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mangatmodi··on Show HN: A site where people pay me money for no reason
2 folks gave you 1000$ each. Amazing
mangatmodi··on If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog
Not deliberate but yeah.
mangatmodi··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
I am curious. Are you able to see our session text based on the session ID? That was big no in some of the tier-1 places I worked. No employee could see user texts.
mangatmodi··on Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]
SCI-FI has always featured sentient AI, and now we might be heading toward actually synthesizing brains. This feels dystopian.

PS: It's still very cool but also scary.

mangatmodi··on Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
Smart is different than the knowledge. If you learn about these concepts andwork on these problems, then you will be able to solve them.

It's not about you being average, just a different knowledge set.

mangatmodi··on DMCA Takedown of iptv-org/iptv on GitHub
Poor maintainers also added the legal section - https://web.archive.org/web/20230204131826/https://github.co...

> No video files are stored in this repository. The repository simply contains user-submitted links to publicly available video stream URLs, which to the best of our knowledge have been intentionally made publicly by the copyright holders. If any links in these playlists infringe on your rights as a copyright holder, they may be removed by sending a pull request or opening an issue. However, note that we have no control over the destination of the link, and just removing the link from the playlist will not remove its contents from the web. Note that linking does not directly infringe copyright because no copy is made on the site providing the link, and thus this is not a valid reason to send a DMCA notice to GitHub. To remove this content from the web, you should contact the web host that's actually hosting the content (not GitHub, nor the maintainers of this repository).

mangatmodi··on DMCA Takedown of iptv-org/iptv on GitHub
How come a compilation of pubic streams is eligible for DMCA? Lets wait to get the DMCA notice to be available, it could be either of following 1. Somebody mistakenly/intentionally added a malicious stream. 2. Or DMCA notice is fraud.

In my experience, it always the 2nd one. There are law firms and agencies randomly taking down stuff on internet with their faulty scripts and crawlers.

mangatmodi··on Async message-oriented systems vs. REST for inter-microservice communications
Not sure about the claim that async has better Transactionality then REST.

>Transactionality: Each endpoint has either processed a message, done its work (possibly including changing something in a database), and sent a message, or none of it.

mangatmodi··on Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators
Actually English is the most common language across India. Majority of the app ecosystem in India is English only.

In Europe, majority of people can't read English at all. I mean atleast people from Germany, Spain, Italy and France.

mangatmodi··on Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
I would say Google should ban Google search, because it allows links to the hate speech blogs.

Sarcasm aside, I think its one of the big tech moves to control free web.

mangatmodi··on Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
yes yes, there are third party DMPs. Phone companies, offline stores etc. all share data with these DMPs. It is quite disgusting. Particularly shady practices done by FB.

But nothing can defeat first party tracking you get with the app.

mangatmodi··on Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
I worked on user tracking all my life. You can track user activities, interest etc, much better on an app. This data is valuable for in-house use and to sell it to the highest bidder.
mangatmodi··on Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes
Look like we killed another site from HN frontpage.
mangatmodi··on Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
As suffering from anxiety disorder, It totally hits home. I have been a top notch employee at every place I worked, but I totally bombed most of my interviews.
mangatmodi··on Saying thanks: testing a new Reactions feature
I went to meta-discussion and learned more details. Most of the thanks comment are written by folks who already have upvote powers. Anyways its a fun read. Grab popkorn and go through it :)
mangatmodi··on Saying thanks: testing a new Reactions feature
How is it different from upvoting an answer? People who want to write will still write thanks, I already found some posts on the home page with thanks comment and the feature.

Also what about the change in reputation when being thanked? It should be there in the blog post.

mangatmodi··on YouTube demonotised my favourite channel
It claimed the channel to upload repetitive content. But this doesn't make sense. It takes a lot of research and editing to create such videos. Google is acting like a big bully now.
mangatmodi··on EasyJet admits a cyber-attack has affected approximately nine million customers
Interesting. Were they storing/operating unsalted plaintext credit card info? I hope not.
mangatmodi··on Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
I would say never regret your decision when the future turns out unexpected. You made an educated guess, and you could have no idea that they would be success.
mangatmodi··on New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems
I guess people didn't like that - "it might even be financially prudent to not chase those last 9s of uptime."

It just promotes bad mindset

mangatmodi··on Germany and US wrestle over coronavirus vaccine
Any idea why was it removed? I saw many comments criticizing US being downvoted. It is not an baseless story now. There has been statements from German side.
mangatmodi··on Germany and US wrestle over coronavirus vaccine
Why upvote or why the story is getting killed?
mangatmodi··on Germany and US wrestle over coronavirus vaccine
On the contrary, this makes even more important to upvote this one
mangatmodi··on Ask HN: Could somebody reccomend me a hosting service for personal use?
I think I need to downgrade it, I took 15$ machine and 5$ space but yeah things are good. There is already a Terraform provider.
mangatmodi··on Ask HN: Could somebody reccomend me a hosting service for personal use?
Found some benchmarks here - https://rickyhewitt.dev/blog/2019/10/scaleaway-vs-digitaloce...

Overall DigitalOcean looks very promising, both performance and product wise.

mangatmodi··on Ask HN: Could somebody reccomend me a hosting service for personal use?
App engine is great. But I am looking for a Server. My use cases will vary.
mangatmodi··on Ask HN: Could somebody reccomend me a hosting service for personal use?
I agree, so I am collecting as many names I could from experienced folks for my research :)
mangatmodi··on Don't touch my clipboard
There is a special place in my hatebook for websites which disable copy, this website just earned the top place
mangatmodi··on How Do I Get Rid of Search Results from India?
After joining Industry I realized how much my university missed to teach me and took me a long time to grab whatever I can. Almost all Indian universities are teaching the same content from decades.

Nothing about Functional Programming, Big data, even Theory of Computation (that was mine :D )

mangatmodi··on How Do I Get Rid of Search Results from India?
Lols, you searched for Lattice reduction. We never studied that in our universities. Btw, My assumption was wrong. I searched many keywords, and there were no Indian videos at the top. Interesting!
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