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arunharidas··on Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video
Elon Musk is launching Grokipedia this week as a competition to Wikipedia.
arunharidas··on MongoDB Atlas's Forced Upgrades and Support Policies Drove Us to PostgreSQL
I'm sure the support from MongoDB Atlas is the worst in the market. It's really messed up that they could flip a switch and kill your production, even after you specifically told them not to. PostgreSQL is a far better database than MongoDB.
arunharidas··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
still, Germany arrests citizens for calling a politician an idiot.
arunharidas··on Online Age Verification as Trojan Horse for the Mass Rollout of Digital IDs?
That’s for now. Look at what they did in Brazil—they banned the use of VPNs and threatened anyone using one with jail time.
arunharidas··on Show HN: Reintroducing Cap, the open source Loom alternative
Waiting for the docker install option.
arunharidas··on Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?
No! we should trust the government and the corporations to guide us to the truth.
arunharidas··on Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?
Informed individuals prefer not to have corporations shield them from potential misinformation.
arunharidas··on The rooftop solar industry could be on the verge of collapse
The foolish move by the German government to close down all the nuclear reactors. The German government is weird.
arunharidas··on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
My main issue with Firefox is the unavailability of a decent profile switching. I know there's some hacky way to get the profile system done, but it is not comparable with Chrome's current profile-switching
arunharidas··on U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game
Greta is not pro-nukes. Most of the environment activists are not.
arunharidas··on Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom
NPR cheered when conservative media got targeted and when they came after them they're crying violation of freedom of press. You can't have the cake and eat it too.
arunharidas··on [dead]
A customer who has Amazon's smart devices in his home got locked out of his account. The reason given was that amazon's delivery driver misheard the automated answer of the doorbell for a racist comment. He was locked out of using all his 'smart home' features for days until Amazon gave him access back to his account without an apology or anything of that sort. Basically, if he didn't have proof of the interaction he would've lost access indefinitely.
arunharidas··on Amazon accuses customer of racism and shuts down their smart home
Why the submission is flagged ?
arunharidas··on How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
These are kind of people who inject fear mongering among the other people.
arunharidas··on Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts
Defund police!!
arunharidas··on Dutch police collecting demonstrators' personal data on a large scale
Comply or you'll be profiled. Our definition of democracy has changed a lot.
arunharidas··on Dutch police collecting demonstrators' personal data on a large scale
Same for most of the protests out there. You should not support surveillance even if you're against cause of protest. The government will come for you sooner or later.
arunharidas··on Elon told Bill Gates to get lost as he has a half billion dollar short on Tesla
So apparently Bill Gates hit up @elonmusk to discuss “philanthropy on climate change” but Elon asked if he still had a half billion dollar short position on $TSLA.

Bill said he hasn’t closed it out, so Elon told him to get lost.

arunharidas··on Ask HN: What project management tool is your team using and why?
We are 23 engineers and we use Jira. It's an amazing software. We used GitScrum and Basecamp I didn't like either.
arunharidas··on Ask HN: Any good alternatives to YT Vanced?
On Android I use Firefox nightly + uBlock + Spnsorblock plugins. It works well and you get login too.
arunharidas··on Google Domains is out of beta
no thanks! If you go against the popular narratives, you'll be banned from using your domains.
arunharidas··on Trump's social media app goes live in Apple's App Store
If you deplatform people from the mainstream, there will sure be an uprising like this.
arunharidas··on Merry Christmas HN
Haha ! Poor George !