Hacker News: gholap

New comment by gholap in "Lunar Terminator Paradox"

gholap — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:58:52 +0000

This article was quite hard to understand, and the author called it "Lunar Terminator Paradox", which does not give too many Google hits.

"Lunar Terminator Illusion" is the thing to search for. This 11-year old Vsauce video did the trick for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2gTSjoEExc

Check around the 5m3s timestamp if in hurry, and not interested in other stuff he discusses.

Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob

gholap — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:06:10 +0000

Article URL: https://charity.wtf/p/confessions-of-an-unrepentant-slop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779530

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

WebKit emits mousemove event even when mouse hasn't moved

gholap — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:15:02 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.oodle.ai/someones-hack-is-someone-elses-bug/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260530

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

UPX: Ultimate Packer for eXecutables

gholap — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:20:49 +0000

Article URL: https://upx.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021151

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gholap in "Show HN: Oodle.ai – $10 per million agent traces"

gholap — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:44:57 +0000

disclaimer: I work at Oodle, posting my own perspective here.

Vijay and Kiran have both replied here in good faith. I like the fact that my bosses are nice, kind, and decent people.

I disagree with them about being nice to trolls.

All the past submissions from OP are for content hosted on a specific domain, which now redirects to another one: Surprise surprise! They sell "Telemetry Pipeline for AI-Era Data Volumes". So, a somewhat-competitor!?

OP, thanks for validation. When competitors write drive-by, unsubstantiated, undisclosed comments, that's good news!

Why it took us 11 months to move a single line of text

gholap — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:41:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.warp.dev/blog/why-it-took-us-11-months-to-move-a-single-line-of-text

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545693

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gholap in "Use native context menus on Mac OS"

gholap — Tue, 25 May 2021 18:41:55 +0000

1. Disable native context menu (macOS native menus will never support access keys)[1]

2. Go to `about:config` and set `ui.key.menuAccessKey` to a custom value (I have it at 17)[2]

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1711299

[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1711299#c5

Academic Urban Legends

gholap — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:14:25 +0000

Article URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306312714535679

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23847360

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gholap in "Goodhart's Law and how systems are shaped by the metrics you chase"

gholap — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 06:12:23 +0000

We don't even need a fictional nail-factory example, because an almost-similar real example exists: the Backyard Furnaces of China during the Great Leap Forward [1]

> Pots, pans, and other metal artifacts were requisitioned to supply the "scrap" for the furnaces so that the wildly optimistic production targets could be met.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Backyard_fu...

New comment by gholap in "Ghoti"

gholap — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:19:36 +0000

Also, even within Marathi, at least for the letters ज and च, how you pronounce them depends on the word. You have to know the correct pronunciation beforehand, as it can't really be guessed from the word.

जेजुरी is my favourite example. चिंच is a close second :)

New comment by gholap in "The Holy Men of India"

gholap — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 13:43:28 +0000

Heads up: he makes really funny claims like "I can make drinking water into poison just by looking at it"

Ref: https://youtu.be/6C1p4HUHlfE?t=105 (1:45 mark)

New comment by gholap in "Logic.ly – Digital logic simulator for teaching logic gates and digital circuits"

gholap — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 07:55:05 +0000

Brainbox (http://www.brainbox-demo.de/home/) is another similar logic simulator. It is open source and the code is well-written.

New comment by gholap in "Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on reducing signup friction"

gholap — Wed, 13 May 2020 15:40:04 +0000

Ah! Eop's law!

Corrupted Blood Incident

gholap — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:57:52 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22589358

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Aphantasia: It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind

gholap — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:57:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-feels-to-be-blind-in-your-mind/10156834777480504/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22199458

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

To Learn, Our Children Need the Power of Play

gholap — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 14:13:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-really-learn-our-children-need-the-power-of-play-11565262002?mod=rsswn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20668248

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gholap in "Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide"

gholap — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:11:58 +0000

"Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?: Veritasium"[1] is a good short video that puts this into context.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_K2Ata6XY

New comment by gholap in "Understanding Bihar’s Super 30 Phenomenon"

gholap — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:20:56 +0000

> this is not the way engineering should be taught

Nit: "super 30" is not about teaching engineering. That begins after the said exam.

New comment by gholap in "MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan"

gholap — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 04:16:45 +0000

Which is true in case of India

New comment by gholap in "Spencer Perceval, The Forgotten Prime Minister"

gholap — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 04:55:38 +0000

can someone with edit privilege edit the title to "British Prime Minister"?

Weird to click on the link just to find out which country they are talking about