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New comment by bhasi in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"

bhasi — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:09:22 +0000

Love small caps. Rarely used and encountered, I really enjoy seeing them in the wild.

New comment by bhasi in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

bhasi — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:33:49 +0000

The key on the top right corner of the keyboard being the poweroff button instead of the Delete key gets an instant NACK from me.

New comment by bhasi in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

bhasi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:57:57 +0000

I don't see anyone mentioning Betterbird here. I use that instead of Thunderbird. But it really baffles me that even in Betterbird, the ability to star an email exist but not a way to show all the starred emails.

New comment by bhasi in "Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw"

bhasi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:36:51 +0000

Crazy to read about the Solana AI agent transferring $450K to some random person on Twitter. What was even more shocking was the nonchalant tone in which all of this was detailed in the post.

New comment by bhasi in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

bhasi — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:16:52 +0000

Seems similar to Gas Town

New comment by bhasi in "List of individual trees"

bhasi — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:51:08 +0000

I've been to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine forest in Inyo County, CA where the Methuselah tree lives. Though I didn't get to see that specific tree because the sun was fast setting and I wasn't prepared to hike around in darkness, I had a pretty amazing experience being the presence of 4000- and 5000-year old trees.

New comment by bhasi in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

bhasi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:47:10 +0000

Personal website and blog: https://gurudas.dev

New comment by bhasi in "AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago"

bhasi — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:37:11 +0000

“Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.”

- Mario Puzo, The Godfather

New comment by bhasi in "PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract"

bhasi — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 02:05:07 +0000

Wow, this is great. It's like Hacker News/Old Reddit for news.

Why study programming languages (2022)

bhasi — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:36:57 +0000

Article URL: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/why-study-programming-languages/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45576623

Points: 158

# Comments: 114

New comment by bhasi in "My first contribution to Linux"

bhasi — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:48:37 +0000

Well written! Enjoyed the detailed report.

New comment by bhasi in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to Playstation 5 on December 8th"

bhasi — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:17:02 +0000

So excited for this!

New comment by bhasi in "Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories"

bhasi — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:36:53 +0000

A similar project is CodeCrafters' Build Your Own Git: https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/git/overview

New comment by bhasi in "Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers"

bhasi — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:32:10 +0000

The title was misleading because the author wrote a userspace Rust driver and not a Linux kernel driver in C.

New comment by bhasi in "The new Gödel Prize winner tastes great and is less filling"

bhasi — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:25:33 +0000

Eshan's Bachelor's thesis advisor from IIT Kanpur, Prof Manindra Agrawal, also won the Gödel prize in 2006. Wow.

New comment by bhasi in "LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo"

bhasi — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:05:58 +0000

I wasn't referring to knowledge of the Paninian sutras or pratyayas, to be clear, when I said "the basics".

For this story, you don't need to know the pratyayas but you do need to know the tenses, the ktva-lyap forms, etc to fully understand what is going on. With only an incomplete knowledge of those aspects, one can sort of intuit the overall meaning but eventually would find that they had the wrong idea altogether when reading the corresponding translation in a language they know.

New comment by bhasi in "LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo"

bhasi — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:23:34 +0000

In my experience of having learnt Sanskrit via what I now realize is the comprehensive input method (thank you for introducing that term to me via your comments on this thread), I absolutely think that the "basics" - enough to recognize the seven (eight if you count the sambodhana) vibhaktis (declensions) and the simple past, present, future and the subjunctive tenses - are required in order to get past the huge roadblock of parsing a word.

Once parsed, I can look up the meaning of the word on ashtadhyayi.com or elsewhere, but not before.

New comment by bhasi in "LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo"

bhasi — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:36:01 +0000

The Valmiki Ramayanam is a much more accessible document than the Gita to learn Sanskrit from as an advanced learner after completing the basics. There's the aspect of a story that unfolds progressively which is nice and engaging, as opposed to the deep metaphysical stuff in the Gita.

The first section of the Ramayanam is the Sankshepa Ramayanam, or, the Ramayanam in summary. This gives the outline of the whole story which then is expounded in detail in the subsequent sections.

New comment by bhasi in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

bhasi — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 04:17:09 +0000

After getting frustrated by the game not accepting my responses to the obvious clues repeatedly I resorted to clicking on each person and selecting both Innocent and Criminal.

- "My only innocent neighbor is to the left of Harold"

- "Barb and I have one innocent neighbor in common"

- Implies Gary is a criminal

But the game won't let me.

New comment by bhasi in "Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python"

bhasi — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:36:10 +0000

What other models are there? Would love to learn about them.