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kumarharsh··on US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
I was expecting this after few tweets by this account:

https://x.com/i/status/2037559378958766591

""" We can be sure as the war ends, there will be another distraction by the US using "Aliens, UFOs, and UAPs".

If Iran war was a distraction from Epstein files, this will be a distraction from war crimes. We can be sure of some Aliens dot gov site launching distracting the world """

kumarharsh··on Stackoverflow launches a new AI-first experience (Beta)
Absolute garbage design. The answers and comments are almost indistinguishable.
kumarharsh··on Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
IMAP is supported afaik: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78892?hl=en#zippy=
kumarharsh··on There is an active war going between India and Pakistan
https://x.com/ShivAroor - an NDTV journalist reporting from near the conflict areas
kumarharsh··on Hindenburg could face securities fraud charges
Positing that India would have such pull with the SEC is quite a stretch of imagination
kumarharsh··on Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?
Use the adaptive charging setting
kumarharsh··on The Guardian will now use generative AI
I guess they'll use it to write articles about how jobs are getting lost due to AI
kumarharsh··on Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations
Thanks, this was a great explanation!
kumarharsh··on What color is it?
Not sure what is disingenouous about it... The website is showing the current time encoded as colour, with some animation to make it look good. Its not a colour guessing game :)
kumarharsh··on Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move
But that's not an illegal move - interestingly, ICC (the body which regulates Cricket) has always recognized the move as official - specifically confirming it as such after the recent incident involving the women's teams of India & England.
kumarharsh··on 24-hour race won by molecule that traveled 1 micron
I'm tickled by the "Molecule jump onto the [STM] tip" - did they have a Symbiote[1] in the race?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiote_(comics)

kumarharsh··on Ask HN: Was RT the only intl, non-US-aligned TV station of any significance?
NDTV did cover Ukraine quite frequently (atleast from what I saw from within the country). You should also try out WION[1] (a new-ish Indian channel focussed exclusively for foreign coverage, and DD India[2] - the Indian BBC

[1] wionews.com/ [2] https://prasarbharati.gov.in/dd-india-homepage/

kumarharsh··on India Turning Its Back on Ukraine
I think you need to read more or change your source of news.

India has made the most progress in the past decade than under most previous governments. Just recently there were regional elections which were won overwhelmingly by the party due to their socialist work in fixing some long-standing basic problems like guarenteed clean water to each home, electricity, free rations during COVID lockdowns, etc in one of the poorest states (by per-capita GDP).

kumarharsh··on The Problem with NFTs
This is incredibly well researched & well made. I was hooked for the full 2 hours!
kumarharsh··on Indian Time
Funniest thing was reading the first few paragraphs and thinking it was talking about India (•‿•) and agreeing to every single word written there.
kumarharsh··on Reverse engineering Wordle
One thing I do while playing with people half a world away is to send just the final pattern (Share button copies that to the clipboard). Once both parties have sent their answers, you can share the screenshots :-)
kumarharsh··on India achieves 2030 target of 40% non-fossil based electricity goal
As someone else said, it is indeed a moving target, and achieving 40% now is not the same as 40% in 2030. A more clearer picture is presented in this article:

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/india-meets-target...

> India’s installed Renewable Energy (RE) capacity stands at 150.54 GW, which includes solar at 48.55 GW, wind (40.03 GW), small hydro power (4.83 GW), bio-power (10.62 GW) and large hydro power (46.51 GW) as of November 2021. The nuclear energy based installed electricity capacity stands at 6.78 GW.

> “In line with the Prime Minister’s announcement at the recently concluded CoP26, the Government is committed to achieving 500 GW of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by the year 2030,” the ministry added.

kumarharsh··on Group of Monkeys Kill over 250 Dogs for 'Revenge' in Indian Town
This is the most insane news I've read all year!

Reminds me of the crow whisperer story that was on this board many months ago - but here we have even more intelligent and dangerous species exacting revenge!

kumarharsh··on Plans to shift aviation from magnetic navigation to true navigation
Kinda funny that the aviation industry cannot implement the more accurate inertial navigation systems (INS) right now because:

"The biggest single problem in trying to implement this change worldwide would be inertia"

XD

kumarharsh··on India antitrust probe finds Google abused Android dominance, report shows
Some more notable ones:

HackerRank, Zoho, Freshworks, Postman, BrowserStack, VWO, WebEngage, Zomato, Byjus, etc.

kumarharsh··on Drum Synthesis in JavaScript
You can embed Codepens with a play button too, which would be cooler as a demo
kumarharsh··on Sevenhugs exits the universal remote business
Yup, XBox does this too.
kumarharsh··on I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
KaiOS is the second most popular OS in India - more popular than iOS :)
kumarharsh··on I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
Back in the days, I used to watch Spiderman cartoons, and was amazed by the small trackers Spidey put on people he needed to track, and got the location in real time. I wanted to see something like that someday.

This AirTag does seem very nice in that respect. But then I realize what a gigantic privacy nightmare this can be for a large portion of our population.

Stalkers can put a tracker on you, and you'll never get notified if you don't have an iPhone? What if the user doesn't even have a smartphone?

How does Apple think they'll handle this scenario? Can it even be handled?

kumarharsh··on India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first
It's like a game of Chinese whispers where the multiplier keeps on growing everytime the number is mentioned.
kumarharsh··on No, You Really Can’t [Archive]
Agreed. It's shockingly bad... A somewhat modern equivalent is Amazon's Twitter fiasco some weeks ago - https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/3/28/22354604/amazon-twitter...
kumarharsh··on Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
While not a direct counterpart to i3, I'd recommend taking a look at FancyZones in the Power Toys project: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
kumarharsh··on A potato battery can light up a room for over a month (2013)
I can't believe the level of disconnect some people on HN have with the "other" worlds.

Poor people don't need LEDs? LEDs are the cheapest light source in the long run. The electricity/batteries to run it might be expensive or impossible to get in some places.

Check out this gravity-run light source which is "essentially free" and being used in many places.

https://youtu.be/Jsc-pQIMxt8

kumarharsh··on Windows 10 taskbar is now pushing Microsoft Edge web apps
I think they mentioned that they're going to remove the top bar for vertical tabs
kumarharsh··on My experience releasing failed SaaS products
Exactly! Folding after hitting the first crash or first review is not a SaaS product, it's a programming assignment!
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