Hacker News: rohan_

New comment by rohan_ in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

rohan_ — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:15:01 +0000

follow the discussion around this on X, i think just a few minutes of research on this topic / reading past the headline you'll find out that this is pretty much a nothingburger

New comment by rohan_ in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

rohan_ — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:29:14 +0000

you do realize "rare books" in this context most likely means random technical manuals nobody cares about and not collectors items, right?

New comment by rohan_ in "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study"

rohan_ — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:27:43 +0000

How on earth have administrative costs been soaring when there have been so many healthtech startups propped up in the past 10 years to bring down the cost of administration?

Also - given the rate of AI progress, shouldn't we see this cost go to zero essentially.

New comment by rohan_ in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

rohan_ — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:22:38 +0000

It's not like traditional media is any better. At least with social media platforms the means of producing media and building a following has been democratized.

Show HN: Nts – NTS Radio in your terminal

rohan_ — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:49:04 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/r-ohan/nts-radio-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638160

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rohan_ in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"

rohan_ — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:58:41 +0000

i've found this to be wrong a lot actually

high empathy means you feel what you think the other person is feeling,

Highly empathetic people have horrible theory of mind issues a lot of the time.

New comment by rohan_ in "Untaxed Wealth of Richest 0.1% Is More Than Assets of World’s Poorest Half"

rohan_ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:30:14 +0000

seems highly editorialized - one man's "untaxed" is another man's "following the incentives of the system"

New comment by rohan_ in "You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser"

rohan_ — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:18:01 +0000

is this some WASM magic?

New comment by rohan_ in "Thoughts of a Neopagan / the Reconstruction of Neolithic Religion"

rohan_ — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:12:24 +0000

FWIW Hinduism is alive and well today. The vedas come directly from the ancient steppe cultures

New comment by rohan_ in "Tunnl.gg"

rohan_ — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:57:14 +0000

Does this just wrap cloudflare tunnels?

New comment by rohan_ in "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege"

rohan_ — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 02:42:49 +0000

These discussions never discuss the priors, is this harm on a different scale then what preceded it? Like is social media worse than MTV or teen magazines?

New comment by rohan_ in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"

rohan_ — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:26:12 +0000

I never understood these types of things, what niche are they going after?

This feels like it could be a competitor to QT, but without a real-time operating system like QNX, what's the point?

React Native won out over Fluter, Java Applets lost to HTML5 / JS, Framer is much better than Wordpress.

Time and time again, clever simulations on top of the native world are never worth it.

New comment by rohan_ in "Affinity Studio now free"

rohan_ — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:14:11 +0000

Isn't everyone using Rive these days?

New comment by rohan_ in "Claude Skills"

rohan_ — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:26:41 +0000

Cursor launched this a while ago with "Cursor Rules"

New comment by rohan_ in "Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT"

rohan_ — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:38:42 +0000

is this stuff not pretty easy to do with python?

``` python -c "import base64; print(base64.b64encode('$INPUT_STRING'.encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8'))" ```

New comment by rohan_ in "Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has flaws, Army memo says"

rohan_ — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:00:30 +0000

yeah i don't understand - they spent a few months building a prototype... do people not understand what a prototype is?

This sounds like a nothingburger.

New comment by rohan_ in "Landlords Demand Tenants' Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs"

rohan_ — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 01:33:17 +0000

IT's policy is more for unauthorized credential sharing to a third party that is not legally acting as a designated data transfer agent. what argyle is doing is legal and fine.

New comment by rohan_ in "Ursa: A leaderless, object storage–based alternative to Kafka"

rohan_ — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:50:41 +0000

Was the key unlock here the ability to append data to an object?

(https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-s3...)

New comment by rohan_ in "Why not to use iframes for embedded dashboards"

rohan_ — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:05:06 +0000

i don't understand this product - i feel like tools like v0 can one-shot an analytics dashboard these days. i do think something like https://upsolve.ai/ provides real value though

New comment by rohan_ in "Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks"

rohan_ — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:56:33 +0000

Anecdotally - working with Azure has been hell on earth for me. Insanely unintuitive and buggy interface. Many cryptic errors preventing me from doing anything.