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Navendu Pottekkat
Personal blog · navendu.me/postsprogrammingsystemsculture
Navendu Pottekkat's personal blog at navendu.me covers programming, systems and culture. Since 2022, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Open Source Internship Programs You Can Apply to (Updated for 2023)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Navendu Pottekkat's posts as context on AI-generated spam pull requests and on Pingora, Cloudflare's Rust proxy, which they say is not an nginx replacement. None of the comments praise the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
"The Open Source Absolutist" is Navendu Pottekkat's personal blog, where he mostly writes about his work and life as an open source contributor/maintainer and an amateur policy analyst.
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/ai-generated-spam-prs/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-29
- Open Source Internship Programs You Can Apply to (Updated for 2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-07
- Non-Code Contributions to Open Source (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-23
- Comparing Kubernetes Gateway and Ingress APIs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-14
- Lessons Learned from Three Years of Open Source Contributions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-07
- ChatGPT: Who Are You?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-21
- /posts/pingora/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-16
What Hacker News says?
I love adding random stuff to my personal website. It might not matter to anyone else, but I love doing it for the sake of doing it. i.e., programming not as a means for an end. Recently, I added a dynamic chart that shows how frequently and how much I work on my website, similar to the GitHub contribution chart. Not the kind of features the author was mentioning, but fun regardless: https://navendu.me/about/#about-…
Comment linking /about/
on “Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites”Submitted Non-Code Contributions to Open Source (2021) as a story · 67 points
HN discussionAs others have mentioned, unless you have a strong conscience and really know what you're doing, it's far too tempting to just accept AI-generated suggestions without really thinking, and IMHO losing that understanding is a dangerous path to go down. AI can only increase quantity, not quality. The industry desperately needs far more of the latter. Related: https://navendu.me/posts/ai-generated-spam-prs/
Comment linking /posts/ai-generated-spam-prs/
on “AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead”Submitted Monitoring Microservices with Prometheus and Grafana as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> But the business benefits that it brings aren't coming from Rust. They are coming from the fact that it's a modern architecture. This is moving the goalposts. Your original post said > I'm not sure there is enough pain for them to get replaced anytime soon. Yet, here one of them is, being replaced at a company that powers ~10% of the traffic on the Internet. But beyond that, your links: > 1. "Pingora is Not an Ngi…
Comment linking /posts/pingora/
on “I Hope Rust Does Not Oxidize Everything”Submitted ChatGPT: Who Are You? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat sounds like a great project :) but 1. "Pingora is Not an Nginx Replacement" https://navendu.me/posts/pingora/ 2. you still put it behind ha-proxy https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora/issues/132 3. https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora says "Pingora keeps a rolling MSRV (minimum supported Rust version) policy of 6 months." so for anyone who dislikes the "constant upgrade treadmill", this won't help much. So my…
Comment linking /posts/pingora/
on “I Hope Rust Does Not Oxidize Everything”Submitted Comparing Kubernetes Gateway and Ingress APIs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs long as crypto gets regulated out of existence, Yes. As long as the crypto exchanges collapses, Yes. As long as we are building better alternatives that are actually in use such as UPI, Pix and the like, Yes. As long as we as a society reject the crypto pyramid schemes and stop allowing more people to join it and in turn losing their life savings completely, Yes. As long as long as crypto dies and withers out of…
Comment linking /posts/upi-vs-crypto/
on “The Case for Banning Crypto”Submitted Non-Code Contributions to Open Source as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt is perfectly fine if the code actually works. At least for now, getting the exact code you want from an AI is a legit skill. This was pure spam. I wrote more about what actually happened here: https://navendu.me/posts/ai-generated-spam-prs/ It can help set some context to the discussions.
Comment linking /posts/ai-generated-spam-prs/
on “Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?”Submitted No Thanks, Crypto, UPI Already Solved Digital Payments as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote more about what actually happened here: https://navendu.me/posts/ai-generated-spam-prs/
Comment linking /posts/ai-generated-spam-prs/
on “Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?”Submitted You Might Need a College Degree for a Programming Job as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned from Three Years of Open Source Contributions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Internship Programs You Can Apply to (Updated for 2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Internship Programs You Can Apply to (Updated for 2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT Explained by ChatGPT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hands-On: Extending Ingress with Annotations, CRDs, and Plugins as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Retro Gaming with RetroPie, GPi Case 2, and a Raspberry Pi as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Kubernetes Gateway and Ingress APIs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned from Three Years of Open Source Contributions as a story · 1 points
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