Hacker News: sayamqazi

New comment by sayamqazi in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

sayamqazi — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:26:41 +0000

I dont know what kind of authoritative server Apex Legend uses that let the infamous "Tufi" hacker do what he did for so long. IMO it should be trivial to ban someone hitting more than 80% of their shots as headshots,, dual weilding weapons that were never supposed to be dual-weilded. Charge rifle beam permanently shooting and swapping armors from miles away

New comment by sayamqazi in "The locals don't know"

sayamqazi — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:52:22 +0000

I spent my childhood in a place that was a destination for others but later in life moved to a city. When the company i work at decided to have a trip there I was like eh whaterevr. its just some boring mountains and waterfalls but went anyway. Seeing my coworkers be really enjoying that was really an experience in itself.

New comment by sayamqazi in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

sayamqazi — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:23:59 +0000

I am as asian and I was at the receiving end of pretty severe (trust me you dont wanna know the details) physical abuse as a child. It did leave some lasting damage but surprisingly it didnt affect my academic outcomes and I dont feel like someone who would ever ever consider suicide for anything whatsoever.

New comment by sayamqazi in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

sayamqazi — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:21:24 +0000

These things only hurt emotionally when done wrongfully.

New comment by sayamqazi in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

sayamqazi — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:07:52 +0000

When a great product is built it was the leadership and when a mistake was made it was always the employee that did it. Cool!

New comment by sayamqazi in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

sayamqazi — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:04:29 +0000

You would be surprised how many people naively think "Why doesn't my country just open a war on X country and this Y problem will be solved forever" in their head they think war is just a flurry of bombardments and the other side (not theirs) is just destroyed to rubble and their country will have only minimal losses

New comment by sayamqazi in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

sayamqazi — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:51:27 +0000

It has been my observation that most of the better students were the ones who would not put in work during the semester/year and cram at the end.

New comment by sayamqazi in "What British people mean when they say 'sorry'"

sayamqazi — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:07:58 +0000

I speak Urdu (another South Asian language). If you asked someone the meaning of sorry in Urdu they would always say "ma'afi/ma'af karna" which is very strictly "asking forgiveness" although it "can" be used as "I didnt hear you / come again" literally nobody ever uses it that way

New comment by sayamqazi in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

sayamqazi — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:18:16 +0000

they are using the "reusable" thats why it looks the same, which is a good practice /s

New comment by sayamqazi in "The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions"

sayamqazi — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:10:23 +0000

They wanna filter the candidates who used GenAI and then force the GenAI on the existing employees. Makes total sense.

New comment by sayamqazi in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

sayamqazi — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:57:47 +0000

Who is gonna make sure that what I put in github is exactly what I am pushing to the store.

New comment by sayamqazi in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

sayamqazi — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:03:06 +0000

I think height matters for speed as a fit 6ft+ would easily run way faster than a 4" 8' fit person.

New comment by sayamqazi in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

sayamqazi — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:58:15 +0000

Also letting chlidren run and play barefoot actaully helps develop the foot properly which I presonally think is benificial in the long run.

New comment by sayamqazi in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

sayamqazi — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:48:54 +0000

half marathon is ~20 KM its pretty sad that a large percentage of people cant do that. One can simply walk that much distance wihtout any prior training.

New comment by sayamqazi in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

sayamqazi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:38:00 +0000

There is no such thing as DX with any digital tool. Its just pain and suffering all the way down. Sooner you realize it and make peace with it the better.

New comment by sayamqazi in "Android Developer Verification"

sayamqazi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:21:11 +0000

You "refusing to believe it" doesn't make it go away.

New comment by sayamqazi in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

sayamqazi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:21:30 +0000

> usage patterns

IMO interceptors are bad. they hide what might get transformed with the API call at the place it is being used.

> Likewise, every response I get is JSON. There's no reason to manually unwrap the response into JSON every time.

This is not true unless you are not interfacing with your own backends. even then why not just make a helper that unwraps as json by default but can be passed an arg to parse as something else

New comment by sayamqazi in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

sayamqazi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:13:51 +0000

not timeout at all is even shorter.

New comment by sayamqazi in "The 49MB web page"

sayamqazi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:44:24 +0000

It took me 15 minutes to convince the UX designer on our team that autofill is a good thing for certain fields and why it is a bad idea to force-style the autofilled fields.

New comment by sayamqazi in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

sayamqazi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:37:33 +0000

If something is mine by right, no matter how little or lot worth it has noone shoule be allowed to force/trick me to donate it. It should just be my choice.