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by yashg 3mo ago
Yup. Didn't know about this. This is cool.
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Show HN: Clickfyre Ping – send app notifications to yourself(ping.clickfyre.com)
2 points by yashg 3mo ago|2 comments
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by yashg 2y ago
TikTok was banned in India years ago. There was some noise initially but eventually everyone moved to Instagram Reels/YT Shorts. A few homegrown apps tried to capture the space but couldn't compete against Meta and Alphabet's
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by yashg 2y ago
I understand that tech companies simply care about whether the user will click on the ad, video or like the next song or show. But can this also be used to change user's preferences or thought process?
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by yashg 2y ago
Exifpurge.com. A portable Windows app to remove all exif data from multiple photos.
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by yashg 2y ago
I wonder in what currency the kid actually made that money. Solana tokens I believe. Can they be converted to actual money with which he can pay his college tuition in future?
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by yashg 2y ago
There's an innate human desire for gold. Humans crave gold so much that empires have been built and destroyed over it. That's a utility baked into the commodity. Many cultures hoard gold. Most of that gold will never be sold. Much
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by yashg 2y ago
When the Access Hollywood tape came out back in 2016 I thought his campaign was over. How can someone who openly boasts about sexually assaulting women, ever be considered for any public office, let alone the most powerful office in the wor
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by yashg 2y ago
>>incumbents all around the world have performed terribly post COVID Except India. Yes, ruling party did lose majority on it's own but they still formed the third successive government despite terrible handling of the COVID.
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by yashg 2y ago
A radio signal takes more than 22 hours to reach Voyager 1. And it would take the same to get a response back. Incredible. And imagine the patience needed to send commands and wait for the outcome on the part of the engineering team. You ca
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by yashg 2y ago
Everything is becoming about ads. Ads, ads everywhere. On phone, on computer, now even car. This despite everyone knowing that consumers HATE ads. It's like companies are using ads as a ransom. Pay us more money on a regular basis else
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by yashg 2y ago
Hasn't this rule been there for many years? I have flown to UK twice and there ere always restrictions on 100ml per bottle. Even lost a deodorant bottle because of that (security made me throw it away).
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by yashg 2y ago
It's called decanting. And no you don't end up spilling the fragrance all over your hands while transferring it to a small bottle. Yiu can also buy travel sized bottled of many popular fragrances which are specifically meant for t
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by yashg 2y ago
Not sure how it works in the US, but in India when sell a car, we have to get the registration transferred to the new owner. Till the new owner doesn't get the car transferred to their name, the old owner is legally responsible for any
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by yashg 2y ago
Such articles shilling blockchain had disappeared for some time. It seems they are back. Yet another in a series of good old IT project that doesn't actually need "blockchain" but uses the term to make headlines. Here in Indi
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by yashg 2y ago
Is Bitcoin still thing outside of habitual gambling circles? I thought only the doomsday cult that is waiting to get rich after a global economic meltdown cared for BTC in 2024.
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by yashg 2y ago
I was also also once banned from a forum for a few years. I kept going back there, never created a new account. Just waiting for the years to pass. It was not some crusade to get back, I was just curious and every few years when I would rem
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by yashg 2y ago
This is so cool. The site loads fast, is responsive and will work on all browsers. My very first website on Geocities looked pretty much like this. Joy of creation. Good job.
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by yashg 2y ago
The code signing certificates that MS requires are ridiculously expensive. It's a cartel of certificate isseuers. It's a downright robbery. We need something similar to Let's Encrypt for code signing.
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by yashg 2y ago
"We didn't fire him, we just asked him to leave because he decided to become CEO of another for profit company." OK. It doesn't matter anyway.
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by yashg 2y ago
I would just create software. I love coding little programs that make life easier. It gives me joy of creation. In fact that's what I have been doing, in last few months I have created (1)a video GPS viewer, (2)Windows based authentica
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by yashg 2y ago
"Second things like call centers, the language models have become so sophisticated now. They can operate in multiple languages, 14, 15 languages easily. In the past, that hasn't been something we can do. So we can redeploy people
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by yashg 2y ago
So nothing of value was actually stolen.
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by yashg 2y ago
Yes, I recently signed up and they asked for a photo id. Just a photo id, not this ridiculous request.
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by yashg 2y ago
Just setup two Ubuntu 24.04 servers in last couple of days. One at Hetzner and another on AWS.
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by yashg 2y ago
Yes doable. Can put the unselected choices in another array which is displayed at the end of the game.
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by yashg 2y ago
Sharing link with custom list is an interesting idea. Need to figure out a way to filter out nasty stuff for sure.
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Show HN: A game to pick a favorite from a list
1 points by yashg 2y ago|7 comments
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by yashg 2y ago
I had created this many eons ago. Nothing fancy. Absolutely nothing fancy at all. Just a page from where you can copy some text. https://yash.info/lorem.htm Yours is also cool. I like the copy buttons.
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by yashg 2y ago
>>It's never been clearer that the VC founder's whole outlook on life revolves around how great it is to be rich and how shameful it is to be anything else. Quite a few "successful" founders who invariably also tur

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