Hacker News: mangatmodi

New comment by mangatmodi in "If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog"

mangatmodi — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:09:38 +0000

Not deliberate but yeah.

New comment by mangatmodi in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

mangatmodi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:13:18 +0000

I am curious. Are you able to see our session text based on the session ID? That was big no in some of the tier-1 places I worked. No employee could see user texts.

New comment by mangatmodi in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

mangatmodi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:49:09 +0000

SCI-FI has always featured sentient AI, and now we might be heading toward actually synthesizing brains. This feels dystopian.

PS: It's still very cool but also scary.

New comment by mangatmodi in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

mangatmodi — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:04:35 +0000

Smart is different than the knowledge. If you learn about these concepts andwork on these problems, then you will be able to solve them.

It's not about you being average, just a different knowledge set.

New comment by mangatmodi in "DMCA Takedown of iptv-org/iptv on GitHub"

mangatmodi — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 05:17:09 +0000

Poor maintainers also added the legal section - https://web.archive.org/web/20230204131826/https://github.co...

> No video files are stored in this repository. The repository simply contains user-submitted links to publicly available video stream URLs, which to the best of our knowledge have been intentionally made publicly by the copyright holders. If any links in these playlists infringe on your rights as a copyright holder, they may be removed by sending a pull request or opening an issue. However, note that we have no control over the destination of the link, and just removing the link from the playlist will not remove its contents from the web. Note that linking does not directly infringe copyright because no copy is made on the site providing the link, and thus this is not a valid reason to send a DMCA notice to GitHub. To remove this content from the web, you should contact the web host that's actually hosting the content (not GitHub, nor the maintainers of this repository).

New comment by mangatmodi in "DMCA Takedown of iptv-org/iptv on GitHub"

mangatmodi — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 05:13:40 +0000

How come a compilation of pubic streams is eligible for DMCA? Lets wait to get the DMCA notice to be available, it could be either of following 1. Somebody mistakenly/intentionally added a malicious stream. 2. Or DMCA notice is fraud.

In my experience, it always the 2nd one. There are law firms and agencies randomly taking down stuff on internet with their faulty scripts and crawlers.

New comment by mangatmodi in "Async message-oriented systems vs. REST for inter-microservice communications"

mangatmodi — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:59:50 +0000

Not sure about the claim that async has better Transactionality then REST.

>Transactionality: Each endpoint has either processed a message, done its work (possibly including changing something in a database), and sent a message, or none of it.

New comment by mangatmodi in "Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators"

mangatmodi — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:45:07 +0000

Actually English is the most common language across India. Majority of the app ecosystem in India is English only.

In Europe, majority of people can't read English at all. I mean atleast people from Germany, Spain, Italy and France.

Benthos: Low Code Stream Processing

mangatmodi — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:23:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.benthos.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372074

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mangatmodi in "Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store"

mangatmodi — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:04:53 +0000

I would say Google should ban Google search, because it allows links to the hate speech blogs.

Sarcasm aside, I think its one of the big tech moves to control free web.

New comment by mangatmodi in "Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?"

mangatmodi — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:16:11 +0000

yes yes, there are third party DMPs. Phone companies, offline stores etc. all share data with these DMPs. It is quite disgusting. Particularly shady practices done by FB.

But nothing can defeat first party tracking you get with the app.

New comment by mangatmodi in "Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?"

mangatmodi — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 11:19:34 +0000

I worked on user tracking all my life. You can track user activities, interest etc, much better on an app. This data is valuable for in-house use and to sell it to the highest bidder.

New comment by mangatmodi in "Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes"

mangatmodi — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 15:13:41 +0000

Look like we killed another site from HN frontpage.

New comment by mangatmodi in "Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study"

mangatmodi — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:55:53 +0000

As suffering from anxiety disorder, It totally hits home. I have been a top notch employee at every place I worked, but I totally bombed most of my interviews.

New comment by mangatmodi in "Saying thanks: testing a new Reactions feature"

mangatmodi — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:13:44 +0000

I went to meta-discussion and learned more details. Most of the thanks comment are written by folks who already have upvote powers. Anyways its a fun read. Grab popkorn and go through it :)

New comment by mangatmodi in "Saying thanks: testing a new Reactions feature"

mangatmodi — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:04:44 +0000

How is it different from upvoting an answer? People who want to write will still write thanks, I already found some posts on the home page with thanks comment and the feature.

Also what about the change in reputation when being thanked? It should be there in the blog post.

New comment by mangatmodi in "YouTube demonotised my favourite channel"

mangatmodi — Wed, 20 May 2020 21:28:41 +0000

It claimed the channel to upload repetitive content. But this doesn't make sense. It takes a lot of research and editing to create such videos. Google is acting like a big bully now.

YouTube demonotised my favourite channel

mangatmodi — Wed, 20 May 2020 21:27:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgwnW7YW9w47-Sc8_Jp4AaABCQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23252000

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mangatmodi in "EasyJet admits a cyber-attack has affected approximately nine million customers"

mangatmodi — Tue, 19 May 2020 12:32:29 +0000

Interesting. Were they storing/operating unsalted plaintext credit card info? I hope not.

New comment by mangatmodi in "Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M"

mangatmodi — Fri, 15 May 2020 16:05:04 +0000

I would say never regret your decision when the future turns out unexpected. You made an educated guess, and you could have no idea that they would be success.