HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

h43k3r

1,551 karma · joined September 16, 2014

A fresh undergraduate. Find more about me on www.harshillodhi.co.in
submissionscomments
h43k3r··on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
Unfortunately, there are very few/no options in the market which don't spy on you. Let me know if you get one especially in the OLED space
h43k3r··on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
I don't think you need any software updates for your TV. I have a LG oled which I haven't connected to Internet for the last 3 years. Just do a factory reset and don't connect TV to Internet. Everything works without software updates
h43k3r··on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]
I used to think the same before I bought a hybrid (Honda CRV). It is different from Toyota but also a very simple setup (generator + ev at low to medium speeds and direct drive at high speeds). It technically doesn't even have a gear box and no alternator. It has less maintenance items than its ICE equivalent. (Not taking into account the battery replacement in long term)
h43k3r··on [dead]
Paypal owned Honey seems to be using sneaky UX to get affiliate share. They are overriding affiliate links just before the checkout.

They are also using deceptive advertising to users by promising them best coupon codes. But they don't apply the best coupon code even when they know about it.

h43k3r··on Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job
What a great comment. Thanks for writing this out.

One more thing to mention here is that Software Engineers are paid more because the industry is able to scale well to individual engineers outputs.

One thing where Software Engineers differ from a lot of others is asymmetric input and output. A single change in production can save millions of dollars easily. This is possible but difficult to do in other engineering fields like Construction, Hardware etc.

h43k3r··on NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2
I love the engineering behind Voyager 2. Is there a good book or documentary that folks here on HN recommend to go deep on the various engineering pieces behind Voyager ?
h43k3r··on America has paid a steep price for parking
Public transportation is not dangerous but cycling on roads made for cars is.
h43k3r··on John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
This is exactly what I did. I imported my GPad in 2013. It is still working as a pdf reader with its screen seperated.

I am planning to do some DIY fix and going to donate it. There are many kids here in India who needs a digital device to do their online classes but have to use a small screen phone

h43k3r··on 25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build
Author has written his own router software and probably wants to continue to develop it. They are much more pro than your normal average home user.
h43k3r··on Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible
This has already started happening in India where thiefs are replacing QR codes which are stuck outside of a Shop
h43k3r··on Disasters I've seen in a microservices world
Googler here. You are absolutely right. I would never ever do something the Google way outside of Google.

Google has a dedicated organisation for maintaining all the infrastructure required for and around microservices. We are talking about 500-1000 engineers just improving and maintaining the infrastructure.

I don't have to worry about things like distributed tracing, monitoring, authentication, logs, logs search, logs parsing for exceptions, anamoly detection on logs, deployment, release management etc. They are already there and is glued pretty well that 90 percent of engineers don't even have to spend more than a day to understand all that.

h43k3r··on Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C
Yes
h43k3r··on Programming is hard
This is so true of me. Never really liked solving puzzles, cubes, riddles etc. But programming, oh boy I Love it. Have spent hours non stop debugging complex things in OS, Networks, Distributed systems etc. The feeling of solving it at the end is a small dose of drug.
h43k3r··on GitHub Actions is experiencing degraded performance
Sandboxed containers.
h43k3r··on Kubernetes Failure Stories
Lookup Google's Spanner. It's a distributed transactional SQL database with whatever consistency levels you are interested in

Disclaimer- Google employee who is heavily using Spanner

h43k3r··on After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off
You are right about content. But in that case FB should have clearly communicated about violations for those pages and given a chance to correct them.

Also taking down personal accounts seems more like an automated action where a graph of related accounts are taken down.

h43k3r··on Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
If you have a bit of interest in programming, math and art, this is 1 hour of pure joy. Thanks for this
h43k3r··on Google outage – resolved
There is IRC as backup
h43k3r··on Google outage – resolved
Everything is affected. Its Gaia(Google Auth) outage, most probably.

Disclaimer - Googler here whose workplace chat is not working.

h43k3r··on WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic
https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-th...

A good writeup by Forbes.

Big ad companies and media houses need to put pressure against false advertisement. I have not seen a single article by any indian newspaper on this topic.

Offtopic-I would like this to blow up disproportionately because the only way whitehatjr is gonna backoff is because of a media backlash

h43k3r··on DoorDash S-1
Pizza has really good margins
h43k3r··on Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year
If you compare just the house rents in all the major Indian metros then PPP is around 4 5.
h43k3r··on Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network
Any tips on moving a Node.js based Ghost blog to Netlify. I am open to moving to static blog generators.
h43k3r··on Brave files adtech complaint against Google
There are more than billion people in India who will be internet users and who don't have the ability to shell out this kind of money. 10 dollars is probably 2 day salary for many workers.
h43k3r··on Ask HN: How do you handle long-running workflows at your company?
We have a lot of long running workflows written in DTF

https://github.com/Azure/durabletask

h43k3r··on India has a hole where its middle class should be
No, only a very few houses have cooks. It is usually the housewives that cook the food for the whole family.
h43k3r··on Andrew Wiles on the struggle and beauty of mathematics
I watched this documentary during a summer afternoon and I was left with tears in my eyes. It was touching and inspiring. A lot of hard work went into proving this. It made me appreciate mathematics in a much more deep sense.
h43k3r··on Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017
Why don't you use LastPass mobile app, it seems to work for me.
h43k3r··on Recompiler: Porting Xbox360 Executables to Windows
How is it possible for one single person to figure all of these things ? I am new to the industry ( 2 years ) and have only worked on Front End and Back End ( APIs) .
h43k3r··on Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA
India has Immediate Payment Service ( IMPS ) which allows instant transfer. It's great for most of the transfers and works 365/24/7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate_Payment_Service

Page 1 of 5Next →