Hacker News: h43k3r

New comment by h43k3r in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

h43k3r — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:32:57 +0000

I used to think the same before I bought a hybrid (Honda CRV). It is different from Toyota but also a very simple setup (generator + ev at low to medium speeds and direct drive at high speeds). It technically doesn't even have a gear box and no alternator. It has less maintenance items than its ICE equivalent. (Not taking into account the battery replacement in long term)

A new way to create a digital wardrobe from your Google Photos

h43k3r — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:51:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/photos/google-photos-wardrobe-feature/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012257

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Honey's(PayPal) browser extension accused of ripping off customers and YouTubers

h43k3r — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:37:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/23/24328268/honey-coupon-code-browser-extension-scam-influencers-affiliate-marketing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42501812

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by h43k3r in "[dead]"

h43k3r — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:23:57 +0000

Paypal owned Honey seems to be using sneaky UX to get affiliate share. They are overriding affiliate links just before the checkout.

They are also using deceptive advertising to users by promising them best coupon codes. But they don't apply the best coupon code even when they know about it.

Azure Resource Manager – Unable to Access the Azure Portal and Other Services

h43k3r — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 05:53:08 +0000

Article URL: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-in/status

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39075987

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by h43k3r in "Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job"

h43k3r — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:30:55 +0000

What a great comment. Thanks for writing this out.

One more thing to mention here is that Software Engineers are paid more because the industry is able to scale well to individual engineers outputs.

One thing where Software Engineers differ from a lot of others is asymmetric input and output. A single change in production can save millions of dollars easily. This is possible but difficult to do in other engineering fields like Construction, Hardware etc.

New comment by h43k3r in "NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2"

h43k3r — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 05:58:09 +0000

I love the engineering behind Voyager 2. Is there a good book or documentary that folks here on HN recommend to go deep on the various engineering pieces behind Voyager ?

New comment by h43k3r in "America has paid a steep price for parking"

h43k3r — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:40:20 +0000

Public transportation is not dangerous but cycling on roads made for cars is.

New comment by h43k3r in "John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset"

h43k3r — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 02:59:26 +0000

This is exactly what I did. I imported my GPad in 2013. It is still working as a pdf reader with its screen seperated.

I am planning to do some DIY fix and going to donate it. There are many kids here in India who needs a digital device to do their online classes but have to use a small screen phone

New comment by h43k3r in "25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build"

h43k3r — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 16:22:01 +0000

Author has written his own router software and probably wants to continue to develop it. They are much more pro than your normal average home user.

New comment by h43k3r in "Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible"

h43k3r — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:20:28 +0000

This has already started happening in India where thiefs are replacing QR codes which are stuck outside of a Shop

Twitter Loses Legal Shield in India,Charged with “Provoking Communal Sentiments”

h43k3r — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 04:32:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/twitter-loses-legal-indemnity-for-not-complying-with-new-it-rules-can-be-charged-for-users-posts-say-government-sources-2464846

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524933

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by h43k3r in "Disasters I've seen in a microservices world"

h43k3r — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 04:58:07 +0000

Googler here. You are absolutely right. I would never ever do something the Google way outside of Google.

Google has a dedicated organisation for maintaining all the infrastructure required for and around microservices. We are talking about 500-1000 engineers just improving and maintaining the infrastructure.

I don't have to worry about things like distributed tracing, monitoring, authentication, logs, logs search, logs parsing for exceptions, anamoly detection on logs, deployment, release management etc. They are already there and is glued pretty well that 90 percent of engineers don't even have to spend more than a day to understand all that.

New comment by h43k3r in "Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C"

h43k3r — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 18:40:39 +0000

Yes

New comment by h43k3r in "Programming is hard"

h43k3r — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 08:48:59 +0000

This is so true of me. Never really liked solving puzzles, cubes, riddles etc. But programming, oh boy I Love it. Have spent hours non stop debugging complex things in OS, Networks, Distributed systems etc. The feeling of solving it at the end is a small dose of drug.

Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year

h43k3r — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 04:59:09 +0000

Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/boosting-dev-success.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26486737

Points: 501

# Comments: 334

New comment by h43k3r in "GitHub Actions is experiencing degraded performance"

h43k3r — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:23:06 +0000

Sandboxed containers.

New comment by h43k3r in "Kubernetes Failure Stories"

h43k3r — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 02:47:52 +0000

Lookup Google's Spanner. It's a distributed transactional SQL database with whatever consistency levels you are interested in

Disclaimer- Google employee who is heavily using Spanner

GameStop: The game never stops -Matt Levine

h43k3r — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:53:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-25/the-game-never-stops

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25914771

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by h43k3r in "After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off"

h43k3r — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 16:38:33 +0000

You are right about content. But in that case FB should have clearly communicated about violations for those pages and given a chance to correct them.

Also taking down personal accounts seems more like an automated action where a graph of related accounts are taken down.