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Sridhar Ratnakumar
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Sridhar Ratnakumar's personal blog at srid.ca covers programming. Since 2015, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Stay Niche”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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34mentions?
15HN people?
2015–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Sridhar Ratnakumar's personal site, linked for notes on using Nix for Rust packaging and development, and for a page on the NixOS moderation dispute. Comments mostly cite or link these pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /nixos-mod4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-04-23
- /unwoke3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-03
- Stay Niche2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-17
What Hacker News says?
> Keto and carnivore diets are fad diets that are just another way to get to calorie restriction I wouldn't be so confident in publicly discouraging my fellow human beings from trying these diets. Speaking personally, I tried various diets -- raw milk diet (drinking 4L of raw milk a day), vegan diet, fruitarian diet, keto diet, caloric restriction, etc. -- before discovering that the carnivore diet helped my own con…
Comment linking /carnivore-diet
on “It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis”Submitted Understanding Elm as a story · 75 points
HN discussionHere are my two favorite (bookmarked) links for packaging and developing for rust. The trick is keep packaging and rust development separate and use specific dev environment flakes. So for dev work just bring cargo and rust as the nativeBuildInputs in mkShell (and any non rust dependencies) and then use standard cargo for development. But for packaging use one of the fancy tools. 1. https://srid.ca/rust-nix 2. https…
Comment linking /rust-nix
on “How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect”Submitted Cerveau: A future-proof web app for notes as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> arbitrary external measures of their personal definition of success You say 'external' meausures, but these do manifest as internal identities - all of which collectively form your social identity: https://srid.ca/identity/social
Comment linking /identity/social
on “210 IQ Is Not Enough”Submitted Neuron 0.6 released – Future-proof note-taking system as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> the problem with farmed fish is that it simply doesn't taste nearly as good as the wild-caught versions. I eat wild-caught salmon every day (as part of https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet ) and can totally confirm this. Farmed salmon's taste is very off-putting. I noticed this only after switching to wild salmon for a few weeks.
Comment linking /carnivore-diet
on “The problem with farmed seafood”Submitted Neuron 0.4 – Zettelkasten note management system as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've found Pop!_OS 24.04 beta, with COSMIC, to be more suitable for my preferences than Omarchy. You get the best of both worlds -- hybrid tiling experience. You can toggle between tiling (like Hyprland) and regular desktop environment (like GNOME). https://srid.ca/pop-os
Comment linking /pop-os
on “A Word on Omarchy”Submitted Neuron 1.0 released (Future-proof note-taking) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> https://srid.ca/unwoke i mean, this is a set of opinions and positions that are far beyond anything that could be called "moderate opinion[s] on gender representation" and are pretty uncontroversially terrible, particularly in the context of any non-homogeneous community of people if you post something like this to the public internet and stand behind it, then man i'm not sure what you expect, you're self-identify…
Comment linking /unwoke
on “NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference”Submitted Composability and generic routes in Ema 0.8 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou are not allowed to have a moderate opinion on gender representation in tech, and you are not allowed to have photos of steak on your NixOS discussion forum profile: https://srid.ca/nixos-mod
Comment linking /nixos-mod
on “NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference”Submitted Stay Niche as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJon Ringer (who got permabanned) has a YouTube video talking about several events around NixOS moderation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp0FI8Gw1iA My own permanban is detailed in this post: https://srid.ca/nixos-mod
Comment linking /nixos-mod
on “NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference”Submitted Encrypted Virtual Folder as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI did this for a while. It was great in the beginning, but gets boring soon. I now do quite well on eggs and ground beef. Been eating like this for many years now: https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet
Comment linking /carnivore-diet
on “Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why”Submitted A concise introduction to `generics-sop` as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> My experience with these things tells me Tim won't find much respect there(even when he returns) unless the whole leadership is now replaced. I think this is the crux of the matter. The Python community was great when it was still niche. Corruption is likely to happen the more popular a group becomes. This is why I advocate staying niche: https://srid.ca/niche
Comment linking /niche
on “Core Python developer suspended for three months”Submitted Vanilla Emacs on NixOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLocation: Quebec, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Go, Python, Elixir, Backend, PaaS. Technologies, extra: Elm, PureScript, Haskell, FRP, Lisp, Clojure Résumé/CV: http://srid.ca Email: srid@srid.ca http://srid.ca https://github.com/srid
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2017)”Mostly beef, but occasionally eggs & fish as well. Chicken wings on an odd occasion. I've written about my diet here: https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet
Comment linking /carnivore-diet
on “Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body”That works if you have healthy gut flora, but not for others. Including yours truly: https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet
Comment linking /carnivore-diet
on “Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body”Also relevant reading: https://srid.ca/nixos-mod How certain, ideologically and politically driven parts of community conduct themselves against anyone they suspect of wrongthink: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/delroths-muting-in-the-moderat...
Comment linking /nixos-mod
on “My BDFL guiding principles”I've been following the actions and discussions of these activists in NixOS community since November last year. Note that you can't discuss this open letter -- or any issues of that nature -- openly in the official places (NixOS Discourse & Matrix), because there is a risk of getting tarred as "fascist" or "concern-troll" before getting banned. Someone named Ailunarenth respectfully engaged in such a discussion only…
Comment linking /nixos-mod
on “Open letter to the NixOS foundation”You may consider this view biased, but we have this: https://srid.ca/nixos-mod * September 2023: The "Nix Community Survey 2023" is looking for gender data, and the mods don't like that most contributors are men. * November 2023: The moderation team tries to institute a Code of Conduct https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/114 ... and they get their way * November 2023: Some are not happy about it: https://discourse.ni…
Comment linking /nixos-mod
on “Nix: The Breaking Point”>It's in the thread I linked, the very post you quoted. He started a poll to ask if he should be banned over him posting the "unwoke" page Except he didn't post it, he had it in his profile. This is a key distinction. >And now the same people that want (impossibly) apolitical spaces It's not impossible, it's something we had before the rise of Newchurch [0], and it's something mission driven communities are moving t…
Comment linking /unwoke
on “NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community”It's in the thread I linked, the very post you quoted. He started a poll to ask if he should be banned over him posting the "unwoke" page of his digital garden, when the stipulation he already preliminarily agreed to was to not bring it up in Nix spaces. An organization that allows for persistent relitigating and rules-lawyering can't have effective moderation (they're not countries after all), do I don't know what…
Comment linking /unwoke
on “NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community”We use Neuron ( https://www.srid.ca/ ). Neuron also is available as a service ( https://beta.cerveau.app/ ) similar to ReadTheDocs ( https://readthedocs.org/ ). All content is a markdown document (think 'portability' vs. alternative systems where content is more tightly integrated with the service). MD docs are easily linked to build a network of ideas over time. All instances are generated from our GitHub repos whe…
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on “Ask HN: What personal knowledge base software do you use?”For anyone looking to get a summary of the whole NixOS drama, Jon Ringer (who got permabanned) has a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp0FI8Gw1iA My own permanban is detailed in this post: https://srid.ca/nixos-mod
Comment linking /nixos-mod
on “NixOS moderation team resigns in protest of Steering Committee interference”
