Hacker News: thuruv

New comment by thuruv in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

thuruv — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:37:00 +0000

True. I realise my reply reflected a little of " don't even try to socialize untill you've checked all these boxes and the best version" which is wrong.. I merely pointed out / defended the realism od the comment I replied to. The definition is not and never should be the "hobbies". It's just something you find interesting which brings the parity to you and the other person. not necessarily a hobby and could be of anything.. Hobby is just a common way suggested to find people and then, only then, you get a change to know whether they are interesting.

New comment by thuruv in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

thuruv — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:43:16 +0000

disagree. I've felt the same after reading the same but I believe op tries just to point out that when you're the best version of yourselves, by removing the common denominator of bad versions, you'll be noticed more and that presents an interesting way for people to present a chance themselves to hear/see you. From there you get to go and may be, may be you find yourselves with a good friend. More importantly,Ithe confidence you'll get out of this is immense and you'll feel peace spending time for yourselves instead of feeling bad about having all the time and don't have anyone to spend with.. I cant say this advice helped me 100% but atleast it helped reduce the biased stress you put on yourselves.

New comment by thuruv in "Our approach to age prediction"

thuruv — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:12:11 +0000

> We’re learning from the initial rollout and continuing to improve the accuracy of age prediction over time

> While this is an important milestone, our work to support teen safety is ongoing.

agreed, I guess we'll be seeing some pushbacks similar to Apple's CSAM but overall it's about getting a better demographics on their consumers for better advertising especially when you have a one-click actions combined with it. We'll be seeing handful of middleware plugins (like Honey) popping up, which I think the intended usecase for something like chat based apps

New comment by thuruv in "FSF announces Librephone project"

thuruv — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:33:29 +0000

seconding this. more compatible with day-to-day life/apps means more adoption which I believe is a snowball effect.,

New comment by thuruv in "Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half"

thuruv — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:34:21 +0000

agreed on the side note. The headline itself must be miles away from their own old-standards.

New comment by thuruv in "Linux phones are more important now than ever"

thuruv — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:44:39 +0000

born as the federated edition of reddit, gained traction over the mass exodus.

New comment by thuruv in "Enough AI Copilots We Need AI HUDs"

thuruv — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:47:07 +0000

succeeding discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705445

New comment by thuruv in "I started a little math club in Bangalore"

thuruv — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:46:13 +0000

Kudos., Personalizing problems to familiar places hitting a nostalgic sweet spot for me.. Reminds me how much fun it used to be and creative math gets when you’re bouncing ideas around..

New comment by thuruv in "Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?"

thuruv — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:20:16 +0000

This thread has an utmost importance among other few HN threads and I couldn't grasp why this hasn't gained much traction yet. Our focus should be developing tools that supports the sharing/communication of the people/repositories of information spread across multiple places and accessible (the very meaning of internet, since www days). Totally worth noting the internet is "Too big to fail" yet the purpose should not be diverging on how to not only restore but to connect when/if it fails to.

New comment by thuruv in "Move Fast and Abandon Things"

thuruv — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:59:21 +0000

+1 I am reading this is exactly pointing to the same concept as the todo management, but not addressing the todo paralysis. Everyone's mileage may vary. I accept that. Yet misreading something is far more dangerous than ignorance.

New comment by thuruv in "EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control"

thuruv — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:14:06 +0000

I don't think it's possible. The politicians needs something to talk, a psuedo-legged horse to ride on. The Mega Corporates need something to do, a psuedo-promise to show that they're not only abiding to the policy-makers and to do good by the users.

New comment by thuruv in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

thuruv — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:34:39 +0000

For me, this seems to be the best possible explanation on the effects of `Redditization`. Here you're actually losing the step-by-step conversation with the timestamp coded texts, replies are usually like just broadcasting their thought process (instead of an having an actual coherent reply format) or just spitting something so that the gratification of having something written there.

The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island

thuruv — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:10:03 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20240408111447/https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-backed-up-aruba-caribbean-island/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39969351

Points: 3

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New comment by thuruv in "Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page"

thuruv — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:33:47 +0000

Seconding this. When this happens, wise to take a step back and rewording the query with possible specificity helps.

New comment by thuruv in "Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?"

thuruv — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 23:13:57 +0000

Would you be open to sharing an invite?

New comment by thuruv in "Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager"

thuruv — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:09:10 +0000

Thats correct with DE accounting. However I always assumed, the logic followed here is that the money has been "debited from" the INCOME account and "CREDITED to" Assets/Checkings.

New comment by thuruv in "Reddit Strike Has Started"

thuruv — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:53:44 +0000

Hi, been a read-only lurker on Tildes posts for sometime now & liked it. Would be much interested in an invite. If you still have invites left, please shoot me one on mailto @ gmail dot com (bWFpbHRvdGh1cnV2QGdtYWlsLmNvbQ==)

New comment by thuruv in "Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage"

thuruv — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 05:18:31 +0000

+1 that page is usually my go-to whenever I have a bit of free time :(

New comment by thuruv in "How I Experience the Web Today"

thuruv — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:56:14 +0000

Unsurprisingly accurate to most of the sites I visit. One extra thing is, the page load times and the slowness in loding the page or added content which will displace the buttons/header links I'd want to click resulting in a misplaced click :)

New comment by thuruv in "Ask HN: What would a Twitter “App Store” look like?"

thuruv — Thu, 05 May 2022 04:18:10 +0000

This seems a cool idea. Few things comes first to mind is to have a paid feeds for reuters / near real time news feeds, paid AMA interactions (Only fans model but for AMA) and paid forums (communities). But all of the above are already matured and has a different apps that satisfy the needs in a vast manner. So twitter could only be providing a intermediate between the user and a service.