Hacker News: snihalani

New comment by snihalani in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

snihalani — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:11:15 +0000

I'd love to advocate for PgDog if there were more than 2 managed service providers. Adding a single company with no substitute in your supply chain feels hard

New comment by snihalani in "Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV"

snihalani — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:39:51 +0000

Error Code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

New comment by snihalani in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

snihalani — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:37:11 +0000

What's a GCC/CEE?

New comment by snihalani in "India's surprise baby bust"

snihalani — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:41:39 +0000

I keep hearing some religions push for this. I don't understand how it benefits them

New comment by snihalani in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

snihalani — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:17:28 +0000

While I love this, Morningstar isn't a fiduciary

New comment by snihalani in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

snihalani — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:27:16 +0000

I thought S&P also changed the rules on this one

New comment by snihalani in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

snihalani — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:56:45 +0000

I am not sure the benefit comes from doing it. I find the optionality & the social security attractive

New comment by snihalani in "CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub"

snihalani — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:33:07 +0000

Do they not believe in encrypted files?

New comment by snihalani in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

snihalani — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:25:50 +0000

This is a war against companies where the moat is the UI. Agentic API is the new UI

New comment by snihalani in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

snihalani — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:08:20 +0000

for the funs

New comment by snihalani in "An update on GitHub availability"

snihalani — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:50:37 +0000

IPv6 doesn't sound like a huge lift at the entrypoints. Internal networking to IPv6 only sounds like an impossible lift

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

snihalani — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:16:01 +0000

Do people here believe in karma? I can't empathize with these management practices.

New comment by snihalani in "Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry"

snihalani — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:17:58 +0000

I think this is a pact between advertising companies.

New comment by snihalani in "Layoffs at Block"

snihalani — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:24:56 +0000

>I’m with OP, thy should face real consequences for stupid decisions

I don't think the investor cares. The investor wants 1 in X shot at beating the majority and is agnostic to failure.

New comment by snihalani in "DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit"

snihalani — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:38:19 +0000

I don't know if this was an indian thing but we'd get a dopamine hit type tone at the end and that's not present in this audio.

New comment by snihalani in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

snihalani — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:21:55 +0000

how do I understand what is the sustainable pricing?

New comment by snihalani in "Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics"

snihalani — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:15:09 +0000

I wish we had direct voting on important decisions

New comment by snihalani in "Sam Altman: I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest"

snihalani — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:47:29 +0000

I actually think this is co-operated behind the scenes and intentional marketing.

New comment by snihalani in "Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign"

snihalani — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:44:21 +0000

> Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be.

OpenAI's terms of service (https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/):

What you cannot do. You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not:

1. Use our Services in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates anyone’s rights.

2. Modify, copy, lease, sell or distribute any of our Services.

3. Attempt to or assist anyone to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, including our models, algorithms, or systems (except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law).

4. Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below).

5. Represent that Output was human-generated when it was not.

6. Interfere with or disrupt our Services, including circumvent any rate limits or restrictions or bypass any protective measures or safety mitigations we put on our Services.

7. Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.

Learning: Marketing and Legal team are not in sync with each other.

New comment by snihalani in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

snihalani — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:59:38 +0000

it's painful that HN has become that