Hacker News: prince005

New comment by prince005 in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

prince005 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:15:55 +0000

PS: Pixel and Samsung devices support airdrop now.

New comment by prince005 in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

prince005 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:18:17 +0000

You're not my target audience

New comment by prince005 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

prince005 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:17:35 +0000

I'm not sure if I want to put a name to my anonymous account

New comment by prince005 in "Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request"

prince005 — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:35:46 +0000

I fail to understand why people think that YouTube is a charity service. They are a business and act like one, you'd do the same if someone threatens your business.

New comment by prince005 in "YouTube takes down independent court livestreams"

prince005 — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 04:30:48 +0000

It's very sad to see how people blame and thrash services like youtube instead of respecting the fact that all of it is provided absolutely free of cost.

New comment by prince005 in "Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge"

prince005 — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 04:09:58 +0000

The only reason I use Windows is to play games. So I don't mind any BS microsoft throws at me, because it is just ignored

New comment by prince005 in "Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?"

prince005 — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:26:12 +0000

This was a big problem for me, until one day I sat down and cleaned my inbox. Basically moving the correct things to the correct place and now I don't face this issue.

New comment by prince005 in "No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)"

prince005 — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 01:28:50 +0000

People writing about Free, Open source content on a platform which hides it behind a pay wall.

New comment by prince005 in "Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech"

prince005 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:33:19 +0000

Is it just me or a part of Apple is just rotting away?

New comment by prince005 in "I can only think that modern front end development has failed"

prince005 — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 07:35:08 +0000

I think the bigger reason here is that devs jump directly into Frameworks rather than understanding the basics of web development itself.

New comment by prince005 in "Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google"

prince005 — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 07:20:38 +0000

Reading the article I get a feeling that the judges don't really understand what an API is.

Also, the comment > I'm concerned that under your argument, all computer code is at risk of losing protection under 102(b)

It seems rather incorrect in case of reimplementing an API. It's not like the underlying logic has been changed or copied it's just that the top level API has been modified to be compatible with the system being used. Or am I missing something?

New comment by prince005 in "Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?"

prince005 — Tue, 12 May 2020 17:38:52 +0000

Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari. This is the second book in the very famous series Sapiens. The book explains how technology will effect our lives in the future in a way that is interesting, entertaining and above all, mind-boggling.

New comment by prince005 in "Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far"

prince005 — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:03:09 +0000

If Cyberpunk 2077 runs on linux, I'll remove windows today itself..

New comment by prince005 in "Why is modern web development so complicated?"

prince005 — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 06:52:14 +0000

This is like a neanderthal saying that fire is hard to build so let's eat the food raw. The time is now old man. The new frameworks are surely confusing (not complicated) to learn at first but that is because they expect you to learn a system by which the chances of you delivering a bad product gets mitigated as the lowest level components follow an accepted standard. You are learning a system, a new tool to aid in your work rather than starting from scratch every time. And if you say you don't start from scratch and have a system/set of components to reuse then, voila, you are just doing the same thing frameworks do, but in your own sweet way.

New comment by prince005 in "Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares"

prince005 — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:51:41 +0000

Proceed with caution..

New comment by prince005 in "Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10"

prince005 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:34:40 +0000

I won't really complain if there are just 2 render engines out there in the market, given that both are open source. It will make work hell lot easier for so many developers and the competition and development will stay healthy.

New comment by prince005 in "I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier"

prince005 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:24:13 +0000

This was such a good demo!

New comment by prince005 in "I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier"

prince005 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 10:55:38 +0000

I too did quit facebook and instagram like 6 months ago, since then I have achieved so much. For starters I have a Job and 6 pack (abs not beer:) and not to mention my relationship with people near to me has drastically improved. I think this was one of my best decisions ever and I am really happy to see that so many people think the same way!

New comment by prince005 in "Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people"

prince005 — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 02:52:59 +0000

I have been using Photopea for a while now, especially since I moved to a Linux machine from Windows and being a Photoshop enthusiast I would say, this is the best alternative outh there.

New comment by prince005 in "What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)"

prince005 — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 16:10:32 +0000

That maybe because hands have a dynamic form/shape while a bicycle has a static form and is thus easier to remember or draw.