Hacker News: DarkCrusader2

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

DarkCrusader2 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:22:26 +0000

well you see, in corporate (atleast in big tech), this is usually used as a justification to merge inefficient code (we will optimize it later). That later never comes, either the developers/management moves on or the work item never gets prioritized. That is until the bad software either causes outages or customer churn. Then it is fixed and shown as high impact in your next promo packet.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Microsoft EVP Rajesh Jha is retiring"

DarkCrusader2 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:44:38 +0000

Official announcement - https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/03/12/microsoft-announ...

Microsoft EVP Rajesh Jha is retiring

DarkCrusader2 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:44:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-rajesh-jha-retiring-read-memos-2026-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353614

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Supabase blocked in India due to government orders"

DarkCrusader2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:54:19 +0000

Supabase is inaccessible in India since the last 5 days. Government has given no reason for the blanket ban.

Supabase blocked in India due to government orders

DarkCrusader2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:54:19 +0000

Article URL: https://status.supabase.com/incidents/xmgq69x4brfk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207250

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

DarkCrusader2 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:41:07 +0000

I highly doubt that. "The algorithm" will surely adjust the recommendations per geography. I don't think most westerners are getting T-Series recommendation in their feed as well.

> He's an Indian Lex Friedman (and I mean that derogatorily)

I might be reading this wrong, but sounds kinda racist to me?

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

DarkCrusader2 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:26:31 +0000

Yeah I also don't understand how he is able to get such high profile guests. His interview with Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer last year[1] is so hilariously bad. Jeff and Noam kept trying to give really insightful answers on how they see AI development shaping in coming years and he was just steering the conversation to shallow and silly tabloid gossip (why don't you "just" let AI improve the next version in a loop so we can quickly have singularity, Jeff Dean AI running in a DC, evil Jeff Dean AI escaping containment and on and on). It was just embarrassing. The interview would have been so much better with just Jeff and Noam without him.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gjI__RyCY

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

DarkCrusader2 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:54:54 +0000

The classic defense used by cigarette companies historically. We are just rolling up some naturally growing leaves, leaves can't be addictive. Users are responsible for diseases and addiction. We don't target minors.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state"

DarkCrusader2 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:51:47 +0000

Would highly recommend Mint. Very stable, sensible defaults. Updates never broke anything in the past several years I have been using it on desktop and laptop. Just install the latest LTS version, turn on automatic updates and forget about it.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Fastmail desktop app"

DarkCrusader2 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:30:57 +0000

It is not available for linux in the download page despite the article saying otherwise.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

DarkCrusader2 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:19:23 +0000

They weren't supposed to do anything with our gmail data as well. That didn't stop them.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "AI Changes Everything"

DarkCrusader2 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:14:23 +0000

> Where I used to spend most of my time in Cursor, I now mostly use Claude Code, almost entirely hands-off. Do I program any faster? Not really. But it feels like I've gained 30% more time in my day because the machine is doing the work. I alternate between giving it instructions, reading a book, and reviewing the changes.

This is very interesting to me and I did not know that our current LLMs can do this. Does anyone has a live coding video/stream of this workflow to do some non trivial task successfully, like developing/merging a feature for some open-source project? There is so much crap around AI on youtube that I have just stopped engaging with that stuff and not sure who are producing genuine content and who is just selling their latest grift.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Mullvad Leta"

DarkCrusader2 — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:13:27 +0000

Totally agree. Everything should be Americanized as much as possible so that it conforms to American sensibilities and is easier to use and understand for Americans.

Who cares about languages and culture of few dozen people who does not live in AMERICA.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Material 3 Expressive"

DarkCrusader2 — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:04:56 +0000

If the people who came up with this design can not make the demo site performant, site which will be the first impression of your new design language for most, I don't think there is much hope for the rest of us.

But since this has name of Google attached to it, many people will mindless ape it to the detriment of experience of their users.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

DarkCrusader2 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:24:59 +0000

Totally. I had some issues where Jellyfin would transcode to remove HDR when trying to play on a HDR capable TV. Disabling transcoding completely means black screen for a lot of videos which kodi plays just find over NFS (so no chance of transcoding) on the same device.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

DarkCrusader2 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:29:59 +0000

I moved away from Plex when they started shoving free B/C movies with lewd posters on my home page and made is very hard and confusing to remove (if removing it completely was even an option, I still don't know).

The whole reason I host plex is that I want an offline experience that I curate myself. The requirement for internet to authenticate and shoveling crapware in my face pushed me towards trying Jellyfin. The Jellyfin UI on TV and mobile is not as flashy and polished as Plex, but it is extremely functional and respects users choices.

Been a happy Jellyfin customer for years now though I only use it to organize and browse my library now. Actual playback is either MPV on PC or Kodi over NFS on TV. After trying many many players, these were the two I found best for respective platforms, nothing else even comes close.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch"

DarkCrusader2 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:03:32 +0000

Another post which describes the TOTP concisely - https://drewdevault.com/2022/10/18/TOTP-is-easy.html

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "The Future Is Niri"

DarkCrusader2 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:38:22 +0000

Does anyone know the best way to get some tiling behavior in tradition DEs like Cinnamon.

Some basic things like notifications, keyboard controls for volume/brightness, sound etc don't work the best in i3wm by default and requires some fiddling on each machine to get it to work properly.

I love the out of the box behavior of my Mint installation and don't want to switch completely to something like i3wm. I could get even a watered down version tiling and stacking like i3 with keyboard shortcuts, I would be very happy. There is gTile but it doesn't quite work the same way.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back"

DarkCrusader2 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 16:28:26 +0000

I have very similar experience to yours (though I have yet to checkout Blazor, see my other comment in this thread). I also read CSS in Depth book by Keith Grant recently based on someone's recommendation on HN. After struggling with CSS for over a decade, it all finally makes sense now. I can layout a page exactly how I have it in mind. Webdev can be so much fun and productive with server side rendering, beautiful CSS and some sprinkling of JS where required.

New comment by DarkCrusader2 in "JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back"

DarkCrusader2 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 16:20:20 +0000

I made atleast 3 web apps for personal use (hosted on my home server, accessible only within the local network) in Asp.Net (on linux) and I can say it is the best development experience I have had in a while. It is as boring as it gets, batteries included, performant and excellent docs. Can be very stripped down setup using Minimal APIs for simple cases, but can support more complex requirements using Razor pages or MVC.

I very strongly believe it's only Microsoft's reputation that is hindering it's adoption outside enterprise settings (and very deservedly so).