Hacker News: khaled_ismaeel

New comment by khaled_ismaeel in "Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)"

khaled_ismaeel — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:04:24 +0000

It seems like that path crosses the Suez canal. I think it's fair that bridges and/or tunnels don't count.

German court rules: Emails must be end-to-end encrypted

khaled_ismaeel — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:12:41 +0000

Article URL: https://tuta.com/blog/german-court-rules-emails-e2ee

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373540

Points: 18

# Comments: 7

New comment by khaled_ismaeel in "“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)"

khaled_ismaeel — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:27:18 +0000

Not exactly prolog, but logic programming implemented as a library/DSL: https://minikanren.org/

New comment by khaled_ismaeel in ""Good engineering management" is a fad"

khaled_ismaeel — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:55:07 +0000

If value can only be delivered by making a group of people miserable then maybe the definition of "value" is fundamentally wrong, like it was/is in the case of slavery.

Redis CVE-2025-49844: Use-After-Free may lead to remote code execution

khaled_ismaeel — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:33:50 +0000

Article URL: https://redis.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2025-49844/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45501099

Points: 20

# Comments: 13

New comment by khaled_ismaeel in "Bored of It"

khaled_ismaeel — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:41:07 +0000

> I think it's our only chance at quickly solving huge complex problems like aging, cancer, Alzheimer's.

Machine learning is certainly a extremely handy in tacking these issues, thinking of breakthroughs like AlphaFold and similar. However, I'd like to push against your take:

1. There already are tremendous developments happening in those fronts you mentioned. Praising AI as "our only chance" is quite a stretch and possibly even a harmful statement, considering how severely under-funded these research projects are.

2. It seems to me the poem is more about LLMs/glorified chat bots than general machine learning. In that context, I wouldn't consider them as super useful in Alzheimer's research, certainly not "our only chance".

New comment by khaled_ismaeel in "Former tech CEO suing to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet"

khaled_ismaeel — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 20:46:15 +0000

I think they're pointing out the Streisand Effect at play here.

Ask HN: How do you search for low level content nowadays?

khaled_ismaeel — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:16:55 +0000

Recently I've been messing around x86-64 assembly for fun. I can't help but notice that searching for relevant information online is much harder now that it was 10 years ago when I started with programming. It could be related to my particular topic, or I'm just getting old, but bare with me.

Yes, SEO is a major reason for it; ad-infested and LLM-generated pages rank very high in search results. But even if I work around those (with Kagi, for example), it's harder still: Searching things like x86-64, POSIX, ABI's, etc, rarely yields results for me. Authoritative content is thin and spread out across disparate man-pages. Some things are left out completely undocumented. LLM's seems especially helpless dealing with low level topics.

A large portion of this field feels like folklore knowledge, and I didn't even get outside x86-64 on Linux; I can imagine it's much less approachable in the embedded world.

Can you relate? How do you deal with it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41935736

Points: 2

# Comments: 5

LinkedIn AI Hawk, Your AI Job Search Assistant

khaled_ismaeel — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:33:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/feder-cr/linkedIn_auto_jobs_applier_with_AI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41403771

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Don't romanticize Europe's crowded, tardy, unreliable high-speed rail

khaled_ismaeel — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:08:56 +0000

Article URL: https://nypost.com/2024/08/11/opinion/dont-romanticize-europes-unreliable-high-speed-rail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41223508

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by khaled_ismaeel in "Show HN: Candix, a confidential, reverse recruiting platform"

khaled_ismaeel — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 14:04:40 +0000

> The tricky part is making sure candidates truly own these accounts.

Not sure about LeetCode and HackTheBox, but Codeforces' email account is public if I'm not mistaken. It also has an inbox feature, so you can perform some sort of email-like verification.

New comment by khaled_ismaeel in "Show HN: Candix, a confidential, reverse recruiting platform"

khaled_ismaeel — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:17:17 +0000

This is really cool! The opposition of the AI hype, in this particular market, is something I strongly approve of. I guess most of us on HN have dealt with the unpleasant landscape of IT recruiting at some point, and hearing that such new approaches are being tried is a breath of fresh air.

What is gold for me is the business model that doesn't charge end-users, although I can imagine this might become problematic when the pendulum of the IT field's supply and demand for experience swings back.

I also like that the form doesn't ask for a PDF resume, meaning no more marketing and social engineering work for the ever-decreasing attention span of recruiters and ever-increasing automation in resume screenings. Further kudos for the straightforward interface and main form of the website.

Question though: how do you plan to combat spam applications? It doesn't seem that difficult to be _completely_ dishonest in one's application, which granted, will be detected in later screenings, but will probably shadow honest profiles.

Feature proposal: integration with major competition platforms to import one's stats (think Codeforces, LeetCode, HackTheBox, etc).

I hope this takes off well!

Von der Leyen gives nod to €100B 'CERN for AI' proposal

khaled_ismaeel — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 01:17:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/von-der-leyen-gives-nod-to-e100-billion-cern-for-ai-proposal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41083800

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: What martial arts do you recommend?

khaled_ismaeel — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:33:38 +0000

I've recently been interested in martial arts, not as a means for self defense and/or competing, but rather as a path for developing discipline and physical ability.

Do you have any recommendation from your experience/knowledge?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41038822

Points: 6

# Comments: 8

A Report from Mochizuki

khaled_ismaeel — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:37:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13895

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39831944

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Plan for Windows 10 End of Support

khaled_ismaeel — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:27:14 +0000

Article URL: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/plan-for-windows-10-eos-with-windows-11-windows-365-and-esu/ba-p/4000414

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38573843

Points: 42

# Comments: 90

Quare FreeBSD?

khaled_ismaeel — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:47:47 +0000

Article URL: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527524

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

EU court says public employees may be barred from wearing head scarf

khaled_ismaeel — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:20:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-court-says-public-employees-may-be-barred-wearing-head-scarf-2023-11-28/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38457260

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

Ask HN: What Happened to Pony Messenger?

khaled_ismaeel — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:01:00 +0000

Pony Messenger was one of my most favorite ShowHN posts, now it seems to be down for a while. I couldn't find any information online about it.

I hope this post reaches the author.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37501682

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by khaled_ismaeel in "Norwegian shipping company bans electric cars on board classic ferry route"

khaled_ismaeel — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:43:13 +0000

Even if lithium-ion battery-powered cars were as safe as gasoline powered ones, I can imagine the significant weight of electric cars is a major issue still.