varun_ch

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by varun_ch 2mo ago
Does HN still use simple files for storing its data?
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
I think that really depends on how you use the cards. I know medicine students who clearly are passionate about their subject, but just need to get the reminders on individual terms because there’s such a wide range of topics they need to b
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
function getPercentileText(survived) { if (survived === 18) return 'Top 1% of players today '; if (survived === 17) return 'Top 2% of players today '; if (survived === 16) return 'Top 3% of pl
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
This is really cool. I think a lot of people will initially dismiss your demo as ‘slop’ unless the landing page drops some of the Claude-isms (text and design) because it’s clear this is a project with passion in it, but the demo page and l
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
we’re on hacker news! this is the right place for the adventurous people to ‘try out all these new things’ so that the new stuff can emerge victorious :P
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
genuine question: is latency that big of a deal wrt tools for agents? I see this a lot with these AI-native tooling replacement projects, but surely the inference will be orders of magnitudes slower?
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
on the topic of Swiss Internet: everyone I know in Zurich’s home internet gets a mostly-static IPv4. It’s not a promised feature or anything, but my IP didn’t rotate for years . This is super handy for self hosting.
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
to be fair, if you went to a movie store, bought a movie (and unbeknownst to you there was some note on the counter that said the store reserved the right to take your movie from you), when the stores employees break into your house one day
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
that’s fair! It definitely looks good and modern!! I just wonder if it compromises the initial impressions of the project in some way.
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
maybe slightly unrelated but the new htmx homepage ( https://four.htmx.org/ ) feels a little ironic, seemingly written with tailwindcss and a full JS ecosystem Astro build system. It also has the ‘vibey’ ‘hypey’ landing page
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
surely the weights for the model & the equipment to run them make it logistically challenging enough to deter that… also I’m sure models have leaked in their APIs before but those would be pretty easy and quick to catch/fix.
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
It seems like being a security researcher in 2024 vs 2026 is a wildly different experience across the board (presumably not just with J&J). I wonder what changed…
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
When I took the digital SAT a couple years ago, we had access to the Desmos Graphing Calculator during the whole math section. The entire point of the exam was to test whether you can read a math question, input it into the calculator and s
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
this might be the only place where a redirection to bing provides a much better UX than what was there previously!
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
I think most people don’t need to worry about their host abusing its power to impersonate them, but the cool thing is, the people who do need to/want to worry (journalists, politicians, celebrities, activists, open source maintainers,
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
the person who made this prototyped an e-ink framework 13 and it looks awesome... https://x.com/zephray_wenting/status/1535041457035280392
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
tangled.org!!!!
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
I think GitHub and GitLab have special agreements
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
Doing this for Neovim at work and it’s so much fun. I justify the slopped config to myself because I want to get work done rather than learn the config of some random Neovim package and how it interacts with the rest of the system. I can ju
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
There is an awesome YouTube video about this from the person who made it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbA2-_qzH4
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
I think this device isn’t so much about a pen. It seems like it could be a really nice typing or coding or reading display. Maybe a future model could improve on the pen
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
If I trusted my friend to hold onto my childhood photo collection as a favor, and then came back to find him asking for $5 to return it, and I reluctantly agree only to find him empty handed, I wouldn't consider that providing value.
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
The world would be a better place if you made money by providing value to people. Instead of extorting them.
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by varun_ch 3mo ago
It’s also relevant that LLMs have so much JavaScript training data that I don’t see a world where we’re not still using JavaScript.
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by varun_ch 4mo ago
The flight simulator was always my favorite part of the desktop app, Google Earth Pro(?). (I guess apart from it having a really old version of chromium embedded)
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by varun_ch 4mo ago
I found out recently that you can just buy books. There's businesses who sell books. Not any specific book, but just books to fill shelves to decorate rooms. You can even buy colour coordinated books. https://booksbythefoot.
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by varun_ch 4mo ago
You’re right that lots of Windows apps were designed with Keyboard only workflows in mind. It’s a shame that MacOS has so many points where if you don’t have a mouse you’re out of luck. There is one major improvement you can do on Mac, at l
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by varun_ch 4mo ago
Hi! I was a high school student in your exact position a year ago. I just finished my first year in university (Computer Science). I don't think anyone here can give you a definitive answer, but for me personally I think I'm still
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by varun_ch 4mo ago
> Once built If the LEGO are truly accurate to the real thing, that might take a while!
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by varun_ch 4mo ago
try the demo. it’s an entirely different style, which shows how versatile the tool is

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