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Ever since I’ve had a website, I’ve been curious to know who is visiting it and what they do while they’re there. Am I posting into an empty space, or is somebody actually reading?

The most effective way to destroy an organization is to make it more bureaucratic.

It reminded me of the now defunct India-zine http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/

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Here at Keybase, we manage our own infrastructure via “chatops.”

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Signal’s built-in “Censorship Circumvention” feature can be exploited by Adversary-in-The-Middle (AiTM) attacks under certain conditions, but it does not compromise its end-to-end encryption and mainly poses a realistic risk only to high-value targets or state-level actors.

Why switch to Hypervault when established options like Bitwarden and 1Password already exist?

A de-enshitified YouTube experience.

Dan Wang's annual letter (2025) is online.

TL;DR: I built a wifi-equipped water gun to shoot the pigeons on my balcony, controlled over the internet by a python script running openCV reading the camera image of my old iPhone.

How is this different from Linktree and why is signin with Google the only option?

Imagine if you could peek into the books of India’s biggest companies — before quarterly earnings were announced.

The injunction remains in force until the next hearing, scheduled for December 1, 2025.

Google has a long history of performing networking research, making changes, and pushing those changes to the entire internet. In 2011, they published one of my favorite papers, which described their decision to increase the TCP initial congestion window from 1 to 10 on their entire infrastructure.

Really? Asking a third-party dev to vouch for testing counts as risk assessment?

Feels like classic Big-4 CYA checkbox theater.

DIGIPIN is an open-source, geo-coded addressing system developed by India Post in collaboration with IIT Hyderabad and NRSC, ISRO. It enables “Address as a Service” (AaaS) by linking physical locations to its digital representation, allowing seemless encoding/decoding.

This is region specific (India only).

Is this a good way, for the person who's lost his/her wallet to contact the person who's found it?

In the early spring of 1980 I wrote a little story about a bunch of teenage hackers. From the very first draft this story had a name, and lo, the name was--C Y B E R P U N K

When Coldplay decided to play two shows in Mumbai early next year, they vastly underestimated how many Indians desperately wanted to see them live.

Was pleasantly surprised, seeing a hackernews post on films!

If you do research, you have to read a lot of papers. Reading papers is challenging for most people, especially when you're new to it, but what if on top of that, you're fighting against a brain that would rather be doing literally anything else?

Read on to learn how real live ADHD academics manage this challenge in practice.

The notes you write now should be there for you in a 100 years. That's the killer feature.

Books are easy to take for granted.

A case out of California may force a reckoning with the past 50 years of free-speech jurisprudence.

You click, tap and hope like hell, for the magic to happen

Why is my OS an ad platform?

Here's the text of a speech Bill Watterson gave at Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, to the 1990 graduating class.

An excellent explanation as to how DOJ got this right so far.

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You may like to consider helping a larger community or audience with your skills and time.

If being altruistic doesn't sound appealling, you can always lurk around HN and other such virtual water-coolers.