Hacker News: praash

New comment by praash in "OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability"

praash — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:12:58 +0000

Layered security is better (as long as their weaknesses don't overlap).

New comment by praash in "Ask HN: What do you believe or not believe about AI?"

praash — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:29:49 +0000

I believe the present level of datacenter spending will never be justified by actual demand and will crash the global economy.

New comment by praash in "Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?"

praash — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:03:56 +0000

Qwen 3.8 27b-mlx running locally on Apple M4 48 GB. I only use local LLMs, mostly for getting technical suggestions and code snippet samples. Qwen 3.8 has been the first local model I've tried that has consistently given usable and impressive results.

New comment by praash in "Can guitar frets perform multiplication?"

praash — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:19:36 +0000

This also results in a per-string just intonation ;)

New comment by praash in "Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug"

praash — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:29:47 +0000

Running bash inside zsh continuously destroyed my history for the last 3 years until I figured that HISTFILE was exported and inherited by bash.

New comment by praash in "The Color of White Light"

praash — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:26:12 +0000

> Would a intensity over frequency curve do it?

That should work as a brute-force method. You could simulate lighting conditions by measuring the reflected spectrum of different materials and multiplying with the spectrum of a light source.

Check out the CIE XYZ color space and its color matching functions. It's the standard for defining/converting color spaces and calibrating displays for accurate color matching. It only models human perception, and contains colors that are physically impossible to reproduce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space

New comment by praash in "Even Microsoft couldn't make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM"

praash — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:33:43 +0000

My local grocery store goes a bit further, selling € 280-350 laptops with 4 GB RAM and Win11 preinstalled. Absolutely bonkers.

New comment by praash in "Russian kamikaze drone C++ reconstruction of onboard autonomy stack"

praash — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:46:06 +0000

At a glance the repo feels like a meticulous forensic investigation, but I couldn't find any photographs or other information about the alleged drone capture and where all this information is actually sourced from.

New comment by praash in "Ask HN: Does it still make sense to write code by hand?"

praash — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:56:50 +0000

I really like your analogy as-is, but LLMs aren't reliable power tools. Asking for external help requires good communication and can be overkill for small tasks.

Hiring a team of subcontractors carries risks unless you babysit the whole project.

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.