Hacker News: davchana

New comment by davchana in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

davchana — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:39:55 +0000

No, eating food & then paying is a debt. After the services have been rendered. If seller can pull back the items, never provided the service, no debt.

New comment by davchana in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

davchana — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:31:36 +0000

to add, fee for Real ID marker on Limited Term license covers 5 years, so if one gets lets say a license for 2 years (& had to pay for 5 years), the next renewals/updates within those 5 years are free.

New comment by davchana in "Email experiments: filtering out external images"

davchana — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:34:56 +0000

Long time ago somebody told that gmail pre fetches all images, so tracker pixels report exactly one open occurrence for images in gmail email.

New comment by davchana in "Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes"

davchana — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:40:57 +0000

The only problem I have experienced few times with those unique email addresses is, sometimes they/utilities ask me to email from my official email address, and my setup is a catch-all, so I have to log in my pc at home, set up that address, send email.

New comment by davchana in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

davchana — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:16:43 +0000

I too, around 2012 was too much active on so, in fact, it had that counter thing continuously xyz days most of my one liners, or snippets for php are still the highest voted answers. Even now when sometimes I google something, and an answer comes up, I realize its me who asked the same question and answered it too.

New comment by davchana in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

davchana — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:05:04 +0000

I have registered a one domain bydav in my cctld, and now all of my future apps are like timer.bydav.cctld

New comment by davchana in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

davchana — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:17:00 +0000

In india its considered bad omen to slash 7s.

New comment by davchana in "60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds"

davchana — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:27:02 +0000

Exactly. In north India, in winters everybody eats peanuts brittle, sesame seed roasted jaggery balls. Kids, elders, youngs. Very rare to hear peanut or nuts allergies.

New comment by davchana in "Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft"

davchana — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 19:50:46 +0000

Related, there are many painters, who work as employees at truck repair or denting painting shops, and write generic words like TANK on Diesel Tank, or like OK BYE TATA on rear bumper, or simply names, with dome petals around them. They start with a yellow rectangle, and then paint black lines as negative space, eventually bringing out yellow letters out.

New comment by davchana in "Playing with more user-friendly methods for multi-factor authentication"

davchana — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 03:42:46 +0000

And in India when you need lots of cash from your own account, you need to sign a withdrawal slip, and signatures on that need to match exactly the original signatures on their file.

New comment by davchana in "Checklists are hard, but still a good thing"

davchana — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 01:12:51 +0000

I often use a checklist version for travel packing, where every item simply goes after each other with a checkbox, instead of usual checklist with every new item going on new line.

New comment by davchana in "Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell"

davchana — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 06:30:47 +0000

No, I can't ever. I was an immigrant worker there, and Qatar Immigration wanted all this before they give me work visa aka residence permit.

New comment by davchana in "Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell"

davchana — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 02:27:09 +0000

Don't know in this case, but some other countries ask for it to deduce your travel history (any current passport itself goes to them, with color copies of every page of old passports). Qatar wanted it because I shared name with somebody born 40 years before me.

New comment by davchana in "SFStreets: History of San Francisco place names"

davchana — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:37:19 +0000

I did not see my Powell St, parallel to Mason & Stockton St.

New comment by davchana in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"

davchana — Thu, 29 May 2025 03:44:16 +0000

Since years I have yearned that USPS lets you rent a PO Box. Maybe divide the country in 5 to 10 parts, and allocate a special zip code for these. The po box is nothing but just a forwarding address. You as a user control its final destination in usps.com account. It is like a link shortener.

Somebody sends a letter to that address. Regular mail system forwards it to machines. There, machines stick a yellow or some color strip on it with its actual destination, then it comes to you. You could move and simply update usps.com address.

New comment by davchana in "California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection"

davchana — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:59:56 +0000

The latest version of this request form in DMV CA doesn't even ask for meaning of the plate/phrase now.

New comment by davchana in "Email Forwarding for Your Domain"

davchana — Sat, 10 May 2025 21:56:57 +0000

No, he made namecheap forward incoming emails to domain to his email.

New comment by davchana in "Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)"

davchana — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:41:12 +0000

In flight from Dubai to JFK, I had two 500ml used empty plastic bottles (not reusable, just basic transparent). Security made me throw 1, saying one 1 empty bottle allowed.

New comment by davchana in "Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)"

davchana — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 04:04:28 +0000

Thanks a lot for this search engine. I always wanted to be able to search this way, direct flights from xyz airport.

New comment by davchana in "A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener"

davchana — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 07:52:44 +0000

My friend was not smart as you, and religiously typed password on a fake Amazon website link clicked from an SMS promising a refund on recent purchase. Stopped only when it asked for 2FA code because there was no 2FA setup.