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rschachteon Everything a hacker needs to know about getting busted (1998)

Neat story, thanks for sharing. Love hearing stuff like this from before my time.

rschachteon Ask HN: What topics do you enjoy learning about for fun?

Any resources you'd recommend for beginners in this area?

rschachteon Ask HN: Share your personal site

Built this so I could improve my CSS and have some uniqueness to my thoughts (visually). Fun to have a little corner on the web!

rschachteon Ask HN: In a LeetCode-style interview, wise to admit to seeing a problem before?

No. Pure leetcode interviews are flawed by design. Personally, I love leetcode and have received offers from FAANG et al, but if they put no effort into the value of their questions, I would just solve it and move on. If you aren’t a good fit and they find that out later, it’s on the company to reevaluate how they interview. Obviously a personal opinion that might be a moral gray area, but it’s time for companies to rethink these pure leetcode styled interviews and ask things with substance.

Recently I had some extremely thought provoking conversations with a team. We discussed architecture design, scalability, optimizations I’ve done in my own work, how I think about architecting systems and we did some pair programming. It was awesome! They evaluated me from so many different angles. Some personality evaluations, interviews where I got to ask questions back to back to them, relevant questions to my experience, hands on pair programming. Sure it was a bit long, but I got to interview THEM as well. The final interview was the manager wanting feedback on the interview itself and if it was fair, so they could pivot and improve if necessary.

Btw this wasn’t even a small company, which goes to show anyone _could_ do these types of interviews if they trained the interviewers properly.

rschachteon Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

UI looks great to me too. Thanks for the comment, I'll skip on downloading this though because of the outgoing requests

rschachteon Ask HN: How can I learn about video encoding, h.264, ffmpeg, etc.

Thanks a lot this is awesome!

rschachteon Ask HN: How to avoid career stagnation in my 20s?

Thanks for the feedback! I think specialization is something I'm really interested in. I have really been envious reading random Github repos lately realizing how expert some people really are (infosec, math, distributed systems, etc) that I just haven't had the exposure to do at a crazy scale.

Thanks for the comment!

rschachteon Ask HN: Upcoming interview with Engineering manager and Engineering Director

This is a good guide written by the co-founder of Stack Overflow.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...

Tips on what questions to ask exist within this article.

rschachteon White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug

Really cool to see Saurik posting here casually. You’re work on Cydia when I was 12 years old is what got me into programming in the first place. Nice work!

rschachteon Introduction to Algorithms, Fourth Edition

Neat, thanks for sharing. I have the original copy of this hardcover.

rschachteon Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies

yah, I have actually thought about this. Tbf, I'm not advocating strongly for or against blockchain. I'm just keeping an open mind in the same way when web 1.0 was being developed and researched.

I think it's fairly destructive to just discount new technology based on feeling. It really is a fun technology to learn and the more minds like we see on HN that research the topic, the more likelihood we will have in expanding the usefulness and security of blockchain use-cases.

rschachteon Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies

Some things take time to develop, be adopted and optimized. Not everything in tech is a Javascript framework.

rschachteon Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies

The statistical likelihood of a 51% attack happening on the blockchain seems statistically way less likely than a hack targeting our existing financial system.

I mean, it's pretty easy why blockchains are considered immutable, you can even code one from scratch in Python in less than 200 lines of code.

To control 51% of all those hashing power, an entity would need to power computers that works as much as that, along with paying for the equipment and energy consumption and whatever costs needed for the operation. Current estimates of Bitcoin mining energy usage stands at 71 TeraWatthour, enough to power the whole country of Austria.

rschachteon Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies

Blockchain is an immutable ledger. Sure there are scams, just like there are on the regular internet, however, I think there is a lot of potential for blockchain. We're in the early phases of it, but there is more to blockchain that just the currency aspect of it.

rschachteon A personal blog with articles&videos, which tech stack will you recommend?

I coded one up in Next.js.

https://ryan-schachte.com

rschachteon Dynamic table of contents using recursion trees

I know, it's a great one! Thanks for reading

rschachteon Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?

Was it a massive pay cut?

rschachteon How to programmatically find out if computer is on

Maybe it’s a probability function. Something like “hey there’s a .7 percent chance your computer is engulfed in flames”

rschachteon Trie in JavaScript: The data structure behind autocomplete

I made a video implementing one of these from scratch in Java if anyone is interested:

https://youtu.be/Ye2_C_Nw_Ow

rschachteon Ask HN: How to Grow My Money?

I loved the bogleheads book!

rschachteon Ask HN: How to start learning about investments?

I second this book. Changed my life and has netted me thousands

rschachteon Parsing Algorithms

Is the site down?

rschachteon Show HN: Tetris Implemented in ClojureScript

This is sick! Link to source: https://github.com/djblue/tetris

rschachteon Show HN: Programmatically Generate Diagrams for GitHub Readmes

It would work the same way as imgur or another image hosting provider. The app is in it's beginning phases to show the concept, but I'm adding blob storage on Azure. The image would get interpolated no different than anything else.

rschachteon Show HN: Programmatically Generate Diagrams for GitHub Readmes

Cool!

rschachteon Show HN: GitHub Bot to Limit Pull Requests

Hi there. I was considering adding this to gitenforcer, but just needed a small fix. There was an issue at my company where too many PRs were getting put up and not enough people reviewing.

This is a tenancy of the agile methodology to have some sort of WIP, so we tried it out as an experiment and it greatly improved pushing PRs through to master.

rschachteon Show HN: Programmatically Generate Diagrams for GitHub Readmes

Hey there! Not a bad idea. Can you make an issue on the repo?

rschachteon Show HN: Programmatically Generate Diagrams for GitHub Readmes

Ah, that's a neat tool! I've actually been kind of looking for something like this for work. Thanks for sharing.

rschachteon Explaining Docker and Containers

docker run will run a little base image (such as ubuntu), but the host kernel is indeed shared.

The Docker Client and the Docker Daemon (together called the Docker Engine) are running on the Host OS.

Each container shares the Host OS kernel.

rschachteon Understanding Async in JavaScript and Node

Hope you guys enjoy, trying to make more content for the new year!