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dilawar

1,986 karma · joined January 21, 2017

Rust | C++ | Python | PHP | Systems Engineer

https://github.com/dilawar

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dilawar··on Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
What the guarantee is that folks won't abuse this system in the same way they do the citation system? The recommendation letter system is often abused for the pettiest of reasons...
dilawar··on Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?
EE folks should design languages because they understand hardware better?!

And CS folks should design hardwares because they understand concurrency better?!

dilawar··on So you want to build a tunnel
I prefer text too but this channel is just amazing..
dilawar··on Quartz crystals
Just realised this video is referenced in the article! Didn't read it carefully.
dilawar··on Quartz crystals
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/wHenisSTUQY?si=oNOHR9QRCG3GYvf2
dilawar··on A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times
There are extremely competent coworkers I wouldn't like them as neighbours. Some of my great neighborhoods would make very sloppy and annoying coworkers.

These people are terrible at their job, perhaps a bit malicious too. They may be great people as friends and colleagues.

dilawar··on The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
The current prime minister of India once announced that he has Ph.D. in "all of the political science". Asked for proof, they produced his degree from Delhi University. No one who got their degree at that place during that time can't recall seeing him in the classroom!

But that's nothing compared to this man. I usually avoid his news but seeing him grabbing fifa peace price wasn't a good sight.

dilawar··on Architecture for Disposable Systems
I like the perspective and phrasing. Build the foundation carefully and vibe code colors on the wall, decoration in the room, and design of wallpaper/carpets

Want a dashboard from an API with openapi docs or from SQL database with known schema, or want a quick interactive GUI that highlights something in `perf stat` data, unleash claude.

dilawar··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
Location: Bengaluru, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, C++, Python, PHP; Simulator, endpoint security, APIs Résumé/CV: https://writer.zoho.in/writer/open/pcgrw8df7170fcabb45fdbb75... Email: dilawar_s@zohomail.in

I have 10y of experience working at startups and academic labs. Especially looking for working on endpoint security products, numerical simulator or algorithms or building system level components (Rust/C++).

dilawar··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
"Happiness can't buy me money" -- Some actor
dilawar··on Why India's big cities are becoming unliveable
Your politician is as corrupt as any, but people have more trust among each other. It's far easier for women to go out alone, camp outside in the night. It's getter better as you go more south. Not sure about AP/Telangana though!
dilawar··on Why India's big cities are becoming unliveable
I think one of the European embassy moved from Delhi to Banglore which has much better air and climate but terrible traffic and garbage issues.
dilawar··on Why India's big cities are becoming unliveable
Not sure about the subjective part though I feel that the OP is right.

My experience growing up in India is that we are extremely tolerant of corruption and self aggrandisement. In fact, people speak of envy and admiration of folks working in govt who even takes bribes even to issue death and birth certificate.

The corruption of the profession of teachers and doctors is something I've witnessed myself. In just the last 20 years, no one in my village shows any respect for both of them. Things were very different when I was a kid.

Personally I do believe that ours is a very cynical, low trust and 'corrupt' society. Though southern India is much better than North (especially the Ganges planes).

dilawar··on Mathematicians Crack a Fractal Conjecture on Chaos
That's deep!
dilawar··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
dsn parser is open source, https://github.com/dilawar/dsn-parser (WIP). Some part of PCB routing will be open-source (MIT).
dilawar··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
I just finished a dsn parser and now I am planning to write a pcb router. All in rust. The plan is to have a wasm/wasi version as well so routing is possible in the browser.
dilawar··on Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow
Reminds me of mercurial cvs!!
dilawar··on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
might is right. /s
dilawar··on 10 Years of Let's Encrypt
A couple of years ago, I went through the process of signing a kenel minifiter that I wrote for our endpoint-security product. It was complicated, to put it mildly.

Imagine if we had a similar process for websites! Thanks Let's Encrypt.

dilawar··on Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban
Can't zero knowledge proof solve this problem?

Submit a zkp that you are over 18 to the website that requires it. The proof need not be tied to the identity of the user.

I personally don't think self-regulation works. It's harmful so the next best option is the government regulating it.

dilawar··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
> I've always assumed peer review is similar to diff review. Where I'm willing to sign my name onto the work of others. If I approve a diff/pr and it takes down prod. It's just as much my fault, no?

Ph.D. in neuroscience here. Programmer by trade. This is not true. Less you know about most peer revies is better.

The better peer reviews are also not this 'thorough' and no one expects reviewers to read or even check references. Unless they are citing something they are familiar with and you are using it wrong then they will likely complain. Or they find some unknown citations very relevant to their work, they will read.

I don't have a great analogy to draw here. peer review is usually a thankless and unpaid work so there is unlikely to be any motivation for fraud detection unless it somehow affects your work.

dilawar··on Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows
Put some mustard on your head and let a cow lick it dry... The pull will grow hair and the cow tongue will cleanse your aura.
dilawar··on Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
Something similar: Kolmogorov complexity.

There is a finite size program that can generate infinite digits of pi (in infinite time). Kolmogorov's complexity of pi is finite even when the object is infinite.

It's not very surprising that it takes a few GB of a program to encode conscious 'us'. Humbling to think about it though...

dilawar··on How sea turtles learn locations using Earth’s magnetic field: research
It should.

Original paper is behind a paywall and this article has no details

The abstract says

> Conditioned responses in this new magnetic map assay were unaffected by radiofrequency oscillating magnetic fields, a treatment expected to disrupt radical-pair-based chemical magnetoreception4,5,6, suggesting that the magnetic map sense of the turtle does not rely on this mechanism. By contrast, orientation behaviour that required use of the magnetic compass was disrupted by radiofrequency oscillating magnetic fields. The findings provide evidence that two different mechanisms of magnetoreception underlie the magnetic map and magnetic compass in sea turtles.

dilawar··on We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Smell-O-Scope
dilawar··on WebAssembly from the Ground Up
I keep hearing about this. I occasionally use PHP8 and so far I'm pretty happy with it. Is there any resource that teaches about security issues with modern PHP (version 8.x)?
dilawar··on Show HN: DeltaGlider – Store 4TB of build artifacts in 5GB
Nice...

Perhaps it can be easily integrated into self-hosted gitlab to manage artifacts?

dilawar··on Fungus in Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone has mutated to 'feed' on radiation (2024)
I few months ago I learnt something related that may be a common knowledge to many here. I feel silly that I didn't know.

Earth had a plastic like problem before. There were no fungi that eat cellulose so dead trees were just piling up without degrading. Those trees turned into ~petroleum~ coal that we consume now.

That trees somehow turned into ~petroleum~ coal, I learnt in school. I used to imagine trees were somehow buried under stand suddenly and before they could be degraded they turned into ~petroleum~ coal under heavy pressure.

dilawar··on The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
Thanks for the link. Great read.

Apparently Dijesktra loved using em-dash!

dilawar··on A prvalue is not a temporary
Looks like a cultural problem in C++ land. I liked the article and it is very nicely written. But I am sure I am not gonna remember it after a week.

RAII is even worse!

Can't they have better descriptive names?

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