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Re:Thundering Herd Problem: Preventing the Stampede on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @04:42PM (#45352491)

Uber built Kraken to solve the same problem with distributing images: https://github.com/uber/kraken

Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

Posted by achalshah on Friday August 22, 2025 @12:14AM
from the blog.cloudflare.com dept.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-incident-on-august-21-2025/

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Technology and Grieving

Posted by achalshah on Monday November 18, 2024 @11:23PM
from the readmargins.com dept.

https://www.readmargins.com/p/technology-and-grieving

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Investing in MotherDuck (Cloud service on top of DuckDB)

Posted by achalshah on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @12:24PM
from the a16z.com dept.

https://a16z.com/2022/11/15/investing-in-motherduck/

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Re:Stripe is just trying to do layoff without paying severance on Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:20PM (#33278612)

Is there any difference between this and the kind of forced attrition that Meta and Google have also signaled recently?

Better Load Balancing: Real-Time Dynamic Subsetting

Posted by achalshah on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @07:15PM
from the eng.uber.com dept.

https://eng.uber.com/better-load-balancing-real-time-dynamic-subsetting/

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Re:Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019) on Thursday April 29, 2021 @12:41PM (#26983368)

Not to be confused with Uber's Zanzibar: https://github.com/uber/zanzibar

Re:Oracle Cloud to Acquire Linux Kernel Technology eBPF on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:32AM (#26660950)

This reads like an April 1st gag. Is there a corroborating account from a different, reliable source?

NFTs: The First 5000 Beeples

Posted by achalshah on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:36AM
from the metapurser.substack.com dept.

https://metapurser.substack.com/p/nfts-the-first-5000-beeples

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Bitcoin and Buying Things

Posted by achalshah on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:18PM
from the themargins.substack.com dept.

https://themargins.substack.com/p/bitcoin-and-buying-things

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Re:English as She Is Spoke on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:41PM (#25799471)

The podcast Futility Closet had an entire episode on the book: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/05/18/podcast-episode-58...

Tecton.ai raises $35M Series B

Posted by achalshah on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @05:44PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/07/tecton-ai-nabs-35m-series-b-as-it-releases-machine-learning-feature-store/

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Feast Joins LF AI and Data Foundation

Posted by achalshah on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:24PM
from the lfaidata.foundation dept.

https://lfaidata.foundation/blog/2020/11/10/feast-joins-lf-ai-data-as-new-incubation-project/

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Top Bay-Area AI startups that are actively hiring (Fall 2020)

Posted by achalshah on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:03PM
from the pujaarajan.com dept.

https://www.pujaarajan.com/writing/my-top-4-bay-area-ai-startups-that-are-actively-hiring-fall-2020

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? on Sunday September 20, 2020 @12:47PM (#24535074)

Hey bbhat - glad to see you landed on your feet. :)

Tecton.ai emerges from stealth to build a machine learning platform

Posted by achalshah on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @12:29PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/tecton-ai-emerges-from-stealth-with-20m-series-a-to-build-operational-machine-learning-platform/

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Re:Ask HN: What podcast(s) changed your life? on Sunday January 19, 2020 @03:32PM (#22093848)

Revolutions by Mike Duncan. I've always been interested in History, but Revolutions has really deepened my understanding of how our nations and political philosophies came to be, and what could have been.

https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/

Re:Posters of the golden age of Soviet cosmonauts on Saturday September 19, 2015 @08:35PM (#10246094)

There's a good interview with the curators of the museum here: http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/4654.

Irresponsible or unavoidable borrowing?

Posted by achalshah on Monday July 06, 2015 @02:24AM
from the plus.google.com dept.

https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/CPB9bwHqsfn

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Re:The Hacker News of Cryptocurrency on Thursday December 04, 2014 @03:56PM (#8701580)

Probably worth pointing out that the website a forked version of Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/

Re:Ask HN: What is HN reading? on Thursday October 02, 2014 @12:18PM (#8401400)

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

Very similar style to Infinite Jest, but the story seems much more sinister.