Hacker News: zinclozenge

New comment by zinclozenge in "Ursa: A Leaderless, Object Storage–Based Alternative to Kafka"

zinclozenge — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:29:16 +0000

Having built a prototype of a system like Ursa myself, this isn't something that you need to use at all, especially because it seems like this is only available in S3 Express One Zone.

New comment by zinclozenge in "Show HN: Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration"

zinclozenge — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:39:28 +0000

If they're offering SSO using a 3rd party provider like Auth0 then they probably have to charge for it because of how expensive it is.

New comment by zinclozenge in "Holocron is an object storage based leader election library"

zinclozenge — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:07:04 +0000

I love this stuff. Seems like TektiteDB also has an implementation as well https://github.com/spirit-labs/tektite/tree/main/cluster

New comment by zinclozenge in "Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative"

zinclozenge — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:20:13 +0000

Ah gotcha, that's a nice way of approaching it. Best of luck to you guys.

New comment by zinclozenge in "Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative"

zinclozenge — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 22:05:10 +0000

Do you guys only offer SAML in your hosted SaaS?

New comment by zinclozenge in "Versioned finite-state machines with Postgres (2019)"

zinclozenge — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:19:58 +0000

Amazing! I also learned about domains with your comment.

New comment by zinclozenge in "Versioned finite-state machines with Postgres (2019)"

zinclozenge — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 17:13:33 +0000

I always wondered about this, a while ago I saw a library similar to this that modeled FSMs in Postgres, and had a comment saying "todo: cycle detection". And made me wonder if it's even possible to do this.

New comment by zinclozenge in "Show HN: Mesop – Open-source Python UI framework"

zinclozenge — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:02:09 +0000

I've seen a bunch of people recommending alternatives that are also Python based, makes me wonder if there's similar things for other languages like Go, Rust, etc

New comment by zinclozenge in "Python Cloudflare Workers"

zinclozenge — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:20:24 +0000

I'd be curious to see a direct performance comparison between their python and JS workers. Based on my own experience with pyodide, I'd wager there might be up to a 2x performance penalty.

New comment by zinclozenge in "Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time"

zinclozenge — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:22:23 +0000

This tends to be my experience, but mainly when it comes to areas that neither model know about. Claude 3 Opus will happily make something up, but ChatGPT4 will point out where it's lacking.

New comment by zinclozenge in "Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research"

zinclozenge — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:34:50 +0000

Can you point to any resources to read up on this?

New comment by zinclozenge in "Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]"

zinclozenge — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:58:12 +0000

Which is interesting considering Freeman Dyson was the guy that made the connection between Schwinger's and Feynman's QED.

New comment by zinclozenge in "Quicksort with Jenkins for fun and no profit"

zinclozenge — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 20:11:13 +0000

Since we're on the subject, is there a modern alternative to Jenkins?

New comment by zinclozenge in "Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features"

zinclozenge — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:20:37 +0000

Are you talking about pods/deployments/etc or lower level abstractions like informers and things like that?

New comment by zinclozenge in "Ask HN: Any comprehensive courses on Auth?"

zinclozenge — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:25:47 +0000

I'm currently in the boat where I need to set up authentication (and eventually authorization) for a startup catering to big enterprises almost exclusively. I'd love to be recommended resources for setting up something like Keycloak or Auth0 (or anything else) for that use case.

New comment by zinclozenge in "IceCube – South Pole Neutrino Observatory"

zinclozenge — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:33:23 +0000

I learned how to program by working on a modest simulation for one of the PIs involved with IceCube. I ended up leaving academia but I really enjoy keeping up with the project over the years.

New comment by zinclozenge in "To YouTube: I'd gladly pay you if your website was de-bloated and fast like this"

zinclozenge — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:14:54 +0000

I specifically started paying for youtube premium because spotify just didn't have nearly as much of the music I listen to, and specifically the artists I listen to, and the youtube music app was good enough. The fact that I can watch youtube without ads is a nice little bonus.

For my purposes, youtube premium is 100% worth it.

New comment by zinclozenge in "ArgoCon – Vendor-neutral Argo-focused Event"

zinclozenge — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:53:29 +0000

Overpriced? Can't say I disagree with you, but Harness was by far the best CD solution I've ever used, and to this day I'm still waiting for an open source solution to replicate the experience, without needing to deploy resource hungry services.

New comment by zinclozenge in "Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme"

zinclozenge — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 19:26:55 +0000

Some agencies, ones you might not even expect like the USPS and FDA, also have law enforcement powers, but have very narrow jurisdiction (relative to general law enforcement agencies like the FBI). So when a case actually does fall under their jurisdiction, they execute their duties "with extreme prejudice", so to speak. Assuming the story from the OP you replied to is true, the fact that they arrested the police officers would show how seriously they take their duties, even if the officers tampering with the mail was due to carelessness while they themselves were performing their duty.

New comment by zinclozenge in "Stream Compression in NATS"

zinclozenge — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:50:07 +0000

Yea, after reading the article I went and read the 2.10 release blog post and then came back and commented as if the article posted was the 2.10 post. That was my mistake.