Hacker News: prab97

New comment by prab97 in "Ti-84 Evo"

prab97 — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:49:36 +0000

Current smartphones are highly optimized for content consumption a.k.a doom scrolling. Nothing serious exists for programming. On top of that, a touch keyboard and hard to reach special characters make programming on a modern smartphone a big chore. I miss the old days of smartphones that had a hardware keyboard with tactile feedback. I used to code up and maintain a PHP based dynamic website circa 2007 with a Sony Ericsson K770i and upload through a J2ME based FTP client that also had the text editor in it. If I remember it correctly it was called MobyExplorer

New comment by prab97 in "Personal Computer by Perplexity"

prab97 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:42:48 +0000

Works perfectly on my machine!

New comment by prab97 in "Creating a QR Code step by step"

prab97 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:05:13 +0000

The commentary mocking people for their poor English, followed by disparaging remarks about an entire country as if the email senders represent a typical sample from that nation, says more about the blog owner than about the email senders themselves.

The blog owner exudes elitist vibes in the commentary. A quick skim of the blog reveals a request for Bitcoin donations, suggesting $3 as the amount, without considering that a large portion of this donation will be eaten up by fees.

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she's leaving the company

prab97 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:48:32 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/openai-cto-mira-murati-says-shes-leaving-the-company/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651153

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by prab97 in "Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI"

prab97 — Wed, 15 May 2024 14:27:58 +0000

It's always interesting times at OpenAI!

New comment by prab97 in "Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?"

prab97 — Tue, 07 May 2024 21:01:52 +0000

ncmpcpp is a TUI based music player for your audio file collection. It's actually a frontend to the mpd (music player daemon)

https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ncmpcpp

New comment by prab97 in "Meta Horizon OS"

prab97 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:54:47 +0000

But you do sign in to use an Android phone, or iPhone. Although, I agree with the point that someone would never want to sign in with their Facebook account there, with FB account holding so much personal information about them! For gaming, somebody would rather prefer to use an alias like dungeonmaster669 instead of their verified actual identity.

New comment by prab97 in "Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy"

prab97 — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 01:56:10 +0000

With fail2ban setup and ssh auth with only keys and PermitRootLogin no, you don't even have to worry about the pentesting bots.

New comment by prab97 in "Ask HN: Programming Audio Book Recommendations"

prab97 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 21:49:20 +0000

Robert C Martin

New comment by prab97 in "Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN"

prab97 — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 23:47:15 +0000

This comment has so many factual inaccuracies. 1. Vote share for BJP in urban areas have been consistent with rural areas in the most recent national election of 2019. Source: Official website of election commission of India 2. There are multiple celebrity status people (including journalists, students, politicians) and common people openly complaining against government on Twitter and in public forums and they are all free and continue to do so without the fear of being arrested. Examples: Ravish Kumar, Barkha Dutt, Shehla Rashid, Shashi Tharoor, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Kanhaiya Kumar and countless more. 3. Ruling party has a very strong competition at state level. In India, police report to states (except Delhi) so in general, states have much more power to control law and order than central govt. BJP has lost recent assembly elections spectacularly in Delhi and some other states. 4. People always have reasons to be upset. When J&K was an independent state the people in Jammu and Ladakh were upset because of the corruption, lawlessness and rampant terrorism about which local govt. biased in favor of Kashmir region didn't do anything. Then, Kashmiris were holding Ladakh and Jammu folks hostage.

New comment by prab97 in "Setup ArchLinux on a Dell XPS 13"

prab97 — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 18:06:18 +0000

BitLocker would still ask for recovery key when attempting to boot Windows after Arch install is finished. This is because of the disk configuration change that it detects.

Setup ArchLinux on a Dell XPS 13

prab97 — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 17:26:07 +0000

Article URL: http://techbeat.in/2020/01/15/setup-arch-linux-on-dell-xps-13-7390.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22092574

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by prab97 in "Ask HN: Why does anyone still use Medium?"

prab97 — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:13:46 +0000

+1 for search engine with blacklist feature. There are some annoying sites (like GeeksForGeeks) with substandard content that come in top results of Google when I search for programming topics, for instance some language's specific API or method signature.

New comment by prab97 in "Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?"

prab97 — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 19:46:20 +0000

"Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths is an interesting listen on Audible. Surprised that nobody has mentioned it here yet. It is a perfect candidate for an audiobook because of lack of code snippets and formulae.

New comment by prab97 in "A Black Hole Threw a Star Out of the Milky Way Galaxy"

prab97 — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 06:22:38 +0000

That reminds me of a very important aspect of distributed systems (computer science) - there is no global clock!

New comment by prab97 in "Pi-Hole 4.3.2"

prab97 — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:25:36 +0000

You need to setup ublock origin on every browser on every device. With pihole, all your devices automatically get adblocking, even your friends coming home and connecting to your wifi get the ad blocking advantage without anything to do on their part.

New comment by prab97 in "Android 10"

prab97 — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 21:30:07 +0000

I can confirm that. My Nexus 5X died with bootloop after the warranty was over and all the googling led me to make peace with the fact that it was a soldering issue, hence a manufacturing defect.

New comment by prab97 in "Rails 6.0"

prab97 — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 21:13:54 +0000

Do you plan to run something more serious than github, basecamp or shopify? Usually it is not rails, which is the bottleneck, but the architecture of your application.

New comment by prab97 in "Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics"

prab97 — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 00:29:01 +0000

Isn't that mathematically exponential, just with a larger base?

New comment by prab97 in "Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages"

prab97 — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 23:19:42 +0000

99% is actually a lot below SLA for these services. It means the services are down for 3 days 15 hours in an year.