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New comment by pratyahava in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"

pratyahava — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:15:40 +0000

please provide a proof. if this is the case, then telegram is not to be trusted. but it needs to be proven. otherwise a lot of people trust their business and personal data to telegram.

New comment by pratyahava in "Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell"

pratyahava — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:40:47 +0000

https://codeberg.org/latimar/lilush/src/branch/master/INDEX....

New comment by pratyahava in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

pratyahava — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:10:41 +0000

i guess the point of having a tag in the shape of a card is to prevent a thief from throwing the obvious airtag away, the card tag may look like an ordinary bank card and kept in the wallet longer

New comment by pratyahava in "Show HN: Free Crypto Job Board"

pratyahava — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:24:29 +0000

are all the postings there AI-generated or copy-pasted? i cannot imagine any company to post the descriptions that look so clumsy.

New comment by pratyahava in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

pratyahava — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:20:07 +0000

so it is like humans vs robots started? robots ask humans questions to verify they are not robots. humans mark content as robot-generated to filter it out.

New comment by pratyahava in "Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window"

pratyahava — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:03:52 +0000

Thank you so much! I did not know I needed it! Still it does not help much to see which window is active right now (Sequoia), but makes overall experience easier.

New comment by pratyahava in "Avería: The Average Font (2011)"

pratyahava — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:04:53 +0000

yesss, waiting for it. i started using this font in my text editor and i find it super comfortable so i would love the same experience in my terminal.

New comment by pratyahava in "We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes"

pratyahava — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:01:32 +0000

yep, i remember when i tried coding for some atmega, i was wondering "how big are int and uint?" and wanted the types names to always include the size like uint8. but also there is char type, which should become char8 which looks even more crazy.

New comment by pratyahava in "We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes"

pratyahava — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:52:58 +0000

umm, i guess most of the article is made by llm, so i did not see it as a sin, but for other cases i agree, copy-pasting from llm is crap

New comment by pratyahava in "We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes"

pratyahava — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:49:53 +0000

ok, agree with your point, i should have got the numbers from chatgpt and just put them in the comment with my words, i was just lazy to calculate how much profit we would have with 10-bit bytes.

New comment by pratyahava in "We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes"

pratyahava — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:38:19 +0000

was that assumption in C code really unnecessary? i suppose it made many things much easier.

New comment by pratyahava in "We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes"

pratyahava — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:35:01 +0000

This must be the real reason of using 8-bit. But then why did they make 9-bit machine instead of 16-bit?

New comment by pratyahava in "We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes"

pratyahava — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:32:01 +0000

Crockford base32 would be great. it is 0–9, A–Z minus I, L, O, U.

New comment by pratyahava in "We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes"

pratyahava — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:28:53 +0000

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New comment by pratyahava in "Using MacBook's trackpad as digital weighing scale"

pratyahava — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:13:38 +0000

for personal use i created a LaunchDaemon to keep `caffeinate -s` running all the time

  /Library/LaunchDaemons/ze.caffeinate.plist

  
  
  
  
      Label
      ze.caffeinate
      ProgramArguments
      
          /usr/bin/caffeinate
          -s
      
      KeepAlive

New comment by pratyahava in "Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI"

pratyahava — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:37:55 +0000

i am very impressed by gitpodcast, i just listened to one podcast and first of all i am pleased with the idea, the voices are also pleasant to listen to. thanks for sharing!

New comment by pratyahava in "Where to get a prepaid virtual server or Kubernetes for minimum 10 years?"

pratyahava — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:09:09 +0000

i have quite a long experience in devops myself. that's why for my personal simple services i want to have a platform that needs no maintenance from my side.

a good extension cord can serve ten years with no modifications/updates. a good radio receiver can work for ten years with no modifications/updates. a good power adapter can work ten years with no modifications/updates. good simple software should work ten years with no modifications/updates.

New comment by pratyahava in "Where to get a prepaid virtual server or Kubernetes for minimum 10 years?"

pratyahava — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:11:20 +0000

yes, this is my intention to build software that works for ten years reliably enough without any modifications. i am sure it will not work from the first try and i will have fix things occasionally, but i do not worry about hosting and payments at all.

the question is solely about being able to pay once for ten years and not worry about hosting during this duration of time. i do not like monthly or yearly payments.

Where to get a prepaid virtual server or Kubernetes for minimum 10 years?

pratyahava — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:11:11 +0000

So I have few very small internet services which I want to host on a small vps or in containers. I believe they will work as expected for ten years as they are very simple and I would not need to update them or the operating system. If run in Kubernetes, even better - no need to worry about the operating system at all.

But I want to pay for the hosting once, start the services and forget about maintaining them for ten years minimum.

Are there hosters who allow to prepay for ten years and seem stable enough to believe they will be still existing in ten years?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40929045

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