Hacker News: dilawar

New comment by dilawar in "Design is compromise"

dilawar — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:38:24 +0000

Something similar can be said about "values". They help you make hard decisions. You don't need values if only make easy decisions.

But values conflicts with each other. You can't value more than a few at the same time. E.g. If you make a decision which is good for your employee who is struggling (value employee), it may not be a good decision for your client who is already delayed (value client/speed). Etc..

New comment by dilawar in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"

dilawar — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:03:04 +0000

Lol.. I am the same. My day job is Rust + car headunit development. My drugs of choice are tikz and openscad..

New comment by dilawar in "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"

dilawar — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:25:49 +0000

I use cheap android devices. My current one is a cheap Motorola and before samsung and Chinese vendors. I've never seen bugs like I have encountere since the last update (2 months ago).

Unless I reboot the device everyday, I can't make a call. The button is pressed but never proceeds to ring, doesn't even show an error message. The play service complains that I am logged out but shows my account info in the login panel!! Rebooting is the only way, android is like windows currently.

I am just scared to update anything these days. And not just android apps, Even rsync gave me a minor scare (fortunate my backup jobs are on debian stable).

Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices

dilawar — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:10:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/04/us-consumer-rage-prices-economy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877927

Points: 125

# Comments: 175

New comment by dilawar in "A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]"

dilawar — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:04:17 +0000

Yup.. I only remeber three knots: 1. tie cows to a pole using a rope, tile show laces, third one is the most basic one which everyone knows. Sometimes, I learn a few occassinally watching youtube video and forget the next day.

New comment by dilawar in "Why jet engines aren't made in China"

dilawar — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:55:57 +0000

meta: isn't there a long history of such retrospective analysis where when a country does well economically, it's due to something in their culture?

New comment by dilawar in "U.S. science is in chaos"

dilawar — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:52:57 +0000

My own experience during my PhD was that a few, if any, PI cared about your growth as a scientist. All they cared about was progress on their project which sometimes are the same. Most of the time they are not.

New comment by dilawar in "India, UAE partner on AI sovereignty to bypass Google, Microsoft"

dilawar — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:55:52 +0000

Interesting though ..

New comment by dilawar in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

dilawar — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:36:24 +0000

https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4483&mobile=1 couldn't resist.

PS: Someone won't become a trillionaire with this attitude.

New comment by dilawar in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"

dilawar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:22:22 +0000

When I was in college, I posted a question on math.se about possibility of universal gates like NOR and NAND in multi-level logic. Someone found it interesting and posted it on the mathoverflow in more mathy language . To my surprise, Terry wrote an answer to that question. I still don't get it but I was flexing the whole month.

Terry also took time to respond to comments I posted on his blog and on his google wave posts (I am old). Most of them were incredibly stupid but he took time to respond. Imagine a field medalist responding to a wannabe kid living somewhere in India.

Some of his real analysis notes were published in India that were cheaply available. I learnt about open/close set and convergence/cauchy series from it. I never thought I'd enjoy reading pure mathematics. Another mathematician I found very readable Daniel Spielman (I think it was his notes on smooth analysis). I once picked a book by William Tutte from the library! Never seen a book that was harder to read.

I don't know what the point of my post is.

New comment by dilawar in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

dilawar — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:46:29 +0000

May not work with bluetooth keyboard (debian 13).

New comment by dilawar in "GitHub Actions down again today"

dilawar — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:41:01 +0000

Once you get used to it, it's not so bad which is probably true for all functional UIs. I switch between gitlab and GitHub quite a lot and I can't say which one is objectively better. I do like that cross-linking is easier in GitHub but I prefer gitlab ci over GitHub actions. Too bad that gitlab ci runner has removed the command to run ci locally but third party foss solutions are there.

New comment by dilawar in "Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died"

dilawar — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:40:55 +0000

I was amused today when Morty was praising 7-eleven in s0901.

New comment by dilawar in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

dilawar — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:29:07 +0000

Never mind. I didn't read the article (paywalled) and someone in the comments below answered this exact point.

New comment by dilawar in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

dilawar — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:28:15 +0000

> and airfoils also benefit from micro-roughness for lowest friction.

I thought this was known to some extent that smooth surfaces are not always the best e.g. golf balls have dimples on them? No?

New comment by dilawar in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

dilawar — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:48:42 +0000

> Support : I'm telling you, nothing changed!!! The only difference between the old version and the new version is that the old version was in COBOL, and the new one is in C!!!

Thanks for the chuckles!

New comment by dilawar in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

dilawar — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:04:01 +0000

Nice project. People may also want to checkout Tiddlywiki.

US reportedly dropped fraud charges against Adani after he hired Trump's lawyer

dilawar — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:38:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/gautam-adani-billionaire-trump

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144617

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by dilawar in "The Future of Obsidian Plugins"

dilawar — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:12:47 +0000

On the same boat here.. I am trying to leave notion for a couple of reasons. And falling Rupee also not helping. But nothing is as easy to use.

I was a big todo.sh fan in college. Then wundrrlist and joplin. Still miss wunderlist. Tried Tiddlywiki too and liked it. You can make all of them work if it's just you. Sharing and collaboration is pain!

Then Notion. It is just perfect. Was very happy to pay for personal plan which is now removed. There is no official client for Linux (thanks Lotion). I was even using it to host my blog. Now downgraded to a free plan. Using wordpress for blogging.

Have tried obsidian and joplin as notion replacement but couldn't make it work. Notion mobile app is not very fast but better than any other options. I am so used to its databases, cross-linking, creating reminders.

Why not bring back the personal plan! It was really affordable.

New comment by dilawar in "PySimpleGUI 6"

dilawar — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:54:09 +0000

This project started when I started my Ph.D.. I had a few interactions with the author when I added UI to some programs I wanted to showcase as TA.

Every time I needed a GUI, I reached out to this library. Very beginner friendly. Good memories.