Stories by x-sam

How Email Works

CS Books I'll be reading in 2026

Show HN: Google Drive sync erased my data, so I built a proper backup tool

Little POC AI-based shopping assistant

$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch

Show HN: DiaryPal -Share Your Diary

Google has added more value to my life than any other top company

Master Control Program

1B DB Records Update Challenge – My Approach

I Made a Configurable Rate Limiter Because APIs Can't Say 'Chill'

Internal tool reduced our LLM (ChatGPT/Claude) costs by 70% for document Q&A

Building a Redis Clone – Turning a Single Node into a Distributed Cluster

Building a Redis Clone from Scratch – Part 1: In-Memory KV Store with TCP

Bloomberg Terminal for GPUs – Because Compute Is the New Currency

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