Hacker News: someonenice

New comment by someonenice in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

someonenice — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:23:15 +0000

Doesn't Adsense require website with proper Content ?

New comment by someonenice in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

someonenice — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:55:36 +0000

This used to be case before the M series. Now each year a new M processor gets released that are "cheaper" than the previous generation MAC - better processor, more RAM and more storage for similar price than last year model. This impacted their price in used market.

New comment by someonenice in "Show HN: I was tired of people dmming me just "hi", so I made this - NoGreeting"

someonenice — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:15:45 +0000

I have that url on my Teams status.

New comment by someonenice in "Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage"

someonenice — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:21:22 +0000

Increased usage of Sodium batteries for static applications (home storage) could reduce demand for Li based batteries. This could reduce the cost of Laptop batteries.

New comment by someonenice in "How to validate a market with development boards and SD cards"

someonenice — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 05:56:28 +0000

>> 3) Author is modifying the product behavior with their software. So yes author. You are still liable. Technically, your customers are first in the line of fire. But the likely sequence of steps is: Friendly Spectrum Representative will visit them first, have a chat, ask them to stop using the device, then leave them a lone and then come for YOU.

Few questions related to this. - Does this meant that recertification is required every time we load a different version of the software ? - How does this work for Computers and mobile phones ? The hardware is certified but you are loading different software daily.

New comment by someonenice in "Ask HN: If you could spend $100k to get healthy and fit, how would you do it?"

someonenice — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:16:36 +0000

Take a vacation in one of the East Asian countries. Stay in a less touristy place. Rent a house instead of staying in a hotel / resort and cook yourself. The food, the weather and the need for longer walks to get things done will make you lose weight faster.

New comment by someonenice in "Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity"

someonenice — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:17:03 +0000

The subtitle (or summary) mentions it - "Director has criticised the practice of re-editing older films while expressing remorse over removing guns in a later edition of ET"

New comment by someonenice in "GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts"

someonenice — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 02:39:57 +0000

>> a misconfigured domain name system service at GoDaddy allowed hackers to hijack dozens of websites owned by Expedia, Yelp, Mozilla, and others..

Any idea what was the impact on Mozilla ? Did it impact the Firefox and plugin servers ?

New comment by someonenice in "Texas requires ‘In God We Trust’ signs in schools. A man wants some in Arabic"

someonenice — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:50:31 +0000

>> SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

I am not American - So strange that the act takes effect even if it does not receive the required votes, only a bit later. How does it work ?

New comment by someonenice in "TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants"

someonenice — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:00:21 +0000

Tiktok here does not force you to login for watching the videos (unless you want to like / comment / subscribe etc.. ). And also allows downloading the videos right from the app (if the creator has enabled download for the video), so I download the ones that are to be bookmarked.

This is in stark contrast to what the FB and Insta like companies do.

Since I don't login, I use multiple devices to access tiktok. And I noticed that the stream content is different on my phone (mostly used while traveling / outside home and contain news and semi serious random stuff), tab (mainly used in the bed and contain light funny contents) and computer (serious stuff - arts, tech etc..).

BTW - I am only a tiktok consumer and not creator.

New comment by someonenice in "Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring"

someonenice — Fri, 13 May 2022 04:05:52 +0000

Looks like adoption is under different category and you get 12 weeks. https://www.yeremianlaw.com/uncategorized/can-i-take-leave-f...

New comment by someonenice in "GitHub: Private Profiles beta"

someonenice — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:21:08 +0000

What about the other way - if the commit is "damaging" in nature specially on a competitors repo. For example the recent NPM commit that wiped user data. If its done on company time using company laptop, will the company be liable ?

New comment by someonenice in "Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters"

someonenice — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 06:12:12 +0000

- The batteries discussed here are small and comparatively light weight (a person can remove). So consider it more as "Cells". If you want more range, replace more cells or have heavier pack. If you need the range of Tesla, then you need more battery packs in the vehicle (And increases the weight of the vehicle and its cost).

- Also the vehicles mentioned here (Auto rickshaw) generally carry max 3 customers for shorter distances. Majority of the travel will be in the range of less than 10 Kms.

So for less cost, she is able to serve the same customers, increasing her earning.

New comment by someonenice in "WhatsApp risks losing its most loyal customers: Indian uncles and aunties"

someonenice — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:05:51 +0000

So in Indian context respect is shown to the elders by means of different suffix (brother, sister, uncle, grandpa).

It could be either brother (bhaiyya, anna, chettan ) or Sister (deedi, akka, chechi .. ) if the person is elder to you but not too older than you. So if you are in 20's , and shopkeeper (who is Raju) is in his 40s, you might call him Raju bhaiyya (or Raju anna in Tamil, Raju chettan in Malayalam).

If there is a visible One generation gap, then Uncle or Auntie is used.

And if there is a visible two generation gap, then grandpa and grandma is also suffixed to call them (but this is not very common.. and sometimes could be taken as insult)

And the elders might call you Son or Daughter (beta, beti ..) in a similar way.

And you could be complete strangers.

New comment by someonenice in "Sentimental Versioning"

someonenice — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:49:23 +0000

Instead of being a single blog post / article as part of another site, here we have a whole domain for a single article.

Hope more articles coming up on the site.

New comment by someonenice in "Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians"

someonenice — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:00:15 +0000

The upper castes are hardly 20% of the population. But they take up 80% or more of the higher education and jobs already.

The affirmative action in India is to reduce this gap so that their representation is comparable to their population.

New comment by someonenice in "Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts"

someonenice — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 05:30:48 +0000

The coconut is harvested at different stages and used for different purpose - Tender coconut - Havested at very early stage and mainly used for the water. They have cream inside that is yet not solid and more water. Good for drinking only. - Slighly ripe. These are the coconut used for cooking. They have solid inside and less water. Grated coconut and coconut milk are made from this. Virgin coconut oil is also made from these. - Old ones - Mostly the coconut that falls naturally. Outside is fully brown in color. They have no water inside. And the solid cake is dried and pressed to extract oil.

New comment by someonenice in "Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts"

someonenice — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 05:23:31 +0000

You increase the price and more competition turns up and you end up climbing less trees. So you end up poor again.

New comment by someonenice in "Show HN: Curated Software alternatives and comparisons with no ads"

someonenice — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:50:09 +0000

Great effort. Some missing features - The Software license. Specially if its Opensource or not. - Other details - Language etc.

New comment by someonenice in "How to Edit Your Own Writing"

someonenice — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 10:06:02 +0000

Would MindMap be helpful here than a flowchart ? It can show the flow ... And lots of Opensource tools available.