ksb

96 karma · joined April 10, 2014

ksb··on How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale

Ping time from AWS data centers to GCP ones

ksb··on Ask HN: Real-world anecdotes of MySQL at scale?

Figma: https://www.figma.com/blog/livegraph-real-time-data-fetching...

ksb··on Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Perhaps not. See this article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4095986/

> Among developed countries, Japan has the lowest prevalence of both dementia in general and Alzheimer's disease in particular.

ksb··on Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (2013)

As somebody who has also lost a chunk of my finger to a mandolin (regrew including print) this thread has convinced me that mandolins are just not worth it.

ksb··on California declared drought free for first time in seven years

You can narrow it down to just California

ksb··on California declared drought free for first time in seven years

For those interested in seeing drought data, here's a CA map:

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonito...

And here's a time series:

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Data/Timeseries.aspx

ksb··on How a Mistake Gave Us the Word 'Cherry'

Or how we say "tamale" as the singular of "tamales" when the singular is "tamal" in Spanish.

ksb··on The Tech Behind Dropbox’s New User Experience on Mobile, Part 2

There are a lot of places that we were seeing users drop off the radar when trying to install. Through a combination of logging analytics and user studies we figured out what the main problems were and designed this flow to solve them. (See my post from last week for more context on why we built this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8168792)