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admiralrohan

144 karma · joined August 10, 2024

Philosopher. Software developer. Would-be novelist.

I am working on an original theory to explain human behavior that would unify fragmented theories across psychology, mental health, productivity, economics, and beyond.

This would allow teaching critical thinking to the masses, ultimately leveraging it to position India as the next superpower.

Blog: https://www.moderncynicism.com/

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admiralrohan··on CSS-Tricks has a new owner
> LLMs approximately never click on the ads

In future LLMs will make buying decisions and this strategy can become viable again.

admiralrohan··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Interesting concept. Looks like zip replacement. UX improveemnt. I have one concern, can my machine natively read capsule file format? Else no one would open the shared files.
admiralrohan··on Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
Where are you getting mimo-v2.5 for free?
admiralrohan··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
What will Shopify gain from this deal? Why everyone is buying dev tools. Earlier Anthropic bought BunJs. Can anyone explain the business model here?
admiralrohan··on Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter
Thanks for preemptively answering the question of why. And it makes sense.
admiralrohan··on Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
We should prioritize original thinking over thinking about whether it's written by AI. A human can type motivational nonsense by hand, and also can use AI as a thinking partner for their original thesis. Which is more valuable?
admiralrohan··on Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
The feeling that it is theoretically impossible to give everyone equal opportunity. The more I study about this topic, the more convinced I am getting about it.
admiralrohan··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
Working on the theory to unify all existing fragmented ideas on human psychology.
admiralrohan··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
Wispr flow released android version few months back but wasn't supported in my 6 year old phone so made a similar app named Floatspeak. Which motivated me to made a windows version of it and now stopped paying Wispr flow altogether.
admiralrohan··on Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%
The token plan is confusing.

From their docs "After using 10M input (cache miss) tokens of MiMo-V2.5-Pro, it is equivalent to consuming 3000M Credits, and you can still enjoy 1100M Credits of MiMo-V2.5". So it's around 12M input credit vs Earlier 60M tokens.

admiralrohan··on Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%
Everyone already said what I wanted to say. That all US companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, MS Copilot) have increased price recently while Chinese companies (Deepseek, Xiaomi) are reducing price.

The question is how they are managing to do so? They are supposed to struggle due to chip sanctions.

Secondly, why now? The US companies were supposed to subsidize too but now they are unable to keep up. Everyone going to usage based pricing, so it's unsustainable for them. They are well funded too.

If there are genuine hardware breakthrough reducing compute needs then that is good for the whole world I believe.

admiralrohan··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
I can't use Antigravity after this upgrade, unfortunately. No option to connect WSL for both versions so completely locked out.

One good thing is I have gained so much confidence on my work. I can't surely do worse work than those smart Google engineers.

admiralrohan··on Geography is four-dimensional
Same is true for humans too. About their personality. Constantly changing and you will never meet the same person twice in that sense.
admiralrohan··on Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
Wow, wasn't aware that this has a official term. Thanks for sharing.
admiralrohan··on Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
In Kolkata, sweet sellers was struggling with cost management after covid due to increased prices of raw materials. But they couldn't increase the price any further without losing customers. So they reduced the size of sweets instead, and market slowly reduced expectations. And this is the new normal now.

Human psychology is surprisingly similar, and same pattern comes across domains.

admiralrohan··on Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
"Security economy: to harden a system we need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers spend exploiting them. To harden a system you need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers will spend exploiting them." - This feels similar to missile defense dilemma. Spending 2M$ missile to attack a 20k$ drone.
admiralrohan··on Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic
Very interesting idea. Old school solutions but with new methods. But maybe we can't make everything deterministic for complex cases, the scenarios that opened after LLM arrived into scene. Maybe we need a mix of both.
admiralrohan··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Easier to boycott La liga matches. They are the root problem.
admiralrohan··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Few years back when Indian govt banned porn websites, they also blocked football news websites like Bleacher report. People at the top has no idea about ground reality.
admiralrohan··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
Thanks for sharing. Parallel git branching seems to be a useful feature for me, given AI agents can be used work on multiple features at same time.
admiralrohan··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
They need to have a dedicated page explaining me why should I change my current workflow. Else I don't get the point.
admiralrohan··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
Link is broken.
admiralrohan··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
Openrouter free models have 50 requests per day limit + data collection. As per their doc.
admiralrohan··on StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)
Interesting. Are you running something like Autoresearch loop for writing fiction? How will the agent determine whether the output is good as this is subjective.
admiralrohan··on StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)
What kind of creative writing are you doing? Fiction or non-fiction like blog posts?
admiralrohan··on CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
Why Cascadia Code is missing? But very good concept.
admiralrohan··on Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m
Then why does the API is available for hackernews? If nothing is allowed to be copied legally. And why this post is approved as "Show HN" if it's illegal? Don't get the reasoning here.
admiralrohan··on Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
I agree. I faced this in the psychology subreddit, forced to quit. They wanted karma to post comments, but without posting comments, how am I supposed to get karma specific within that community?
admiralrohan··on WSL Manager
My WSL Ubuntu instance always gets disconnected after I come out of sleep or hibernation mode. Anyone else faced this issue and any solutions? I have tried everything found online.
admiralrohan··on Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3
Is this alternative to Whispr Flow?
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