Hacker News: FlyingSnake

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV"

FlyingSnake — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:38:30 +0000

> can travel up to 125 kilometers (77 miles) on a single charge

This would be a big hit in European cities. I own VW e-Up! and it's a perfect EU city car. With it's 375KM range, I rarely charge it more than once a month.

Scaling Security Insights at Cloudflare

FlyingSnake — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:58:15 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/scaling-security-scans/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544057

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

FlyingSnake — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:23:46 +0000

Which “entire industries” has ChatGPT upended?

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle"

FlyingSnake — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:10:38 +0000

Great article. Hacking old kindles is fun! I encourage everyone to give it a try. The retro feel of eink makes it special for me.

I wrote about my experience in cross compiling zig on an old kindle some time ago.

https://samkhawase.com/blog/zig-kindle-gdb/

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Vivaldi 8.0"

FlyingSnake — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:45:12 +0000

Used Vivaldi for years but it kept breaking my workflows and would wipe out my meticulously assembled tab groups. After few such gaffes I switched to Brave. I really wanted Vivaldi to work but can’t let it break workflows.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Bug Archeology: Solving a decade-old Swift/C++ mystery with LLMs"

FlyingSnake — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:29:32 +0000

Adding C++ to the project wasn't unprecedented TBH. The app was blazing and we didn't have any issues with perf in the project. The app failed for a different reason.

Bug Archeology: Solving a decade-old Swift/C++ mystery with LLMs

FlyingSnake — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:48:36 +0000

Article URL: https://samkhawase.com/blog/bug-archeology-using-LLM/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148563

Points: 9

# Comments: 5

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

FlyingSnake — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:17:42 +0000

PiZero is a pretty solid machine.

I run my micro-homelab on a Pi Zero from 2018. It’s behind Cloudflare tunnels. It runs the apps i need on a DietPi OS within 180MB and it’s uptime is ~8 months.

Email Is Crazy

FlyingSnake — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:41:29 +0000

Article URL: https://samkhawase.com/blog/email-is-crazy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920841

Points: 14

# Comments: 0

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Panipat: The rise of the Mughals"

FlyingSnake — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:15:42 +0000

All good brother, we all are going through interesting times.

You seem to be in the arena and have skin in the game. Would love to read your blog on these topics.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Panipat: The rise of the Mughals"

FlyingSnake — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:07:17 +0000

> Mughals palace households were mainly speaking Persian language

They actually spoke Chagatai Turkish in the households and Persian was the court language. Urdu developed independently, mostly outside the royal patronage, and much later.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Panipat: The rise of the Mughals"

FlyingSnake — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:02:23 +0000

May I ask what kind of study did you do on the Mughals? What stands out the most for you?

Fun fact: They called themselves "Gurkhaniye" and not "Mughals". It was a term mostly popularized by rivals like Marathas (which is also an exonym)

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Panipat: The rise of the Mughals"

FlyingSnake — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:21:09 +0000

Ignoring your snark, I'm in agreement with what you said. It is indeed a complex topic and I see no John Fairbanks like figure championing the cause.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Panipat: The rise of the Mughals"

FlyingSnake — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:13:37 +0000

I have nothing against Mughals, they had a great impact on the subcontinent history esp during 17th century. However the center of gravity was the Indian Ocean Spice trade network which was the South. This is what the Portuguese and various EICs wanted to connect to. We have records of the vast riches of these Deccan cities from these travelers.

> few dynasties were comparable to the vastness of Mughals

The Mauryas perhaps ruled a much larger area than Mughals. Khalji, Tughlaqs, Satvahanas, and Marathas also ruled over vast landscapes, but they are not much known outside India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_Empire#/media/File:Ind...

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay"

FlyingSnake — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:35:25 +0000

Text is Lindy. It has withstood the test of time and it's as ubiquitous as SQL or TCP/IP.

Reminds me of this decade old post (and discussion) by Graydon Hoare, "Always bet on text".

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8451271

[2]: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Panipat: The rise of the Mughals"

FlyingSnake — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:57:44 +0000

True that. There is no interest in objectively studying history in India. It is just a tool to further the agendas of various parties involved.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Panipat: The rise of the Mughals"

FlyingSnake — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:10:39 +0000

The unwavering focus on the Mughal empire by the West, is a curious phenomenon. Is it because they built highly visible monuments like the Taj? Mughals didn’t even reach their zenith until 1680s and were vastly reduced by 1730s.

The Deccan Sultanates and Vijayanagara were more relevant to world history in the 16th Century India. The wonders of Bijapur, Golconda and Hampi would put 16th CE Delhi to shame.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi"

FlyingSnake — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:06:49 +0000

I've traveled to Hanoi and absolutely loved the phở there. One perk of living in Berlin is the exceptional Phở we get here. Thanks to the large Vietnamese community we have great phở, Bahn mí (esp at the Dong Xuan center). The phở we get here is top tier too, as confirmed by my Vietnamese friends.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

FlyingSnake — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:25:22 +0000

> "Actually…" or "But wait!"

You’re absolutely right!

Jokes apart, I did notice GLM doing these back and forth loops.

New comment by FlyingSnake in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

FlyingSnake — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:05:03 +0000

At this point drawing these Pelicans must be in the training data sets.