Hacker News: namanaggarwal

New comment by namanaggarwal in "App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours"

namanaggarwal — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:33:35 +0000

Honestly, reading this, I kinda feel they have an AI integration in the review tool, which hallucinate and tell them it’s Astrology and employees at that level don’t want to go against that judgement

New comment by namanaggarwal in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"

namanaggarwal — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:37:17 +0000

It’s my first as a father of 4 month old. We have traditionally never celebrated Father’s Day, last few years with social media provenance we started sending wishes on Family WhatsApp group.

This morning felt very different though. I have been getting used (gladly) to waking up with her smile and today with her holding my finger.

That was the best gift ever and getting to take photo with her and my dad :)

Happy Father’s Day

New comment by namanaggarwal in "I automated opt-outs for 500 data broker sites (open source)"

namanaggarwal — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:29:33 +0000

Is this relevant for the UK? (Genuine question, trying to understand if I should run this)

New comment by namanaggarwal in "Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased"

namanaggarwal — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:04 +0000

It’s not a VR device. It has a camera, mic and speakers, that allows you to take photos/videos and talk to an AI agent

YouTube hikes prices in India by 58%

namanaggarwal — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:53:16 +0000

Article URL: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-increases-prices-of-youtube-premium-plans-in-india-here-are-new-prices-vs-old-and-the-plan-that-has-seen-maximum-hike/articleshow/112832224.cms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41398598

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by namanaggarwal in "Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows"

namanaggarwal — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 12:25:09 +0000

Fascinating.

Growing up in a Hindu household, a lot of our festivals involve listening to origin stories of the customs. A lot of those have of course been glorified to add an element of holiness, but it's possible they are actually derived from some small incident happened in the past.

Like a butterfly effect, a small insignificant event leading to a major celebration for billion people continued over centuries

WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability

namanaggarwal — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:02:42 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.facebook.com/m/messaging-interoperability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39633936

Points: 179

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New comment by namanaggarwal in "Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing"

namanaggarwal — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 20:51:25 +0000

They should ask news agencies to sell the rights to share articles for 0$. Why are they only after one party in the transaction.

Netflix: How did it know I was bi before I did?

namanaggarwal — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 14:24:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66472938

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37110308

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by namanaggarwal in "eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive"

namanaggarwal — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:25:49 +0000

Will this be admissible in court of law ? I know docusign is.

On what basis is it determined that particular signing tech is admissable

New comment by namanaggarwal in "Show HN: Gmail GPT – Bringing AI to Google Gmail a new way to get done"

namanaggarwal — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 12:50:28 +0000

Just want to highlight that this is not from Google/Gmail and I would never be convinced to install a plugin that can read my emails which is not from provider.

P.S not saying this company/product is malicious, just that it requires too much trust

Amazon in talks to acquire MX Player

namanaggarwal — Wed, 10 May 2023 20:13:42 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/10/amazon-mx-player-times-internet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892833

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by namanaggarwal in "EU Commission, citing security, bans TikTok on staff phones"

namanaggarwal — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:51:02 +0000

I don't think it's a fair comparison. Yes, Google and Apple and Meta all collect data, but they are part of a country where their misuse can be challenged in fair courts and they can (and have) been fined.

I don't think if Meta was a Chinese company they would have ever had released(or allowed to) end to end encryption

New comment by namanaggarwal in "Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees"

namanaggarwal — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:29:41 +0000

Genuine question: At what point do we actually declare that we are in recession. Do we wait for GDP figures out these signs are enough to assume we are in bear markets now.

New comment by namanaggarwal in "How one guy ruined Hacktoberfest (2020)"

namanaggarwal — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 10:56:20 +0000

I think your premise that coding is bad for kids is incorrect. Coding is not typing. It's an art of solving problems. My childhood was coding, it was(is?) something I was good at and I thoroughly enjoyed doing. My initial days were just writing random macros on Excel or coding out my maths problems on BASIC. That has what shaped my career

New comment by namanaggarwal in "Update on Omicron"

namanaggarwal — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:58:41 +0000

For those commenting that it's just common cold and about herd immunity, I think we should not miss out on overload on our medical system.

This is what happened in India, due to high number of cases (even if mild) the medical infrastructure completely crashed under the load and lead to far more deaths than just a flu could have caused.

Wear mask and stay indoors if possible

New comment by namanaggarwal in "Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t"

namanaggarwal — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 16:09:45 +0000

Works at Facebook, opinions are my own. I find this article highly speculative. Facebook or Meta has not said anything on future uses, but that's for a lot of other things. Company hasn't said anything about not making weapons in the future as well.

In my opinion facial recognition technology has genuine uses, however from the privacy perspective, I personally would want all of these models to be running on my device. Google does it and so can other companies including Meta, and I find that completely fine as long as it's relevant to me and I have an option to turn it off.

WhatsApp backups can now be end-to-end encrypted

namanaggarwal — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:54:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techadvisor.com/news/social-networks/whatsapp-backups-are-getting-end-end-encryption-3808300/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28484999

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by namanaggarwal in "What Is Server-Driven UI?"

namanaggarwal — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:36:37 +0000

Server driven UI - Fancy name for web browser ?

New comment by namanaggarwal in "How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions (2019)"

namanaggarwal — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:30:01 +0000

So, OP has answered it and I missed it, Github shares commit hash between Forks and parent repo