Hacker News: rkunal

New comment by rkunal in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

rkunal — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:54:14 +0000

Nice article to show status signalling vanity and taste-based elitism. Adding a drop of "playing lego with kids" to show humane side was clever.

New comment by rkunal in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

rkunal — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:14:39 +0000

Staying with Apple even after they "purposely" hand you broken keyboard is psychological abuse. When people become habitual of abuse, they even start defending it. I am searching for my next Android. No longer waiting for Godot.

New comment by rkunal in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

rkunal — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:44:31 +0000

Thank you!! How can one of the biggest tech company be blind to such a basic thing ? It enrages me whenever I type.

Does no engineer at Apple use iOS or they never face this problem ?

New comment by rkunal in "Free software scares normal people"

rkunal — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:14:32 +0000

It is a common misconception that the "expert" knows the best. Expert can be a trainee, or may be motivated to make more for its organisation or have yet to encounter your problem.

On the other hand, if you are using your car for a decade and feel it needs a new belt - then get a new belt. Worst case scenario- you will lose some money but learn a bit more about an item you use everyday.

Experts don't have your instincts as a user.

New comment by rkunal in "Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app"

rkunal — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:10:17 +0000

Would you like to hire "Cyber security engineer for vibe-coded applications" ?

New comment by rkunal in "Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation"

rkunal — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:03:11 +0000

I am travelling right now. I wonder if I had used Wordpress for my blog because it has a fully functional mobile app.

New comment by rkunal in "Sorry, GenAI is NOT going to 10x computer programming"

rkunal — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:34:09 +0000

I will believe when GenAI becomes 10x, we would be noticing a larger number of emacs packages. Or at-least few attempts to rewrite old famous softwares like Calibre. I am sure that it is being used at a large scale in web apps and cloud tech. Not aware of the same in other domains.

May be in the future, everything will become a web app because genAI became so good at it.

New comment by rkunal in "The Death of the Junior Developer"

rkunal — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:54:02 +0000

Which specific plugin and LLM ?

New comment by rkunal in "The Death of the Junior Developer"

rkunal — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:36:25 +0000

Using LLM is so tiring. If I wanted to chat all day, I would be an extrovert.

I have a genuine query. Are any software engineers getting sane code out of LLM ?

I struggle to conjure good unity or kotlin code from both paid and self hosted solutions.

New comment by rkunal in "Ask HN: How do I stop being obsessed with software architecture?"

rkunal — Thu, 30 May 2024 17:58:32 +0000

Obsession usually means your emotional reasoning is over powering your logical thinking ability.

I suggest - Every time you rewrite, document your architectural changes in a long form article.

You are essentially journaling your thought process, but explaining it to someone else forces you to break the emotional connect you have with your code.

This way you will start to view software architecture with a balanced mindset.

New comment by rkunal in "Packages dumped in wrong lobby, resident tried harder to correct it than Amazon"

rkunal — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 12:31:16 +0000

In some countries, 'return' comes with another huge problem. A parallel hidden economy, led by corruption to swap them with old items and sell as new on same ecommerce platforms. Sometimes swapping only original parts. Amount of money needed in managing 'authenticity/purity' of a return item is huge. From fake barcodes to fake packaging, everything is available at dirt cheap price. And ofcourse, the cheap manual labour in dire need of money.

New comment by rkunal in "Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents?"

rkunal — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:26:23 +0000

Over the time I have learned that best way to store is to optimise for retrieval - not for storage.

I dont recommend retrieval to do anything with OCR or Full Text Search. In my personal experience, simplest way to retrieve data is by date. If I am looking or 2018 tax records, I have already found the root folder(digital or paper). Fast enough retrieval, hmmm.

You may optimise as per you. I hope the idea helps.

New comment by rkunal in "Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms"

rkunal — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 17:36:36 +0000

You can not create the universe. When building any thing new, you have to rely on current ecosystem. Earlier people relied on Kings and Bishops. Today, it's the banks and the platforms.

The advice should be, create your own mini ecosystem as soon as possible.

Jio glass – mixed reality platform bundled with Jio fiber

rkunal — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 15:25:18 +0000

Article URL: https://tesseract.in/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28605966

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rkunal in "The price students pay for a prized IIT seat"

rkunal — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:20:47 +0000

Replace word IIT with College. Most of your statement would feel correct nonetheless.

New comment by rkunal in "When did “disturb” became the default mode?"

rkunal — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:16:14 +0000

I guess then the Product Managers of these companies are building correctly for their user base.

New comment by rkunal in "When did “disturb” became the default mode?"

rkunal — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:15:09 +0000

No, but the culture is mostly acquired from there.

New comment by rkunal in "When did “disturb” became the default mode?"

rkunal — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:39:18 +0000

My father had a different dictionary if the reason was not damn good, like some one in medical emergency.

New comment by rkunal in "When did “disturb” became the default mode?"

rkunal — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:38:06 +0000

I wondering if thats the default behaviour of users too. That they do prefer to reply to emails at 2 am. It's anecdotal, but in one engineering team I talked about having culture of not sending emails after work hours. But consensus was that they have no problem with it, and some insisted that they are any way working late in nigt. So, will-fully or forced, users are maybe performing this behaviour !

New comment by rkunal in "The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)"

rkunal — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 06:32:24 +0000

Is there a metric that directly or indirectly indicates the amount of cognitive capacity used/spent ? Something like maybe calories.