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by nubskr 8mo ago
Won't something like scyllaDB be a better choice for such workloads ? as long as you're fine with eventual consistency ofc
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How to Do Great Work (2023)(paulgraham.com)
1 points by nubskr 8mo ago|0 comments
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by nubskr 9mo ago
Seems like sometimes the best tech stack is the one that refuses to die :))
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by nubskr 9mo ago
I've been using Claude Code for my research notes and had the same realization, it's less about perfecting prompts and more about building tools so it can surprise you. The moment I stopped treating it like a function and started
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by nubskr 9mo ago
Mandiant releases rainbow tables for a 25 year old broken protocol because enterprises still won't disable it. It seems like sometimes the best security tool is just making the risk impossible to ignore.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
That's actually the state of autonomous coding in 2026, scale the output, skip the verification.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
Until I saw this, I thought my weirdest infrastructure decision was using NFS for swap. Now I'm wondering if I can mount my browser tabs over UDP.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
Finding out "computer" was a job title because precise calculation was so hard to find makes me feel less bad about needing a calculator for basic arithmetic.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
so they already queried the DB to know your link is broken, but chooses not to spend more compute telling you why?
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by nubskr 9mo ago
It's fully how Max Brod saved Kafka's work by ignoring his dying wish and prague repaid him by turning Kafka into a hummus cafe.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
Temporal being immutable alone is worth whatever migration pain we're about to endure.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
The 'break it and it's gone' constraint seems weirdly empowering compared to cloud magic :/
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by nubskr 9mo ago
Spent the last month building a FUSE mount and now I can't stop thinking about what else I can filesystem.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
So negative temperature makes LLMs output their "forbidden words" i.e. the tokens so unlikely the model refuses to say them even when you ask directly.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
Another day, another MCP server. Wake me up when we stop needing a new protocol for every AI tool to talk to every other AI tool.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
Helping my mom recover from OneDrive's "cleanup" was the closest I've come to negotiating with terrorists.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
Turns out the best GPU optimization is just being too scared of graphics drivers to do the fancy stuff, 10-15x faster and you can actually debug it.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
I keep telling myself I'm using the sea approach but my git history says hammer and chisel
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by nubskr 9mo ago
most of the financial systems are just as hackable as computer systems, but most "security" startups just build compliance checkboxes and culturally appropriate hacker ethos for VC money.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
The holy trinity of modern hardware: update servers, firmware locks, and abandoned devkits
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by nubskr 9mo ago
'Most code I don't read.' The 2026 senior dev: a product manager with commit access and a really fast intern.
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by nubskr 9mo ago
Skip the dry dock, just chainsaw the river until it freezes deep enough, peak yakutsk engineering
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by nubskr 9mo ago
On Demand GPUs got cheaper because Azure exists. Capacity Blocks got 15% pricier because your migration plan doesn't
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by nubskr 9mo ago
Damn, Regrets already forming.
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by nubskr 10mo ago
s3 charges per 1,000 Update requests, not sure how it's sustainable to do it every 250ms tbh, especially in multi tenant mode where you can have thousands of 'active' blocks being written to
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by nubskr 10mo ago
In the current benchmarks, I only have Kafka and rocksdb wal, will surely try to add redpanda there as well, curious how walrus would hold up against seastar based systems.
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by nubskr 10mo ago
Hi, the creator here, I think its a good idea to have S3 backed storage mode, its kinda tricky to do it for the 'active' block which we are currently writing to, but totally doable for historical data. Also about the kafka API, I
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Walrus – high performance distributed message streaming engine (Rust)(github.com)
1 points by nubskr 10mo ago|1 comments
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by nubskr 10mo ago
Hey HN! recently I've been working on Walrus, a distributed message streaming engine that combines high-performance log storage with Raft-based coordination. What makes it different: - Segment-based sharding with automatic load balanci
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by nubskr 11mo ago
ah, nice catch

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