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492 karma · joined December 21, 2011

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snihalani··on GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions
s3/blob storage
snihalani··on Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
reminder to consider using an open weights model
snihalani··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
my money is on DNS
snihalani··on Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise
surprisingly accurate. I've seen the average between median and max being the sweet spot (based on 4 datapoints)
snihalani··on Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark
Does Design/Text count as intellectual property?
snihalani··on Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark
The era of chinese level competition is here.
snihalani··on PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
I'd love to advocate for PgDog if there were more than 2 managed service providers. Adding a single company with no substitute in your supply chain feels hard
snihalani··on Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV
Error Code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
snihalani··on Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee
What's a GCC/CEE?
snihalani··on India's surprise baby bust
I keep hearing some religions push for this. I don't understand how it benefits them
snihalani··on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target
While I love this, Morningstar isn't a fiduciary
snihalani··on Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
I thought S&P also changed the rules on this one
snihalani··on Greg Brockman interview [video]
I am not sure the benefit comes from doing it. I find the optionality & the social security attractive
snihalani··on CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub
Do they not believe in encrypted files?
snihalani··on Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
This is a war against companies where the moat is the UI. Agentic API is the new UI
snihalani··on 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home
for the funs
snihalani··on An update on GitHub availability
IPv6 doesn't sound like a huge lift at the entrypoints. Internal networking to IPv6 only sounds like an impossible lift
snihalani··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
Do people here believe in karma? I can't empathize with these management practices.
snihalani··on Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry
I think this is a pact between advertising companies.
snihalani··on Layoffs at Block
>I’m with OP, thy should face real consequences for stupid decisions

I don't think the investor cares. The investor wants 1 in X shot at beating the majority and is agnostic to failure.

snihalani··on DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
I don't know if this was an indian thing but we'd get a dopamine hit type tone at the end and that's not present in this audio.
snihalani··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
how do I understand what is the sustainable pricing?
snihalani··on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
I wish we had direct voting on important decisions
snihalani··on Sam Altman: I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest
I actually think this is co-operated behind the scenes and intentional marketing.
snihalani··on Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign
> Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be.

OpenAI's terms of service (https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/):

What you cannot do. You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not:

1. Use our Services in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates anyone’s rights.

2. Modify, copy, lease, sell or distribute any of our Services.

3. Attempt to or assist anyone to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, including our models, algorithms, or systems (except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law).

4. Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below).

5. Represent that Output was human-generated when it was not.

6. Interfere with or disrupt our Services, including circumvent any rate limits or restrictions or bypass any protective measures or safety mitigations we put on our Services.

7. Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.

Learning: Marketing and Legal team are not in sync with each other.

snihalani··on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
it's painful that HN has become that
snihalani··on Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
thank you for writing this <3.
snihalani··on AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Why is this valuable?
snihalani··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
I'm not sure we'll get china to buy our debt if we do this

related to: Warren Buffett's Thriftville

snihalani··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
My takeaway from this: If LLM can eat your lunch, you should remove your cash cow from crawler avenues and gatekeep it to humans only
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