Hacker News: sateesh

New comment by sateesh in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

sateesh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:48:48 +0000

privacy for one.

New comment by sateesh in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

sateesh — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:08:39 +0000

Presume the reference to trunkless legs is to the Shelly's famous poem Ozymandias (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias)

New comment by sateesh in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

sateesh — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:42:54 +0000

https://jvns.ca/ Not a tech. company blog. Explains technical concepts clearly and top notch technical posts. Fits 1,2, 3 criteria of what you ask, though not the 4th one.

New comment by sateesh in "India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones"

sateesh — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:28:49 +0000

I don't know of how digital IDs are used etc. in other countries and how ubiquitous there usage is. (One ID I'm aware of is social security numbers (SSN) is U.S, but that is considered as PII data and usually companies take steps to protect/mask them). But citing that this is how it is done elsewhere is just an appeal to tradition/common practice and not necessarily addresses the points I had made.

New comment by sateesh in "India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones"

sateesh — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:03:19 +0000

What you are proposing is too sweeping, it is not just privacy that suffers. Making a single ID (whose attributes can't be changed) an entire identity of a person is a very risky one. This makes it a single point of failure and in cases like an ID theft, misuse the affected person suffers gravely, and onus will be on them to prove who they are, a Kafkaesque nightmare it would be.

New comment by sateesh in "India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones"

sateesh — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:31:15 +0000

Not op,I agree that hotels doesn't do any face matching.

However for getting a new mobile connection the flow is similar to what op has mentioned. It seems one can get a mobile connection by not opting for face recognition, but the process is cumbersome. Similarly for property registrations fingerprints (atleast in some of the states) of the concerned parties is matched against the ones that are associated with their Aadhar.

New comment by sateesh in "India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones"

sateesh — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:31:14 +0000

I think this point is bit orthogonal. The current outrage was largely because the app has to be pre-loaded and there wasn't an option to disable or uninstall it.

In the later incarnations, if this is an app which you need to access government services that is less of an issue, though I'm not advocating that this is completely fine. There are already apps like these CoWin (during Covid time), or Digiyatra (despite some of the privacy concerns around it [1]) which many are using. I hope if at all this app gets introduced (in the form you mention) there are larger discussions about permissions and the data access the app would need,and it can be disabled, uninstalled.

1. https://internetfreedom.in/digiyatra-who-owns-your-data/

New comment by sateesh in "India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones"

sateesh — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:22:04 +0000

The only upshot of this whole saga seems to be an increased awareness (though a small bit) in general public about importance of privacy in the digital world. Most of the media outlets (both English and regional language newspapers) provided a prominent coverage of this news.

New comment by sateesh in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

sateesh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:45:47 +0000

The mandate says the app can't be uninstalled.

New comment by sateesh in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

sateesh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:13:00 +0000

You are drawing a false equivalence. Using Gmail is a choice, but having an app preloaded without an option to uninstall isn't.

New comment by sateesh in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

sateesh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:00:11 +0000

Why you think so, pls elaborate. In the current form governments all over the world are increasingly having massive power over what citizens can do, don't and increasing it by degrees day after day.

New comment by sateesh in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

sateesh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:54:48 +0000

You are confounding intent with the implementation.It might be a garbage app to start with, but there is no opt out for the users. Given the payoff and endless iterations resources will be thrown at it and it would eventually get better.

New comment by sateesh in "Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses"

sateesh — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:36:05 +0000

Not that I completely disagree with you, yes indeed with excellent training not sure how many can be retrained to be good enough for new kind of job roles, skills. Also it isn't certain that there will be far more new jobs than what would get shed, in which case there won't be enough demand to absorb even the retrained (and skilled) labor.

New comment by sateesh in "Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses"

sateesh — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:56:53 +0000

What other option you can propose. This article [1] says preferred suggestions by economists is: retraining, regulation, or social insurance and for most of the people surveyed "retraining" was the preferred approach.

Not sure MOOCs can be taken as an useful alibi to measure success of upskill. Most (employers) won't honor the MOCC certs, and people do MOOC while working. Taking a MOOC doesn't inherently ensure that the learner has mastered the course they took, hence there is less incentive in completing too.

1. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/coming-ai-backl...

New comment by sateesh in "Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance"

sateesh — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:06:46 +0000

It's GitLab not GitHub

New comment by sateesh in "Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?"

sateesh — Tue, 27 May 2025 06:04:08 +0000

- Internet Freedom Foundation (India) https://internetfreedom.in/

New comment by sateesh in "Go channels are bad (2016)"

sateesh — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 16:22:32 +0000

Your example solution has only one player. Your solution won't work when there are multiple players.

New comment by sateesh in "Go channels are bad (2016)"

sateesh — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:32:02 +0000

> In this case, a deferred call to close the channel in HandlePlayer is sufficient

It is not clear from the example, but I presume there would multiple players, i.e there will calls of the form:

  g.HandlePlayer(p1)
  g.HandlePlayer(p2)
  ..

in such a case one player closing the channel would affect rest of the producers too.

New comment by sateesh in "Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia"

sateesh — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:28:50 +0000

This and also when you newly join a team it is more productive to start using the tooling what they are using and move to preferred tooling once familiar with the API endpoints.

New comment by sateesh in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)"

sateesh — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:48:40 +0000

Organizing books by colour, couldn't resist the link to Two Ronnies :) https://youtu.be/AYxmPHLU9oA?si=n8OACTqPyZ12oWeA