Hacker News: SJetKaran

New comment by SJetKaran in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"

SJetKaran — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:49:03 +0000

*Chinese hosted models, not Chinese models themselves

New comment by SJetKaran in "Personal Finance in Claude"

SJetKaran — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:06:28 +0000

ChatGPT had this for quit a while btw

New comment by SJetKaran in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

SJetKaran — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:20:10 +0000

Hypothesis - I wonder if this is about places with lot of movement vs places that don't. Internal movement within US, even within rural communities, might be more than in Germany? and so, society tends to be more accepting of new incoming people?

New comment by SJetKaran in "Challenging the Narrative of European Decline"

SJetKaran — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:48:43 +0000

related - https://archive.ph/nGFnv

New comment by SJetKaran in "McDonald's is quietly ending the era of self-serve soda fountains nationwide"

SJetKaran — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:47:55 +0000

self-serve soda fountains are supposedly unclean and harbor lot of bacteria in many places, so this is probably a good thing

New comment by SJetKaran in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

SJetKaran — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:52:02 +0000

Yep, Stockholm's Arlanda express train is costly as well

New comment by SJetKaran in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

SJetKaran — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:20:05 +0000

This is also the reason why we need to ensure our OS systems remain open, so that we can craft the super customized app for our needs, and be able to install it on our devices easily

New comment by SJetKaran in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

SJetKaran — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:37:32 +0000

What is Ryzen adding here towards the NAS part of this system? Or is it only for gaming?

New comment by SJetKaran in "Tell HN: Pocket (acquired by Moz) only works with FF now"

SJetKaran — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:31:57 +0000

Any worthy alternatives that people recommend?

New comment by SJetKaran in "How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?"

SJetKaran — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:52:46 +0000

Big +1, and an obvious observation for anyone who moved here

New comment by SJetKaran in "Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM"

SJetKaran — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:07:00 +0000

As an Indian, I was suprised to learn at first that anti-incumbency wasn't the norm across the world. It is not such a bad thing.

New comment by SJetKaran in "NYC Congestion Pricing Set to Take Effect After Years of Delays"

SJetKaran — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:43:34 +0000

Yeah, unfortunate

New comment by SJetKaran in "Ask HN: Cheap/effective way to manage physical backups of cloud files?"

SJetKaran — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 13:31:42 +0000

You can build your own NAS, but for a much simpler way to start, buy couple of external drives and use Stable bit Drive pool application, along with https://github.com/rclone/rclone

New comment by SJetKaran in "NYC Congestion Pricing Set to Take Effect After Years of Delays"

SJetKaran — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:53:48 +0000

My only issue with congestion pricing right now is that there is no revenue sharing with NJ Transit

New comment by SJetKaran in "The largest hydroelectric dam in the world has been approved"

SJetKaran — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:50:33 +0000

Yeah, this article has bit more details https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmn127kmr4o

New comment by SJetKaran in "The largest hydroelectric dam in the world has been approved"

SJetKaran — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:47:35 +0000

This is in a highly geologically active zone though.

New comment by SJetKaran in "'A fatal miscalculation': masculinity researcher on why Democrats lost young men"

SJetKaran — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:38:46 +0000

+1 on the need to move away from the two party system

New comment by SJetKaran in "Zen: Firefox Based Browser"

SJetKaran — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 14:26:38 +0000

Do any of these variants have cast functionality built-in?

New comment by SJetKaran in "Dexcom starts selling its new over-the-counter glucose monitor in the U.S."

SJetKaran — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 01:51:51 +0000

Contacts and eye glasses regulations are far looser in EU and they are doing fine. They don't need yearly rechecks for contact lens for example.

New comment by SJetKaran in "Fluoride at twice the recommended limit is linked to lower IQ in kids"

SJetKaran — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:42:11 +0000

Our 'modern' diet of heavy carbs is thousands of years old by now though