Hacker News: aqsa_sajjad

New comment by aqsa_sajjad in "The Stock Market Looks Different When Measured in Gold"

aqsa_sajjad — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:57:50 +0000

Interesting perspective gold as a baseline removes inflation distortion. Though one could argue gold itself is volatile as a measuring stick. What time period does the article cover?

New comment by aqsa_sajjad in "I'm writing again (Cringely)"

aqsa_sajjad — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:22:28 +0000

good luck and share what you wrote

New comment by aqsa_sajjad in "Why the NTSB Shut Down Their Plane Crash Report Archive [video]"

aqsa_sajjad — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:30:40 +0000

The timing is worth noting — archival shutdowns rarely happen in isolation.

Does anyone know if the Internet Archive or any academic institutions were mirroring these before the shutdown?

New comment by aqsa_sajjad in "Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking"

aqsa_sajjad — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:10:42 +0000

This is a really impressive project, especially starting at 14. The point about there being no single comprehensive resource rings true, I've tried to learn about password security before and always ended up jumping between five different tabs just to understand one concept.

New comment by aqsa_sajjad in "Ask HN: How to make a mono-repo AI-Ready?"

aqsa_sajjad — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:23:13 +0000

AI-ready is mostly just “good engineering hygiene”, but with a much stronger penalty for ambiguity.

LLMs amplify whatever already exists in the repo:

-good patterns become reusable, -inconsistent patterns become chaos generators.

New comment by aqsa_sajjad in "Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?"

aqsa_sajjad — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:15:18 +0000

I agree, Lobsters is probably the closest alternative