Hacker News: bkishan

New comment by bkishan in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

bkishan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:54:13 +0000

Wouldn't*

New comment by bkishan in "Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI"

bkishan — Wed, 15 May 2024 10:02:18 +0000

I spotted the reference, but did not think this deep lol. You have a point here.

New comment by bkishan in "Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade"

bkishan — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 05:24:20 +0000

Watched the part one on day 1 as well. It was definitely more intriguing than enjoyable. The visuals and soundtrack really carried it despite the pacing. Imo, part one was just a great setup for this masterpiece.

New comment by bkishan in "Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade"

bkishan — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 05:21:42 +0000

me and three other coworkers took a PTO too :)

New comment by bkishan in "Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade"

bkishan — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:54:29 +0000

I just came back from the theater. Every word of this article rings true. The movie is a piece of art, the best of star wars with the grandeur of Game of Thrones. Its very rare to get movies like this these days.

New comment by bkishan in "California DMV Digital ID Pilot Program"

bkishan — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 17:24:26 +0000

Not from the US, so help me understand here, why would a traffic cop looking to verify a license want to image the entire contents of your phone?

New comment by bkishan in "Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours"

bkishan — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:06:38 +0000

By your logic, is Instagram a failure too? Its just those same permissions.

New comment by bkishan in "Passwords Are Fine"

bkishan — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 11:13:42 +0000

Of course passwords are fine. What's not fine is getting billions of people to change their behavior and switch to and use a password manager (that's not chrome).

You could even argue passwords are better than passkeys for those with strong password hygiene. However when it to the masses, the convenience-security tradeoff of something like passkeys is always going to be better. And for the nerds and geeks, passwords are not going to disappear anytime soon.

New comment by bkishan in "Threads, an Instagram app"

bkishan — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 03:10:39 +0000

The logo is eerily similar to the Tamil letter 'ku'. Can anyone confirm if thats the case or what the logo is supposed to mean?

New comment by bkishan in "Apple wants rights to the image of apples in Switzerland"

bkishan — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:16:19 +0000

> no good vision

Ah yes, years of continuing technical and product innovations, with "no good vision"

New comment by bkishan in "Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr"

bkishan — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:56:52 +0000

Since Apollo qualifies as a small/medium business, that's 15%

New comment by bkishan in "Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr"

bkishan — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:55:53 +0000

> reasonable for access to all of reddit

Not all of reddit. You're still blocked out of NSFW content (which will not be accessible over any tier of API).

New comment by bkishan in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

bkishan — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:55:40 +0000

$12k for 50M requests, wow. It seems Reddit has taken the twitter way out. If they just wanted to ban third party apps, they should have the balls to do it rather than pull all this stuff.

New comment by bkishan in "Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government"

bkishan — Fri, 05 May 2023 11:45:51 +0000

> Indians support NSA accessing data

From where exactly did you arrive at this conclusion?

New comment by bkishan in "Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government"

bkishan — Fri, 05 May 2023 10:31:29 +0000

I wonder if Signal will be next. Then it will truly mark the beginning of the end for democracy in India.

New comment by bkishan in "Indian government bans 14 messenger apps including Element, Briar and Threema"

bkishan — Mon, 01 May 2023 06:59:17 +0000

Terrorist use crypto, they also use cash. Ban them too? Doesn't make a lot of sense that something is banned just because it was used by a bad actor. Or this is just security theatre.

New comment by bkishan in "UK Government Says Nintendo Switch Can’t Handle Call of Duty"

bkishan — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:31:18 +0000

Waiting for Rishi’s review video in YouTube.

New comment by bkishan in "An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down"

bkishan — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:56:27 +0000

Compared to Tesla testing FSD on roads, I don't think this is unsafe/ harming anyone involved.

New comment by bkishan in "U.S. accuses Google of abusing monopoly in ad technology"

bkishan — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:28:00 +0000

Ah yes, another case that will likely just end in a $xxxM fine.

New comment by bkishan in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing"

bkishan — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 13:23:43 +0000

‘Bad’ doesn’t even come close to describing it imo.