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padmabushan··on Claude.ai is unavailable
a clock has more 9s than claude uptime
padmabushan··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
First answer who owns the model built with public data
padmabushan··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
Meanwhile an old pentium processor still operates nuclear plant in india ..
padmabushan··on India's $45B Startup Implosion Puts Tech Future in Doubt
byjus had a toxic internal culture and predatory sales practices. during pandemic, byjus was a sink hole for edu startups (and killed so many others). Thank God it imploded. guess how bad they had to screwup if they had to imploded 'The edu startup of the country' where education is valued so much and education is one of the very few sectors where people here are willing to pay premium for the quality. I don't blame red tape for this (although it's bad). FWIW, byjus had lot of govt projects (still has) all VCs failed to see that they didn't have any moat.
padmabushan··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Signal?
Do you think there is demand for such thing? Can we have some example use cases where we need as those layers and aspects of security/privacy end to end?
padmabushan··on History of Balloons and Ballooning (2017)
i was here for vm ballooning !!
padmabushan··on Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008)
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/reading-through-a-closed-...

Some nerds have done this ... scanning through a closed book.

padmabushan··on Silicon Valley is awash with Saudi Arabian money
It happened. It was a symptom of dictatorship(or whatever you call it). US courts provided a reasonable platform for justice in that case. Then, it is followed by democratic reforms in Taiwan. Taiwan have moved towards addressing root cause, I see now that the Saudis are far from any self-correcting action.
padmabushan··on India’s Aadhaar Software Hacked, ID Database Compromised, Experts Confirm
without any hack, one person can be enrolled multiple times if it is done from different zones (mandal/district). There are brokers who can arrange this (and ofcourse charge upto 5k INR)

I guess the search is only limited to these zones.

padmabushan··on An ARM killer from IIT-M?
> I always look for the “done for the first time, learnt about X” than the “look, I have done the common Space thing at 1/10th of the cost”

Water on the Moon

padmabushan··on Different languages: How cultures around the world draw shapes differently
Study cleverly skipped India. May be since it has lot of languages and has been under western influence for long
padmabushan··on Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser
ppl at google are scared of FB's resurgent growth. now they are leveraging on advantages they already have. if FB reacts with introducing plugins for blocking ads completely (on desktop and mobile), It would ensure total annihilation of ad industry. that is the a step fb can take now to force google to make truce and backoff their adblocking features.
padmabushan··on Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors
"Gandhi sent out his forces" LOLL!! He wasnt in command either! I need what you are smoking!
padmabushan··on Recommending information by relevance inferred from human brain signals
LOL. I am pathetic at getting puns. I actually googled for it. But that would be cool thing if it existed.
padmabushan··on Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers (2014)
I chose not to sign up immediately after witnessing what it did to my friends. I feel I did right thing. a month ago, my grandma who lives in a very remote place (in rural India) was dissapointed to not find my profile or pic in fb app.
padmabushan··on Science fact: Sci-fi inventions that became reality
Anybody made a comprehensive prediction about 2066 ?
padmabushan··on I am a fast webpage
By the site's own admission, this page's visible content not prioritized. I would have knelt before it if not for that flaw!!
padmabushan··on How Not to Explain Success
anybody else noticed that 30k$+ difference b/n the first place and second?
padmabushan··on High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”
Master Fix could be : "Avoid using this Operating System."