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kirubakaranon Emacs 2011-2023

I once happened to be with a coworker setting up VSCode on his new laptop. I was shocked by the reckless abandon with which he installed all kinds of third party extensions.

kirubakaranon No Experience Necessary (2003)

If all it takes is 3 smart motivated post-docs with no experience, then wouldn't the brain drain need to be 100% for it to be the reason?

kirubakaranon No Experience Necessary (2003)

> How do you know this?

I can't know for sure of course. But it seems reasonable to me to think that at least most of the dictators would want to have nukes to keep their hold on power. And there are many.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/dictators...

kirubakaranon No Experience Necessary (2003)

How do you explain that most countries that want to become nuclear powers aren't able to do it?

kirubakaranon Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?

Further research is needed

kirubakaranon Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?

He didn't go insane, but the doctors he challenged forcibly had him committed

> In 1865, János Balassa wrote a document referring Semmelweis to a mental institution. On 30 July, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra lured him, under the pretense of visiting one of Hebra's "new Institutes", to a Viennese insane asylum located in Lazarettgasse. Semmelweis surmised what was happening and tried to leave. He was severely beaten by several guards, secured in a straitjacket, and confined to a darkened cell. Apart from the straitjacket, treatments at the mental institution included dousing with cold water and administering castor oil, a laxative. He died after two weeks

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

kirubakaranon Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?

You're doing important work. Thank you!

kirubakaranon Andy Bechtolsheim charged with insider trading

"I'd settle immediately too. 900k fine or 400k illicit gains means nothing if you are worth 16B."

> [Andy] has also agreed to be barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for five years

Do you think that means nothing?

kirubakaranon Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16

Limiting it for people over 70 would probably do more good

kirubakaranon Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code

https://youtu.be/cO1a1Ek-HD0?si=H6X6ICZQLbq_s41C

The famous Richard Dawkins video about that (4min long)

kirubakaranon Why is it so hard to build an airport?

Vatican also has 5.9 Popes per square mile, highest in the world

kirubakaranon Refund fraud schemes on TikTok, Telegram cost Amazon, other retailers billions

I hear you. I just want to point out that the same thing was said about video games in the last generation, and about comic books a couple of generations before that.

kirubakaranon Refund fraud schemes on TikTok, Telegram cost Amazon, other retailers billions

Every generation has been saying some form of this about the next generation. If there is "moral decay", you'd expect shoplifting to go up, for instance. The crime statistics don't seem to support that narrative.

kirubakaranon Nicolas Bourbaki

We had our own for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb

That user was extremely prolific and, at that time was believed to be a group of people blessed by pg.

kirubakaranon Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

If you use Emacs, restclient is awesome

https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

kirubakaranon Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

Presidential pardon is the one weird trick that employers hate, when you steal IP and get caught

kirubakaranon Dad died in 2022. Since 2023, things he selfhosted have slowly begun breaking

There will always be parasites. That should not be the reason we don't help each other, or we'd lose something even more valuable than what the parasites take.

kirubakaranon Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site

I dread the day they go evil

kirubakaranon Ask HN: How do you learn and research every day?

Will do, thanks!

kirubakaranon Ask HN: How do you learn and research every day?

I built https://histre.com/ to help with this. We all go through the explore -> filter -> decide loop when researching online. There weren't any good tools to help with that, until now :)

kirubakaranon How have you found purpose in your life?

I recently read "Four Thousand Weeks" and that book makes some great points on this subject: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54785515-four-thousand-w...

Another evergreen recommendation for this topic of course is: "Man's Search for Meaning" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Me...

Wishing you the best on your journey

kirubakaranon US nears attempt at first moon landing in 50 years with private robot spacecraft

I can't think of something more American than this

kirubakaranon Video generation models as world simulators

Is it an issue that needs fixing?

kirubakaranon Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch

Couldn't you increase the time your laptop waits before going to sleep?

- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1042641/how-to-set-custom-lo...

- https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/set-sleep-and-wake-...

etc

kirubakaranon Show HN: Lookup the school district associated with a street address in the US

I agree, but that's not the case here though. Just SF the city, not "SF Bay Area", is the 17th largest city in the US! SF feels small, both in area and density.

kirubakaranon American VC Firms Investing Billions into PRC Companies Fueling the CCP Military

> It's arguably treason.

If I can give some feedback, this last line undermines the rest of your points. Not everything selfish is treason.

kirubakaranon Show HN: Lookup the school district associated with a street address in the US

Wow TIL! And I've been living in SF for over 10 years!

kirubakaranon Show HN: Lookup the school district associated with a street address in the US

100k would be considered small. San Francisco has 800k people, and it is considered small.

kirubakaranon Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform

I'm guessing you mean this? https://www.windmill.dev/ "Open-source developer platform and workflow engine"

kirubakaranon Show HN: An open source performance monitoring tool

Previously:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36774611

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643255

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34897645