Hacker News: olibhel

New comment by olibhel in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

olibhel — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:32:17 +0000

Ah, reminds me of good old CGI websites.

New comment by olibhel in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

olibhel — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:59:14 +0000

Why does this read like AI slop?

New comment by olibhel in "Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app"

olibhel — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 05:06:32 +0000

Why would I want to do that when I can go to one of dozen AI chat interfaces and ask for recipes and further customization without having to look at any interface?

New comment by olibhel in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

olibhel — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:54:42 +0000

Adani is still standing because my countrymen have become delusional and government is in bed with Adani.

New comment by olibhel in "FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects"

olibhel — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:23:34 +0000

FYI - Zerodha is the biggest platform for retail investors in the Indian markets.

New comment by olibhel in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

olibhel — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:18:17 +0000

> do you believe others or the government has a right to disallow what people want to watch via their own choices

Yes. As an extreme example: watching cheese pizza is not allowed by governments. We have collectively also come together to consider murder as socially and legally unacceptable. We can and should regulate social media if posts read as follows:

- we should invade and bomb that country to bits - we should destroy all places of worship belonging to XYZ religion - we should vote for XYZ because only he is going to save our religion from PQR - and much worse which I can't type here as moderation team of HN would omit those

IMHO: give the current form of social media another few decades and it will come out shinning bright just like opioids did in the USA.

These same social media platforms, when required by law, become very effective in moderation but there's next to no moderation in my country and most of the hate and abuse is counted as just another engagement metrics.

New comment by olibhel in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

olibhel — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:13:40 +0000

In my country, India, these platforms are used less for free speech and more for brainwashing and spreading hate and misinformation. Most of these posts are in Hindi, a major language around here, and call for all kinds of hate such as suppression of a specific religion, call for genocide, invading and acquiring neighboring countries etc.

I've tried reporting such posts multiple times but hate filled posts are neither removed, nor restricted. If a platform cannot provide adequate moderation, it should stop operating in my country and be held responsible for providing a platform for spreading hate pseudo-anonmously.

New comment by olibhel in "Victims speak out over ‘tsunami’ of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp"

olibhel — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:01:10 +0000

Social media has absolute changed the way people live their lives in my country - India.

Personally, it has made me lose interest in my favorite outdoor activity i.e. hiking because of too many people showing up. Ex: I won't set foot on a trail on weekends[0].

[0] https://i.imgur.com/7V4cd4Z.png

New comment by olibhel in "Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection (2019)"

olibhel — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:41:38 +0000

As a chromium task manager, I count teleported goats.

New comment by olibhel in "Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle"

olibhel — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 15:16:01 +0000

Kudos on the puzzle; very easy to understand what needs to be done/achieved to solve it.

You could change the page title from "React App" to something more appropriate.

New comment by olibhel in "I assure you, medieval people bathed (2019)"

olibhel — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 08:05:05 +0000

+1 to this, as an Indian. There's been a recent trend in my country where people, educated or not, have suddenly started finding unnecessary pride in our past - mostly centered around culture and one specific religion - Hinduism.

This pride in the past, is helping our current government win elections in great majority.

But our past, like every other country's past, is riddle with good and bad. While there are many many good things about our culture, there are several things that were wrong and they still are.

For example:

- Women rights

- Caste system

- Servility

- Human suffering, exploitation of poor by the ruling class etc

The usual narrative is - everything wrong with the country is because of people from outside (invaders, colonists etc) and everything right in the country is because of our great Hindu culture.

And most "debates" with such people will end up with them mud slinging on another religion or country.

New comment by olibhel in "ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]"

olibhel — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:34:39 +0000

No country should be able to cut off anyone else's sunshine (or Internet). Internet, the western version of it, was not built and shared with the world with this disclaimer that we will cut it off if we feel like it.

If ICANN kicks out a country, we'd very soon see the end of ICANN because other countries will have no trust left in the organization.

New comment by olibhel in "Move myself to inactive"

olibhel — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 05:41:04 +0000

Google owns Youtube and youtube-dl doesn't serve google ads?

New comment by olibhel in "Watson Personal Assistant Beta"

olibhel — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 04:48:20 +0000

This looks interesting but it took me far too many clicks to join the wait list.

New comment by olibhel in "McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money (2015)"

olibhel — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 06:35:27 +0000

> Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

Then why is it crowded?