Hacker News: jp42

New comment by jp42 in "The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography"

jp42 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:05:28 +0000

Meanwhile Starlink and Starshield: Hold my beer ;-)

New comment by jp42 in "Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?"

jp42 — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:03:12 +0000

I believe this will get solved once agent protocol is adopted widespread.

New comment by jp42 in "Grok 4.3"

jp42 — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:44:13 +0000

anecdata: The responses of grok on X in my language are really good. the tone, sarcasm, level of "vulgarity" in response is so accurate that it seem its written by human

New comment by jp42 in "New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care"

jp42 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:37:08 +0000

May be when robots truly arrived. We don't have to work and we get to spend more time with our kids.

New comment by jp42 in "New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care"

jp42 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:30:47 +0000

Slightly tangent. At some point in future I can imagine humanoid robots will be doing this job. Of course, the robots need to be super reliable before we hand over the our kids

New comment by jp42 in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

jp42 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:29:31 +0000

Apple notes app works well for me. I just keep top 3 things to do everyday. not to me mention these top 3 are for everything - personal work and everything else. just top 3 things. that's it.

New comment by jp42 in "Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?"

jp42 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:29:06 +0000

In undergrad(around 2005) we used to have a COBOL lab, most of the assignments were pretty much add/update/delete types. A friend of mine found COBOL so boring, in order to keep it interesting he wrote COBOL program for brothel(not real one), to maintain the customers, prostitutes, transactions and whole nine yard. Despite of not liking the language, he was the best COBOL programmer in college.

New comment by jp42 in "Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'"

jp42 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:25:04 +0000

Well I did not even bring Elon into my original post. What I wrote is true regardless of whether its starlink or some other constellation. e.g satphones are routinely used across the world in conflict/insurgency areas. Starlink is already being used in insurgency in NE part of India and so on.

New comment by jp42 in "Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'"

jp42 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:59:38 +0000

why i am being downvoted for this :confused:

New comment by jp42 in "Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'"

jp42 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:18:43 +0000

Internet shutdown typically happens during riots/ violent protests. Starlink makes "internet shutdown" impotent. Though Starlink has to follow country's laws and actually shutdown the internet. Most if not all protest are sponsored by entities that are against the host country and they will find ways to enable the internet for protesters with starlink or some other ways.

New comment by jp42 in "Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels"

jp42 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:51:20 +0000

population size? imo it makes huge difference in how effective you can govern.

New comment by jp42 in "Starship's Eighth Flight Test"

jp42 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:01:37 +0000

Do it! I am waiting for my 7 month old to become big enough to be ready for 6 hour drive. I plan to make it annual ritual to visit Starbase with kids.

New comment by jp42 in "Starship's Eighth Flight Test"

jp42 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:24:06 +0000

if you can, visit Starbase. I can't believe its so easy and you can see those huge rockets from so close. No permission of anything needed you just drive to there.

New comment by jp42 in "I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares"

jp42 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 02:04:48 +0000

In recent India's general election. A deepfake video of a leading politician costed a massive vote shift and they almost lost an election. The damage was done by the time they have clarified it is fake.

New comment by jp42 in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

jp42 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:42:42 +0000

even if we assume you are comment is correct. Lets extrapolate what happens next. talented team, biggest compute among all competitors and CEO who is hell bent on winning the race. imo that is the reason it is big deal.

New comment by jp42 in "Three Observations"

jp42 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:10:26 +0000

30 years ago, no one in my native place has seen telephone. Now every single person young and old are connected to the internet, conduct banking and other transaction via phone and many many other things.

Many unimaginable things happened in last 30 year from vantage point of my native place. Assuming same level of of transformation for next 30 year it will be still massive progress. Given current tech and AI, the rate of progress for next 30 years will be far greater than last 30. So I am believer in AI and tech in general will make massive progress in next decade

New comment by jp42 in "Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers"

jp42 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:18:46 +0000

I had theory long time ago that booking hotel or airlines tickets from mac used to be more expensive than windows. Many of my friend also experienced as well. Its just theory so don't know if others had similar experience.

New comment by jp42 in "Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things"

jp42 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:57:38 +0000

The Making of Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. Its not about one people but a project, Manhattan Project. One of my most favorite book.

New comment by jp42 in "Looking for a Job Is Tough"

jp42 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:15:12 +0000

I wonder how cheating problem could be solved?

A cheap multi camera system + software, that can be quickly installed at candidates location to watch interviewing candidate. This can be sent by employer before interviews. its cheap enough that it can be thrown away.

traditional way - A company that provides interviewing centers across major cities for software interview, the location will have cameras that will make sure candidates are not cheating.

New comment by jp42 in "Looking for a Job Is Tough"

jp42 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:08:37 +0000

anecdata - I am Indian and on h1b. Intel hired Accenture folks, they just put more people with no experience, it took more time to train them than doing stuff ourselves.

Another instance, Intel gave tens of millions to do something that few employees could have done in couple of months. Its basically creating two conda environments, one with intel optimized software stack & one with default and compare the results for 20 use cases.

Not sure its the case with all the contract companies, but this was my experience.