Hacker News: samsin

New comment by samsin in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

samsin — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:02:38 +0000

Given the timing, seems more related to domestic politics.

New comment by samsin in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

samsin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:28:48 +0000

The Snowden files that implicated US agencies and social media companies?

New comment by samsin in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

samsin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:44:33 +0000

'Large pull requests are hard to review' is a good reason to keep PRs small, but small PRs also encourage continuous integration/delivery/deployment. Stacked PRs sound like they encourage long-lived feature branches instead.

New comment by samsin in "Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming"

samsin — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 02:00:49 +0000

It wouldn't be a first for CodeCrafters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38236285

New comment by samsin in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

samsin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:32:02 +0000

This thread [1] on Zuckerberg from 7+ years ago doesn't look too different. Top comments saying it's "pretty cringe-y", another posting an image from Reddit and some "Twitter bingo cards". The nature of the situation doesn't really offer much for deep analysis, but the discussion yesterday [2] on the product itself seems fine to me. You might disagree since people are more skeptical rather than being glad Meta is pushing it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803775

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283306

New comment by samsin in "Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo"

samsin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:25:48 +0000

Yes, considering it was ~2 years from freezing withdrawals to the approved bankruptcy plan to repay customers.

FTX was only able to repay customers because the value of BTC increased during that time. But customers were only repaid the value of their portfolio at the time of the collapse.

If I steal your money, invest it, then return the principal amount after 2 years, would you consider it financial harm?

New comment by samsin in "“Vibe Coding” vs. Reality"

samsin — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:00:06 +0000

Can you share the code it produced?

New comment by samsin in "Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally"

samsin — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 03:58:31 +0000

The countries with the highest inflation rates [1] aren't necessarily the same with high rates of poverty [2]. For example Lebanon has the highest inflation rate in the world, but has poverty rates lower than Mexico (which itself has relatively low inflation).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inflation...

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-r...

New comment by samsin in "Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe"

samsin — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 06:09:58 +0000

Claiming that Meta distributed pirated works is still a copyright claim, but you're correct that it's seemingly irrelevant to the fair use argument (which the article acknowledges).

New comment by samsin in "Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released"

samsin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 23:15:11 +0000

The same argument could be made for physical cash

New comment by samsin in "Nuclear war between US and Russia could kill 5B people"

samsin — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:22:26 +0000

>Incredibly difficult to estimate this, in large part because the probabilities are so small.

The UN chief has been stating that the risk of nuclear warfare is at the highest point in decades. Not because of the risk of a 'fuckup', but due to geopolitical tensions. Historically the risk has been highest during periods of geopolitical tension.

New comment by samsin in "Nuclear war between US and Russia could kill 5B people"

samsin — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:15:25 +0000

Nuclear war between US and Russia is less likely with Trump

New comment by samsin in "Australia to Impose National Age Limits on Social Media Websites"

samsin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:26:35 +0000

>high support of these measures from the public

The public support is for an age limit of social media (which already exists), not necessarily the measures to achieve it which are yet to be determined. There's not 68% support of using measures like digital ID.

New comment by samsin in "Canada says online streaming services must hand over 5% of their revenues"

samsin — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:43:41 +0000

and tech companies avoid paying tax in many countries through dirty accounting tricks, such as redirecting their profits to tax havens like Ireland.

New comment by samsin in "US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana"

samsin — Wed, 01 May 2024 03:41:21 +0000

>Honestly, we should look to fix the issues that lead to people depending on weed, alcohol, and other drugs instead.

It doesn't have to be exclusive or. People are looking to fix these issues. In the mean time, we don't have to ruin people's lives by convicting them as felons.

New comment by samsin in "A brief history of web development, and why your framework doesn't matter"

samsin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:27:17 +0000

In React, 'rendering' means creating the DOM nodes and 'painting' refers to browser rendering [1]. So with server-side rendering the DOM nodes are 'rendered' by the server and the browser 'paints' it.

[1] https://react.dev/learn/render-and-commit

New comment by samsin in "Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph"

samsin — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:57:08 +0000

One of those threads may have been a blog post by Martin Kleppmann [1], who also describes double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph.

[1] https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu...

New comment by samsin in "SBF asks for 5-year prison sentence, calls 100-year recommendation "grotesque""

samsin — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 03:00:12 +0000

Loss causation is described here [1] as the major factor influencing the sentencing range, so if all investors are made whole then a modest sentencing could be possible. It was also discussed in a recent Matt Levine newsletter.

[1] https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10...

New comment by samsin in "Losing two jobs in one year"

samsin — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:55 +0000

Slight correction, you have to pay a levy if you earn over ~90k/year and don’t have private hospital cover.

New comment by samsin in "The day I canceled my Spotify subscription"

samsin — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:43:15 +0000

Uploading music seems to work fine for Apple Music. It’s been a while since I’ve done it, but all the songs I’ve uploaded in the past are still available on all my devices.