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New comment by satya71 in "Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?"

satya71 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:38:04 +0000

New comment by satya71 in "Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid"

satya71 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:50:44 +0000

World Bank doesn’t typically give money to people. They fund development projects.

New comment by satya71 in "The new Firefox design is here"

satya71 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:53:47 +0000

Thanks for the config. To their credit the UI change is instant. I double clicked a few times to find out why the old UI looks better.

The old UI has less visual noise (at least dark mode on Windows). The new theme has random highlights and high-contrast lines everywhere that draw attention to the browser UI. I want the browser to fade into the background not stand out.

New comment by satya71 in "Claude Sonnet 5.5"

satya71 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:06:43 +0000

Correct link: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5

New comment by satya71 in "Tell HN: iOS 27's Connectivity Assist subverts DNS level adblocking"

satya71 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:37:51 +0000

Luckily you can turn it off

> Connectivity Assist improves your connection by using cellular data when this Wi-Fi network is unreliable or slow. If you're concerned about cellular data usage or you use an ad blocker, you may want to turn this off.

New comment by satya71 in "Ask HN: Lots of sign ups but people not completing onboarding"

satya71 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:01:37 +0000

You don’t give enough details to help diagnose the problem. But if you’re looking for great insights on every stage of startup The SaaS Playbook [1] is very good

[1] https://saasplaybook.com/

New comment by satya71 in "Ask HN: Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript?"

satya71 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:58:28 +0000

I had good luck with Avalonia UI and F#. I don’t understand either, but Claude nailed it.

New comment by satya71 in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

satya71 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:28:35 +0000

TL;DR Shingles vaccines reduces chances of dementia by 20%. Yet, most countries health systems only look at the upfront cost of ~$300 and don’t recommend for all who could benefit.

New comment by satya71 in "Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan"

satya71 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:24:27 +0000

This is common practice in much of developed world. Long ago, they used to have re-usable glass syringes that could be sterilized. Unfortunately, people switched to disposable syringes. The unit costs are...high in the US, unreasonable in developing countries.

It's not just this hospital, it's widespread ([1] report 38%)

[1] https://www.emro.who.int/emhj-volume-26-2020/volume-26-issue...

New comment by satya71 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

satya71 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:26:59 +0000

Fortunately, there are competing LSPs of reasonable quality now. I'm using pyrefly. Not sure if ty/ruff have one too.

New comment by satya71 in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

satya71 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:50:28 +0000

Indeed Apple Music Classical or Idagio. Spotify has never cared for classical, because the market is too small for them to bother.

New comment by satya71 in "GitHub is down again"

satya71 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:06:22 +0000

I use git town. Fits my brain a lot better.

New comment by satya71 in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"

satya71 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:11:18 +0000

I had a look at some of FileVine's output, and I can say I'm not surprised. This is not an organization that prizes engineering at all.

New comment by satya71 in "Pyscripter – Open-source Python IDE written in Delphi"

satya71 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:18:22 +0000

A blast from the past! Pyscripter was definitely a top contender back in Python 2.3 days. Not sure when I stopped using it and why. Seems to be actively maintained. Will have to try again.

New comment by satya71 in "Show HN: Modshim – A new alternative to monkey-patching in Python"

satya71 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:10:44 +0000

This is a nice system. I wonder if modshim can be used to or extended to do hot reload.

New comment by satya71 in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

satya71 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:24:30 +0000

Yes, but businesses operate on cash, not tax credits.

New comment by satya71 in "Ask HN: Senior SaaS developer wanting to pivot"

satya71 — Sat, 24 May 2025 19:39:54 +0000

Why do you want to switch?

New comment by satya71 in "Show HN: GitQuill – free cross-platform GUI for Git, inspired by GitKraken"

satya71 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:04:48 +0000

Interesting. I've been missing `svn changelist` feature in Git. GitButler calls it virtual branches. Indispensable feature. Going to try it out.

New comment by satya71 in "Scientists found a way to make sound travel in only one direction"

satya71 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:57:46 +0000

This seems to be similar to a microwave circulator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulator

New comment by satya71 in "Ask HN: What is the most expensive off-the-shelf software you have seen?"

satya71 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:03:06 +0000

Most semiconductor EDA software cost > $10k per seat, sometimes > $100k per seat.