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New comment by skaushik92 in "VisiCalc Reconstructed"

skaushik92 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:37:14 +0000

Speaking from experience, I find budgeting spreadsheets to be a great usecase for this.

New comment by skaushik92 in "A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight"

skaushik92 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:27:36 +0000

I wish there were a video of this linked from the research paper.

New comment by skaushik92 in "Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?"

skaushik92 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:37:16 +0000

> ... but those of any complexity presumably ought to be in a library — that is, a set of magnetic tapes in which previously coded problems of permanent value are stored.

Oddly, I never thought of the term library as originating from a physical labelled and organized shelf of tapes, until now.

New comment by skaushik92 in "Student loan debt in the United States totals $1.777T"

skaushik92 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:34:25 +0000

1.693T of 1.777T (~95%) is student loans from the federal government (the Federal Student Aid—FSA arm of the Department of Education).

Student loan debt in the United States totals $1.777T

skaushik92 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:22:43 +0000

Article URL: https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426102

Points: 1

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New comment by skaushik92 in "Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparable harm,” judge rules"

skaushik92 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:20:44 +0000

The issue is that the executive branch still has prosecutorial power with impeachment as one of the only remaining checks against that (if I’m understanding correctly).

New comment by skaushik92 in "Didn't realize it was this bad"

skaushik92 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:56:14 +0000

A market correction is definitely taking place and jobs like the one in the post that are fully remote are highly coveted so it’s not so surprising. There’s still lots of places for tech to make a meaningful impact but acceptable risk tolerance is much stricter due to tax law shifts and VC funding strictness due to higher interest rates.

New comment by skaushik92 in "Proof of location for online polls"

skaushik92 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:11:54 +0000

> Key Advantages: [...] Can provide supportive evidence for VPN/proxy usage, when the latency is too high for all server locations

I'm reading through the description, but I'm having trouble understanding the difference between a client having a higher overall latency due to bandwidth/connectivity concerns (e.g. a 3G phone) versus using a VPN. Both would have increased timings and the clock skew would be similar. Would both would be considered too high for proof of location?

New comment by skaushik92 in "ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way"

skaushik92 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:26:00 +0000

Pyramid tiling is the general technique used by Google Maps and similar systems to track images as different zoom levels; also similar techniques are used for progressive rendering for example in JPEG 2000.

New comment by skaushik92 in "The Sinusoidal Tetris"

skaushik92 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 06:37:13 +0000

You can disable default touch actions on buttons like this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10614481/disable-double-...

New comment by skaushik92 in "Negotiate your salary with a little philosophical backup"

skaushik92 — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:13:10 +0000

> So what should you say? Simply remind them that your results, availability, and team spirit make you a reliable actor in the success of the company. Emphasise your future commitment more than your past success. In short, show them that by increasing your salary, they’re investing in a long-term project.

They didn’t put it in a separate section but they do have a bit about what to do at the end.

New comment by skaushik92 in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

skaushik92 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:22:49 +0000

I read that as "expanding protections to reduce (privacy and security) risks ..." but I guess you're reading it as "expanding protections to reduce (privacy) and (security risks) ..."

New comment by skaushik92 in "Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year"

skaushik92 — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:50:00 +0000

I noticed this too but I think it was really smart to post robots in those movement roles because it makes these motion limitations “robotic” and mechanical like you said. It felt really attributable to the robot itself being programmed to operate that way.

New comment by skaushik92 in "Engineers develop a process to make formate fuel from CO2"

skaushik92 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 22:39:13 +0000

Also, it could be wherever nuclear wouldn’t be permissible otherwise (e.g floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, away from populations that don’t want it nearby)

New comment by skaushik92 in "Western Digital to spin off flash business"

skaushik92 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:10:50 +0000

They probably needed to prioritize getting the article out fast over coming up with good headlines since it’s a flash sale

New comment by skaushik92 in "100 Parking Tickets (2004)"

skaushik92 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:00:45 +0000

Neat story!

Kind of reminds me of the employee whose last name is Null.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-to-pass-null...

Though this is kind of the opposite where a manual process misidentifies the value instead of an automated process.

New comment by skaushik92 in "Ask HN: Any ways to find startups that are NOT remote?"

skaushik92 — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 14:20:14 +0000

Thanks for sharing!

Ask HN: Any ways to find startups that are NOT remote?

skaushik92 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:55:55 +0000

I feel I’m in a pretty small minority but I thought I’d ask the HN community to see if there’s traction.

Are there any job sites that are for non-remote jobs? I’m a pretty senior software engineer but I’m tired of working at a big tech company and want to influence more at a startup, but I also enjoy the camaraderie and collaboration of a small team working in a room or a section of a floor solving problems on a whiteboard ad-hoc. Any way for me to find these kinds of startups? I feel like most startups are remote fully or across time zones and I’m really turned off by that experience.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37525005

Points: 10

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New comment by skaushik92 in "Show HN: There are over a thousand possible finger arrangements for your hands"

skaushik92 — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 02:41:22 +0000

Basically what Chipotle kind of is

New comment by skaushik92 in "Threads, an Instagram app"

skaushik92 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:29:56 +0000

There’s also this symbol from a language called Tamil that looks similar:

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