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I just entered same number 5-6 times and it never caught it up.

100% agreed. When I ask to generate an image or a poster with an indic language, chatgpt and claude always make gibberish words for something that is not at the center but gemini nails it almost every time in first attempt.

rootsuon Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

>America is a hostile nation, who has sought to align everyone with its interests, under a false pretense of mutual benefit, while instead its tech sector has caused much harm at a global scale. America is now doubling down on value extraction, at an obvious expense to everyone else.

In India, recently, a bill was passed that can permit banks and the government to add charges on UPI transactions. UPI is one of the biggest digital payment systems in the world, and it was free until now. Insider information from multiple news sources suggests that this was done because of pressure from the US.

rootsuon AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

Our org account's bill is showing up as > 100 trillion.

rootsuon Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

Judging from what I am reading about PIX capabilities, UPI can do everything. It can also allow you to make merchant payments from Rupay credit cards. It also supports automatic recurring payments.

rootsuon Google Search Is Down

Looks to be working back again.

rootsuon Google Search Is Down

It was happening for a few seconds, It's back up now

rootsuon Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review

The data gathering method is 1.1.1.1 Cloudflare DNS resolver. It won't have the information about people who use any other DNS.

rootsuon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

Hello,

Do you provide remote opportunities / Visa sponsorship?

rootsuon Zorin OS 18

I have installed Zorin on my parent's 10 year old computer. They use it for browsing the internet and some video calls. Zorin works like a charm, and they have not had any major issues.

rootsuon My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

Oh, I didn't know that they pulled the plug.

rootsuon My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

On the other hand, Serie A started streaming all matches free on YouTube for SEA countries.

https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1nf7ghg/serie_a_ann...

rootsuon Physics of badminton's new killer spin serve

It takes some practice, but not as much as you’d think. I learned this serve last year at a somewhat intermediate level. It took me about two weeks of practice to hit it consistently. Now I hit it clean about 50 to 60% of the time.

rootsuon Never write your own date parsing library

They might be subtracting taking first 4 digits and the subtracing yyyy-yyyy, mm-mm and dd-dd.

rootsuon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

Some random free APIs - http://freeapi.me/

rootsuon Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

VPN space has so many players. Did you use any advertising at the start to get first base of users?

rootsuon Show HN: We built the simplest Online Unit Converter for everyday use

Also, you can actually start converting as soon as someone types and not have the user to perform an additional action of clicking "Convert"

rootsuon Notepad++ is 21 years old

NP++ and Mobaxterm are only two programs that I dearly miss after moving to mac.

rootsuon Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

Nextdns, install profile on apple devices and block the ads on dns level for all of your devices.

rootsuon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)

https://ping-dashboard.pages.dev/

Linode does not have any way to identify cross regional latency. So created this. In process of adding new regions now.

rootsuon "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

Link for Mac command

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1d799pa/tutorial_on...

rootsuon Sublime text started adding a “.s” to new files

Have same issue. The above solution did not resolve the issue. It doesn't bother me much because I mostly use Firefox, but it causes problems when I'm testing front-end stuff on Safari.

rootsuon Ask HN: What's your preferred logging stack in Kubernetes

What kind of issues that you see where you have to step in and intervene? We have been running Loki for a long time, and it barely requires any manual intervention apart from version upgrades.

rootsuon Ask HN: What's your preferred logging stack in Kubernetes

Self-hosted Loki + Traces using Tempo + Grafana.

rootsuon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)

Is this a remote position? If Not, in which city the position is located?

rootsuon Show HN: Forest Watch

Getting 404 now

rootsuon Ask HN: AI that allows you to make phone calls in a language you don't speak?

In my language, there are two different words for Maternal uncle and Paternal uncle, so translating from English without any context might completely change the relationship.

rootsuon It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox

Wow, AndroidPolice has fallen so much since the acquisition.

rootsuon ‘All of Sony Systems’ Allegedly Hacked by New Ransomware Group

Depends, Sometimes build logs and other CI/CD can have credentials to other systems in plaintext form.

rootsuon Are any words the same in all languages?

This is not a word in Marathi.