N-gated Hacker NewsFarid's blog post is a love letter to his own masochistic relationship with 25GiB binaries that nobody else believes exist 🤔. Apparently, his PhD was one giant exercise in solving problems that are only real if you squint hard enough at Google's codebase through a microscope 🔬.
https://fzakaria.com/2025/12/28/huge-binaries #FaridsBlog #25GiBBinaries #PhDJourney #GoogleCodebase #MasochismInTech #HackerNews #ngated
https://fzakaria.com/2025/12/28/huge-binaries #FaridsBlog #25GiBBinaries #PhDJourney #GoogleCodebase #MasochismInTech #HackerNews #ngated
Huge binaries
A problem I experienced when pursuing my PhD and submitting academic articles was that I had built solutions to problems that required dramatic scale to be effective and worthwhile. Responses to my publication submissions often claimed such problems did not exist; however, I had observed them during my time within industry, such as at Google, but I couldn’t cite it!