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New comment by ndkap in "Java is fast, code might not be"

ndkap — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:57:06 +0000

I feel like most of these things can be avoided if people just think what they are going to write in abstract terms before writing the code. If they do it like this, I think they are going to choose the best Data Structure for the job, which is what most of this article was.

Sam Altman Wants Elected Officials, Not OpenAI, to Decide How Military Uses AI

ndkap — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:02:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-wants-elected-officials-not-openai-to-decide-how-military-uses-ai-458910cd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268461

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New comment by ndkap in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

ndkap — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:30:44 +0000

Currently, Tiktok US is owned by US Companies

New comment by ndkap in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

ndkap — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:29:52 +0000

TikTok easily bends over backwards authoritarian government. In Nepal, during the GenZ protest, TikTok disabled the search for "NepoBabies" which is the term people used for the affluent lifestyle of leaders' children and which was why the GenZ protest happened. Every other social media was banned but not TikTok because they happily censor whatever the government tells them to

New comment by ndkap in "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)"

ndkap — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:18:47 +0000

In Nepal, on Sep 8, teenagers and GenZ organized peaceful protests. They were there on school uniform -- but 21+ were killed on a single day of peaceful protest. The next day, all 3 branches of the government were burned -- the legislative, the executive and the judiciary too. Even the Fox News equivalent (Kantipur) was burned.

I think people always opt for peaceful protest at first, but when that is made impossible, people go for the violent one. MLK was successful because there was the threat of Malcolm X. Same thing with Gandhi.

New comment by ndkap in "Minneapolis Authorities Respond to Shooting Involving ICE Agents"

ndkap — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:04:48 +0000

There is a bypass paywall clean that is very useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean

New comment by ndkap in "Bugs Apple loves"

ndkap — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:30:49 +0000

Some other bugs:

1. Open a file using Preview, but it is behind all other windows. 2. If you connect to your own personal hotspot (iphone) on mac, you can't forget it and connect to someone else's hotspot.

New comment by ndkap in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

ndkap — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:24:16 +0000

MS Office Online has been good with most of the things I need. Has that not been the experience for you?

New comment by ndkap in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

ndkap — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:21:03 +0000

I think using an atomic distro like Bazzite would have solved your problem.

New comment by ndkap in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

ndkap — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:14:09 +0000

To be honest, `awk` that the author references to as a good name, is not. It's just the initials of authors, which does not convey anything about what the tool does. It's yet another cognitive tax.

And I would go further, the extremely shortened names in Linux and other places is problematic too, given that most terminals now allow name completion on tab.

New comment by ndkap in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

ndkap — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:47:14 +0000

As an aside, I didn't know what Comic Sans looks like, so I searched on Google and it rendered the whole page in that font. I tried with other Fonts too like Arial and Times New Roman, and it did the same there. So cool!

New comment by ndkap in "Nano Banana Pro"

ndkap — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:56:17 +0000

Did you check if the SynthID works when you edit the photos with filters like GrayScale?

New comment by ndkap in "Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations"

ndkap — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 12:01:21 +0000

>Long may it live

Off topic, I found out that my university blocks archive.is or any of its mirrors. Why does the university care about this?

New comment by ndkap in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

ndkap — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:22:17 +0000

It could be called "liberty-loading". You are at liberty to load/install software from anywhere

New comment by ndkap in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

ndkap — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:19:33 +0000

Isn't this the company that was commended for not bowing down to pressure from FBI?

New comment by ndkap in "Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit"

ndkap — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:09:54 +0000

This administration is not going to apply said regulations, especially when the said regulations us punishing what they are favoring

New comment by ndkap in "VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model"

ndkap — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:50:57 +0000

Here is AI being as close as possible to the most animated person I know and here I am sounding robotic in every conversation I have, despite my best efforts to sound otherwise. Sometimes, I just wish I could have an AI speak for me

New comment by ndkap in "MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline"

ndkap — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:46:06 +0000

Why would people publish a research with low population size?

New comment by ndkap in "VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project"

ndkap — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 22:56:33 +0000

How much is "more than a few bucks"? Several hundreds?

New comment by ndkap in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

ndkap — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:45:06 +0000

Does anybody know which technology most of these companies that support 1M tokens use? Or is it all hidden?