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justforfunhere··on Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse
How would a "9-billion-parameter model" replicate on IoT devices that have typically no more than 2-4 MB of RAM or 8-16 MB of flash?
justforfunhere··on Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school
As a fellow Indian growing up in 90s, I feel you. I had my fair share of beatings from teachers in school.

There were cases where parents who found it challenging to control their kids, would encourage teachers to use physical force on them. Parents deemed it was school's responsibility to instill discipline in their children.

As far as I can recall, use of violence to control kids was pretty common back in the day, both at home and at school. I don't see that happening nowadays, though.

justforfunhere··on X Is Bad, Though
what happened in 2018/19?
justforfunhere··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
It would be great if these posting could have tags like below prefixed at the top by the poster.

[HUMAN-CODE] - code written by humans

[AGENT-CODE] - code written by Claude/Codex/Other agents out there

[HYBRID] - Combination of Humans/Agents

I would prefer to go through projects where people are writing code themselves. And this kind of tagging would help me filter through easily.

justforfunhere··on US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
Excessive groundwater extraction and urban development could be reasons for this. But these are common practice in almost all of the modern world, so why is this only showing up in Mexico City.

There must be other contributing factors too.

justforfunhere··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
I am building https://framebench.dev/ in my free time. It comprises of a bunch of utilities aimed at CAN BUS related workflows. Some things that are supported as of now:

- Easily parsing UDS, ISO-TP protocol CAN frames

- Parsing CAN-DBC files

- Building CAN Frame Payloads based on messages in a DBC file.

justforfunhere··on Ask HN: Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM?
When it comes to writing small scripts for various utility tasks, I now rely heavily on LLMs.

Additionally, lets say I would like to write something new that I don't know anything about, I now go first to a LLM, or two of them, to get an idea of what would be the best approach. It saves a lot of time that would otherwise go in research and discovery.

But I still don't trust it enough to write production level code. When I am writing something that I know will be released in a product, I steer clear of LLMs.

All of this when I am doing my day job. For my side projects, I try not to use LLMs.

justforfunhere··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (Dec 2025)
I am building https://framebench.dev/ in my free time. It comprises of a bunch of utilities aimed at common workflows found in automotive industry. Some highlights:

- Easily parsing UDS, ISO-TP protocol CAN frames

- Parsing CAN-DBC files

- Building CAN Frame Payloads based on messages in a DBC file.

This is really early stage. Any thoughts are welcome.

justforfunhere··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I have started working on https://framebench.dev

This is going to be a small side project which shall include utilities for working with automotive diagnostics and logging workflows.

I have to do a lot of this in my day job and that's where the idea comes from.

justforfunhere··on MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data
That was really good twist in the book.

It made me think a lot what a normal Trisolaran conversation or exchange of information look like? How does a civilization evolve in this case?

justforfunhere··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
There was a period in my life when, just like OP, I tried many TODO apps. With each new app that I tried, I was filled with immense expectation that this finally is the app that will help me get my life in order. Needless to say, the early high was soon filled with inevitable dread, as the items and lists in the app kept on growing and I struggled to keep up with the brutal requirements of life as it is.

There were certain apps which would give the user a lot of options to customize the lists and the items in them. Customize in ways that would make the TODO item the most unique TODO item in its requirement and its quality. Such apps made me think a lot. Or should I say, overthink a lot. I would spend a lot of time trying to find the ultimate, most specific, custom setting for a TODO item that would make it unique and give it a life of its own. Looking back now, I am not sure how useful it all was. Ultimately, I ended up doing some items and not doing others. I cannot quantify what additional productivity they brought to me.

Now I dont use any TODO app at all. I just try to remember things, and I don't feel any different from the time when I was using those apps. Makes me wonder! Was I trying to invent a problem so that I could use these apps as a solution.

Perhaps that's why so many people come back to the old plain paper or a simple text file approach. Perhaps we all realize that it was perhaps not a problem after all and we would still have achieved most of what we set out to do. And even if we didn't, in the end, it doesn't matter all that much because life still goes on regardless.

justforfunhere··on Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network
I am fascinated by what you are saying and would love to read more about it. How did you go about modifying the software of some part of your car.

Having worked in this field, I can confirm that most such parts these days come with chip supported read/write protections for part of flash that contain the code. But even with no protections, I think that being able to modify embedded firmware is a feat in itself.

justforfunhere··on Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network
I know of some modern vehicles that will not start at all if you go about removing the telematics unit.

I am not sure how long will it take before you will not be able to buy a vehicle at all without having to consent to being monitored remotely 24x7, but it will happen sooner than later. And this coming from a developing country. Pretty sure it is much worse in the developed world.

I guess the market for second hand older vehicles might see an uptick because of this and might also see a boom in demand for expertise of maintaining and rejuvenating such vehicles.

justforfunhere··on Remove All AI Features from Firefox
Hi,

Does anybody know what does this do behind the hood?

justforfunhere··on Ask HN: What Speaker Diarization tools should I look into?
Hi, yes, it is well under two hours. The longest audio that I have had to handle as of now is around 10 minutes.

I will give your portal a try soon. Thanks

justforfunhere··on Ask HN: How do you handle an employee who complies but never delivers?
This is a very interesting thread.

OP comes up with a problem that he is facing, only to be shown the other side of the story that he may have completely overlooked. It raises questions for OP and their organization.

This also shows that in such threads, on HN, people are more likely to empathize with the employee ( which seems quite fair in this case ).

Hopefully OP got some pointers that they can go ahead and work with.

justforfunhere··on Meta buys a nuclear power plant (more or less)
How much would a nuclear reactor of this size cost to operate yearly?
justforfunhere··on When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa?
>> the sun will enter the final phase of its life. Its core of hydrogen fusion will expand and, in doing so, inflate the outer atmosphere of the star into gross proportions. It will swell and become a red giant star that will engulf Mercury and Venus and incinerate Earth.

Does anybody know what is the timescale we are talking about here? From start of inflation of Sun's outer atmosphere to engulfing of earth?

justforfunhere··on Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED
A ridiculous amount of tech wizardry goes into building software that watches over users. Most software engineers won’t blink twice before jumping on such a project—especially if the paycheck is juicy. But rest assured, they’ll still rush to HN to roll their eyes when someone else does it.
justforfunhere··on Major crypto lender Celsius freezes withdrawals as markets tumble
This is not looking good for Crypto. Bitcoin is around 24K USD today after a ~10% fall. Other major crypto are following or likely to follow .. Terra Luna fiasco was just the trailer .. The whole movie is going to be more horrifying ..
justforfunhere··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
Any twitter employees here?

Whats your take on this? Do you feel happy or anxious or do not care?

justforfunhere··on Ask HN: Who has moved from the U.S. to Europe?
Wow, Not only did you not misfire with that statement, but you actually bolstered OP's arguments ... Well done!!
justforfunhere··on Off the Grid
My humble opinion,

To everyone who has commented here and even the OP.

You aren't really off the grid, imo.

Because you are still connected to the internet and writing comments here or blogs.

Go read Walden.

justforfunhere··on India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws will harm the internet
Several new accounts commenting on this thread, created just around the time when this story was submitted.

They hide behind the tech that these laws are threatening to take down.

It's going to hurt everyone, regardless of their political loyalties or faith.

justforfunhere··on Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
They have put onboard, microphones for the first time, two of them. We should be able to get some recorded sounds of Martian surface soon.

The EDL phase was quite complex this time. The cameras took pictures of the surface while landing and compared them to the maps it had from orbital missions. Using these two, it decided in realtime, which place would be the best of the its landing. This made it possible for it land in a more difficult terrain, like the crater where it landed.

justforfunhere··on Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100%
From the original paper

>> SrTiO3 is a suitable photocatalytic material for the assessment of this possibility. This compound is a well characterized photocatalyst with a bandgap energy of 3.2 eV (ref. 11–14), and its EQE for overall water splitting has been improved by up to 69% over the past years using various refinements.

Here, we increased the EQE to its upper limit by constructing highly active HER and OER cocatalysts on SrTiO3:Al particles site-selectively. This was accomplished by using a stepwise photodeposition method instead of an impregnation process, which results in random dispersion of the cocatalysts.

justforfunhere··on Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it sends demands to CEO
What kind of day to day work someone in an Ethical AI group would do?
justforfunhere··on Writing well
Reading works written by masters is one way in which one can organically internalize the art of writing well.

Another thought that comes to my mind regarding writing is that why does one have to necessarily follow a particular set of rules?

Writing is an art. You should be able to develop and hone your own style, your own signature, something that stands apart from others, yet is readable and lucid.

justforfunhere··on Mmhmm
Just checked out the promo video on the webpage. It looks really well made. Congratulations to the team behind it.

This space is witnessing a lot of innovation and disruption and time is also ripe to do so.

Hoping to see AR/VR bring next wave of disruptions.

justforfunhere··on HuffPost India is history, thanks to new FDI norms
Please read my comment again. I was talking about Upper Caste, well to do middle class.

Also this is not about supporting any political party. This is a problem embedded in our social culture. Income equality is a menace that hurts all those who are not well-off, irrespective of their caste or religion.

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