Hacker News: lappet

New comment by lappet in "How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)"

lappet — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:35:01 +0000

Yeah I believe modern trigonometry and the terms sine and cos also trace their origins to Sanskrit through Arabic. It's a shame that ancient/medieval India contributed so much to science and math but hasn't been able to innovate in centuries past :(

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

lappet — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:17:26 +0000

hey there, I spent some time working on something very similar, but I am based in the US! I was able to import receipts from Safeway & Costco here, using private APIs. But since stores here don't really support OAuth, and using a private API may not be the best long term approach, I paused my effort. I would love to chat if you are interested. I used react to build a prototype.

New comment by lappet in "US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired"

lappet — Mon, 12 May 2025 16:17:15 +0000

Highways

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: Are there any apps to track grocery prices in local stores?"

lappet — Sun, 04 May 2025 21:28:24 +0000

Some of the big chains in my area provide online receipts: safeway, costco, target, etc.

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: Are there any apps to track grocery prices in local stores?"

lappet — Sat, 03 May 2025 21:50:39 +0000

I am working on an app to track grocery purchases from online receipts. My goal is to track the effects of inflation on prices, and build something like Mint, but with itemized transactions from receipts.

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?"

lappet — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:42:07 +0000

Hugo, s3 and CloudFront. I use GitHub actions to push to s3, that is my deployment pipeline.

New comment by lappet in "AI killed the tech interview. Now what?"

lappet — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:40:11 +0000

Do you have network access? I would pick ssh.

New comment by lappet in "Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world"

lappet — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:46:18 +0000

I know Bengali and Assamese use a Tibetan script, anyone know how similar is it to the one Tibetans use for their language?

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?"

lappet — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 15:31:07 +0000

This is not for a business, but I am working on a side project that uses node.js + sqlite and the entire stack will run on a single Lightsail instance ($5 per month)

New comment by lappet in "Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24"

lappet — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:34:01 +0000

holy moly, if you setup a kickstarter for this, a bajillion desis would support it. curious though, are they going to be frozen samosas?

New comment by lappet in "Show HN: I made an interactive math crossword puzzle with infinite levels"

lappet — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 05:57:11 +0000

Pretty cool. I really like your website! How does the sonification of space sounds work?

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?"

lappet — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 21:35:23 +0000

I loved Teixcalaan #1, and I really need to read the second one. Thanks for the reminder!

New comment by lappet in "Portuguese Orange, Persian Portugal"

lappet — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 22:28:22 +0000

Right, but the root of "orange" is apparently Proto-Dravidian, as mentioned in the article

New comment by lappet in "Portuguese Orange, Persian Portugal"

lappet — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:55:11 +0000

Interestingly enough, Orange is called "oranju" in Tamil, a Dravidian language.

New comment by lappet in "Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically"

lappet — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 19:44:07 +0000

> what always struck me as paradoxical is the nationalist / cultural pride that a lot of immigrants tend to display.

Also an immigrant, and I have observed that some immigrants tend to be become more conservative when they move. Or perhaps they have stopped evolving when their peers in the home country have moved on. I think this might be partly due to dealing with the trauma of displacement, and partly due to lack of diversity in thinking. I have mainly noticed this in a generation older than mine.

New comment by lappet in "Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video]"

lappet — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 06:31:33 +0000

Oh, interesting. I have never written Pascal though.

New comment by lappet in "Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video]"

lappet — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:45:45 +0000

I really miss VB and Flash. Wish we had something like that today.

New comment by lappet in "Procreate Dreams"

lappet — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:29:05 +0000

I know! Are there no alternatives to Flash? I miss it so much.

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on"

lappet — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:52:53 +0000

I quite like it, bookmarking it :)

New comment by lappet in "An Interview with Marc Andreessen about AI and How You Change the World"

lappet — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:30:17 +0000

Is there anyone prominent in the tech world who is pessimistic? I am tired of this relentless optimism regarding new technologies.