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aitchnyu

1,571 karma · joined January 19, 2019

Likes Django, HTMX, Aider. From Kochi, India. Born 80 days before Pump Up The Jam. Believes petrichor is just olfactory umami. Memorised many passages from Marcus Aurelius.
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aitchnyu··on Tencent Hy4
> figure out how to call the driver

Which country are you in where you cant take "call the driver" for granted?

aitchnyu··on Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half
33 months in this corner of India, disregarding tariff rises and increased consumption.
aitchnyu··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
Around 2005, Google published MapReduce, THE parallel data processing paradigm. The ecosystem from Yahoo, Hortonworks etc overshadowed Google with Hadoop, Spark etc. Google then launched both paper and product when it came to cloud scheduling and transformers.
aitchnyu··on Nixpkgs for the Front End Impaired
Umm, does a Nixfile have a "grammar" of a 140000+ records and 232000 attributes from its individual packages? Can a lightweight text editor underline an error?
aitchnyu··on Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository
I wanted to implement a similar tool in 2011, Ditz IIRC. The Redmine issue tracker was too finicky, it promised using a self-hosted and reliable repo as the source of truth and Netbeans as its frontend. I implemented Mercurial VCS and designated one machine as remote (a hghub) for ssh cloning and web interface, we didnt have any pesky subscriptions.
aitchnyu··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Do you remember the microwave antenna power stations that power from solar satellites? The Moore-like drop of solar prices killed solar satellites, solar greenhouses with turbine chimneys, TW superconductor submarine cables circling the world etc.
aitchnyu··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
Missed the memo. Whats the proof of positive free cash flow?
aitchnyu··on Speeding up code review with `small-change`
Did they mention 77 minutes of review time for even longer PRs?
aitchnyu··on WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
A year back, an internet stranger's Claude reported a take-home programming assignment had an instruction (to insert a watermark). Wonder if the latest chatbots report this to user.
aitchnyu··on The fire retardant in the seafood chain
HowStuffWorks used to be full of expert animations of automatic transmissions and helicopters around 2006 but they had a multipart article on spontaneous combustion, with anecdotes of 1890s people who retained too much ethanol.
aitchnyu··on LittleJS is 2D and 3D now
It will be mindblowing if the Youtube demo and screenshots were replaced with actual playable games.
aitchnyu··on Python 3.15
Whats your application? I'm curious.
aitchnyu··on Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees
Indian UPI is also apparently annoying Visa and Mastercard so its introducing a small charge on transactions greater than 2000 INR/20 USD.
aitchnyu··on Why were Victorian elites so effective?
To know another language is to possess a second soul - Big Chuck aka Charlemagne.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote an entire journal in Greek in the middle of enemy territory. "You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.". Historians criticize his Greek fluency.

aitchnyu··on Calling It Quits on ServerFault
The AI "understood" the concepts enough. It can generate readable code in new syntax like Typst, D2lang etc; refer 80 page documentation scattered across urls (looking at you AWS); clone tools from Github to find undocumented features.
aitchnyu··on We Asked Starbucks Why Their 'Sugar-Free' Drinks Have Sugar
Thankfully, they cracked down on "no sugar added" products sweetened with evaporated cane juice.
aitchnyu··on Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager
The startup shut down though https://wegotthiscovered.com/fyi/wealthy-clients-paid-8000-a...
aitchnyu··on Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)
If your heart too loves the sight of vast fields, (my clanker computed) converting all of it to solar meets 4–5× total U.S. electricity generation, agrivoltaics look nicer and can generate 3× U.S. electricity.

https://agrivoltaics.rutgers.edu/image-gallery-of-agrivoltai...

aitchnyu··on Why didn't we get GPT-2 in 2005?
Around 2011, my exposure to AI was like Drools planner, the predecessor of Timefold. It was to generate an ideal timetable. It used an n^2 memory heavy Rete algorithm, a scripting language in JVM to write rules with a terser syntax and simulated annealing to explore/choose states that obeyed constraints. In college AI was fancy algorithms and languages with terse syntax.

A few years later I saw - neural network projects which can do basic image recognition - a paid smartphone app that can count objects instantly - determine the mood of an online comment after you trained on a sample

I never imagined a tool that packages all knowledge and requires no training on my part.

aitchnyu··on Pi 1.0
What kind of software?
aitchnyu··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
My sleep tracker registers terrible deep sleep and sometimes I jolk awake after the buzz wears off.
aitchnyu··on Alberta's image as world's only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
I have a feeling cats are evolving to avoid mice in this corner of India. I had a stray mother cat who kept kittens on the roof. The mother weighed 3-4kg and two kittens weighed 750g each. The prey skeletons around them were mostly reptiles and birds. The cats catching mice for their kittens give them an infection that kills within days.
aitchnyu··on Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel
I took Grammarly's side, since we used a few SaaS and the CFO (small company for context) revoked access and we had to beg him. Reading the comments about multiple SaaS annoying end users changed my mind.
aitchnyu··on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
Don't pensions have to take on riskier investments because of increased life expectancy?
aitchnyu··on Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him
Heard that proverb. I'm more inclined to believe rich families from 1400s are rich now. Family wealth can be preserved by sending spare sons and daughters to monastic life.

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...

aitchnyu··on Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
A targetted attack will be easy to do with an AI.
aitchnyu··on Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards
Why would somebody ever use a hosted version? I see "One-click gerber, DXF/STEP, render and BOM export" and "Altium support beyond KiCad" in cloud plans, dunno if they are compelling.
aitchnyu··on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
I thought meow.com is a fictional bank in this fiction. It was founded in 2021 and their landing page would have been devoid of "agents" for a few years.
aitchnyu··on D2 Is Non-Profit
Tangential, do LLMs generate D2 code as easily as Mermaid and do tools like Github and Confluence render them?
aitchnyu··on WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine
Is there any use case/demo of lighter models like using embeddings for full text search, STT, OCR etc?
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