Hacker News: sokz

New comment by sokz in "Wiz joins Google"

sokz — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:22:17 +0000

Network effects wasn't what I considered although I should have.

New comment by sokz in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

sokz — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:12:52 +0000

Wix too. Very interesting that founders of Waze and Wix have Unit 8200 pedigree and Wiz co-founder was part of an elite recruitment program in the IDF. On account of the mandatory draft, it was bound to happen but those three companies have very similar names as well.

New comment by sokz in "ThinkNext Design"

sokz — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:01:55 +0000

It still has issues with sleep still. It just borks the wi-fi now. Need a restart to use the internet again.

New comment by sokz in "India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops"

sokz — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 05:57:50 +0000

Delhi NCR in general looks like a pretty nice place to source tech in India. The Bangalore counterpart of Nehru Place, SP Road felt expensive and a bit less competent than I expected.

New comment by sokz in "India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops"

sokz — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 05:53:10 +0000

Spare parts are expensive in general in India. Add to the fact that there are unscrupulous repair centers, I am certain that the theft of genuine parts happen regularly.

New comment by sokz in "“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”"

sokz — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:56:51 +0000

Probably institutes teaching IT stuff. They used to be popular (still?) in my country (India) in the past. That said, there are plenty of places which train in reasonable breadth in programming, embedded etc. now (think less intense bootcamps).

New comment by sokz in "Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam"

sokz — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:09:19 +0000

Reminds me of the Indian public discourse when the government wanted to tax caramel popcorn in movie theatres at 18% when the normal ones were taxed at 5%.

New comment by sokz in "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World"

sokz — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:09:43 +0000

It's a fine surprise that I just ordered the book independently and then discovered the podcast and found the book being discussed on HN all in the same day. Pretty nice coincidence.

New comment by sokz in "Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine"

sokz — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:25:54 +0000

Pardon me for not getting your context, but are compile times a big issue in software development? I have never programmed professionally and all my experiences with code is from a couple of classes taken in college a decade ago.

New comment by sokz in "Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark"

sokz — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:35:57 +0000

I am curious how perplexity handles the rate limiting. I use it a lot during the course of the day and find no rate limiting while Claude 3 Opus set as the default model.

New comment by sokz in "How web bloat impacts users with slow devices"

sokz — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 03:37:22 +0000

Reddit doesn't even run satisfactorily in my gaming laptop. I can run AAA games but a website is noticeably slow.

New comment by sokz in "Known Meta Sites"

sokz — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 08:44:10 +0000

> www.jav-hq.com (very nsfw)

Is this confirmed to be owned by Meta?

New comment by sokz in "Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?"

sokz — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 05:50:38 +0000

I'd love to read it when it comes out. Where should I look for it when its published? Ignore if its a stupid question.

New comment by sokz in "US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop it"

sokz — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:03:37 +0000

> The Database to have some entries about you that might not even be true. Mistakes happen. Good luck proving or correcting them.

This actually happened to me. A clerical mistake by a teacher changed my name in databases which led me to change my name officially so that I can have my original name back.

New comment by sokz in "The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod"

sokz — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 06:58:37 +0000

I couldn't play Wolfenstein because it got too intense. I took a multi-year break from video games and I like what I see, but many FPSes are just too intense to me with its sensory overload. I get the appeal of Fortnite and other Battle Royale style games though, they got that sweet spot of competitiveness and ease of getting into them perfectly.

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

sokz — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:40:19 +0000

My experience with mastodon was the same for a while until Elon took over twitter. Now I do see discussions on stuff I care about although I am starting to see discussions regarding the threat of Meta federating with some big instances of mastodon.

New comment by sokz in "OpenSUSE Linux gains momentum"

sokz — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:29:31 +0000

Access Denied for me here in India too. Looks like they set up to block by countries.

New comment by sokz in "Facebook addiction increases depression severity among already depressed people"

sokz — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 16:01:19 +0000

This post made me finally uninstall Instagram from my phone. Though the network effects makes it difficult to completely chuck it from my life. The exodus of my peer group from fb made it possible for me to delete it completely from my life and don't need it anymore. I hope something like that happens for instagram too. It was not for the lack of trying. I tried hard to transfer my friends and family to Signal and was unsuccessful. So now I'm waiting for the forces of nature to take over and hope that something miraculous happens and something that doesn't weaponise human mind takes over instead.

New comment by sokz in "Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max"

sokz — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:11:55 +0000

I have seen people walking from Delhi to Bihar, not exactly 10 Km.

New comment by sokz in "Why does Google use location for language rather than browser settings?"

sokz — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:16:09 +0000

I have faced the problem in steroids in India, where there are 22 scheduled languages. While I can read 3 local languages, one cannot be expected to know every single language in the general area. Keeping my computers in English doesn't help, changing the languages to the one that I can actually read doesn't help. It is sad that Google has harvested enough data about me to make a highly accurate profile of mine but can't be arsed to make usage of their products a little convenient for me by just respecting my language settings.