Hacker News: harrymit907

New comment by harrymit907 in "Ask HN: What are your founder's resolutions for 2024?"

harrymit907 — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:53:42 +0000

Great. Do you mind sharing what location it is?

New comment by harrymit907 in "The Bureau of Meteorology website does not support connections via HTTPS"

harrymit907 — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 08:16:15 +0000

Your LE friendly ISP can insert a JS browser exploit and gain access to your device. Is that a valid reason?

New comment by harrymit907 in "No dogs were harmed in the making of this app"

harrymit907 — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:33:53 +0000

Cost to benefits probably. Vet X-rays are surprisingly expensive and then surgery had to be done anyway.

Apple Warns Top Indian Opposition Leaders, Journalists About Attack on Phones

harrymit907 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 08:45:11 +0000

Article URL: https://thewire.in/rights/apple-india-state-sponsored-spyware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38081821

Points: 5

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New comment by harrymit907 in "Show HN: Kimchi Reader – Immersive Korean Learning with a Popup Dictionary"

harrymit907 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:46:15 +0000

I personally think leaving romanization after the first week of learning Hangul is best, unless you are focusing only on getting better at speaking.

New comment by harrymit907 in "Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world"

harrymit907 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:42:18 +0000

Illegal in what jurisdiction? I suppose only in China?

New comment by harrymit907 in "Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?"

harrymit907 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 04:53:55 +0000

Not really good. I quit my FAANG job just before the layoffs started (If only I had known...) to pursue a SaaS project. I was the top performer in the team back then. I recently reached out to my manager about getting back into the team but the hiring freeze is still very much ongoing and going to last atleast 6 more months based on his feedback.

New comment by harrymit907 in "Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service"

harrymit907 — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:00:38 +0000

A user reported this on Reddit 3 days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/17ankoh/does_hetzn...

New comment by harrymit907 in "LIBS confirms the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface"

harrymit907 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 05:38:32 +0000

Yes, and it'd also be a whole lot better if people living overseas and supporting BJP would come back to so called Amritkaal and live here

New comment by harrymit907 in "LIBS confirms the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface"

harrymit907 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 05:36:36 +0000

Yes, swarajyamag is a very non biased independent source.

New comment by harrymit907 in "LIBS confirms the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface"

harrymit907 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 06:25:51 +0000

I don't care if it has support of 80% Indians. And even you know that's objectively not true. Any party which does not care about democratic principles is a shithole party.

New comment by harrymit907 in "LIBS confirms the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface"

harrymit907 — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:51:12 +0000

Just to be clear, Modi and his shithole party had nothing to do with the success of Chandrayan. 100% credit goes to the scientists and engineers.

New comment by harrymit907 in "Ask HN: Suggestions to host 10TB data with a monthly +100TB bandwidth"

harrymit907 — Sat, 27 May 2023 16:36:09 +0000

Wasabi is the best option for you. 10TB would be around 60$/month and they offer free egress as much as your storage. So you can download upto 10TB per month.

New comment by harrymit907 in "A digital payments revolution in India"

harrymit907 — Sun, 21 May 2023 08:07:58 +0000

Agree with the definitions. I guess the OP meant it like "not allowed to use" rather than actually getting arrested for possession.

New comment by harrymit907 in "A digital payments revolution in India"

harrymit907 — Sat, 20 May 2023 15:42:21 +0000

How is "illegal" and "no longer considered legal tender" different?

Regardless of the intentions, I don't see how banning people from using currency notes that they legally owned is not dictatorial. Why is using cash deemed guilty before even having any evidence.

New comment by harrymit907 in "Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government"

harrymit907 — Sat, 06 May 2023 15:37:18 +0000

I can understand how people who are not in the security domain might get confused by this.

The legitimate application's developer cannot do anything if their application is being trojanized by malware authors. Even if Modi himself releases a piece of software, anyone can just create a malicious version of that and distribute it on various platforms.

> The most important thing country needs to do is to protect it's citizens and that is what India is doing.

The important thing the country had to do was to sensitize people about the malicious versions being distributed and urge them to use only the application from the legitimate VLC website. Instead, they went ahead and banned the legit VLC website which just makes people to go to shadier websites to download VLC.

I agree politicians would not have this level of knowledge, but for the officials who assist the policy makers, this should be a basic 101 in security. Now what would you call the official in Cert-IN who issued the VLC ban ? A clown? definitely.

New comment by harrymit907 in "Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government"

harrymit907 — Fri, 05 May 2023 16:03:31 +0000

That is exactly what the clown show is about. Say, some Russian hackers are spreading malicious versions of Chrome, so do you go about banning the legitimate Google Chrome. If the government doing that is not a clown I don't know what is.

New comment by harrymit907 in "How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed"

harrymit907 — Thu, 04 May 2023 16:08:20 +0000

Add ProtonVPN to the list too. They have auto renew as the default and there is no cancel option anywhere. And if you try to remove the payment method it does not allow you to do so as your auto renewal is still active. The only way to cancel auto renew is to write an email to support.

New comment by harrymit907 in "LattePanda Announces Sigma, a 'Hackable Single Board Server'"

harrymit907 — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 16:37:13 +0000

I did a few tests with using a good SSD as swap but the performance is worse by magnitudes. So having RAM is the only way to go as of now.

New comment by harrymit907 in "LattePanda Announces Sigma, a 'Hackable Single Board Server'"

harrymit907 — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 16:35:23 +0000

I am looking at more than 2TB of RAM which will grow as more data is ingested. More cores is not a requirement for me. Right now I manage this using cheap dedicated servers and cluster them. But I spend close to 1.5k USD per month on this, so figured building this would be a lot cheaper in the long run.