Hacker News: shrikant

New comment by shrikant in "AI that copied musical artist files copyright claim against artist [updated]"

shrikant — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:10:30 +0000

Standard BTF nonsense.

(BTF = Blue Tick Fucker, an initialism I'm trying to get to take off, primarily in my WhatsApp groups where there's loads of self-proclaimed geopolitics experts claiming to know exactly what's going on and what will happen and why.)

New comment by shrikant in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

shrikant — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:06:04 +0000

Yeah I can see that, even when a recruiter contacted me a few years back for a data engineering position, they were looking strictly for experience in JVM-based languages.

New comment by shrikant in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

shrikant — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:58:56 +0000

I tend to bounce around between Ubuntu Mono, Fira Code and Comic Mono. Comic Mono is not amongst the participants in this game, and my finalists were Ubuntu Mono and Fira Code, so I guess I'm pretty pleased that I've stayed consistent as well!

New comment by shrikant in "GitHub is once again down"

shrikant — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:39:45 +0000

...or you keep fighting forward with the migration, because if it's seen as a failure then some pretty big heads will have to roll...

New comment by shrikant in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

shrikant — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:15:07 +0000

Just fyi, myopathy is a general term for diseases that affect some types of muscles, while myopia is short-sightedness -- assuming the latter is what you were going for!

New comment by shrikant in "LotusNotes"

shrikant — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:36:48 +0000

Baffling to see this, in every place I've worked at that used Lotus Notes, it was an absolute dog on the system. Clunky, slow, and ground everything else to a halt. And this was the case even on a relatively modern laptop in 2019. Not what I'd call performant at all!

New comment by shrikant in "'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)"

shrikant — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:42:17 +0000

> Doesn't pay attention to plot

> Claims plot is terrible

People who complain about aspects about movies they didn't like should all be as forthright as GP in explaining why exactly they didn't like that aspect, so I can decide whether to entirely disregard the opinion.

New comment by shrikant in "Trump: Republicans 'should take over the voting' and 'nationalise' US elections"

shrikant — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:17:00 +0000

"He says it like it is! No wait, here's what he actually meant..."

New comment by shrikant in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

shrikant — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:52:06 +0000

Reminds me of this post: https://dannorth.net/blog/the-worst-programmer/

Discussed here a couple of times as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361947 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452649

New comment by shrikant in "Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit"

shrikant — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:17:55 +0000

That's beautiful, I'd love a monospaced variant of this to replace Comic Mono in my IDE/Fira Mono in my terminal. IANA font expert though, would that even be possible?

New comment by shrikant in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

shrikant — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:26:22 +0000

> If you work in technology, you are part of this force, whether you like it or not.

Disappointing to see you downvoted. I agree with this partially, but only because I think it applies more broadly.

I work in tech (although not in Big Tech/Mag 7/FAANG/whatever they're called now), and I feel quite acutely that anyone in the field is culpable in part for the enabling the absolutely massive dump that the capital-adjacent class is taking on the world to have their power play fantasies play out.

To the extent that I've started apologising on behalf of the field/profession to non-technical folks when they complain about yet another dark pattern/"growth hack" designed to steal their attention and money.

Pake – Turn any webpage into a Tauri-based desktop app

shrikant — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:30:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/tw93/Pake

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46524352

Points: 2

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New comment by shrikant in "Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe"

shrikant — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:56:04 +0000

"This person sent goodwill to one group of people so obviously wants other groups to die in a fire" is not really devil's advocate...

New comment by shrikant in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

shrikant — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:28:11 +0000

We're not using Github Actions, but CircleCI is also failing git operations on Github (it doesn't recognise our SSH keys).

New comment by shrikant in "Google Antigravity"

shrikant — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:57:28 +0000

It's so obvious from even just the vague screenshots that are hidden somewhere on the site that it's a VSCode fork, that I suppose I can see why they've tried to obfuscate that as much as possible.

New comment by shrikant in "You can't cURL a Border"

shrikant — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:51:35 +0000

He's done plenty (https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-collapse-in-immigration/), following on from the changes Sunak made, which are already showing up in the early numbers this year.

But of course it's never going to be enough for the noisily anti-immigration lot.

New comment by shrikant in "You can't cURL a Border"

shrikant — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:23:28 +0000

As someone who's been through that dance twice, it's 5 years from the time (well, day) you press "Submit" if you're applying online, or $RANDOM days of Royal Mail nonsense if you choose to apply by post.

I agree though, the Home Office doesn't have a way of knowing where you were fore sure 5 years ago unless they got someone to go through your "days in and out of the UK" list and vetted/cross-referenced it. And even then it'd likely be incomplete and they'd have to guess.

My surmise is that they look at the level of effort you've put in to filling out that detail, and if the total days in/out isn't particularly a borderline case, then they just wave that bit through.

New comment by shrikant in "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)"

shrikant — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:06:58 +0000

CSV/Delimited file format management, for sure. (Reading, writing, choice of field/record delimiters, escaping, working with Excel's CSV quirks, etc.)

New comment by shrikant in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

shrikant — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:53:08 +0000

Could someone please post what this disappeared bit is supposed to look like? Looks legible to me when I screenshot and open in Preview on MacOS 15.6.1 (Firefox).

New comment by shrikant in "DataTables CDN Outage – post incident review"

shrikant — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:50:03 +0000

Totally OT, but thanks so much for DataTables! I used it for a tiny personal project a few years back and it's been quietly chugging away with barely any maintenance required. It was so easy to get up and running with the documentation, implement and customise to my heart's content -- truly an excellent piece of open source!