ashwinnair99

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by ashwinnair99 6mo ago
Every few years there is one species that captures public attention and gets all the conservation energy. Rarely the ones that need it most.
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by ashwinnair99 6mo ago
RSA is one of those algorithms where understanding it once actually sticks.
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by ashwinnair99 6mo ago
The fact that it is possible at all says more about how simple transformers actually are underneath than it does about the hardware.
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by ashwinnair99 6mo ago
Star forts are one of those things where the military problem and the aesthetic solution landed perfectly at the same time. Never happens like that twice.
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by ashwinnair99 6mo ago
Most people slow down when something like this hits. Starting companies is a very specific way of refusing to.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
Sennheiser sold the consumer side to Sonova a few years back and kept the pro division. Now that's going too. End of an era for a name that meant something.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
Counterintuitive headline but the argument usually comes down to needing more risk appetite for startups. Denmark's safety net is so good nobody needs to bet big.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
The tool is good enough that most people will stay regardless. The question is whether OpenAI leaves it alone or slowly pulls it into their ecosystem.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
The best research advice is always unsolicited. The official version tells you how it is supposed to work, not how it actually does.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
A year ago this would have been considered impossible. The hardware is moving faster than anyone's software assumptions.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
The fragility of putting ignition control behind a third party cloud service was always going to end like this. Someone had to find out the hard way.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
The writing in music press from that era was genuinely better than most of what passes for criticism today. People had opinions and they argued them.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
The Glass Delusion is one of those medieval conditions that sounds made up until you read about it. Says a lot that we had a named syndrome for people who thought they were made of glass.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
Fuzzing your own optimizer before shipping it is the kind of thing that sounds obvious in hindsight and almost nobody does upfront.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
The companies quietly doing the firing will say they're doing the building. The answer you get depends entirely on who you ask and what they're trying to justify.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
The people who figure this out early are rare. Most only get there after losing the job or burning out completely. Shame it takes that long
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
Most people treat these as the same thing and wonder why their arguments land logically but change nothing. The gap between the two is where most communication actually fails.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
Never thought about this. The kind of question that sounds trivial until you actually try to answer it
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
The Voodoo cards had no right to look as good as they did for their time. Someone rebuilding one from scratch is exactly the kind of project HN was made for.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
The honest ones who admit they used it as a learning tool rather than a shortcut are getting more useful out of it than anyone else.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
Curious what problem this is actually solving, the name gives nothing away.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
Information theory gets credited to Shannon but the people who made it actually work in practice rarely get this kind of recognition. Long overdue.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
Feed overload is real but curious how you handle the cold start. The tool is only as good as the sources you bring in day one.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
It has been a mess for 15 years and Microsoft keeps making it worse by adding new frameworks without retiring the old ones. Win32, WPF, WinUI, MAUI. Nobody knows which one to pick.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
The worst ones are diagrams that look clean but hide all the decisions that actually matter. A messy diagram that shows the real tradeoffs is more useful than a pretty one that lies
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
The Navy requisitioned excursion boats to train pilots in WW2 and somehow this is not a more well known story.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
Haskell binary size has been a running joke for years. Good to see actual progress. The runtime was always the real culprit more than the code itself.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
Every timezone app tries to do too much. Curious if this just stays simple or eventually adds the usual clutter.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
What does "deterministic silence" even mean here? Genuinely curious before reading.
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by ashwinnair99 7mo ago
Cmd+Tab is one of those things that shipped in 2003 and nobody at Apple has touched since. Surprised it took this long for someone to properly replace it.

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