Hacker News: strooper

New comment by strooper in "ISBN Visualization"

strooper — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:34:33 +0000

Is ISBN database available for download?

New comment by strooper in "Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun"

strooper — Fri, 10 May 2024 14:05:02 +0000

While trying the script, I am getting the following error -

ReadWriteBufferFromHTTP: Failed to make request to 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/40298680.json'. Error: Timeout: connect timed out: 216.239.32.107:443. Failed at try 3/10. Will retry with current backoff wait is 200/10000 ms.

I googled with no luck. I was wondering if you have a solution for it.

New comment by strooper in "Show HN: exaequOS - a new OS running in a web browser"

strooper — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 12:12:14 +0000

What's the difference between an OS and an emulator in this scenario?

New comment by strooper in "China crisis is a TikToking time bomb"

strooper — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:07:57 +0000

"The difference is the extensive legal framework protecting Western citizens and companies from state security overreach."

Unfortunately, China is winning in the rest of the world for the same reason. While western citizens and companies are well protected, the West has intentionally kept the rest of the world vulnerable for self dirty interest. We have seen the Western hypocrisy in policies and moral codes destroying societies for decades all over the world. If the Western code of conducts for the rest of the world were hypocrisy free, Chinese slithering would have been impossible, and the world would be a lot better than it is now.

New comment by strooper in "Ask HN: Teach a 5-year-old math and science over the summer?"

strooper — Mon, 09 May 2022 14:35:42 +0000

We have been following Singapore math for our kid since he was a little over five years old. We've found the concepts in this book series practical and workbooks enjoyable for the kid.

New comment by strooper in "Back to India"

strooper — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 07:14:14 +0000

If solving problems create opportunities for new ventures, that is what the smart people should do instead of piggy backing on technologically stagnated big corporations. Developing countries may have significantly less quality of life in general, but there have always been a class of people enjoying life no less than anyone in the "first world", probably more. Simply put developing countries also need amazon, paypal, EV as they develop and adaption of long existing technology is more important than innovation there. So, entrepreneurs from technologically advance (and competitive) countries have even more opportunities to play bigger roles and create significant impact in a society.

New comment by strooper in "Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1B (2007)"

strooper — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:01:01 +0000

The best thing about dial-up was the sound of the data transfer. Ah! Those days!

New comment by strooper in "Ask HN: I'm So Lonely"

strooper — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 05:10:25 +0000

From my history of long time loneliness, I have learned to cope with it by observing things that bring me out of my comfort zone in positive way. I found the following activities helping me- 1. Attending (and pushing myself to mingle) conference or workshop on topics of my interest and expertise. 2. Spend some time at the park or places where relaxed people are around you. 3. Learning wu shu or Tai chi from a good master. It not only helps to widen your physical capabilities, but also you get to interact with other people. 4.Challenge yourself with activities that you are able to fulfill, and enjoy. Volunteering for non-profit organization, hiking in the mountain, learning a new sports, even walking slowly, aimlessly in the market/mall helped me feel myself.

Ask HN: Which one is more suitable to build a Hacker News app? Strapi? Parse?

strooper — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:34:07 +0000

I want to build a hacker news clone app using flutter to familiarize myself with backend frameworks. I know Google's firebase is a viable option, and hacker news database can be accessed through API call, but I am more interested in self hosted solution. While exploring for possible options, I found strapi and Parse. Which one is more suitable for this project? Which are the differences that I need to consider while choosing the right backend framework for a project?

Please point me to the right direction. Thanks in advance. :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29429292

Points: 1

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New comment by strooper in "The modern web on a slow connection (2017)"

strooper — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 17:50:36 +0000

I wonder if the experience improves by using proxy browsers, such as- Opera (lite/mini).

New comment by strooper in "533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online"

strooper — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 04:09:16 +0000

I wonder why India with population 1.3bn has only 145MB zipped footprint when USA with population a quarter of that has almost 1 GB? AFAIK, FB is huge in India.

New comment by strooper in "ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper"

strooper — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 05:58:49 +0000

This is a remarkable device. The configuration looks good as well. It reminds me of the primary concept of Microsoft Courier.

While going through pros and cons for considering a buy, I found no email client, messenger or a browser. For the targeted audience, at that price point, and with that hardware config, those features are unavoidable.

Ask HN: Websites and contents for Kids?

strooper — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:57:58 +0000

I am tired of showing my kids (3-5 years) youtube videos of animals, blippi, Kids TV and so on. Despite being addictive and informative, I somehow (strongly) feel video consumption may dumb the kids down.

I guess, many of us have worked on, and/or explored some of the web contents for own kids during the Covid-19 stay home time.

What are some of the interactive, informative, inspiring, educational, funny web sites, games, contents that you have come across and tried for your kids?

Please share. :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24244554

Points: 2

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New comment by strooper in "TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs"

strooper — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:29:00 +0000

Thanks for excellent technical analysis! I personally enjoyed reading your article. However, to my knowledge, no decision maker is interested to learn the technical details. Don't we know already this tiktok is just in the US-China cross fire?

Our American friends are interested to teach our Chinese friends lessons by hitting hard on their public business faces. Never mind not talking about thousands of real state investments by Chinese people in US cities. Never mind, not talking about CCP atrocities on the Xinjiang people going way back at least 15 years (since when I am following).

It's not support for humanity, it's not about sudden urge for national security, it's about politics and populism.

New comment by strooper in "The Importance of India"

strooper — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:06:45 +0000

Capitalism is driving the world, and it is setting the policies as per necessity, different ones in different countries. The west has stopped exporting democracy around the world since the cold war was won. Many countries have democratically elected government turned to autocratic/authoritarian regime.

Oh, "populism" is the new best friend of the rising powers.

New comment by strooper in "Google Domains blocking all Gitbook URLS: post-mortem"

strooper — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:06:31 +0000

Just out of curiosity- when Google is infamous for hard-to-reach human support, what in the Internet would make anyone interested to register their domain with them? Do they provide some sort of security or insurance that I am unaware of?

All the popular dedicated domain registrars I have used so far have excellent human support. Godaddy, namecheap, namesilo to name a few. I don't know if big companies or corporate use something more to secure their domain names and DNS, do they?

New comment by strooper in "CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]"

strooper — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:04:50 +0000

Gradual militarisation of US police is one significant development since 9/11.

New comment by strooper in "TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US tightens restrictions"

strooper — Mon, 18 May 2020 17:09:33 +0000

China has already bought the second (Russia) and third world (not in terms of wealth, rather actual third world) with the cheap variants of original technologies. Intellectual property is meaningless in this arena, and so is reasoning. Moreover, America has stopped streaming the "American dream", stopped winning "friends and allies", and is flexing muscles on the rest of the world.

I thought this war of the giants will remain paused for the rest of the covid-19 situation, however, it seems unlikely before some major causality. And Huawei seems to be in the center of the stage.

Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

strooper — Sun, 17 May 2020 16:57:07 +0000

My online activity seems to be in a loop comprise of hackernews, email check, and google news recently. It seems all these sites are updating very slowly; or am I checking too frequently?

What interesting stuff are you browsing recently?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23213268

Points: 190

# Comments: 109

New comment by strooper in "I invented Roomba and assure you, robots won’t take over the world"

strooper — Sat, 09 May 2020 08:59:05 +0000

When someone talks about robots destroying the mankind, I start picturing scenes from movies or tv series (i.e. Terminator, iRobot, Westworld so on) where human like robots try to destroy the mankind.

Robots taking over the world may not be eminent. However, greedy people taking over the world with the help of robots and AI is already being facilitated for quite some time. Governments acquiring technology to hush the oppositions and free speech around the world is a common phenomena around the world. Usage of data along with AI to pinpoint, target and destroy enemies is being used for over a decade.

It is the usage of data and AI by the greedy community we need to be more concerned about, not silly imitation of life that barely perceives the world.