Hacker News: blntechie

New comment by blntechie in "Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL"

blntechie — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:44:56 +0000

This is so cool!! The responsiveness of the page is so much better than any maps app I have used.

New comment by blntechie in "The two versions of Parquet"

blntechie — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:06:11 +0000

What does DuckDB mean by query engines here? Something like Trino?

New comment by blntechie in "Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter"

blntechie — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 13:22:43 +0000

I can't say user metrics but Google Photos came out of Google+ and it is a massively successful product.

Hangouts (now Meet?) was also a product out of Google+ but considering GChat (the xmpp version) existed before, it was kind of a step backwards.

I think Google Local Guide also has some parts of Google+, not sure.

New comment by blntechie in "Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs?"

blntechie — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 22:36:05 +0000

I love the convenience of physical SIMs. Will hate the day when I don't have a choice but to 'upgrade' to eSIMs.

I have a phone with dual physical SIM card slots. I can go to any country in the world, buy a SIM, put it in, and am up and running. eSIM provisioning at airports is barely available in few coubtries.

I broke the display of my phone? Easy, remove the SIM and put it in a spare phone and I can still make and receive calls.

New comment by blntechie in "India's $45B Startup Implosion Puts Tech Future in Doubt"

blntechie — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:51:24 +0000

Byju's was perplexing as almost every customer of theirs and the target customers knew what Byju's was doing except those in the board, the VC analysts and LPs.

New comment by blntechie in "India's $45B Startup Implosion Puts Tech Future in Doubt"

blntechie — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:48:00 +0000

> red tape

I would attribute red tape to only fintech companies. Ideally edtech should have had redtape considering how much rampant these VC funded companies ran riot.

Also, SV has these red tapes too. Bloom Tech -> California BoE anyone? Red tapes are not always a bad thing for the consumers, maybe for those following grow fast and break model.

New comment by blntechie in "Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?"

blntechie — Tue, 28 May 2024 14:25:25 +0000

I have used OAuth2 with and without JWTs as bearer tokens and pretty much used them the same way. JWT helps with fetching the user details without having to hit the DB/backend, and that's basically was the only difference to me.

I believe the issues he is describing is more OAuth2 rather than JWT.

New comment by blntechie in "Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)"

blntechie — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:25:22 +0000

Wow, I have never been more impressed with any other Show HN before. The sheer number of features and platforms you have covered and also keeping to some core engineering principles at the same time is extremely impressive. I will be trying this product for sure and wish you all the best with this app.

New comment by blntechie in "F-Droid: Android FOSS app store"

blntechie — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 07:02:19 +0000

That's how Google Analytics started.

New comment by blntechie in "ELI5: Why are 11 and 12 called eleven and twelve and not oneteen and twoteen?"

blntechie — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:22:15 +0000

2300 - 23 hundred is a spoken informal thing. Two thousand three hundred is another common usage which might be the 'proper' way.

New comment by blntechie in "Witch – macOS window switcher replacement"

blntechie — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 20:11:30 +0000

I have been a long time MacOS user and the app/window switching never made any sense to me. Windows and Linux just does it better.

New comment by blntechie in "Deleting 80% of the marketing footprint of IBM.com"

blntechie — Sun, 21 May 2023 09:03:52 +0000

Worse in multilingual countries. The websites somehow think I speak the most prominent language in the country when I can't understand a word of it and I prefer English and my own language.

New comment by blntechie in "A digital payments revolution in India"

blntechie — Sat, 20 May 2023 15:02:40 +0000

How is it different from any digital payment? Many European countries and the US has been doing digital transactions for like 2 decades now. How was it not authoritarian then but suddenly when the Asian people do it, it's a way to track everything people does and not the simplest explanation which is it makes transactions easier?

New comment by blntechie in "Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India"

blntechie — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:13:31 +0000

It's 200 Rs/mo as per a shopkeeper I talked to. It's pretty affordable for many shops as it cuts down on fraud a bit and they see utility in it.

New comment by blntechie in "Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India"

blntechie — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:12:23 +0000

It's just not screenshots. Initially the payment apps added moving icons/pictures to differentiate screenshots with actual payment confirmation screens. As a response, some people made specialized apps which dynamically recreated the same exact payment confirmation screen of the popular apps with moving parts, fake transaction id etc.

New comment by blntechie in "Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliable luxury"

blntechie — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:38:23 +0000

Similarly Netherlands is not even as big as most provinces/states of the bigger countries where internet wiring challenges exists. So not sure what is the point of bringing up the Netherlands.

New comment by blntechie in "The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets"

blntechie — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:15:57 +0000

What was the final result numbers from the transcription?

New comment by blntechie in "Amazon employees express dismay, anger about sudden return-to-office policy"

blntechie — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:43:11 +0000

Honestly, many of the employees and scenarios quoted in the article comes out like they were because of people making decisions without forethought. Do note they are still earning more than 95% of the population and will come out as entitled for readers who are not really attuned to the tech scene.

New comment by blntechie in "50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge"

blntechie — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 06:18:24 +0000

Weird cultural attacks and criticisms here. I'm sure everyone here started as a Principal Engineer calibre engineers straight out of college.

It will be a fair criticism if this same factory is having same quality output 2-3 years down the line.

New comment by blntechie in "50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge"

blntechie — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 06:14:52 +0000

If you are within customs rules, you don't have to pay anything. Else pay the right duty based on the original invoice you should be carrying with you. I have taken TVs, laptops, iPhones, game consoles and have never been bothered by customs.