<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: srik</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=srik</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:29:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=srik" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good for you! Could you share the name of that particular test here? I'm confident I'm clear but might want to include that test in case I need to in the future.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:01:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262921</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seesawing of perspectives on apple’s ai strategy reminds me of that Alan Watts story:<p>Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer said, “Maybe.” The next day the horse came back bringing seven wild horses with it, and in the evening everybody came back and said, “Oh, isn’t that lucky. What a great turn of events. You now have eight horses!” The farmer again said, “Maybe.”<p>The following day his son tried to break one of the horses, and while riding it, he was thrown and broke his leg. The neighbors then said, “Oh dear, that’s too bad,” and the farmer responded, “Maybe.” The next day the conscription officers came around to conscript people into the army, and they rejected his son because he had a broken leg. Again all the neighbors came around and said, “Isn’t that great!” Again, he said, “Maybe.”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:39:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128824</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Used to work for that model. Great device for it’s time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:28:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810084</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe their motivation leans towards tackling advertising based exploitation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:37:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723298</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I doubt they’ll go beyond the currently bundled Safari iCloud Private Relay, which I quite appreciate actually.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:04:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722817</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A saving grace is they're perfect for linux distros.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:55:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496281</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think homebrew allows throttling bandwidth but it does let you set maximum concurrent downloads though. I believe the default is twice number of cores; you must have quite a few :) Set this to your preference:<p>HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:47:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495483</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Apple's AI Can Now Change Your Passwords. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This one is getting a lot of undue flak. Not only does it require explicit confirmation, it’s also contained entirely within the passwords app which already has access to all your passwords because you chose to trust it.<p>If you use this app, open it and look at how many entries fall under the “security” section. Everyday another password is compromised and added to the list, just too many to keep up. So, albeit apprehensively, I for one appreciate this feature.</p>
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<p>These LLM idioms are constantly being consumed every day and are bound to make it into the next, if not current, generation's vernacular. It's going to be unbearable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:37:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315869</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Hokusai and Tesselations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a i18n “English” button on top right. Unless you meant something else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:51:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904042</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have never been more stress-free than when I was running nixos as a daily driver. Had to return to macos as primary unfortunately but still use nix as much as possible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:17:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875418</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Make it opt-in then.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:19:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549133</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Living in developing countries taught me to never plugin expensive computers without a surge protector UPS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:03:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369110</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369110</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not op but I’ll vouch for the mini.nvim plugin suite. While I take advantage of their high  configurability, their defaults are well thought out and I happily use some like that as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:30:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295870</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Neo/vim does this with community and built-in “text objects”.<p><a href="https://neovim.io/doc/user/usr_04/#_text-objects" rel="nofollow">https://neovim.io/doc/user/usr_04/#_text-objects</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:24:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286284</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "I baked a pie every day for a year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love your website! Your url has a typo, here's it fixed in the meantime <a href="https://www.niche-museums.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.niche-museums.com</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:21:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171504</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Vim 9.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> For over 30 years, Vim has been "Charityware," supporting children in Kibaale, Uganda. Following the passing of Bram Moolenaar, the ICCF Holland foundation was dissolved […] and its remaining funds were transferred to ensure continued support for the Kibaale project. […] Vim remains Charityware. We encourage users to continue supporting the needy children in Uganda through this new transition.<p>I settled on vim for its technical merits but Bram using his goodwill to fund a charity like this for so long always made me feel good about my choice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:49:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016581</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Monosketch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Likewise. I can unreservedly say it’s one of my best app purchases of all time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:58:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004904</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004904</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "What functional programmers get wrong about systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>reader mode</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:29:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954160</link><dc:creator>srik</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by srik in "Apple Creator Studio"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple really should’ve grabbed Affinity before canva. Would’ve rounded out this suite much better.</p>
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