Hacker News: sumitgt

New comment by sumitgt in "Pebble Round 2"

sumitgt — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:53:44 +0000

There's a ton of apps and watchfaces on the Pebble that show the weather

New comment by sumitgt in "May 5, Microsoft's Skype will shut down for good"

sumitgt — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:04:52 +0000

Why not just use something like Google Meet? You send a link and the other person just needs a browser.

It's a pain to deal with syncing issues on Signal Desktop.

New comment by sumitgt in "Meta outage"

sumitgt — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:24:16 +0000

Could be an outage in the auth service itself

New comment by sumitgt in "Exway doesn't care about USB-C conformity"

sumitgt — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:51:29 +0000

Reminds me of issues I had with the Wahoo Elemnt Bolt bike computer:

For some weird reason it cannot charge if you plug the other end of the USB-C cord to a Apple made charger. It works with all other USB-C wall bricks.

Never understood what that was about

New comment by sumitgt in "HDR QR Code"

sumitgt — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:33:21 +0000

Given the popularity of QR codes now, I wonder if it makes sense for it to just be supported directly in HTML as a type of element.

Some content!

With necessary browser/device level support to automatically do this HDR thing.

New comment by sumitgt in "Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India"

sumitgt — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:16:47 +0000

UPI support for non-residents has been announced, but not sure of the timeline.

New comment by sumitgt in "Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London"

sumitgt — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:32:39 +0000

I would personally bike more often to more places if only there was some way to securely park my bike at the destination (grocery stores, restaurants, etc.).

The only place I can reliably bike to at the moment is my office which has a secured bike parking.

New comment by sumitgt in "Client-side encryption for Gmail in Google Workspace is now generally available"

sumitgt — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:49:55 +0000

It’s in the references below the blog post

https://support.google.com/a/answer/13069736?hl=en

New comment by sumitgt in "Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets"

sumitgt — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:27:12 +0000

Take documents for example. You can have go/feature1-design-doc that points to a Google doc with the design discussion for feature 1.

No need to find it on Google Drive (where the title may or may not follow consistent patterns) or remember which of the many Google doc links in autocomplete is the correct one.

New comment by sumitgt in "Tailscale Funnel"

sumitgt — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:40:59 +0000

This.

You can anyways access Jome Assistant over tailscale without all this.

I think there is even a Tailscale addon for HA.

New comment by sumitgt in "Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada"

sumitgt — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:58:47 +0000

> and all if his shares vest immediately

I don't think so. I believe they only get the November 15, 2022 vesting.

New comment by sumitgt in "Meta lays off 11,000 people"

sumitgt — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:56:54 +0000

On the day after the US election as well. Great way to avoid making the headlines.

New comment by sumitgt in "Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing"

sumitgt — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 14:52:59 +0000

Brilliant work! Wish I was a Mac user.

For the hyperlinks, it seems editing the text and visiting the link is easy. But there isn’t a way to edit the hyperlink itself quickly?

Have you considered using affinity cursor along the up/down for that as well? Eg. Up updates the hyperlink content while default/down updates the link text.

Not sure how it would work out UX wise. Maybe opens up a popover with cursor for the hyperlink.

New comment by sumitgt in "Ask HN: How do we convince all hotels to just provide free WiFi, no passwords?"

sumitgt — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:43:59 +0000

Hmm. How would this work for regular non-tech savvy users?

I doubt regular customers know what a MAC address is.

New comment by sumitgt in "Passkeys.io – A Passkey Authentication Demo"

sumitgt — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:17:35 +0000

It supports multiple user names. From what I've seen in screenshots it shows a picker to select the account you want if there are multiple applicable.

New comment by sumitgt in "Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu"

sumitgt — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:32:57 +0000

Agreed!

Snap can't even update snap-store because it is running in the background.

There is no way for a non-tech savvy person to even figure out how to get past that error.

New comment by sumitgt in "Apple Watch Ultra"

sumitgt — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:43:06 +0000

ANT+ support comes to mind

New comment by sumitgt in "Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager"

sumitgt — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:21:16 +0000

Is there a way to export data in some viable format?

New comment by sumitgt in "Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard"

sumitgt — Thu, 05 May 2022 15:21:17 +0000

I've actually put my Yubikeys through worse. They've always survived :)

These were the larger ones. Not sure how the smaller "nano" ones would perform.

New comment by sumitgt in "Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?"

sumitgt — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:53:26 +0000

I wanted to record Jeopardy everyday.

A Tivo subscription was too expensive, so I built my own DVR software to record from Locast. Worked like a charm until Locast shut down.

I had to replace it with a bunch of cron jobs + shell scripts which record using a local TV antenna connected to a NUC.

Puts out nice little mp4 files into a NFS which I can access anywhere in the world over Tailscale.