Hacker News: wippler

New comment by wippler in "Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster"

wippler — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:03:51 +0000

Hilarious that even DuckDB's article has many of LLM tells as well

New comment by wippler in "Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)"

wippler — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:03:39 +0000

FYI. This was written in 2010 although it feels relevant even now. Didn't catch it until the mention of Amazon SimpleDB.

New comment by wippler in "H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022"

wippler — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:25:40 +0000

This chart is entirely misleading. In any given year, there are only 85k new H1B visas. That's it, it has not grown nor shrunk.

Reason for increase in population shown here is H1B renewals. Normally the way this works is H1Bs convert to permanent residents, but due to the country caps, Indian/Chinese H1B holders keep renewing their visas contributing to this increase. Again these are people who are already here and got their approval sometime in the past, so its not like in 2022, companies collectively hired 685,117 (which is also why you see the decrease in 2023 since due to covid, a very little bit of backlog for residency cleared).

(Not to mention the sentiment of comments here is entirely disappointing, but I guess that's the vibe these days)

New comment by wippler in "Claude Code now supports Hooks"

wippler — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 03:45:15 +0000

Not to take away anything here, but hooks are present in other similar products. Atleast one example here - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/com...

Strands Agents SDK

wippler — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:14:00 +0000

Article URL: https://strandsagents.com/0.1.x/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033657

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by wippler in "Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminating against U.S. workers"

wippler — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:54:44 +0000

I think the argument was that it has nothing to do with it, companies don't sit and follow a rule that prioritizes hiring H1Bs (talking about companies like Facebook here). In fact there are quite possibly a ridiculous number of steps in hiring an employee on visa.

What is alleged in the lawsuit seems purely self preservation, if FB doesn't jump through the hoops of getting PERM certified for the employee, they are going to leave and go to another company which does that. (Saying this without making a larger comment on immigration policies of USA)

New comment by wippler in "Kotlin vs. Java"

wippler — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:14:49 +0000

I don’t know why but your assumption that others are skating by with what they know rubbed me the wrong way (maybe because I have been on other side of this). There are likely many other valid reasons here - project deadlines (sometimes it is not the right time to pick a new language), consistency of code (having a mix of languages is going to raise hell in code reviews with opinions on some code that could be done better in one language vs other), hiring (does your hiring/onboarding get more complex?), writing idiomatic code (learning a new programming language is easy but writing good code is hard), extreme swing in brevity (people abusing new languages to write concise code using obscure language features, which makes it hard for someone new to jump in).

I am sorry I don’t have any suggestions to fix your problem but I just wanted to provide a bit of perspective. Maybe try thinking from your peers perspective to see what benefits adopting this new language would give and be prepared to answer why Kotlin among a whole class of JVM languages - Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, Clojure.

Storing Data in Order

wippler — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:39:51 +0000

Article URL: https://cornerwings.github.io/2019/10/lexical-sorting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21259619

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wippler in "Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide"

wippler — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:11:26 +0000

I wouldn't recommend this website for visa information. For example, I put in "United States" -> "Peru" - it says visa is required and when clicked on more information it takes me to a page where it lists which countries require visa for traveling to Peru. In that list among the visa required countries, it shows "united states" and in no visa required section it has "united statesa"

New comment by wippler in "Learning to Build Distributed Systems"

wippler — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 20:34:26 +0000

I found "Designing Data-Intensive Application" book to be really helpful introduction to learning more interesting details about distributed systems. The book provides a gentle introduction to build intuition around these systems and contains a plethora of links to go further down the rabbit hole.

https://dataintensive.net/

New comment by wippler in "I got asked LeetCode questions for a dev-ops systems engineering job today"

wippler — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:13:42 +0000

Just to provide an alternate perspective here, this seems to tilt the incentives towards people that are not working already. I wonder how many folks have time to take a week or more off from their current job to participate in this exercise. I understand this is paid but its still a huge risk that candidates would be taking.

Bezos wealth clock

wippler — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 14:40:52 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bezoswealthclock.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17918376

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Interfacing with native methods on Graal VM

wippler — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 07:56:26 +0000

Article URL: https://cornerwings.github.io/2018/07/graal-native-methods/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17477606

Points: 99

# Comments: 13

Interfacing with native methods on Graal

wippler — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 22:00:29 +0000

Article URL: https://cornerwings.github.io/2018/07/graal-native-methods/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17467236

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wippler in "List of April Fools' Day Announcements"

wippler — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 07:47:26 +0000

Retro amazon, http://www.amazon.com/

New comment by wippler in "From India, Proof That a Trip to Mars Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank"

wippler — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:03:20 +0000

Its Mars orbiter, not lander.

New comment by wippler in "India to launch its first mission to Mars [video]"

wippler — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:49:36 +0000

You keep moving the goal post. ISRO delivered some fantastic stuff on a very low budget, this is not about whether ISRO will be able to compete in future or not. Infact going by the current prices posted on SpaceX website and the amount it took for this orbiter mission, it is indeed very competitive

New comment by wippler in "Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail"

wippler — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:38:14 +0000

It's not about the number of lives but it is about the state of fear that grips the state afterwards. That anything can happen and government has no power to stop that.

New comment by wippler in "What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project"

wippler — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:35:47 +0000

"Most of being nice, in a software context, is about being considerate. Not unnecessarily trash talking other people's stuff. Not going out of your way to be a jerk. Try to be helpful. Treat others how you want to be treated" - http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-08-19-matz-is-nice-s...

What can I say?

New comment by wippler in ""I've got nothing to hide" and other misunderstandings of privacy"

wippler — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:35:59 +0000

Are you sure about this? Reading wikipedia suggests only 90mg or higher unit dosage falls under Schedule II narcotic. You may not be guilty after all :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeine#North_America