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New comment by kshahkshah in "Epidurals are a miracle technology"

kshahkshah — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:16:07 +0000

HARD disagree. Watch “the business of being born”. We’ve turned a fairly routine extremely biologically conserved process into this insanely traumatic experience.

New comment by kshahkshah in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

kshahkshah — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:36:45 +0000

You can always use the library

New comment by kshahkshah in "New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater"

kshahkshah — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:54:45 +0000

They said “delusional”

New comment by kshahkshah in "Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount"

kshahkshah — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:14:54 +0000

The actual study doesn’t compare between generations. So I’ve know way of knowing if GenZs attitudes are much different comparatively.

Interesting results regardless when they compare the shift of 2025 to 2026

New comment by kshahkshah in "Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

kshahkshah — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:24:21 +0000

Wait until they go 996!

New comment by kshahkshah in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

kshahkshah — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:59:20 +0000

Seems like an opportunity to form a coop. I guess I’m being naive though. I just don’t know how

New comment by kshahkshah in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

kshahkshah — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:46:17 +0000

Acts of service.

I was at a Gurudwara (Sikh house of Worship) yesterday for a wake and everyone who enters the cafeteria perform shevas, that is, you take a turn serving everyone else food. It was very nice to do.

New comment by kshahkshah in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

kshahkshah — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:55:05 +0000

Just getting back here, didn't expect all these replies.

I meant supply-side.

New comment by kshahkshah in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

kshahkshah — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:28:48 +0000

My understanding is that a large portion of Scandinavian socialism is paid for by sovereign wealth funds, ultimately backed in their oil production and reserves.

I know they’ve gotten a lot else right of course

New comment by kshahkshah in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

kshahkshah — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:39:57 +0000

Not trying to be overly flippant... who cares?

The paper opens with "to feed a growing population" without asking is that what we need? want? where we are actually heading to?

Is feeding the world a real problem? I've yet to see compelling evidence that it really is except as a secondary effect of logistics, energy supply, and war.

edit: I understand the environmental impacts. I think we should solve our energy problems first.

New comment by kshahkshah in "TruffleRuby"

kshahkshah — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:39:16 +0000

He seemed like a kind and gentle man. I looked up to him. RIP

New comment by kshahkshah in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

kshahkshah — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:47:18 +0000

Complete opposite of my experience

New comment by kshahkshah in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

kshahkshah — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:45:48 +0000

Are you hand coding?

New comment by kshahkshah in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

kshahkshah — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:39:18 +0000

* work from the gym, if there is a lounge area * work from the library * join social clubs pertaining to your interest * change your job to be in-office, the commute and errands that occur incidentally result in more interactions

I'm sorry you're going through this.

New comment by kshahkshah in "AI is making junior devs useless"

kshahkshah — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:00:36 +0000

I see so much creativity coming from young developers I just can’t agree. Yes most developers in the past 20 years who were only chasing big tech money were useless. Good riddance

New comment by kshahkshah in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

kshahkshah — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:19:30 +0000

He introduced me and many others to Sarah Paine. I think that helped launch him. Maybe that was already after he had an audience though.

The funny thing is his questions to her were terrible. But she rescued it anyway.

But I think he has improved markedly as an interviewer I will say

New comment by kshahkshah in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

kshahkshah — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:49:49 +0000

ChatGPT and Wikipedia are not primary sources of information.

CIA to Sunset the World Factbook

kshahkshah — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:53:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-05/cia-closes-world-factbook-online-resource/106307724

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899100

Points: 385

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New comment by kshahkshah in "When someone says they hate your product"

kshahkshah — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:24:33 +0000

Some people are colorblind. Some people have more or less cones and rods. Our interpretation of colors is certainly not the same

New comment by kshahkshah in "Ruby website redesigned"

kshahkshah — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:09:18 +0000

I used cursor over the past three weeks to update a 12 year-old Ruby on rails project. While it has been slightly updated throughout the years, this was my first proper modernization of the code base.

It’s been a real pleasure getting back into Ruby after so many years in typescript, python, and rust.

Happy to see the update. Real shame about the haters here, the Ruby community is a supportive and positive bunch that has shipped real products while others seem to worship at the altar of computer science alone… that’s about as counter snarky as I want to be here