Hacker News: kul_

New comment by kul_ in "OpenJev"

kul_ — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:35:10 +0000

Is it only me or do others also find LLM generated websites so off-putting?

New comment by kul_ in "How I write software with LLMs"

kul_ — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:29:22 +0000

LLMs are great at aggregating docs, blogs and other sources out there into a single interface and there has been nothing like it before.

When it comes to coding however, the place where you really need help is the place where you get stuck and that for most people would be the intersection of domain and tech. LLMs need a LOT of baby sitting to be somewhat useful here. If I have to prompt a LLM for hours just to get the correct code, why would I even use it when the tangible output is just carefully thought out few 100 lines of code!

New comment by kul_ in "Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting"

kul_ — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 03:00:41 +0000

Assuming an ext-IP (60k ports) can easily represent 100 household if we statically assign ports. Given CGNAT with dynamic port allocation this can easily go up to 5x? That's wildly inaccurate given the core problem is to "target" a small set of users which is based on this geo info. Not sure how well this elephant sits in a room full of engineers solving this specific targeting problem.

New comment by kul_ in "Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting"

kul_ — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 01:22:21 +0000

Not sure about US, but Indian ISPs are doing this already to conserve IP space given huge userbase. In theory it would work similar to how a NAT gateway works for outbound communication. Skan + geo would be hard nut to crack in India.

New comment by kul_ in "Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting"

kul_ — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:41:58 +0000

> A lot of the big ad networks right now instead rely heavily on geo-data

How does this work in today's age where ISPs normally will have at least one level of NATing with ipv4. And given ipv6 with prefix delegation is still far away this should continue to be very imprecise?

New comment by kul_ in "Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers"

kul_ — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 05:49:28 +0000

Reminds of the old days, when reverse engineering game binaries were a thing. Finding hex strings, no-op'ing if conditions, adding jmp instructions. Many heroes forgotten with time as more and more of software onboarded the cloud offerings. I wonder how much of it is still relevant and in what fields?

New comment by kul_ in "Ask HN: How are account balances updated in a real bank?"

kul_ — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:23:04 +0000

I cannot tell if this is a serious comment.

Ask HN: How are account balances updated in a real bank?

kul_ — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:19:48 +0000

To folks who worked with financial organisations, I wonder how accurate the Account Balance updated examples are with respect to transaction isolation and concurrent updates? Or do banks just updates ledger and balances in a literally serialized manner with one thead avoiding any complexity altogether?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39360840

Points: 10

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New comment by kul_ in "Does DNA have the equivalent of IF-statements, WHILE loops, or function calls?"

kul_ — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:53:53 +0000

I misread this for some reason and I am now interested to know if DNS can be made to work dynamically this way instead of being just preconfigured static records?

New comment by kul_ in "PostgreSQL Lock Conflicts"

kul_ — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 05:12:18 +0000

This is excellent, kudos to the author. I wonder if pg exposes enough control to develop a tool along with this information which help analyze locks and their effect on queries on a live server.

New comment by kul_ in "Egg whites can be transformed into a material capable of filtering microplastics"

kul_ — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:03:31 +0000

But then, how will you separate salt from microplastics?

New comment by kul_ in "HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know"

kul_ — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 07:58:09 +0000

Cynical but sadly true.

New comment by kul_ in "Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine"

kul_ — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:00:18 +0000

Moderna vaccine also seems to have similar storage requirements with a high price tag. BioNTech otoh has impractical storage requirements for the third world. AstraZenca's price and storage combiation may open possibilities for distributing this globally.

New comment by kul_ in "Investigating TLS Blocking in India"

kul_ — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:00:52 +0000

Isnt' SNI based on the 'Host' header?! This is a news for me that SNI is not encrypted in TLS. Its a problem with the protocol not the ISPs then.

Alternative terms proposed for master/blacklist in Linux kernel source

kul_ — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:19:59 +0000

Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/dd/2020/07/13/linux-kernel-will-no-longer-use-terms-blacklist-and-slave/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23832951

Points: 2

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Modi Orders 3-Week Total Lockdown for All 1.3 Billion Indians

kul_ — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 06:35:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/world/asia/india-coronavirus-lockdown.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682461

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kul_ in "Researchers Step Up Efforts to Develop a 'Universal' Flu Vaccine"

kul_ — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:30:25 +0000

Scientists already have a precise knowledge of what the human body is made of, is it possible to develop a shot which basically annhilates anything in the body which is not supposed to be there? I mean instead of developing a vaccine which kills xyz vareity of microbes it will destroy everything which is not in human genetics.

New comment by kul_ in "Mozilla re-enables TLS 1.0 and 1.1 because of Coronavirus (and Google)"

kul_ — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:09:11 +0000

Why do you have to do it alone? Cant you ask for another colleague to help you out on this?

New comment by kul_ in "Learning Clojure Made Easy"

kul_ — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 05:57:52 +0000

Learning clojure is relatively easy, the hard part would be to get paid for writing it.

New comment by kul_ in "Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim"

kul_ — Wed, 24 May 2017 06:12:26 +0000

Did you also show her Sex.