Hacker News: rajamaka

New comment by rajamaka in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

rajamaka — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:44:13 +0000

I think it's a satirical website aimed at poking fun at corporate-linkedin-speak

New comment by rajamaka in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

rajamaka — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:38:19 +0000

"Israel is doing It, therefore it is bad" only has turned out to be accurate 99% of the time

New comment by rajamaka in "The dead economy theory"

rajamaka — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:35:05 +0000

Maybe a stupid question but aren't the Amish essentially this thought process put into practice?

They aren't able to outcompete their neighbouring societies economically yet are in no way impoverished, and in many cases actually come out on top by many QOL/health metrics.

New comment by rajamaka in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

rajamaka — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:21:55 +0000

Exactly, this policy is from a government that taxed tobacco products so much that cigarettes are now cheaper than they have ever been in ~15 years because the black market stepped in and have nearly completely taken over the market.

New comment by rajamaka in "Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio"

rajamaka — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:59:00 +0000

That's me, 2 kids and no time to game. Yet find 2 hours to doomscroll twitter every day.

New comment by rajamaka in "Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far"

rajamaka — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:51:01 +0000

I usually see people preferring to use the self service in McDonalds or supermarkets when given the option of either, so the consumer must find some benefit to it.

New comment by rajamaka in "AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits"

rajamaka — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:20:25 +0000

Every company evaluates potential risks before starting.

New comment by rajamaka in "Google Antigravity"

rajamaka — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:09:44 +0000

Of course, Alphabet exists to give returns to their shareholders.

New comment by rajamaka in "Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon"

rajamaka — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:48:42 +0000

Seems to be the case that the conversion to fiat is the part that is difficult to do while staying anonymous

New comment by rajamaka in ".NET 10"

rajamaka — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:11:00 +0000

In fact it probably would put more food on your table.

New comment by rajamaka in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

rajamaka — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:17:02 +0000

I am constantly having serious issues running YouTube (Pentium II, IE3, Windows SQL Server 2003)

New comment by rajamaka in "Sued by Nintendo"

rajamaka — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 03:17:53 +0000

Don José Mario Alfaro González is the owners name.

The business has been named Super Mario for 52 years

New comment by rajamaka in "How I use every Claude Code feature"

rajamaka — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 06:07:07 +0000

Claude is able to detect the lines of code selected in vscode anyway

New comment by rajamaka in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

rajamaka — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:32:47 +0000

Not needing to ask the questions is the selling point.

New comment by rajamaka in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

rajamaka — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:32:25 +0000

> You don't need to care about this when using SSDs/HDDs.

You do need to care when you move beyond a single server in a closet that runs your database, webserver and storage.

> No risk of leaking files due to misconfigured cloud services.

One misconfigured .htaccess file for example, could result in leaking files.

New comment by rajamaka in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

rajamaka — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:14:32 +0000

> as simple as "with open(...) as f: f.write(data)"

Save where? With what redundancy? With what access policies? With what backup strategy? With what network topology? With what storage equipment and file system and HVAC system and...

Without on-prem, saving a file is as simple as s3.put_object() !

New comment by rajamaka in "Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one"

rajamaka — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 03:20:27 +0000

You can restore the old fridge

New comment by rajamaka in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

rajamaka — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:48:30 +0000

Food delivery exists outside of the US too fyi

New comment by rajamaka in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"

rajamaka — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:14:24 +0000

Also discovered flask in college but was a year away from finishing a marketing degree.

I'm now a SWE with just a marketing degree!

New comment by rajamaka in "A 3K-year-old copper smelting site could be key to understanding origins of iron"

rajamaka — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 07:53:39 +0000

Not sure I see the relevance