Hacker News: dheerajvs

New comment by dheerajvs in "Shipmap.org"

dheerajvs — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:51:34 +0000

> This is weirdly beautiful

Until you notice the carbon emissions on the top left.

New comment by dheerajvs in "'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40"

dheerajvs — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:42:30 +0000

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

New comment by dheerajvs in "Why our website looks like an operating system"

dheerajvs — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:11:09 +0000

Would you extend that argument to tabbed interfaces as well? Why should browsers support tabs (and an inconsistent interface by each vendor), when you can just open a new window instead?

New comment by dheerajvs in "Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook"

dheerajvs — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:55:06 +0000

Won't the fibres leading up to the operator and revealing their location not a threat?

Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity

dheerajvs — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:29:18 +0000

Article URL: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772

Points: 775

# Comments: 485

New comment by dheerajvs in "My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]"

dheerajvs — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:53:20 +0000

That's assuming all interviewers are using AI. And if it's not immoral, why do it surreptitiously?

New comment by dheerajvs in "My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]"

dheerajvs — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:49:51 +0000

I don't use LLMs to filter out participants and I expect candidates not to use LLMs to cheat.

New comment by dheerajvs in "My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]"

dheerajvs — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:19:38 +0000

As an interviewer, I'm seeing a huge increase in proportion of candidates cheating surreptitiously during video interviews. And it's becoming difficult to suspect any wrong-doing unless you're very watchful by looking for academic responses to questions.

Why would anyone encourage building such a tool, I can't fathom.

New comment by dheerajvs in "The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]"

dheerajvs — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 11:51:45 +0000

GP's comment is probably a reference to this classic XKCD: https://xkcd.com/566/ (the last panel)

Passive cooling paint sweats off heat to deliver 10x cooling, 30% energy savings

dheerajvs — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:40:42 +0000

Article URL: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-passive-cooling-10x-energy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44311371

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dheerajvs in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

dheerajvs — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:33:50 +0000

Uber in India gives me a different OTP for each ride. A different ride-hailing app I use occasionally uses a PIN tied to a user.

OTPs are a simple solution to fraudulent rides that it's surprising it's not implemented universally, given all the complaints in this thread.

New comment by dheerajvs in "Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings"

dheerajvs — Sun, 11 May 2025 05:00:57 +0000

I've disabled DRM on my Firefox browser.

Sheesh, we've come to a state where browsers can no longer be referred to as "user agents".

New comment by dheerajvs in "The tools I love are made by awful people"

dheerajvs — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:21:13 +0000

I feel similarities to the trolley problem[0].

[0]: https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

New comment by dheerajvs in "The tools I love are made by awful people"

dheerajvs — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:06:02 +0000

While I agree with the sentiment, just out of curiosity, would you buy a Tesla if it meets your needs and even if you disapprove of Elon's actions?

New comment by dheerajvs in "Everyone knows all the apps on your phone"

dheerajvs — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 06:25:33 +0000

I've not heard of XPrivacyLua, which is by the same author of the excellent NetGuard[0], which I've been using for years.

Interestingly XPrivacyLua is not supported anymore and the pro companion app will be removed from the Play store by Google because it uses the permission QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES.[1]

[0]: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard [1]: https://xdaforums.com/t/closed-app-xposed-6-0-xprivacylua-an...

New comment by dheerajvs in "Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data"

dheerajvs — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:53:44 +0000

The main question for me is can ungoogled Chromium run uBlock Origin?

New comment by dheerajvs in "Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again"

dheerajvs — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 03:43:39 +0000

> Genuinely don't know why anyone would use it when you have perplexity, gemini, chatGPT search, etc. at your disposal.

And what did they get trained on in the first place?

New comment by dheerajvs in "Scientists decipher two-photon vision"

dheerajvs — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:49:43 +0000

The title made me think of the minimum number of photons detectable by human vision. Apparently, we can detect single photons:

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172

New comment by dheerajvs in "Are animals conscious? New research"

dheerajvs — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:20:58 +0000

Especially when you consider humans are animals too.

New comment by dheerajvs in "Write OpenAPI with TypeSpec"

dheerajvs — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:18:20 +0000

How does TypeSpec compare with Bru[0], the DSL used by Bruno? Why would I choose one over the other?

[0] https://docs.usebruno.com/bru-lang-overview.html