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FlyingSnake

4,332 karma · joined May 24, 2012

https://samkhawase.com

Software Engineer based in Berlin.

The username is a reference to a mythical snake found in Central Indian Highlands.

Twitter: @samkhawase

email: sam dot khawase @gmail

[my public key: https://keybase.io/samkhawase; my proof: https://keybase.io/samkhawase/sigs/1q1gmkKlBt4bU_c9axiE0VUYIQjAXgLxl_u9Pkd7hBQ ]

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FlyingSnake··on Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin
Spandau occupies a commanding position on the wide confluence of Spree and Havel river. It is part of the wider river networks and one can easily navigate to Elbe and Danube. The coin might have ended up here via trade.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/aFfBzWNgnMiCvdHf6

FlyingSnake··on Cloudflare Email Service
“Each agent gets its own identity from a single domain.“ That too on the edge, along with the futuristic CF Dev primitives.

I had the same thought when I read this part. The $6MM investment on Agent Mail is in serious trouble right now.

FlyingSnake··on The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
yay -S llama.cpp

I just installed llama.cpp on CachyOS after reading this article. It’s much faster and better than Ollama.

FlyingSnake··on My Experience as a Rice Farmer
There is hope. India's Central Rice Research Institute is quite active and is working on some of the problems.

https://icar-crri.in/popular-nrri-varieties/

FlyingSnake··on My Experience as a Rice Farmer
I meant it as a pipe-dream that people jump into without knowing the hidden asymmetries. Farming of any kind is hard and learning that specific skillset is necessary to succeed.
FlyingSnake··on My Experience as a Rice Farmer
Honestly the rice varieties in India should be promoted and protected more. The diversity and health benefits of these varieties is immense.
FlyingSnake··on My Experience as a Rice Farmer
I grew up in similar environment in rural central India and I (half)jokingly say farming was my first real job. We rarely planted rice, but I have vivid memory of helping my father plant the rice saplings in the muddy puddles in my farm.

I am always skeptical of urban people wanting to move back to little villages to do farming. Farming is a back-breaking and a tough job. You are exposed to all the vagaries of nature. The market forces are also not always in your favour. It is another version of "quit-job-and-open-a-coffee-shop" fallacy.

FlyingSnake··on Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
People keep rediscovering the Bhagavad Gita in new ways

https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/2/47/

FlyingSnake··on A decade of Docker containers
You’re right, it was 2014. I was there on HN when docker was announced by shykes. It was a godsend because I was getting bummed by the alternatives like LXC, juju charms or vagrant.

Here’s the announcement from 2013:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408002

FlyingSnake··on Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times
Kindles are fun devices to hack and play with. I can grab an old kindle for €15-20 on eBay.

I did the same last year and had lots of fun in the process.

https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/

FlyingSnake··on AI is killing B2B SaaS
Exactly. This sounds like a barber advising which haircut to get.
FlyingSnake··on Xfce is great
2019 is also not vintage IMO.

Vintage would be my MBP Air from 2011 that also run Arch and XFCE on a 4GiB RAM.

FlyingSnake··on Xfce is great
I am running XFCE on a 2019 vintage desktop. CachyOS and 16GB RAM. It is snappy and very performant for my needs and I work on it daily for software development
FlyingSnake··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Inbound emails using AWS SES make sense, but not planning that as the part of the MVP.

Is that a commonly requested use case for AWS SES users?

FlyingSnake··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
I’m working on a modern transactional email API platform. Developers can bring their own AWS SES keys and freely use their own domains for sending emails.

I’m building it on Cloudflare Workers with advanced tracking, modern templates, and advanced webhook integration. Developers can also configure and schedule advanced workflows for their specific needs

The users can review their usage and performance using an intuitive dashboard.

Email is a crowded space and this is my first attempt at doing something indie at this scale. Wish me luck!

FlyingSnake··on Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
Fair enough. We all have enough eInk devices in our cabinets. To each their own .

What do you mean by “Rust for displays”? Bikeshedding?

FlyingSnake··on Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
That's an unfair criticism. Kindles and their eInk setup provide the perfect low-fi hacking experience that developers love. It's minimal, slow and barebones linux base makes it easier to hack für such fun projects.
FlyingSnake··on Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
Kindles are amazing devices for hacking and turning into cute little dashboards. The kindle modding community is wonderful and full of people experimenting with it. If you have an old kindle, give it a new lease!

Shameless plug: I wrote about my experience here

https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43822251

FlyingSnake··on Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off
It also features many examples from pre-Colombian South American cultures
FlyingSnake··on CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
I’m running CachyOS for a year now as my daily driver (non-work) on my ancient desktop from 2019 and ancient Nvidia card. It is very fast and smooth. I mainly use it to development using LLM sidekicks and it doesn’t break sweat. I use XFCE and just love how fast the experience is.
FlyingSnake··on CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
I use CachyOS as my daily driver and I gave up on i3 after few tries. It just doesn’t work.

I’m happy with XFCE now and it is very performant.

FlyingSnake··on Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making
For a minute I thought this is an moon-shot to stop climate change by building real icebergs.
FlyingSnake··on Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
I hope a pragmatic framework like SvelteKit, Astro or TanStack replace NextJS complexity vendors soon.
FlyingSnake··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
> dang can we please get a bit better Markdown support?

Great use case for an LLM to make these changes as HN is open source. It’ll also tell us if LLMs can go beyond JS slop.

FlyingSnake··on Helium Browser
Because it's the only other browser engine that's currently available in the market.
FlyingSnake··on The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
It is a service available to Cloudflare customers and is opt-in. I fail to see how they’re being gatekeepers when site owners have option not to use it.
FlyingSnake··on Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
“You’re absolutely right!”
FlyingSnake··on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
The article itself talks about this self-selection/sampling bias due to a minuscule sample size of 813 people. Reducing “science community” to such a small sample is not convincing.
FlyingSnake··on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
>They ended up with a final sample size of 813 people.

I want BlueSky to succeed but this sampling bias is simply too much to ignore.

This comment (by nunobrito) from few days ago on a similar topic is best analysis of this topic.

> These news are awfully similar to click-bait stating "the science is settled" by grouping a small set of the group and then pretending it represents the whole. The paper failed both to identify the overall number of scientists using X or the cases where multiple platforms are used (most common scenario). Therefore the paper only seems biased on its best scenario or downright propaganda at its worst. > NOSTR and Mastodon should never be left out of any serious research.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982510

FlyingSnake··on Fast
HN is literally the website I open to check if I have internet connectivity. HN is truly a shining beacon in the trashy landscape of web bloat.
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