Hacker News: gkanai

New comment by gkanai in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

gkanai — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:15:35 +0000

Many here at HN find that site hard to read, not just the original commenter.

New comment by gkanai in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

gkanai — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:48:01 +0000

> "Flying Geese" paradigm

Can you name any one of these that are successful or prominent? I am not aware of this paradigm.

New comment by gkanai in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

gkanai — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:11:48 +0000

Apple, if you are reading this, I'm not investing into new hardware until you fix the mess that is Tahoe. My M1 MAX is doing fine atm.

New comment by gkanai in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

gkanai — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:16:14 +0000

The R1 is a body on frame, so a traditional truck chassis.

This new R2 is a unibody- so more of a car, less so a truck

New comment by gkanai in "America has a tungsten problem"

gkanai — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:55:32 +0000

You may want to attribute the site/article to yourself.

New comment by gkanai in "Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce"

gkanai — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:28:46 +0000

China executes 11 members of Myanmar scam mafia

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gdrvy9gjo

China executes four more Myanmar mafia members

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4e9eqz4rxo

New comment by gkanai in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

gkanai — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:18:03 +0000

I am still on Sequoia and dont plan to move to Tahoe.

New comment by gkanai in "VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV"

gkanai — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:28:27 +0000

The famous case I always bring up is the accident with the USS John McCain. The US Navy tried screens but due to this accident and other reasons has gone back to mechanical controls. Cars can have some screens but key controls (HVAC, car safety, windows, etc.) should be mechanical.

https://www.naval-technology.com/news/us-navy-to-replace-tou...

New comment by gkanai in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

gkanai — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:25:56 +0000

Good Riddance to Alan Dye.

Tim Cook- if you do one thing before you retire- promote the right person to fix both MacOS and iOS. They're both in need of a lot of work to fix.

New comment by gkanai in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

gkanai — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:05:14 +0000

I would argue peak car was a little earlier, maybe the 2000-2010 decade. Fewer screens to fail, analog buttons and dials. Airbags, and ABS for safety but without the additional computers/screens.

New comment by gkanai in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

gkanai — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:52:54 +0000

I've been on Apple since the 1980s. Apple IIc was my first Apple.

Since a few years ago, I've chosen to stay at least 1 full version behind the current version and I've never regretted that.

New comment by gkanai in "iPhone Pocket"

gkanai — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:55:58 +0000

Miyake has a line called A-POC which makes clothing out of a single piece of cloth. So it's a product line at IM.

New comment by gkanai in "Noahpinion – How Ireland got so rich (2023)"

gkanai — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:05:13 +0000

Once an underdog, the Emerald Isle is now on top.

Noahpinion – How Ireland got so rich (2023)

gkanai — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:05:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-ireland-got-so-rich

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873597

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by gkanai in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

gkanai — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:25:25 +0000

You have a gift for writing.

As for your job search, I would recommend that you look way beyond your home country if you haven't started doing that already. There are markets where there are jobs and while finding work overseas is not easy, there are markets where ML/product/research roles are still open.

New comment by gkanai in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

gkanai — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 06:20:20 +0000

I used to be first to try out new Apple products. Now I wait for OS upgrades and will let others try new Apple products or major software updates. Too many times Cupertino has let users down with poorly tested software. This problem with the Airpods- it should have been caught if this many people are experiencing the same problem.

Apple doesn't deserve the share price it enjoys.

New comment by gkanai in "60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds"

gkanai — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:23:56 +0000

Acupuncture is widely used across East Asia for multiple issues. If it didn't work, it would not be used. But it does work, for some people, for some issues.

New comment by gkanai in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

gkanai — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:45:14 +0000

> I regret being born too late to work somewhere like Bell Labs, SGI, or Sun.

For each of those firms there was a 'golden era' and then a time when the company coasted on their laurels, and then the slide to irrelevancy.

New comment by gkanai in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

gkanai — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:07:53 +0000

They never did afaict. Eventually smartphones became ubiquitous and I think most S. Koreans bank on their phones using apps. As for those who bank on computer, I dont know what happened when Active-X was deprecated. It was a poor decision by the S. Korean govt. to hang their hat on that technology.

New comment by gkanai in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

gkanai — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:33:22 +0000

Back when I worked for Mozilla, I had the chance to go to Seoul to meet with various companies and some governmental ministries. This was when Korean banks and ecommerce sites required Internet Explorer and Active-X controls for secure transactions. This meant that MacOS users or Linux users couldnt do secure transactions in Korea without emulating Win/IE.