<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bilalq</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bilalq</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:39:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bilalq" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem is that it <i>is</i> a good idea at the individual level. Poor management reads it as a signal of productivity.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/kash-patels-apparel-site-is-trying-to-trick-visitors-into-installing-malware">https://www.pcmag.com/news/kash-patels-apparel-site-is-trying-to-trick-visitors-into-installing-malware</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243293">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243293</a></p>
<p>Points: 197</p>
<p># Comments: 63</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:34:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.pcmag.com/news/kash-patels-apparel-site-is-trying-to-trick-visitors-into-installing-malware</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Building a startup on GCP (or even Google Workspace) is an existential risk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 03:57:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202917</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm saying be skeptical of who you give your trust to. You're the one seemingly pushing to trust actors who have a proven track record of not being worthy of that trust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 12:28:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192436</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192436</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What? This is something that's incredibly well documented at this point. Many VPN companies operate as arms of data broker and media companies or they resell data to them. Some of them didn't start out that way, but with the way acquisitions have played out, that's where we're at now. I replied in the parent comment if you're interested.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 12:27:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192420</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using a VPN shifts your risk. Your local ISP can't see as much of your activity, but another company that probably has a business model of reselling your data to governments, intelligence agencies, and ad companies now can. If your concern is masking piracy, maybe that shift of risk is worthwhile, but you still want to avoid some of the more obvious bad actors[0]. You certainly should not have all your internet traffic going over a VPN all the time.<p>If you're at all worried about being targeted for political speech or you're part of a targeted group, then you need to be more careful. This map is a bit outdated, but it does give some insight on who to avoid [1].<p>Ironically, Mullvad is one of the more trustworthy VPNs out there and still the one I'd recommend.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection" rel="nofollow">https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conve...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://windscribe.com/blog/the-vpn-relationship-map/" rel="nofollow">https://windscribe.com/blog/the-vpn-relationship-map/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 12:26:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192408</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately, the largest and most well-marketed VPNs are, in fact, less trustworthy than your average ISP.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 03:33:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144254</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Googlebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Gemini features would be so cool if they ran locally, but as-is, this reads like a laptop running spyware to me.<p>The Android app casting does sound amazing though and that alone would make a full on Linux machine with MBP level build quality compelling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 05:00:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118015</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118015</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When trying to upgrade from the Business Standard to Business Plus plan, Google will reduce your workspace storage from 2TB/user to 0 bytes for up to 24 hours while it upgrades you.<p>These are actual quotes from support:<p>> Upon checking, I see that the storage is showing as 0 bytes, because of the upgrade that has been done from business standard to business plus. Not to worry as this is very normal.<p>> I understand your concern and how important it is for the storage to be updated due to the business requirements.
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> To give you full transparency into what is happening: when a Workspace subscription is upgraded, our backend systems must first detach your previous Business Standard storage allocation before provisioning the new Business Plus limits. During this transition window, the quota temporarily defaults to zero.<p>> Now please turn ON user storage limit nor shared drive storage limit. Once you turn ON, please wait for 5 minutes and then please turn it OFF.<p>^ That last attempt to try to force storage quotas to reset faster didn't work, btw. Still took hours.</p>
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<p>Let me more clearly instead say that many successful startups knowingly and intentionally broke the law.<p>But I agree that Delve is a special case and should naturally be held to a higher standard here because their whole business is around being compliant with the law. When most other startups break the law, they do it to get an advantage over competition. Delve did it in a way that sacrificed their core value towards customers.</p>
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<p>While I do think Delve and the leadership there should be held responsible, it's a bit weird to see YC and others take shots at them for breaking the law when so many of their prized unicorns achieved what they did by being willing to just ignore laws and deal with the consequences later.</p>
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<p>I use a wallpaper with a horizontal black bar at the top to make the notch invisible, so this catches me off guard pretty often.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:27:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620425</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Look into git reflog. If the changes were committed, it was almost certainly possible to still restore them, even if the commit is no longer in your branch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:31:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302308</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This has its own risk factors. If your domain renewal lapses due to credit card expiry or something and you fail to notice, it's catastrophic. This is just not realistic advice for the average person.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:17:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201528</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>XCode and Pages are a delight in comparison to VSCode and Notion is certainly one of the takes of all time.<p>XCode is usually the first example that comes to mind of a terrible native app in comparison to the much nicer VSCode.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:10:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107401</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107401</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These were absolutely incredible when they first opened up right on until covid. The blue-apron style meal kits they had were actually really tasty and the gimmicky integration with Alexa to tell you the next step in the recipe was actually kind of useful when you were busy stirring a pot or cutting something and too busy to pull out the recipe card. It was like a 7-Eleven, but with the prices of a normal grocery store and higher quality prepared food. Not needing to deal with checkout felt freeing. I substituted many grocery store runs with a quick walk over to the original Amazon Go back in the day.<p>After covid, it was never the same. Open for shorter windows, closed on Sundays, reduced selection, no more meal kits etc.<p>I had many friends who worked on Amazon Go, so it's a bit sad to see that work come to an end.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:50:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46788921</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46788921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46788921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Get an AI code review in 10 seconds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This question is surprising to me, because I consider AI code review the single most valuable aspect of AI-assisted software development today. It's ahead of line/next-edit tab completion, agentic task completion, etc.<p>AI code review does not replace human review. But AI reviewers will often notice little things that a human may miss. Sometimes the things they flag are false positives, but it's still worth checking in on them. If even one logical error or edge case gets caught by an AI reviewer that would've otherwise made it to production with just human review, it's a win.<p>Some AI reviewers will also factor in context of related files not visible in the diff. Humans can do this, but it's time consuming, and many don't.<p>AI reviews are also a great place to put "lint" like rules that would be complicated to express in standard linting tools like Eslint.<p>We currently run 3-4 AI reviewers on our PRs. The biggest problem I run into is outdated knowledge. We've had AI reviewers leave comments based on limitations of DynamoDB or whatever that haven't been true for the last year or two. And of course it feels tedious when 3 bots all leave similar comments on the same line, but even that is useful as reinforcement of a signal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:01:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349913</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I already use Graphite today on top of git. Others are using alternatives like Sapling, etc.<p>To go back to your question around why people still use these workarounds on top of git, it's because the CLI is just one piece of it. With Graphite, I also get a stack-aware merge queue and review dashboard.</p>
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<p>I have one and a half decades of muscle memory burned in with inoremap jj <Esc>`^<p>It's not something I can just shift away from.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:33:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162627</link><dc:creator>bilalq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilalq in "Lambda Durable Functions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is really exciting. Step functions were a big improvement over SWF and the Flow framework, but declarative workflow authoring sucks from a type-safety standpoint. Workflows-as-code is the way to go, and that was missing from AWS. Can't wait to build on top of this.</p>
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