Hacker News: drac89

New comment by drac89 in "OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

drac89 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:42:26 +0000

From the blog post I've recently read; https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verificatio...

1. Request your data. Email idv-privacy@withpersona.com or privacy@withpersona.com. Under GDPR, they have 30 days to respond.

2. Request deletion. The verification is done. LinkedIn already has the result. There is no reason for Persona to keep your passport scan and facial geometry on their servers. Ask them to delete it.

3. Contact their DPO. dpo@withpersona.com — that’s their Data Protection Officer. If you want to object to them using your documents as AI training data under “legitimate interests,” this is where you do it.

4. Think twice before verifying. That blue badge might not be worth what you’re trading for it. A checkmark is cosmetic. Biometric data is forever.

New comment by drac89 in "Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting"

drac89 — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:26:07 +0000

maybe

New comment by drac89 in "The Lost Art of Commit Messages"

drac89 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:38:56 +0000

It's useful in case like if you ever need to fill out a PR template with what you did or list the changes, it becomes so much easier. You don’t even have to remember exactly what was changed it’s all right there in the commit message.

With structured comments, you can even use the AI to fill out the PR template easily and precisely.

New comment by drac89 in "The Lost Art of Commit Messages"

drac89 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:31:51 +0000

And the best part is, if you ever need to fill out a PR template with what you did or list the changes, it becomes so much easier. You don’t even have to remember exactly what was changed, it’s all right there in the commit message.

New comment by drac89 in "The Lost Art of Commit Messages"

drac89 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:30:19 +0000

I agree maybe not adding the ticket link is better if you know that the system might not be available in the future.

You can not avoid it all the time but maybe It's better to use the PR description for that purpose.

New comment by drac89 in "The Lost Art of Commit Messages"

drac89 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:26:50 +0000

Looks beautiful. And the best part is, if you ever need to fill out a PR template with what you did or list the changes, it becomes so much easier. You don’t even have to remember exactly what was changed, it’s all right there in the commit message.

The Lost Art of Commit Messages

drac89 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:52:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seyhan.me/blog/post/lost-art-of-commit-messages

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43468637

Points: 35

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New comment by drac89 in "Would you pay $17 a month for Facebook and Instagram?"

drac89 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:54:23 +0000

Nope

New comment by drac89 in "Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models"

drac89 — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 06:36:56 +0000

The style of the video is very similar to my dreams.

Does anyone have similar feeling?

NHS IT services held hostage by ransomware hackers

drac89 — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:45:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62506039

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32426498

Points: 7

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Secret plan developed in 1958 aiming to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon

drac89 — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 06:50:16 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32422347

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by drac89 in "Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world"

drac89 — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:10:45 +0000

if anyone interested here is the Github link to the source code => https://github.com/tjukanovt/tjukanovt.github.io/blob/master...

Ewa Wiśnierska

drac89 — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:39:53 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_Wi%C5%9Bnierska

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23572774

Points: 4

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New comment by drac89 in "Ask HN: Want to learn the epidemiology/virology behind COVID19. Where do I look?"

drac89 — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:00:46 +0000

You can start from wikipedia[1] and especially checkout references part.

Unfortunately as you go deep it's really hard to find articles in layman's language. I think it's because articles in layman's language are more targeting the average reader.

I hope someone can comment with a good article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019