Hacker News: kamyarg

New comment by kamyarg in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

kamyarg — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:26:33 +0000

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New comment by kamyarg in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

kamyarg — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:54:11 +0000

This has been one of the best articles I have read.

Thank you for the digging that up and sharing.

New comment by kamyarg in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

kamyarg — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:39:13 +0000

I have the exact same workflow as you.

icloud works great.

Was thinking of proton but reading your comment has changed my mind, good catch-all custom domain support is a must for me.

New comment by kamyarg in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

kamyarg — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:38:19 +0000

icloud mail support custom domains.

I am using them.

Sending an email from catch-all covered email is not a big issues also, create use, delete and it still works.

I am slowly transitioning to icloud from gmail, was thinking of proton but reading the above comment made me change my mind, good custom domain support is a must for me.

New comment by kamyarg in "Claude's new constitution"

kamyarg — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:13:41 +0000

Does this person's name rhyme with ■■■■■■ ■■■■■?

New comment by kamyarg in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

kamyarg — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:46:23 +0000

Any chance you can link to the reference I can read further about this?

New comment by kamyarg in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

kamyarg — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:33:12 +0000

This has been a life saver:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

Crowd sourced in-video sponsor auto skip, I have been contributing to it myself as the UX is great.

New comment by kamyarg in "Ask HN: Worst experience receiving an offer?"

kamyarg — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 01:09:22 +0000

This is done partly to prevent people from using written offers as leverage to either negotiate a higher compensation at their current job or another company they are interviewing with.

New comment by kamyarg in "Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs"

kamyarg — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:55:56 +0000

I have seen people fired in the morning and their access cutoff by noon and them being asked to go on "gardening leave" in Europe.

This is rare but depends on your manager, if they don't want you around. You will still be paid for the remaining of your "employment" but will not be working.

New comment by kamyarg in "Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?"

kamyarg — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:30:59 +0000

It is less technical and more leadership, strategy and soft skill side of engineering but https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/ definitely deserves a mention.

New comment by kamyarg in "Why Is German Internet So Bad"

kamyarg — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 18:39:09 +0000

Software side also does not look bright, France is doing much better innovative tech than Germany.

Swiss, Dutch and Swedes are all also doing much better imho.

New comment by kamyarg in "Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack"

kamyarg — Sun, 16 May 2021 23:38:02 +0000

Not sure about articles but I can recommend Crypto Kittens Tutorial[1].

It has been some time since I did it(Late 2018 I think), but was really informative to get the mindset and different constraints people deal with in smart contract world.

[1] https://www.cryptokitties.co/kitten-class/breeding/introduct...

New comment by kamyarg in "Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack"

kamyarg — Sun, 16 May 2021 21:05:42 +0000

Not an expert in solidity but from my limited experience EVM and smart contracts have really different approach when it comes to computation.

two things that come to my mind:

- There is really no random() function due to need for determinism

- Space vs. Time complexity is distorted, the gas you pay for instruction vs. byte is really different economics compared to AWS EC2 instance/hour etc.

New comment by kamyarg in "Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?"

kamyarg — Sun, 16 May 2021 17:32:04 +0000

Recently started working on a command line tool to easily record things I learnt.

https://github.com/kamyar/til

You can install it using "pip install til-cli", feedback/suggestions most welcome. :)

Was inspired by Simon Willison's TIL Page

One Year of TILs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27017604

New comment by kamyarg in "$365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin"

kamyarg — Fri, 14 May 2021 01:21:49 +0000

> Decentralized networks are a rare medium well-done.

https://steak.network/

New comment by kamyarg in "Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civilization.’"

kamyarg — Mon, 10 May 2021 12:15:37 +0000

I think what the parent comment suggests is "Seal of approval" situation, similar thing that happened with Tesla buying bitcoin caused price surge. When a well known entity invests in crypto, trust in crypto goes up.

Berkshire buying bitcoin would definitely make me buy more bitcoin.

New comment by kamyarg in "What's Salesforce? (2019)"

kamyarg — Sun, 02 May 2021 17:56:36 +0000

Can you share the reasoning? How was the "cost" of migration justified vs. ?

New comment by kamyarg in "U.S. Strategic Command response to FOIA request regarding gibberish tweet"

kamyarg — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:23:37 +0000

I enabled a delay for gmail that from the moment I click send I have 10s to cancel the email and it let's me edit it.

Has been very useful so far.

New comment by kamyarg in "New 5G protocol vulnerabilities allow location tracking"

kamyarg — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:06:11 +0000

can you explain how you opted out please? Thank you

New comment by kamyarg in "Python 3.10.0a6 is available, now with 100% more pattern matching"

kamyarg — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:52:24 +0000

Thank you for the pointer.

Seems they have already fixed it.

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24721/files