Hacker News: maayank

Interpassivity

maayank — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:41:27 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpassivity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113954

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by maayank in "The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster"

maayank — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:51:06 +0000

Why would that be a game changer? Genuinely curious.

New comment by maayank in "90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet"

maayank — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:04:05 +0000

> old favorite hasbada tactic

If you're going to use anti-semitic online trolling tropes at least spell them right. It's "Hasbara" and no Israeli under 80 years old uses this word on any day to day basis.

Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster

maayank — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:52:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.folklore.org/Saving_Lives.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392538

Points: 80

# Comments: 109

New comment by maayank in "Avoid Mini-Frameworks"

maayank — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:16:00 +0000

I was also reminded of Spolsky, namely https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...

New comment by maayank in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"

maayank — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:08:44 +0000

> when I asked it how, it mentioned that it knows I live nearby

Did it mention it in its chain of thought? Otherwise, it could definitely output something because of X and then when asked why “rationalize” that it did it because Y

New comment by maayank in "Wiz's $32B GTM Playbook"

maayank — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:04:53 +0000

Is “they were bought because they’re Israeli intelligence” the new “Jews control the banking system”? Please update, I’m somehow missing the residuals from both :(

New comment by maayank in "Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash"

maayank — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:41:53 +0000

How do you make virtual cards?

How to Make Your Neural Network Run Faster: Optimization Techniques

maayank — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:26:26 +0000

Article URL: https://arikpoz.github.io/posts/2025-03-30-how-to-make-your-neural-network-run-faster-an-overview-of-optimization-techniques/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43576218

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by maayank in "Managing People You Can't Fire"

maayank — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 20:05:58 +0000

Is it just me or the post and the hn title don’t match? All I see is several paragraphs and a summary to the effect of “managers of managers should trust their decisions to terminate ICs” - no discussion on how to actually manage the ICs you can’t fire as a manager, which is the content the title (“Managing People You Can't Fire”) states

New comment by maayank in "The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010"

maayank — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:52:15 +0000

what brands get proprioception well?

New comment by maayank in "As an engineer, I'd rather be called stupid than stay silent"

maayank — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:02:42 +0000

Yes, but it requires a truly disciplined management layer to foster such an environment, e.g. not commenting negatively in 1:1s on the comments of a 3rd party and remediate immediately any such accidental remarks that might hurt the safety to be vulnerable.

New comment by maayank in "Samsung bricked their home theater systems through automated firmware update"

maayank — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:53:14 +0000

Thanks, blocked! Fingers crossed it didn’t fetch it yet

New comment by maayank in "Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update"

maayank — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:51:01 +0000

I’m currently away from home but can deny list domains on the dns level. Anyone knows the domain this update is using? Blocked samsung.com

New comment by maayank in "Beware tech career advice from old heads – Jacob Kaplan-Moss"

maayank — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 04:28:41 +0000

Thank you for the list, seems interesting indeed.

New comment by maayank in "IO Devices and Latency"

maayank — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:05:23 +0000

what do you mean by drains?

New comment by maayank in "The Startup CTO's Handbook"

maayank — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:54:03 +0000

What were good time management resources for you?

New comment by maayank in "Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?"

maayank — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:25:48 +0000

Not OP, but would like to try it. How much weaker? And should I weaken the cylinder strength as well?

New comment by maayank in "[dead]"

maayank — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:49:11 +0000

Year | Salesforce | Alphabet | Meta Platforms

-------+------------+----------+----------------

2018 | 29,000 | 98,771 | 35,587

2019 | 35,000 | 118,899 | 44,942

2020 | 49,000 | 135,301 | 58,604

2021 | 56,606 | 156,500 | 71,970

2022 | 73,541 | 190,234 | 86,482

2023 | 79,390 | 182,502 | 67,317

2024 | 72,682 | 183,323 | 74,067

The Grug Brained Developer

maayank — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:16:52 +0000

Article URL: https://grugbrain.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270951

Points: 1

# Comments: 0