Author here. There is growing AI slop on social media. Recommender systems push what works and there is some slop that works for someone approximately like you. These systems are functioning exactly as intended, which means the issue is what they're optimizing for. Not AI.
Hi HN, I wanted to avoid database lookups by embedding small state directly into URLs and K8s labels. While Kotlin has excellent serialization libraries, they aren't built for this, often leaving you to rely on manually doing it.
To solve this, I built kencode as an extension for kotlinx.serialization. It automatically packs booleans and nullability into a single bit-header and uses ZigZag encoding to generate tight Base62 tokens. I wrote up a technical breakdown of the implementation.
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