sriram_malhar

Looking to hear from fellow HN'ers who have found a way out of this downspell. I've written code practically every day for 40 years, some of it for livelihood, but mostly because it gave me immense joy. I don't have…

I have a google account that has two devices associated with it, one Android and one iPhone. 2FA is enabled, and I have an authenticator associated as well. I would like to find out if I have the mental model of the…

I am interested in interesting ways of exploring math concepts non-algebraically, and I was hoping the HN community could point me to interesting games, simulations, physical experiments etc. Most adults that I come…

Say you have a working service that has compute servers, a bunch of queues (Kafka, say), a distributed database, Redis etc. Most of the computation is fairly parallelizable. Suppose your product manager says, package…

Problem: Given a frame from a mobile camera's video stream, I need to pick a reference image (from a corpus of images) that the given frame most closely resembles. Input: Mobile frame, Output: file name of reference…

I find the entire edifice of Java Spring Boot all the way down to gradle extraordinarily complex. Does it really have to be this complex? What's the simplest API framework out there that doesn't require one to read…

I'd like to students to learn the importance of immutability, versioned data structures, pattern matching etc. The hope is that once they get comfortable with an FP language, it will have an effect on the way they write…

I have often wondered why it isn't possible to combine swabs from large numbers of people and PCR the soup to check for the presence of a virus. In the best case, one can eliminate large numbers (dorms, hospital…