Hacker News: shaan7

New comment by shaan7 in "No right to relicense this project"

shaan7 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:27:25 +0000

> plenty of projects changed licenses lol.

They usually did that with approval from existing license holders (except when they didn't, those were the bad cases for sure).

New comment by shaan7 in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

shaan7 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:38:29 +0000

> that it would be "simpler" to just... not do what I asked

That sounds too close to what I feel on some days xD

New comment by shaan7 in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

shaan7 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:51:58 +0000

That and PROGRA~1 brings back memories.

New comment by shaan7 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

shaan7 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:31:06 +0000

Yep it was rebranded: https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/429582...

New comment by shaan7 in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

shaan7 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:42:21 +0000

Well the current US Administration would agree - the law doesn't matter, we need to be "pragmatic" and do what we think is right. Rules be damned.

Once you deviate a bit from the standard, you're down a slippery slope. Its not that difficult to use pragmatism to justify wrongdoing.

New comment by shaan7 in "The kind of company I want to be a part of"

shaan7 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:04:04 +0000

Qt has provided a solution for this since its early days: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/i18n-source-translation.html#handle-p...

New comment by shaan7 in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

shaan7 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:50:59 +0000

That only happens for the datetime metadata of the files (modified, created, access etc). The EXIF metadata will still remain the same.

New comment by shaan7 in "Why our website looks like an operating system"

shaan7 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:02:42 +0000

Yep, it baffles me that a lot of people would rather not have the option to reject cookies. Its weird to say "I don't want to stop a website tracking me because the UX is terrible. I'd rather get tracked instead.". Of course, it would be better if the UX were even better, but I'd rather take something over nothing.

New comment by shaan7 in "Sci-Hub has been blocked in India"

shaan7 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:58:20 +0000

Same in Germany, unfortunately. Was on HN a few days back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45003033

New comment by shaan7 in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

shaan7 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 07:27:39 +0000

I describe it slightly differently. Similar to what the author described, I'll first plan and solve the problem in my head, lay out a broad action plan, and then put on music to implement it. But, for me the music serves something akin to clocks in microcontrollers (and even CPUs), it provides a flow that my brain syncs to. I'm not even paying attention to the music itself, but it stops me from getting distracted and focus on the task at hand.

New comment by shaan7 in "DeepSeek-v3.1"

shaan7 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:26:49 +0000

Yep there's no need to apologize, you've been very courteous and took all that feedback constructively. Good stuff :)

New comment by shaan7 in "Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools"

shaan7 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:11:07 +0000

I think you and the parent comment are onto something. I also feel like the parent since I find it relatively difficult to read code that someone else wrote. My brain easily gets biased into thinking that the cases that the code is covering are the only possible ones. On the flip side, if I were writing the code, I am more likely to determine the corner cases. In other words, writing code helps me think, reading just biases me. This makes it extremely slow to review a LLM's code at which point I'd just write it myself.

Very good for throwaway code though, for example a PoC which won't really be going to production (hopefully xD).

New comment by shaan7 in "Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s"

shaan7 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:03:35 +0000

Indeed! Bollywood makes it to HN xD

New comment by shaan7 in ""Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us yet Again"

shaan7 — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:52:09 +0000

I use Firefox simply because the address bar UX is better. It prioritizes my history over search results, I almost never have more than 3-5 tabs open, so I rely heavily on typing a keyword in the address bar to go to a page in my history. Another thing I rely a lot is Multi-Account containers, which makes it very to keep aspects of life separated.

This ad stuff is very concerning, though :(

New comment by shaan7 in "Ball: A ball that lives in your dock"

shaan7 — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:20:30 +0000

Reminds me of Plasma's ball widget: https://store.kde.org/p/1172489/

Apart from amusement, this served as a nice example when you are giving talks at universities trying to motivate students to tinker. Just multiple gravity by -1 and voila!

New comment by shaan7 in "Local First, Forever"

shaan7 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:13:11 +0000

I'm sorry we let you down :(

New comment by shaan7 in "FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations"

shaan7 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:12:32 +0000

I find going through monthly statements quite cumbersome, so instead what works better is to enable notifications for each transaction. That way I just get an email when something is charged to the card, makes it easier to notice unused subscriptions.

New comment by shaan7 in "Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores"

shaan7 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:45:30 +0000

I'd argue that your latter point (optimizing background apps) is majority of the improvement and this is something you can do in the OS regardless of where an app comes from (excluding rooted/jailbroken devices from scope). This would've been a reasonable argument if Apple only ever denied apps because they did stupid things, not because they offered a payment gateway that did not pay Apple commission. Lets not pretend that Apple's control is only about curating an experience for the user, it is very significantly about maximizing profit as well.

As a side note, I've always understood that just stock iOS is way more optimized than stock Android simply because of better engineering. However, this is anecdotal and I don't have any references as such.

New comment by shaan7 in "Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores"

shaan7 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:29:04 +0000

That is an interesting take, so basically in your opinion the main thing that makes iOS better than Android is that Apple has tighter control over the apps? What I've heard from most iOS users is other things like smoother interface, better battery life, great camera etc. I've never heard "I like iPhone because Apple moderates the App Store" from laymen (i.e. non-HN crowd).

New comment by shaan7 in "Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20"

shaan7 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:11:10 +0000

My guess would be Voice Control