<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: vinaypai</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vinaypai</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:40:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vinaypai" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>DRAM pioneers don't die, they just stop their refresh cycle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:07:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41742208</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41742208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41742208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The assumption here is that Boeing is responsible for these.<p>What exactly does Boeing gain from murdering whistleblowers after the fact? At this point Boeing's reputation is already tarnished and they're already going to be under a microscope, so what does murdering whistleblowers even achieve?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 22:20:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40242017</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40242017</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40242017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Airlines in the U.S. charge separately for checked bags in order to reduce tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know which sites you use, but Kayak and Google Flights both let you input the number of checked and carry-on bags you're traveling with and include those fees in the comparison.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:31:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39979247</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39979247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39979247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Airlines in the U.S. charge separately for checked bags in order to reduce tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm okay with bag fees.  There is a real cost to carrying extra bags.  I pack light and don't see why I need to subsidize other people if it's bundled.<p>On the other hand, fees for things like seat assignment (regular seats, not just the exit rows and such) are just an annoying cash grab.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:30:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39979238</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39979238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39979238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Botswana threatens to deport 20k elephants to Germany"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If they had a ready alternative market they could just do that instead of flipping out over Germany decided what can and can't be imported into their own country.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:51:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910741</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Botswana threatens to deport 20k elephants to Germany"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Botswana is a landlocked country.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:50:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910727</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Botswana threatens to deport 20k elephants to Germany"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's kind of pathetic to make silly threats that everyone knows they have zero ability to carry out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:00:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910242</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Ask HN: Why does it seem hard to buy an ONT for fiber?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are reasons to want your own modem, to avoid overpaying via rental fees, for example, but what security or privacy do you imagine you're getting by buying your own modem?<p>You're literally plugging it into their network and they can see everything that goes on the pipe whether they are on the LAN side of it or the Cable side.<p>There's a stronger privacy argument for using your own WiFi access point though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:48:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39652403</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39652403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39652403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my experience, Jira isn't great out of the box but it's pretty good if you take a few hours to understand how to configure workflows, field configurations, forms, and boards.<p>For example, at my last company I had the development project configured with about a dozen different ticket states, but you created a ticket with a simple form with the title as the only mandatory field but there were optional fields for details and screenshots.<p>Developers could move a ticket into "in progress" or "can't reproduce".  The latter transition showed a form with a mandatory explanation field, and it would automatically get assigned back to the person who created the ticket.<p>On completing the ticket, the developer has to put in a pull request and can only moves it to the Code Review state and had to pick a different developer to assign it to.<p>It sounds a bit tedious when you describe it but in practice everyone worked off a board with three or four columns appropriate to their role. They move tickets to the right to advance them or to the left to reject them. There were also automated transitions triggered by things like CI tests, deployment etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:15:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39376939</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39376939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39376939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Children are capable of understanding the difference between pretense and reality.<p>My 4 year old loves playacting scenes and games from Bluey but he also understands that I'm not an anthropomorphic dog.  Or, for that matter that our dog can't do most of the things the dogs on Bluey can.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 18:45:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38882888</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38882888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38882888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is why "save the earth" is a silly slogan.  The Earth doesn't need saving.  An environment suitable for humans on the other hand...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:02:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38708151</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38708151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38708151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on LOTR fanfiction author"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Glad to hear the copyright troll got his comeuppance. I just wouldn't have expected a large estate to be in the receiving end of the trolling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 02:40:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691143</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "WebP is so great except it's not (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same here. Especially considering the ones supposedly "look like shit".<p>The whole thing reads like a no-so-subtle brag about how his mighty photographer's eye can spot details that mere mortals can't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:50:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38653198</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38653198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38653198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If that's the case it makes more sense to say "too bad show x isn't more popular".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:10:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38626794</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38626794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38626794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Regardless of your opinion of the show I don't understand why you'd be "depressed" about other people's entertainment choices.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:02:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38621252</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38621252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38621252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over "Pay or Okay""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm saying don't use Facebook.  Nobody is forcing you to use Facebook.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:06:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38445270</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38445270</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38445270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over "Pay or Okay""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can get privacy without paying by not using Facebook.  Getting someone to host your pictures and provide you a platform to share them isn't a fundamental right.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:13:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38443900</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38443900</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38443900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> They are not autistic IT professionals.<p>What does autism have to do with having the professional integrity to understand what it is you're writing about before publishing sensational claims?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:45:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38355996</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38355996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38355996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More credible than $random_hn_guy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:19:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38310512</link><dc:creator>vinaypai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38310512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38310512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vinaypai in "Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Theres tons of negative press about them and I bet a lot of it is stirred up by fake news marketing<p>What are some examples of this "fake news marketing" that you're claiming?</p>
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