Hacker News: zulrah

New comment by zulrah in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

zulrah — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:54:41 +0000

for me it's a most disappointing model release ever. It takes a very long, runs bunch of random commands and burns through so many tokens even for simple tasks

New comment by zulrah in "I wish GPT4 had never happened"

zulrah — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:14:54 +0000

Actually, I think we are living in the most equal times ever. Don't get me wrong the situation is very bad especially if one belongs to any minority group but the wealth is divided more equally than any time in the history before

New comment by zulrah in "Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?"

zulrah — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:17:23 +0000

My Amazon interview was cancelled as interviewer got ill. It was never rescheduled

New comment by zulrah in "FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client"

zulrah — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 10:16:11 +0000

>I’m an American who speaks English, and yet YouTube insists in showing me local ads

The number of travelers in foreign countries are so low compared to local population that I don't think it even makes sense for Google to optimize ads for people like that

New comment by zulrah in "My Overemployment Story"

zulrah — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 13:58:59 +0000

It's an extremelly low effort post. How did it even make into the frontpage? Upvotes by bots?

Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?

zulrah — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:11:17 +0000

I'm curious if people here find blogging as a valuable activity from the following perspectives: - Does the time spent writing feels worth it to you? - Did it help to get noticed/ find jobs or other opportunities? - Do you learn something new from it?

Personally, I tried writing in some blogging platforms (medium, dev.to etc), then moved to self hosted solution with Hugo but honestly it was too much maintenance. Writing up my thoughts in presentable state took too much time/effort. Right now, I simply save my notes to my personal Notion for future reference.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32137336

Points: 324

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New comment by zulrah in "Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

zulrah — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:02:59 +0000

>Every time I dig into crypto I find things that seem stupid, or useless, or actively bad. But so many people are into it!

During my time in tech I've only knew two people who held crypto. However, I've know a lot of people(myself included) who got into crypto, got dissilusioned by the promises, and after seeing that nothing they promissed actually arrived left.

5 Years ago I've heard how crypto is going to be a killer usecase for e-commerse, banking, and even cloud computing but no actual work was ever done to acomplish these goals

New comment by zulrah in "A Note About Recruiters"

zulrah — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 22:59:07 +0000

The worst mistake I made was accepting linkedin invites from recruiters. I expected that it will increase my chances to get offered some kind of job but most of them never even wrote to me. And my linkedin absolutely filled with spam

New comment by zulrah in "Windows Package Manager 1.1"

zulrah — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:22:44 +0000

Wow, I've just tried it and it's really good. As mentioned in the article, I already had winget in my PC. So I was able to use winget upgrade and it listed all the apps that I can upgrade(None of them were installed using winget but it still worked).

It's a huge improvement over downloading new version of VLC from their website for example.In total it upgraded 10 applications. The only annoying thing was that it still had to open GUI installers for updating applications. I'm also not sure how does it handle applications that are currently open during the update

New comment by zulrah in "The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway"

zulrah — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:55:27 +0000

I've noticed another trend recently where it seems that some websites write content for google SEO instead of optimized for human readability. E.g.: I've seen my exact search phrase repeated mutiple times and then a very long article about the topic when what I searched was a simple question with a few words answer.

New comment by zulrah in "Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing"

zulrah — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:01:15 +0000

Have you seen Kelsey's Hightower demo where he used s3 event as a trigger for Google Cloud Function? You can already use serverless providers that abstract your function from the provider, but of course in that case you're locked to that specific vendor.

Also, no licence stops you from migrating from Lambda at any moment. Other Companies have you to pay enormous licencing fees and lock you for a one year contract or even longer.

New comment by zulrah in "Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests"

zulrah — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:51:12 +0000

The problem isn't Firefox. The problem is chrome. Since it has a biggest market share and most of the web developers use it. Websites tend to be more optimized for Chromium engine than Firefox. I moved to Firefox and Gmail and other google apps work terribly slow. I'm trying to find a new email provider now . Does anyone have recommendations?

New comment by zulrah in "The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store"

zulrah — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:35:09 +0000

with 1 order per customer and £3 shipping fee

New comment by zulrah in "Jabra: we know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops"

zulrah — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 19:14:15 +0000

I also have a Jabra headset. I bought it from Amazon I chatted to amazon support about the issues I have with it and they told me to keep a headset and issued a full refund

New comment by zulrah in "Google's 'two-tier' workforce training document"

zulrah — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:26:39 +0000

A lot of guys have their own businesses that they use for contracting

New comment by zulrah in "Sorry, upgrading your Dropbox Business plan will take 11 months"

zulrah — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 19:31:43 +0000

Have you tried https://blendle.com/ you can read wsj articles there

New comment by zulrah in "HashiCorp has raised $100 million in Series D funding"

zulrah — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:40:46 +0000

Except the fact that multi cloud doesnt work and I don't think it will. It adds too much complexity also costs are the big issue too since clouds price data transfer out quite heavily

New comment by zulrah in "Instapaper is going independent"

zulrah — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 18:39:47 +0000

Instapaper is still not available to users in EU. It's been to months. I started to use Pocket because of this and now I don't think I'm coming back.

New comment by zulrah in "GitHub Founders Will Own More Microsoft Stock Than Its CEO"

zulrah — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 14:02:02 +0000

How much influence with his stock will the github founder have in this case?

New comment by zulrah in "Hello, GitHub"

zulrah — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 18:51:19 +0000

So you tell that people trust private company which was loosing money since the creation better than Microsoft with all of its reputation at stake?