Those images have only a little commercial use IMO.

New comment by tharakam in "Moving a billion Postgres rows on a $100 budget"

tharakam — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:59:24 +0000

I'm confused. Everything sounds very expensive to me.

The last table which compares it with the other vendors is surprising. Even Stich Data (cheapest) costs $1 to move 240K records: (1B / 4,166.67 = 240K). Is this real?

So, their solution costs $1 to process 13.6M records. Sounds like this is not very share-worthy.

What I'm missing here?

New comment by tharakam in "Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial"

tharakam — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:14:37 +0000

Love this extract: "Cloudflare’s hard fought victory, the culmination of three years of litigation, is a strong warning to all patent trolls–we will not be intimidated into playing your game."

Thank you CloudFlare for doing your part!

New comment by tharakam in "I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner"

tharakam — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 22:43:32 +0000

It's so beautiful! Love it!

New comment by tharakam in "Losing my son"

tharakam — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:45:47 +0000

Thanks for sharing your story. I want to acknowledge you we feel your devastation. Accept my virtual hugs. I wish peace and harmony to you, your family, and your son.

New comment by tharakam in "Can You Trust Those Awards You See in Auto Ads? (2010)"

tharakam — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:00:28 +0000

Not sure why this article is focused on car ads. Nowadays, I ignore most of industry and many other awards.

E.g. "Ranked #1 as the most popular university among international students" (I saw this ad on a bus). It doesn't say anything about the quality of the education or the recognition.

You can trust customer reviews more than these awards.

New comment by tharakam in "Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]"

tharakam — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 01:54:26 +0000

I can't agree more!

New comment by tharakam in "Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]"

tharakam — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:15:00 +0000

̛If you check the surroundings, you will see the mess we are in. Virtually (?) there are 0 options for a viable IoT platform, mobile/desktop OS that doesn't annoy us. It could be privacy, locking, you name it, ...

Only recently, I happen to realise, we could have listened to this man little more. Too late then, we are sold already.

Recover well Mr Stallman! I wish you the best!

New comment by tharakam in "Godaddy just stole my domain"

tharakam — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:44:32 +0000

Not related to domains...

By my own experience I know they don't have even basic business ethics.

Several years ago, a quite a large transaction appeared in my credit card bill. Upon checking I found GoDaddy charged for a hosting service I never asked for. Upon calling their support, they were not surprised or asked any question, they just rollbacked the transaction. I'm saying again, no sales person or anyone reached out to me before using my credit card to process the order I never asked for.

I have a few domains and a shared hosting service with them. Their price increases are not justifiable. I'm in the process of packing my stuff.

New comment by tharakam in "There's No Such Thing as Knowing All the Way to the Bottom"

tharakam — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 07:57:23 +0000

This lightning talk from Noah Gibbs will save enthusiastic programmers/developers from some pitfalls.