Hacker News: sangupta

New comment by sangupta in "React hook causes downtime at Cloudflare, which just stopped the biggest DDoS"

sangupta — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:22:15 +0000

I agree that runtime support will definitely help. However, a simple mitigation strategy is to override the `fetch` function and provide a central rate-limiting. This helps prevent such incidents even if this kind of bugs are shipped to production.

New comment by sangupta in "Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market"

sangupta — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:36:02 +0000

Food is not entirely local. CA gets majority of fruits from Mexico, Peru, Chile etc. Olive, Sunflower, and other oils are imported. Many spices are imported. Lumber tariffs will impact housing and repairs. Any thing with semi-conductors will be expensive: routers, modems, tablets, phones.

Middle class expenses may arise around 5-10% at the very least.

New comment by sangupta in "We are building the next DocuSign"

sangupta — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:57:37 +0000

Links at the bottom of the site to X/LinkedIn/Contact Email/Github are all broken.

New comment by sangupta in "DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly"

sangupta — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:35:04 +0000

Agreed that it brings search dominance. But, it's like siblings helping each other out in life. A child excelled in a field where other failed. Now this child also helps promote his/her sibling's business.

Many Apple products only connect with other Apple products. Microsoft keeps poking/pushing to use Edge on Microsoft. Brave browser did eat into share and made a mark.

What is stopping from other kids in the field (FF, Edge, Opera etc) to be better, beat Chrome and also blocks ads?

New comment by sangupta in "DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly"

sangupta — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:27:23 +0000

Just thinking: So, Google makes life easier for users by creating Chrome and getting us respite from IE. When they moved the web really forward and way faster than others (Edge/Opera switched to Chromium too) - the DOJ wants them to give it away. It's like raising an exceptional child only to be asked to be adopted when they grow to be an adult.

New comment by sangupta in "Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell"

sangupta — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:09:00 +0000

And not everyone carries a smartphone to scan QR code - read, elementary kids coming over every evening to play :)

New comment by sangupta in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

sangupta — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:04:31 +0000

Thanks - this helps.

> employment agreement with the company

I believe this means that once the entity is founded and funding secured, all participants will need to transfer their H1B to this new entity in order to work for it, right?

New comment by sangupta in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

sangupta — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:27:48 +0000

Is there a possible track for H1B holders (solo/team) to be able to start one? What I have usually been briefed is that you need a US citizen as a majority stake holder. Thanks.

New comment by sangupta in "Show HN: Bullshit Remover"

sangupta — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:51:25 +0000

Small nitpik: On empty text it still makes a request and changes to "Processing text"

New comment by sangupta in "Google releases smart watch for kids"

sangupta — Thu, 30 May 2024 02:36:45 +0000

I should have mentioned that I am talking about 8-9 year olds.

New comment by sangupta in "Google releases smart watch for kids"

sangupta — Thu, 30 May 2024 02:34:47 +0000

That's my point. This has minimal features. I can track my kid without fearing unsupervised internet access to them.

New comment by sangupta in "Google releases smart watch for kids"

sangupta — Thu, 30 May 2024 02:33:05 +0000

"make mistakes, get lost and find their way" does not work for crowded and busy neighborhoods. No one would like their kid to be lost in new york. Add the risk of abduction in high risk communities.

Also, it depends on kids age. I want kids to be safe in elementary, make mistakes and learn in middle/high school.

New comment by sangupta in "Google releases smart watch for kids"

sangupta — Wed, 29 May 2024 23:36:00 +0000

Exactly what I came to say. I need something for my daughter to connect with and/or track her while playing with her friends outside. It is difficult to always be on her lookout, and any other watch tracks them more. I need control to see who they are talking to, chatting with, what apps they use, and controlling screen time. Few kids in her class are already on IG/Tiktok courtesy their elder siblings and I do not want my daughter to be exposed to such crap.

Edit: also to inform her in case I am running late to pick her up from school due to traffic or otherwise.

New comment by sangupta in "NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching"

sangupta — Tue, 21 May 2024 14:25:36 +0000

I discovered noTunes a few months back and it is one of the best installs of all time. It also goes to show how product/developer thinking not always aligns with how users want to use the product. And then, I start thinking why would a developer build such an annoying thing... unless marketing forced them to.

New comment by sangupta in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

sangupta — Tue, 21 May 2024 04:16:11 +0000

I guess you are right. The era of "don't be evil" if there ever was one, is now long gone and forgotten.

New comment by sangupta in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

sangupta — Mon, 20 May 2024 23:45:06 +0000

With the recent departures at OpenAI it seems that all ethics and morals are going down the drain and OpenAI becoming the big-bully.

New comment by sangupta in "Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email"

sangupta — Sat, 18 May 2024 01:35:19 +0000

If these are basic questions, pardon my limited knowledge of email-transport internals.

- May be the transport is better than HTTP, but HTTP is well understood and easy to debug for developers (debugging a web-app is easy). Similarly, a JSON payload will bring structure than the current way of creating boundaries. Moving to HTTP+JSON will allow far easier access to developers who want to build on top of it, or self-hosting. Get a domain, run a web-app, set a few records and you are done.

- Put a file in outbox and it get's out. From my outlook experience, it seems to be a cron that scans a particular DB query. Should still be possible.

- I have no idea on how onion routers etc work so won't comment on that.

- And lastly, if Google <> MS, Outlook <> Exchange use a proprietary protocol then I will read that as an indication to improve current standard.

New comment by sangupta in "Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email"

sangupta — Fri, 17 May 2024 23:29:47 +0000

Nopes. I am not deep into how email works, but always had this genuine curiosity. Unless, your reply was for the reply to this comment ;)

New comment by sangupta in "Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email"

sangupta — Fri, 17 May 2024 22:57:44 +0000

Just left this comment on your site. Would be much simpler to maintain, switch-to, and motivate for migration.

New comment by sangupta in "Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email"

sangupta — Fri, 17 May 2024 22:50:14 +0000

Why not standardize on using HTTP3 using POST requests with JSON payload instead?