Hacker News: afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=afghanPowerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:48:33 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced"]]>Extremely hard. Maybe you could buy an ad space and "outrank" them that way. Have to pass Google's ad approval process though.

]]>Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:03:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201377afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201377https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201377<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Bitcoin Exchanges Are Buckling While the Price Surges Past 16,000"]]>Yet the solution Bitcoin supporters have to slow transactions etc. is Lightning network which in principle makes transactions centralized.

]]>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 22:01:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874765afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874765https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874765<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Bitcoin Exchanges Are Buckling While the Price Surges Past 16,000"]]>Lightning network destroys the whole reason why you would use bitcoin -> decentralization.

]]>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:58:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874739afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874739https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874739<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Why I love Go"]]>Better than C and Python.. Examples?

]]>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:06:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859681afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859681<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Lightbot: Puzzles Game Using Programming Logic"]]>I wish that was available for Android/PC/Linux.

]]>Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:02:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15852061afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15852061https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15852061<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Carp, a compiled Lisp with type inference and a borrow checker"]]>My first thought as well.

]]>Sun, 26 Nov 2017 01:00:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15778887afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15778887https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15778887<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers"]]>Probably using this FREE course as an upsell to his paid course. Still. Kudos to the creator. FREE is free. Thank you.

]]>Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:35:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15765287afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15765287https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15765287<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Social-Media App Musical.ly Is Acquired for as Much as $1B"]]>Phew. I am not the only one.

]]>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:47:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15671085afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15671085https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15671085<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Don Jayamanne, creator of Python extension for VS Code, joins Microsoft"]]>Startup time can be fixed by running Emacs as a daemon on boot. (Not sure if that's possible with Windows) For keybindings you can just use evil and get vim keybindings. But yeah, Emacs is not easy to get started with, though I feel it's worth spending time getting used to it.

]]>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:18:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15665947afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15665947https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15665947<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Don Jayamanne, creator of Python extension for VS Code, joins Microsoft"]]>Why not Emacs? Just curious.

]]>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 19:21:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15665073afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15665073https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15665073<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages"]]>Correct me if I'm wrong, but most Indians do understand "urdu", no?

]]>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:14:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15571847afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15571847https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15571847<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing"]]>man xrandr

]]>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:41:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15365676afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15365676https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15365676<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Show HN: Ice – WSGI microframework to develop small web applications in Python"]]>Yeah, my first thought as well. The Rich Hickey spirit is leaking..

]]>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 08:46:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15182110afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15182110https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15182110<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Reasonable Scala Compiler"]]>Clojure(Script) can do the same.

]]>Sat, 19 Aug 2017 10:57:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15052722afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15052722https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15052722<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN"]]>I bought mine from https://i-83.net/ It's £4.50/year, but you can probably find promotion codes that'll make it cheaper.

Have also heard good things about http://lowendspirit.com/

(sorry for the late reply)

]]>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:54:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14638247afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14638247https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14638247<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN"]]>Yup. Most VPNs with decent bandwith cost $4/month. You can get pretty much the same service for $4/year if you buy a cheap NAT VPS server and spend 10 minutes setting up openvpn.

]]>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:30:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14604632afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14604632https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14604632<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC"]]>D seems like a more useful Rust, or is that completely wrong?

]]>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 14:54:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14604295afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14604295https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14604295<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite"]]>This is such an obvious joke. Chill my friends.

]]>Sun, 18 Jun 2017 15:08:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580949afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580949https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580949<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "My experience using Hackintosh low-end PC for 3 years"]]>Nothing beats minimalistic design. Too bad the majority thinks more is more.

]]>Sat, 10 Jun 2017 08:18:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526581afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526581https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526581<![CDATA[New comment by afghanPower in "Clojure Linear Algebra Refresher: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors"]]>Those are standard function names in most lin-alg related packages.

]]>Tue, 06 Jun 2017 16:27:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14498501afghanPowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14498501https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14498501