Hacker News: anilakar

New comment by anilakar in "My graduation cap runs Rust"

anilakar — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:46:58 +0000

Those ATtiny85 boards that plug directly into a USB port are great if you need 1 to 5 GPIOs and/or a HID interface. At 2 dollars apiece or so it's worth having a few around.

New comment by anilakar in "Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms"

anilakar — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:00:41 +0000

When my mom remarried, her new husband started to manipulate her and isolate her from other relatives, trying to turn everyone against each other. The last time I met her, I was basically talking to two copies of him.

I've already dealt with the fact that I will not get my mom back.

New comment by anilakar in "The bottleneck was never the code"

anilakar — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:11:27 +0000

The author argues that writing code cannot be a bottleneck because work always fills up the allotted time. Developer teams should instead focus on doing less and writing better specifications.

The error in the reasoning is that while you can increase your resourcing to tenfold and gain nothing in return, the inverse is not necessarily true.

New comment by anilakar in "Laws of UX"

anilakar — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:16:06 +0000

That site itself violates at least "similarity", "proximity" and "common region" as everything is sorted in one alphabetical list.

New comment by anilakar in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

anilakar — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:55:17 +0000

We were on self-hosted Gitlab but after a merger were forced to Github. Navigation feels painful in comparison and basic features such as commit graph are now behind more expensive tiers.

New comment by anilakar in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

anilakar — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:05:05 +0000

Biometrics are "what you are", not "what you know" or "what you have".

Voice fingeprinting is essentially useless because it is easily recorded and reproduced.

New comment by anilakar in "Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests"

anilakar — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:50:05 +0000

> that it looks just like an Apple system notification and it disappears without a trace afterward

Probably so-called SMS flash messages. They're shown as overlay popups on Android too.

New comment by anilakar in "AI can cost more than human workers now"

anilakar — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:28:21 +0000

Is there an alternative to archive.(is|ph|whatever)? The Kremlin sympathizer admin is still blocking my country at both DNS and Cloudflare level.

New comment by anilakar in "Using the internet like it's 1999"

anilakar — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:53:51 +0000

We should also also embrace offline mode more. Disable all network connections until you make a conscious choice to go online. Heck, make a Windows 3.1-esque GUI for it and call it Trombone Winsock just for fun.

If any program complains it needs network connectivity for offline features, it goes into the Recycle Bin.

New comment by anilakar in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

anilakar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:29:53 +0000

A very real use case I can see would be Palestine supporters defacing Israeli product labels here (don't shoot the messenger, please).

New comment by anilakar in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

anilakar — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:13:59 +0000

Nah. Our CEO just fires everyone who asks for a raise because they're a liability now.

FWIW, this is in a country that supposedly has really strong unions and worker protections.

New comment by anilakar in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

anilakar — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:01:21 +0000

What I say: This is not ready for production.

What management hears: We can sell this to the customer for acceptance testing.

New comment by anilakar in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

anilakar — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:50:09 +0000

You can spend too much time communicating and not communicate enough at the same time. Effectiveness is the key here.

New comment by anilakar in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

anilakar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:30:15 +0000

Depends on the degrees of separation between you and the draft author.

I guess we both agree that both humor and sarcasm are difficult to convey on the internet and LLMs do not make the job any easier :-)

New comment by anilakar in "Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)"

anilakar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:28:40 +0000

Preferably with even-numbered ones.

New comment by anilakar in "Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)"

anilakar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:10:06 +0000

OAuth8, you surely meant.

New comment by anilakar in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

anilakar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:05:16 +0000

15 years ago I would have dismissed this immediately as an elaborate troll but nowadays you cannot be sure anymore.

I'm suggesting moving on to IPvNN which requires device and ISP forced guarantees that the originator is not under the effect nor the lack of any medication or other substance, not being coerced and not using non-human assistants in content creation.

New comment by anilakar in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

anilakar — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:54:56 +0000

Wasn't the whole waterfall model originally a caricature to higlight all the issues one will inevitably encounter if they eliminate feedback loops and go with a strictly sequential development paradigm?

New comment by anilakar in "Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example"

anilakar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:08:28 +0000

The missile knows...

New comment by anilakar in "People Love to Work Hard"

anilakar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:27:10 +0000

Working hard means lots of hours paid out of owners' pockets.

Working fast and avoiding work means short time-to-market.