HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

ketanip

105 karma · joined June 28, 2021

submissionscomments
ketanip··on Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says
I think it may affect their ad revenue adversely, as users will just block website from which they see too many ads, in some cases people may just began to use it like a in-build ad blocker.
ketanip··on Man uses flowpilot on Redmi Note 9 pro to drive Alto K10 in India
Well if flowpilot thing can work on Indian highways in such weather conditions it can go a long way in US and Europe.
ketanip··on Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative
Very nice and easy to use product. Loved that you provided an live version to try it without any signup wall or anything.

Also won't DocuSign accuse you of "misleading" their customers by using a name that is "too similar" to their ?

ketanip··on MetaGPT:Open-Source Framework for Innovative AI-Powered Applications
So in near future can it do to basic custom CRUD apps what WordPress did to websites ?
ketanip··on Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js
Demo video is awesome. Loved it.
ketanip··on Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy
I see a lot of opposition to Nuclear Energy in EU and particularly Germany, can anyone tell me why ?

As far as I know, only nuclear has power to stop our reliance on fossil fuels as it can produce a constant supply of power and handle energy demand spikes like no other, and for Europe is more important as Russia can just cut energy supply to Europe and it will cause horrible effects to Europe's economy.

ketanip··on Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it
lol
ketanip··on Ask HN: Free and open source distributed database written in C++ or C
It is like cloud spanner and open source.
ketanip··on DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
I really like that about Linode, no click to see crap.
ketanip··on The Uber Bubble
> Uber isn't a startup anymore. It's a publicly traded company.

THIS

ketanip··on Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”
So should one stay away from GCP as google can associate their personal account and profession account, and if the system detect some action which triggers it in personal account it may block all accounts and so there could be a severe data loss and other reputational losses of the company ?
ketanip··on Nike.com's robots.txt
just crawl it, a perfect ad.
ketanip··on UK.gov to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok
Open VPN on Digital Ocean Marketplace: https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/openvpn-access-ser...

Vultr ( Cheapest $2.5/Month): https://www.vultr.com/marketplace/apps/openvpn Linode: https://www.linode.com/marketplace/apps/linode/openvpn/ Hetzern, or any other cheap VPS provider as your are not storing any data on it anyways so even it dies or corrupts it shouldn't be a problem.

Open VPN has a clients for every major platform: https://openvpn.net/vpn-client/

Make sure do your research about Open VPN and VPS before using any of it.

ketanip··on I got pwned by my cloud costs
Datapacket shows Discord on their customer list, I didn't know discord used VPS / Bare Metal or is it like they just tried it once and Datapacket struck their name to their landing page ?
ketanip··on I got pwned by my cloud costs
Cloudflare Bandwidth Alliance.
ketanip··on Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding challenges
Loved it, its super fun.
ketanip··on Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
Bing is best for image search but it suck on mobile.
ketanip··on Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
As DDG obtains its results from Bing I think Bing is deliberately trying to downgrade quality of search so as to make people use its service and its working I usually find the results that I need on Bing and not on DDG using same query.

Google is going in wrong way and just promoting spam sites and ads.

ketanip··on Ask HN: Do we need an easier Git?
395K commands only needed for daily use, lol
ketanip··on Ask HN: Can payment processors like Stripe and their fees be avoided?
Also it is supported by all payment apps including PayTm, PhonePe, and Google Pay India.
ketanip··on Ask HN: Can payment processors like Stripe and their fees be avoided?
lol
ketanip··on Ask HN: Can payment processors like Stripe and their fees be avoided?
In India we have UPI by government no fees.

It is a new way of payments that removes need for middleman and government even has a official app ( BHIM App ) for it and most importantly it is a protocol so anyone can use it without third parties ( private companies )involved.

It now also supports subscriptions.

Read more:

UPI transactions over $100bn in Oct

Read more at: 1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface 2. UPI transactions over $100bn in Oct http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/87474515.cms 3. Search Google for "UPI in India"

ketanip··on Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. supercomputing system
Did they had any other separated backups ?
ketanip··on Ask HN: Why is metaverse land valuable?
Can you eloborate ?
ketanip··on Ask HN: Why is metaverse land valuable?
I am seeing it on twitter, youtube and more general on social media that people are saying that they are buying virtual plots of land on blockchain in virtual reality world, as they are planning to flip those plots for profits.
ketanip··on Why the hell is supabase using Auth0 for its auth?
That's great to hear. I am also wishing to start a SaaS with pay-per-use model in a similar manner to Supabase, if you don't mind I have few questions for you.

1. What should with data of user one do when someone fails to do their subscription payment or cancels it?

2. How to manage usage based billing on the day before their card is charged ?

ketanip··on Notes on Web3
I thought I was the only one who thought this but thank god others think the same.

### Main uses ?

Most people talk about censorship and decentralization but what percentage of consumers care about it negligible.

If you want to fight against censorship then just create a website on dark web ( like NYT has ), you can also use tools like Onion Share ( I haven't tested it yet ) if you have no idea how to do complicated stetting up of a dark web site.

### Decentralization

WEB 3.0 people talk about decentralization and spread their word on Twitter and discord ( Centralized means of communication ) but will never host a node of mastodon or Matrix Chat, which is a real way forward if you want to fight these platforms but no as if they will do then people will know, Oh Shit Decentralized web already exists and this will drop the value of token will drop as people will know there it no future in wasting hardware capabilities for nothing. Even a silly dog shit coin ( DOGE ) can has so much value what the hell is going on, its not even limited.

When people talk about IPFS they can only say it is decentralized and stuff but can it ever compete with the speed and cost efficiency of AWS S3, GCP Storage or Azure's offering, or even a self hosted 3 replica set on MinIO, never. And we have go guarantee of availability on IPFS so that's a big no at least for me. Also it is so slow that Cloudflare is caching content on IPFS they told in their recent blog post, so where is the decentralized bit am I missing something.

Also some decentralized blockchains have invite only miners program, so where is decentralization, am I missing some thing ?

### Is it forever ?

NO. Believe Me.

Who the hell is going to use mining resources used now when all coins are mined out and sold. No one with a right mind, as there will be a very less incentive to do so. And who will stop the spread of misinformation without censorship, well we can't ( theoretically ).

### Environmental Impact

Now let's talk about environmental impact that no one is going to talk about, why "We don't do that here.". It is one of the worst in a news article I read recently it said that it takes energy that would be required by 2 households in a day to process one transaction on Bitcoin. Global Warming WTF is that ask crypto coins.

### How do coin and protocol developers make money ?

While doing research about WEB 3.0, I was wondering how the hell are companies developing products will make their money to remain in business and thus maintaining the projects and you how they will keep around about 15-20% or more of initial coins for them. Or if it is a company like Brave ( makers of brave browser who blocks others ads and show people their ads and makers of token BAT ) pre mint all the coins and wallah here comes the centralization in the coin.

Web 3.0 can never obtain or create new innovative technologies like FANG as they can hire best engineers who really enjoy their work and their salary do not depend on value a silly token so they try to promote it everywhere they go.

Now companies like twitter and discord and facing backlash as they unveil their plans to use tokens, so that's actually good I think.

### Any Solution:

Yes, if you are on the immutability train let me introduce you to ImmuDB https://github.com/codenotary/immudb it is a super fast, so fast that blockchains can never accomplish these speeds "SQL SQL SQL" database which is so much more feature rich then the dumb blockchain.

If you are on public ledger thing then just create a read-only node of database and let it open to public so everyone can use it, there are 1000s if not millions of people who know SQL that only few who the blockchain protocols.

### How can a blockchain be destroyed ?

Simple Method Govt. can just block transaction from banks and exchanges and you are done no one accepts silly coins in real world.

Hard Method ( Permanent / Long Lasting ) As far as my knowledge blockchains are venerable to 51% attack which people say is impossible, but let's say I'm XYZ country and I want to ruin a blockchain I will just force all the cloud providers in my country ( big and small ) to lend their computers for few minutes for free or paid and then just do 51% attack and ruin it and then when other good people will do the 51% attack to reset it to original form we know that it is not immutable and people will lose trust and wallah you just shot yourself in the foot and value of your tokens and all other tokens is below the ground.

### How to can content on IPFS be blocked ?

Govt. can just tell ISP to block url to IPFS on web ( like cloudflare thing ) and check it against banned IPFS content signature and you have successfully blocked IPFS content. As govt. keeps a list of porn sites they can keep one for IPFS over http and update them regularly.

So torrent it let's say 100 times if not 1000 times better that it.

### How censor people on Web 3.0 ?

This is the biggest argument I hear so I decided to tell people a simple way to do it. Enjoy :).

Just do it in frontend as social media today do, that's it. Then the Web 3.0 people say we will just use another frontend and well that's what we do today.

For example: If some content is not available in your country let's say on reddit then you can just use another reddit client or if you are a pro then just read JSON response from the public API, or just use a VPN or TOR.

## Why ?

I was frustrated will all this Web 3.0 coins and speculation everywhere so I wrote it and it is more that what I expected that I would write, also if you find any grammatical, spelling or any other errors just let me know I will fox it.

ketanip··on Read any Article in a tracker free enviorment
It is a simple application that gets article from given source parses it and presents you in a standard format in a private envoirment with no trackers in it.

It is open source: https://github.com/KetanIP/private-article-reader

ketanip··on How we built a serverless SQL database
> fridge-door/light situation going on

what does it mean ?

ketanip··on AI Is No Match for the Quirks of Human Intelligence
I am really new to this AI game and I hear it from many people that it is the future and some say it is the hype.

I think the future is on middle ground, but I'm not sure what that middle ground it can any one tell from their experience and/or expertise what that middle ground is ?

Page 1 of 2Next →