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New comment by samarthr1 in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

samarthr1 — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:06:31 +0000

What seperates _your_ tickets from any other returned ticket?

Wouldn't a proportional return not be better?

India Launches Tradable Rainfall Futures Called Rainmumbai

samarthr1 — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:04:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/india-gets-first-rainfall-hedge-as-el-nino-threatens-monsoon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231495

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by samarthr1 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

samarthr1 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:12:54 +0000

Exactly!

Having a house that is large enough to support whatever hobby(/ies) one takes up is an underappreciated aspect of suburban living.

Growing up, (moderately wealthy) in a comparatively decent sized apartment, in a decent area, the biggest reason to not take up something like woodworking, or say working on a car, or for that matter gardening.

So, as soon as I graduated, I moved out of the city, into a suburb. I get 80% of the benefits of the density (there is a denser suburb 1km away), so I get walkable shops, and all the hep places to eat/drink are just 30 minutes away by car :)

Did I mention the ability to stretch my arms without punching someone in the face while travelling? (because public transport when successful (highly utilized) is crowded, and that is just plain painful)

New comment by samarthr1 in "What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state"

samarthr1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:26:54 +0000

Isnt that a critical section?

New comment by samarthr1 in "What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state"

samarthr1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:10:29 +0000

BTW: what is a lock region?

New comment by samarthr1 in "Show HN: workz – one command to make any Git worktree a full dev environment"

samarthr1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:47:42 +0000

Man, this showed up just as I was about reach for claude to build something like this....

New comment by samarthr1 in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"

samarthr1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:35:55 +0000

Heh, wouldnt NYC be best case scenario for a grid? It has high density, large number consumer base etc?

If only they could sort the underground cabling...

New comment by samarthr1 in "California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS"

samarthr1 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:15:01 +0000

Wait, so, say I build XYZ Distro of Linux, but dotn want to cater to children, am I still required to implement a way for setting up a DoB?

Even if say I am based in timbuktu, but allow for my ISO to be downloadede bye a resident of the state of california?

New comment by samarthr1 in "The most dangerous code: Validating SSL certs in non-browser software (2012) [pdf]"

samarthr1 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:50:47 +0000

And, the worst part is that because it is an "application" issue, it is possible that it is going to a "gift that keeps on giving" for a long time.

And the worst part is that most (indian) banks have been using only android/ios for "security" for some time now.

New comment by samarthr1 in "LM Studio 0.4"

samarthr1 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:31:11 +0000

I am extremely fortunate having bought 64GB of CL30 DDR5 Ram for ~200 USD just 4 months ago!

My computer is now worth more than when I bought it

Learjet45XR Crashes Outside Baramati, MH, India

samarthr1 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:33:33 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Baramati_Learjet_45_crash

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793099

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by samarthr1 in "Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale"

samarthr1 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:49:29 +0000

My understanding is that Zanzibar is not usable as is for enterprises to use in their software?

And that it is an internal google system?

New comment by samarthr1 in "Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale"

samarthr1 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:47:40 +0000

Ooh, and back when that was not a thing (iirc a few years back) me and a friend of mine had built a spiritually similar index for spicedb for our final year project at uni. We had a mini WAL and the ability to safely reject queries that specified a minimum update requirement after the index updation.

New comment by samarthr1 in "White House website mysteriously streams personal finance YouTube creator"

samarthr1 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:20:56 +0000

Is onshape any good though? I saw it has some pretty interesting features

New comment by samarthr1 in "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access"

samarthr1 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:21:58 +0000

My university had made it mandatory for students to publish atleast 1 paper to graduate from their bachelors degree, and would pay all the associated fees.

Most kids unfortunately did end up paying to publish.

New comment by samarthr1 in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

samarthr1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:29:25 +0000

Finally that turf war ends

New comment by samarthr1 in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

samarthr1 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:24:58 +0000

This makes me feel that peak car was 2010 ish, when, when engines were powerful, cheap, and not too polluting, but also not overly complex.

Spare parts were small, cheap, and easily accessible too (atleast for my toyota)

I dread being forced to upgrade, not out of disdain for the environment, but the fact that I will spend more money, on a less reliable, less "mine" car, and more something big daddy government wants.

New comment by samarthr1 in "AI agents break rules under everyday pressure"

samarthr1 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:07:40 +0000

I remember reading another comment a while ago about being able to only trust an llm with sensitive info only if you can guarantee that the output will only be viewed by people who already had access to the sensitive info already, or cannot control any of the inputs to the llm.

New comment by samarthr1 in "How do you handle lost webhooks in production?"

samarthr1 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:36:56 +0000

Wait, so your product moves the point of failure from my infra to your infra?

Plus trusts y'all with contents of said webhook?

New comment by samarthr1 in "DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why"

samarthr1 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:54:22 +0000

I am loving my sapphire 9070xt (pulse). It's pretty decent, and gets me ~100 tokens per second on gpt-oss-20b at i think 5bit quant. Bought it for a high high price of 70_000 inr in september