Hacker News: shaan7

New comment by shaan7 in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

shaan7 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:30:41 +0000

> Corporations lobby the government to implement laws that seem to hurt them but in actuality create an uneven playing field where marketshare becomes available due to the higher implementation cost

(nit: I assume you meant "marketshare becomes unavailable")

So you mean that regulations that are created based on lobbying by corporations help them become monopolies? Sure, that makes sense. But thats different from a blanket "Regulations create monopolies".

New comment by shaan7 in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

shaan7 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:25:41 +0000

> I feel like other commenters are being obtuse on purpose and avoid the point?

nah, people are just built differently. Not everyone gets frustrated with "learning to remember", and then some do. Both are valid. The people who seem to be obtuse to you are in the first group, myself included. I didn't instantly catch the fact that instead of `svn commit` I have to now do `git add`, `git commit` and `git push`. But, and this is the key difference, when I forgot I just checked my bash history to recall the sequence. It doesn't bother me because I know either of two things will happen:

A. Over months and years, you then understand how things work and its second nature.

OR B. The tool was just a one-off and you won't use it after some time, so it doesn't matter you won't recall the steps.

Its the same with any professional tool, really - even outside software (think carpentry, for example).

New comment by shaan7 in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

shaan7 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:18:48 +0000

> The point was that this bothered me when I used git for the very first time

and that is fine. From your original comment, you "just" wanted to save things and got confused why you had to `add`, `commit` and `push`. Its just that you didn't know that git isn't a word processor that gives you a way to save your work - you've done that already when you saved the file with your editor.

When I came to git, I was also confused why commit and push are different steps - so much work, I thought. Until one day it finally hit - wait, this lets me keep "saving" my work locally until I'm ready to upload it - which is when I push.

New comment by shaan7 in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

shaan7 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:17:39 +0000

or, if you are replaying a single-player game that you saved+loaded (i.e. the replay only worked if the full game happened in one go without any loads).

New comment by shaan7 in "Codex for almost everything"

shaan7 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:47:45 +0000

Well thats good then, it means that they'll always need the likes of Scotty, LaForge, Torres and O'Brien ;)

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!