Hacker News: fshafique

New comment by fshafique in "Introduction to Obsidian"

fshafique — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:29:18 +0000

I second your suggestion to have a decent Spreadsheet tool in Obsidian.

New comment by fshafique in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

fshafique — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:11:38 +0000

100% agree! And I'm pretty sure the Linux community had many more (hardware) KVM users than the general population. Kernel-based virtualization should've been abbreviated KbVM.

New comment by fshafique in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

fshafique — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:07:25 +0000

Time will tell if they knew and looked the other way. Or more like time will confirm with more evidence that this actually happened.

New comment by fshafique in "Investigating a Forged PDF"

fshafique — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:58:58 +0000

It feels like you need to sue them for scamming you with fake documents. Their attempts didn't work on you, but it might've scammed many others.

New comment by fshafique in "Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves"

fshafique — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:25:08 +0000

Roma or Romani people, commonly known in Europe as gypsies, are not the same as Romanian people, although there is a large population there. You'll have to reference Wikipedia for a deeper dive.

New comment by fshafique in "Self-Taught Engineers Often Outperform"

fshafique — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:45:06 +0000

Is your opinion about the latter because the self-taught may not stay on task?

As a self-taught person on a lot of different matters, I find myself exploring rabbit holes that expand my knowledge, but don't progress the task I originally started doing.

New comment by fshafique in "New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory"

fshafique — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:55:12 +0000

I like the Battlestar Galactica theory for this - a group of humans and human-Cylon hybrids bred with the early Neanderthals in different regions of the world.

New comment by fshafique in "Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers"

fshafique — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:16:06 +0000

That's what I was hoping the author would explore.

New comment by fshafique in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

fshafique — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:59:22 +0000

One year ago I probably would've said the same. But I started dabbling with it recently, and I'm awed by it.

New comment by fshafique in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

fshafique — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:41:27 +0000

"do not work for me", I believe, is the key message here. I think a lot of AI companies have crafted their tools such that adoption has increased as the tools and the output got better. But there will always be a few stragglers, non-normative types, or situations where the AI agent is just not suitable.

New comment by fshafique in "Soon Your Orange Juice Will Have Even Less Real Orange in It"

fshafique — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 01:32:52 +0000

Orange juice shouldn't count as a serving of fruit. It should fall under the same category as soda.

New comment by fshafique in "McKinsey Leans on AI to Make PowerPoints, Draft Proposals"

fshafique — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 01:21:35 +0000

Does somebody have a breakdown of an analyst's tasks and the percentage of time or money spent on each? Was it 50% data gathering, analysis, and projections, and 50% on making PowerPoints?

And anyone seen a McKinsey slide? How information dense are these things?

New comment by fshafique in "Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)"

fshafique — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:13:46 +0000

And thus was born a new game, one that combined knowledge of history, politics, and pop trivia.

New comment by fshafique in "Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android"

fshafique — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:07:49 +0000

Two ways to f#ck with these trackers - either send them nothing back, or flood them with lots of fake data.

Somebody also needs to come up with a way to peer to peer share advertiser tracking cookies.

New comment by fshafique in "Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)"

fshafique — Mon, 19 May 2025 06:14:26 +0000

No interactivity! The email must be printable as-is. Not even CSS code to change styles when you hover over links. That's what I would for a minimum HTML for emails standard that's widely supported.

New comment by fshafique in "New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC"

fshafique — Mon, 19 May 2025 05:54:36 +0000

Chances are that people died of other causes before any cancer could metastasize.

New comment by fshafique in "NASA Stennis Releases First Open-Source Software"

fshafique — Thu, 15 May 2025 07:21:00 +0000

I'm sure there's a joke here about the men in black wanting to slowly release all the reverse-engineered UFO operating system code.

New comment by fshafique in "NASA Stennis Releases First Open-Source Software"

fshafique — Thu, 15 May 2025 07:16:51 +0000

Excuse me for being the idiot that didn't get this from the title.

New comment by fshafique in "Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades"

fshafique — Sun, 04 May 2025 23:50:20 +0000

You should post this on /r/Photogrammetry on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/photogrammetry/

New comment by fshafique in "Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies"

fshafique — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:25:37 +0000

Wilfully ignored because i guess it's not mandated by law.

You need someone powerful like Google to say they will lower Page Rank for sites that don't comply with the Do Not Track flag.