Hacker News: akarambir

Microsoft Suspends Services to India Refiner Nayara over EU Sanctions

akarambir — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:38:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-28/microsoft-suspends-services-to-rosneft-backed-india-refiner

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44721174

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by akarambir in "Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air"

akarambir — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 05:29:48 +0000

Can you provide some info into how you typically use trackpoint. Which fingers do you use and how do you control the acceleration when going few pixels away or whole screen corner to corner. What about the clicks.

I have a thinkpad and am always curious on how to effectively use it. Even a video of someone using it might help.

New comment by akarambir in "China Steps Up Trade Secret Theft from US Companies"

akarambir — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 05:02:57 +0000

A somewhat similar situation happened with India when in 1999, India-Pak Kargil war, the US denied India access to its GPS satellites. It forced India to have its own Regional Navigation System(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Regional_Navigation_Sat...).

Countries realise that US acts as bully when they can. China just is acting in its own interest. Though as an Indian, I have my own problems with China policies, the US companies crying about IP theft is just them not owning upto their previous actions(of shifting major IP to china due to cheap labour).

New comment by akarambir in "Stop using JWT for sessions (2016)"

akarambir — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:29:34 +0000

But is it still sent automatically on ajax requests by browsers?

New comment by akarambir in "Validating UTF-8 bytes using only 0.45 cycles per byte (AVX edition)"

akarambir — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 13:14:09 +0000

It was sed substitute command on a ~800Mb file on Thinkpad T470 with SSD. It was taking around 40-50 sec for each substitution. Though as others have pointed, it may not be directly related to article in discussion.

New comment by akarambir in "Validating UTF-8 bytes using only 0.45 cycles per byte (AVX edition)"

akarambir — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:52:00 +0000

What does linux utilities like sed, awk use for text manipulation because they were very slow when I was changing a few table names in a sql file.

Validating UTF-8 bytes using only 0.45 cycles per byte (AVX edition)

akarambir — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:28:39 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2018/10/19/validating-utf-8-bytes-using-only-0-45-cycles-per-byte-avx-edition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18262766

Points: 148

# Comments: 51

Australia Bans China’s Huawei from Building 5G Wireless Network

akarambir — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:47:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/technology/huawei-banned-australia-5g.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17829223

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by akarambir in "Vue.js Tutorial for beginners"

akarambir — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 04:09:46 +0000

Same. Giving error "Corrupted content error" on Firefox 61.0.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

New comment by akarambir in "Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?"

akarambir — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:43:28 +0000

For our company, we use:

- Gitlab and Gitlab CI

- Zulip chat(moved from Mattermost)

- Metabase for data visualization(will be adding InfluxDB soon)

- Self Hosted Sentry(error reporting): Sentry is linked with Gitlab and Zulip for alerts

- Taiga: project management tool

- OpenEDX: a beast :)

We are Python(Django) based ourselves and love that we can tinker with many of these tools as they are too Django based.

At personal level, I use:

- Mailinabox: Self hosted mail

- Nextcloud: For file syncing, contact management, calendar and tasks, notes.

I have also looked at Perkeep several times(even set it up two times) but couldn't include it in workflow. Especially mobile file syncing.

New comment by akarambir in "Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell"

akarambir — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 19:43:26 +0000

Pycharm just released 2018.2 with support for pipenv :) https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/whatsnew/#v2018-2-python

Google Cloud: 7 best practices for building containers

akarambir — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:22:03 +0000

Article URL: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/7-best-practices-for-building-containers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17519679

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How Facebook’s Rise Fueled Chaos and Confusion in Myanmar

akarambir — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 16:51:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/how-facebooks-rise-fueled-chaos-and-confusion-in-myanmar/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17484745

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Gitlab Dev Survey 2018: Remote work creates a stronger DevOps culture

akarambir — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 04:35:45 +0000

Article URL: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/17/remote-work-facilitates-devops/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16864648

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by akarambir in "DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS"

akarambir — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 07:16:44 +0000

From New Delhi(Airtel), India

                 test1   test2   test3   test4   test5   test6   test7   test8   test9   test10  Average 
  cloudflare     35 ms   58 ms   89 ms   14 ms   14 ms   42 ms   44 ms   35 ms   13 ms   29 ms     37.30
  cloudflare2nd  17 ms   16 ms   39 ms   57 ms   26 ms   42 ms   42 ms   64 ms   41 ms   64 ms     40.80
  google         93 ms   98 ms   184 ms  246 ms  277 ms  122 ms  97 ms   91 ms   241 ms  82 ms     153.10
  google2nd      60 ms   44 ms   43 ms   363 ms  90 ms   103 ms  110 ms  210 ms  10 ms   28 ms     106.10
  quad9          284 ms  255 ms  204 ms  479 ms  292 ms  270 ms  282 ms  298 ms  279 ms  283 ms    292.60
  opendns        35 ms   50 ms   34 ms   207 ms  42 ms   221 ms  34 ms   94 ms   36 ms   35 ms     78.80
  norton         70 ms   80 ms   80 ms   90 ms   73 ms   38 ms   38 ms   43 ms   42 ms   44 ms     59.80
  cleanbrowsing  271 ms  275 ms  283 ms  455 ms  333 ms  389 ms  406 ms  273 ms  235 ms  238 ms    315.80
  yandex         263 ms  285 ms  304 ms  262 ms  403 ms  172 ms  298 ms  562 ms  222 ms  340 ms    311.10
  adguard        346 ms  388 ms  317 ms  457 ms  243 ms  325 ms  396 ms  386 ms  394 ms  328 ms    358.00
  neustar        130 ms  213 ms  196 ms  140 ms  281 ms  205 ms  73 ms   114 ms  104 ms  169 ms    162.50
  comodo         277 ms  332 ms  252 ms  275 ms  298 ms  267 ms  302 ms  293 ms  277 ms  193 ms    276.60

Uber’s India rival Ola could add public transport services soon

akarambir — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 07:05:23 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/02/ola-acquires-ridlr/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16742472

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by akarambir in "Apple in China: who holds the keys?"

akarambir — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 06:41:28 +0000

I am curious if android has the ability to quickly disable fingerprint unlock if you are in adversarial situation. So it only asks for passcode.

New comment by akarambir in "GitLab raises $20M Series C round led by GV"

akarambir — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 16:37:31 +0000

For India, they have just two areas: Mumbai and Anywhere else. I am living in Gurgaon(near New Delhi) and it is as expensive as Mumbai in terms of renting an apartment. So Mumbai(0.227) and elsewhere(0.103) is not fair. I guess they don't have much data for elsewhere.

I appreciate them being transparent about this. But the calculator suggested salary was too low for me to consider applying :(

Facebook bid $600M for online streaming rights of a cricket tournament but lost

akarambir — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 19:07:46 +0000

Article URL: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/social-networking/news/facebook-just-made-its-biggest-live-streaming-bet-and-lost-1745975

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15170234

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by akarambir in "Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web"

akarambir — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:22:12 +0000

Yes. For this very reason, Mozilla was not porting Firefox to iOS for a very long time. Now, Firefox is also running iOS provided rendering engine.