Hacker News: FlyingSnake

New comment by FlyingSnake in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

FlyingSnake — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:33:02 +0000

There is hope. India's Central Rice Research Institute is quite active and is working on some of the problems.

https://icar-crri.in/popular-nrri-varieties/

New comment by FlyingSnake in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

FlyingSnake — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:06:49 +0000

I meant it as a pipe-dream that people jump into without knowing the hidden asymmetries. Farming of any kind is hard and learning that specific skillset is necessary to succeed.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

FlyingSnake — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:11:40 +0000

Honestly the rice varieties in India should be promoted and protected more. The diversity and health benefits of these varieties is immense.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

FlyingSnake — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:03:38 +0000

I grew up in similar environment in rural central India and I (half)jokingly say farming was my first real job. We rarely planted rice, but I have vivid memory of helping my father plant the rice saplings in the muddy puddles in my farm.

I am always skeptical of urban people wanting to move back to little villages to do farming. Farming is a back-breaking and a tough job. You are exposed to all the vagaries of nature. The market forces are also not always in your favour. It is another version of "quit-job-and-open-a-coffee-shop" fallacy.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

FlyingSnake — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:42:22 +0000

People keep rediscovering the Bhagavad Gita in new ways

https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/2/47/

New comment by FlyingSnake in "A decade of Docker containers"

FlyingSnake — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:40:14 +0000

You’re right, it was 2014. I was there on HN when docker was announced by shykes. It was a godsend because I was getting bummed by the alternatives like LXC, juju charms or vagrant.

Here’s the announcement from 2013:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408002

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

FlyingSnake — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:27:53 +0000

Kindles are fun devices to hack and play with. I can grab an old kindle for €15-20 on eBay.

I did the same last year and had lots of fun in the process.

https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/

New comment by FlyingSnake in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

FlyingSnake — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:05:07 +0000

Exactly. This sounds like a barber advising which haircut to get.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Xfce is great"

FlyingSnake — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:28:26 +0000

2019 is also not vintage IMO.

Vintage would be my MBP Air from 2011 that also run Arch and XFCE on a 4GiB RAM.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Xfce is great"

FlyingSnake — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:19:55 +0000

I am running XFCE on a 2019 vintage desktop. CachyOS and 16GB RAM. It is snappy and very performant for my needs and I work on it daily for software development

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

FlyingSnake — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:53:29 +0000

Inbound emails using AWS SES make sense, but not planning that as the part of the MVP.

Is that a commonly requested use case for AWS SES users?

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

FlyingSnake — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:40:23 +0000

I’m working on a modern transactional email API platform. Developers can bring their own AWS SES keys and freely use their own domains for sending emails.

I’m building it on Cloudflare Workers with advanced tracking, modern templates, and advanced webhook integration. Developers can also configure and schedule advanced workflows for their specific needs

The users can review their usage and performance using an intuitive dashboard.

Email is a crowded space and this is my first attempt at doing something indie at this scale. Wish me luck!

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

FlyingSnake — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:15:35 +0000

Fair enough. We all have enough eInk devices in our cabinets. To each their own .

What do you mean by “Rust for displays”? Bikeshedding?

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

FlyingSnake — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:21:50 +0000

That's an unfair criticism. Kindles and their eInk setup provide the perfect low-fi hacking experience that developers love. It's minimal, slow and barebones linux base makes it easier to hack für such fun projects.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

FlyingSnake — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:47:03 +0000

Kindles are amazing devices for hacking and turning into cute little dashboards. The kindle modding community is wonderful and full of people experimenting with it. If you have an old kindle, give it a new lease!

Shameless plug: I wrote about my experience here

https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43822251

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off"

FlyingSnake — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:52:57 +0000

It also features many examples from pre-Colombian South American cultures

New comment by FlyingSnake in "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"

FlyingSnake — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:43:20 +0000

I’m running CachyOS for a year now as my daily driver (non-work) on my ancient desktop from 2019 and ancient Nvidia card. It is very fast and smooth. I mainly use it to development using LLM sidekicks and it doesn’t break sweat. I use XFCE and just love how fast the experience is.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"

FlyingSnake — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:40:09 +0000

I use CachyOS as my daily driver and I gave up on i3 after few tries. It just doesn’t work.

I’m happy with XFCE now and it is very performant.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making"

FlyingSnake — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:12:35 +0000

For a minute I thought this is an moon-shot to stop climate change by building real icebergs.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks"

FlyingSnake — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:35:14 +0000

I hope a pragmatic framework like SvelteKit, Astro or TanStack replace NextJS complexity vendors soon.