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Re:Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video] on Saturday June 14, 2025 @01:21AM (#44274375)
Will this design change take a hit on the base iPad? I'm looking to get one and wondering if I should get the M3 air instead?
Re:Microsoft Azure Outage on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:50AM (#34515592)
At work, we all got kicked out of a teams meeting an hour back and sending/receiving e-mails on Outlook seems to be slow.

Location: Chennai, India

You're basically living my dream. Do you ever travel to US for work?
I see the US Model as "Optimistic". Let the transactions through and fight back fraud with a strong chargeback mechanism.

Whereas the Indian Model is "Pessimistic". Put in as much checks as possible to reduce the rate of fraud before the transaction has even completed.

Thoughts?

Re:Bank transfers as a payment method on Saturday November 27, 2021 @04:28AM (#29358871)
care to explain?
Re:Reddit Is Down on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @08:52AM (#29329936)
It was down for last 10 minutes.

Location: India

Re:Choice Architecture [pdf] on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:59PM (#28755364)
Curently reading https://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Final-Richard-H-Thaler/dp/01431... as a result of listening to that podcast. who thought behavioural economics would be a fun to read?
Re:Amazon.com product pages are down on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:55PM (#27806856)
its back up for amazon.in
Re:Listen to radio stations from around the world on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:35PM (#26139142)
had a great time listening to some music from Madagascar
Re:Show HN: High-five strangers around the world in real-time on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:22AM (#25698307)
Meanwhile.. I've been highfive-ing myself in two different tabs for the last 5 mins.
Re:Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:20AM (#25372467)
The page doesn't load for me (Location: Chennai, India)
Are they serious about this?
I wonder what would be the side-effects of speeding up plant growth.
Now only if there was a way to take this across channels.
Re:Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’ on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:29AM (#20938410)
In India, SMS services are blocked for the first 24 hours whenever a SIM is changed. This creates a bottleneck for the hackers but doesn't quite solve the problem.
Re:Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption” on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:49AM (#20817754)
Anyone else getting a "Untrusted SSL Server Certificate" on the page?
If one's aware of all the cognitive biases, does it really make his/her life better?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019) on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @10:40PM (#18812637)
As someone with 6+ YoE, what is the range of comp that I can expect?
I think battling Fake News on WhatsApp should come first before launching a Cryptocurrency. I believe Blockchain can help in the former too.
Re:Gitlab 500 error on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:37PM (#17295701)
you guys need to read this blog https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/
Re:Dumber phone on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:20AM (#16918605)
Interesting. I'm gonna try this and see.
can you elaborate?
Re:Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertising on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:09AM (#16582721)
So Google is joining the #CRAEFULGANG?
Re:Deprecation notice: Removing anonymous gist creation on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:42PM (#16410604)
I'm surprised they kept this feature active for so long. Exposing a product / feature without authorization is like opening the flood gates for spam zombies to invade.
Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” on Friday February 09, 2018 @04:25AM (#16338967)
In that case, your website is one HN post away from getting slash-dotted.
Thanks!
Does anyone have the link to the research paper behind this app?
Re:Show HN: HyperLogLog intersections on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:28PM (#16098669)
Useful library. I hope someone out there is writing one for Java as well.
Looks Great. On a side note, Just Wondering whether folks are still doing sentinel based deployments when cluster has been stable for quite some time now.

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