Hacker News: praash

New comment by praash in "Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion"

praash — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:10:51 +0000

Dan, your HN comments are a collection of beautiful essays that is becoming a reference library for healthy discourse. I think it deserves a dedicated website.

New comment by praash in "Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion"

praash — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:27:11 +0000

> zero-content

Changing the default demo is a reasonable and actionable suggestion.

New comment by praash in "In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words"

praash — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:01:25 +0000

"Heavy-duty" calls for exaggerated impact and prestige.

"Tony pioneered the famous red-and-green squiggles of Microsoft Word, empowering millions of users with a spell-checking revolution."

New comment by praash in "Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work"

praash — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:51:00 +0000

The conclusion conflicts oddly with the author's arguments and interests. Attributing LLM usage would actually help the author avoid articles even touched by LLMs, but they indirectly admit being haphazardly dismissive.

Their arguments are mostly addressed by proper, clear attribution. "My sister helped with my homework essay" deserves distrust withour further clarification.

Comparing LLM usage to lying is a fun perspective, but most of the lying happens in attribution. Their moral against lying also seems silly.

New comment by praash in "Apple WWDC 2026"

praash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:48:26 +0000

I really like this idea of rapidly extensible software, a browser is a nice sandbox for it! Models also seem to be much better at generating programs than "manually" executing a described task.

New comment by praash in "Apple WWDC 2026"

praash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:50:35 +0000

Lightweight browser extensions generated on demand, now there's a good use case for what they seem to be actually building.

Extending applications without having to launch a full agentic IDE. Macos is already very well equipped with GUI automation tools.

New comment by praash in "Apple WWDC 2026"

praash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:10:16 +0000

I laughed on the groundbreaking emphasis that you can move and resize the chat window because it's a Mac.

You're up to something, maybe they really have a broken pseudo-window with basic UI interaction hacked on top.

New comment by praash in "Apple WWDC 2026"

praash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:33:40 +0000

My impression was that they're doubling down on that horrid Liquid glass.

Apparently there's a new fancy slider for making it more (but not completely) opaque? Did I miss an option for turning it off?

New comment by praash in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

praash — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:16:36 +0000

It's funny how well this reflects the contrast in internet advice between Windows and Linux issues. All users deserve advice beginning with thorough sanity-checks and potential quick-fixes before having to dig deeper.

Searching about common Windows issues results in misleading blogspam. Suggested "solutions" resemble blindly applied folk remedies.

I'm no stranger to breaking my desktop Linux after an hour of misdirected troubleshooting and desperately messing with core libraries. I'm still glad I can quickly find my way to ArchWiki.

New comment by praash in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

praash — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:56:26 +0000

I'm scared that the influence of the largest companies exceeds governments of most nations.

New comment by praash in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

praash — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:40:47 +0000

Allegation of severe HN censorship. Further speculation on the political motives inside Y Combinator.

New comment by praash in "Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself (2024)"

praash — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:18:13 +0000

You are controlling your emotions with that technique, accepting and waiting emotions out is just not the only option.

Getting indoors from a cold rain is an obvious choice. I can't really decide to stop shivering, but changing my clothes and grabbing a hot chocolate helps. It still takes a while to warm back up, meanwhile I can actively choose not to open windows or go right back in the rain.

Nishiōizumimachi

praash — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishi%C5%8Dizumimachi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898338

Points: 3

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New comment by praash in "Justice.gov JEE files contains bash manual"

praash — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:56:05 +0000

Probably flagged by containing suspicious words, such as "children", "stripped", "strings" and "kill"

New comment by praash in "Put SSH keys in .git to make repos USB-portable"

praash — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:04:15 +0000

I stopped worrying after I began protecting all keys with a passphrase.

New comment by praash in "The fuck off contact page"

praash — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:09:25 +0000

I hate generic name-text-submit-forms as the only method of contact. Somehow the article makes them the definition of not a "f** off contact page" - why?

I think such forms are a direct downgrade from providing an email address.

- Responding to the submissions likely requires email anyway

- Impersonation/spam is even less difficult

- Sender isn't guaranteed to get a record of sending the message

- A faceless form with unknown machinery feels like sending messages in a bottle

New comment by praash in "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later"

praash — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:58:09 +0000

Even worse, dry heaping spoonfuls easily get 2-4x the volume of liquids fitting the same spoon.

We can't just guess the recipe's teaspoon standard and blindly convert everything to mL.

New comment by praash in "Hackers leak Qantas data on 5M customers after ransom deadline passes"

praash — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:04:34 +0000

I don't think data leak extortioners have any incentive to even pretend they won't keep asking further payment.

Why not just offer a monthly subscription "service"?

New comment by praash in "Pasta Cooking Time"

praash — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:57:22 +0000

Measuring pasta with calipers is prime HN material, thank you for posting this!

New comment by praash in "PuTTY has a new website"

praash — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:11:45 +0000

https://0ver.org/