Hacker News: vikaveri

New comment by vikaveri in "Show HN: Ismcpdead.com – Live dashboard tracking MCP adoption and sentiment"

vikaveri — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:47:27 +0000

Well, why not wrap MCP server into a dynamically loaded skill and MCP tools as skill dependencies. I did. Works fine.

New comment by vikaveri in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

vikaveri — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:01:55 +0000

If you end up, for some reason, being one of those unlucky individuals whose Google account gets banned and all your other accounts are behind Google login, then you truly have been owned.

New comment by vikaveri in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

vikaveri — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:46:58 +0000

Not really using VS Code terminal anymore, just Ubuntu terminal but the biggest problem I have is that at some point Claude just eats up all memory and session crashes. I know it's not really Claude's fault but damn it's annoying.

X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

vikaveri — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:08:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868998

Points: 596

# Comments: 1107

New comment by vikaveri in "Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework"

vikaveri — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 07:39:09 +0000

I recommend MobX as a solution for state management

New comment by vikaveri in "European Majority favours more social media regulation"

vikaveri — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:35:50 +0000

You did. By being born in a nation and getting automatic citizenship. If you don't like it, you can leave

New comment by vikaveri in "Europe is breaking its reliance on American science"

vikaveri — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:54:21 +0000

Wikipedia says Russia spent 100 billion in 2023, so increase of 100 billion should be more than that don't you think? Are you misinformed or deliberately lying?

New comment by vikaveri in "The Physicians Are Healing Themselves, with Ozempic"

vikaveri — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:00:56 +0000

You assume that is all about hard work, self control and iron will. I can assure you that it is not, in many cases. Two days after the first shot I realized that if this is how people feel normally two things are crystal clear. One, obesity can be clearly an illness, or medical condition, that can not be cured by willpower alone. Two, if something is easy as drinking a glass of water for you, you can be a real dick about it without even realizing it if you have no idea how others can experience it

New comment by vikaveri in "'Skinny jabs': weight-loss drugs set for new boom as generic versions emerge"

vikaveri — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 05:29:37 +0000

Well, if routines are easy for you I guess it's not a big deal. If your days are irregular and you often need to figure out when is a good time to take the pill, then it's an additional hassle you can avoid.

Or you can just ignore the instructions and take it whenever but if we go down that road next you know we'll be swimming before thirty minutes has passed after a meal.

New comment by vikaveri in "'Skinny jabs': weight-loss drugs set for new boom as generic versions emerge"

vikaveri — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:01:52 +0000

Pill version has been out for some time and personally I'd prefer the jab over pill because pill needs to be taken to empty stomach and you can't eat it drink for half an hour after it, every day. Jab on the other hand, takes a few minutes, doesn't even sting and you need to do it only once a week.

New comment by vikaveri in "Ask HN: What are your favorite parables, anecdotes, idioms, etc.?"

vikaveri — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 05:36:43 +0000

Few things are as permanent as a temporary fix that works

New comment by vikaveri in "A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation"

vikaveri — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 13:11:21 +0000

If his sauna is the one in the picture, it has a flaw. Benches are placed too low. Your feet should be approximately at the level of the top of the stones. The sauna looks similar to a barrel sauna and they often are too low due to curvature to allow placing benches high enough

New comment by vikaveri in "Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future"

vikaveri — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 08:06:41 +0000

Who's we?

New comment by vikaveri in "66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work"

vikaveri — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 11:31:49 +0000

One company I worked for enforced vacations. If someone from work absolutely had to call you on your vacation day, ask a question or password, anything, you'd get a do-over for your day. No one ever called anyone on vacation without a damn good reason. Checking and answering emails on vacation was discouraged as well

New comment by vikaveri in "EU's AI Act: ChatGPT must disclose use of copyrighted training data"

vikaveri — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 05:19:30 +0000

If I may paraphrase a book title "The best app is no app"? :-) Besides, I thought we're supposed to be building services you can talk with now so you don't have to fiddle with old fashioned buttons anymore? Sure the human component doesn't scale that well, but it's pretty localized service and speech recognition is amazing.

New comment by vikaveri in "EU's AI Act: ChatGPT must disclose use of copyrighted training data"

vikaveri — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 23:09:42 +0000

Before Uber, we had taxi companies bidding for areas. Winning bid got a monopoly for that area. That company would often use subcontractors to have enough drivers. In exchange for monopoly they needed to guarantee a certain level of service. You could get sy taxi at any time to any where, at the same rate, without surge charges. Literally every taxi was new, high end, clean, safe and comfortable. Uber lobbied to change it to "free market" model, promising lower prices, better service. Monopoly areas were removed. We started getting drivers who were dodging taxes, couldn't navigate, used lower quality cars. It should I say that happened in some cities, because Uber doesn't operate in the smaller cities. We still have the same drivers here, in a smaller city but since there's no service level guarantee anymore, there's a ton of taxis available during peak hours but it might be impossible to get one in the middle of the night because it's not cost effective anymore to have drivers standing by. You can also forget about trying to get a taxi to or from to far from cities because that's not cost effective either. Prices have gone up as well. I've talked few dozen drivers and they've all hated the change.

But at least I can use an app if I wanted to

New comment by vikaveri in "EU's AI Act: ChatGPT must disclose use of copyrighted training data"

vikaveri — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:46:26 +0000

Why is an app needed? Maybe it's different in the US but we've had an app to get a taxi for quite a while. I've never seen any need to install that app. It's easier to call, tell how many people need a ride, tell when it's needed and get a confirmation that it's on its way and long it'll take for it to be there. Why do I need an app?

New comment by vikaveri in "Ask HN: What's your approach to raising kids?"

vikaveri — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:25:02 +0000

> They likely use it because they are bored, just like adults are.

Apps are designed to keep you engaged and kids, just like adults, need time to get bored. Being bored and having nothing to do is when imagination and creativity grows

New comment by vikaveri in "Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?"

vikaveri — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:24:05 +0000

stores this thread on three different devices for later reading because it's interesting but there are more important things to do before getting there

New comment by vikaveri in "Kanye West is buying Parler"

vikaveri — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:03:49 +0000

Interesting how often "free speech" seems to equate with "free to be offensive jerk". If your best argument is presented in s way that makes it sound like "You're ruining my life! I hate you forever!" then maybe you should go for a timeout and come back when you can discuss things calmly and rationally. I listen to arguments, not tantrums and swearing

Edit: typo