Hacker News: AnishLaddha

New comment by AnishLaddha in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

AnishLaddha — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:16:40 +0000

Evergreen: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1atqusj/ne...

New comment by AnishLaddha in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

AnishLaddha — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:48:22 +0000

F*CK. take everything from me why dontcha?

New comment by AnishLaddha in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

AnishLaddha — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:12:22 +0000

>2.5% is likely still survivable, but i think risk departments + regulators are all a lot less risk tolerant after seeing how quickly things went south in 2008 and worries about an out of control spiral

New comment by AnishLaddha in "The MacBook Neo"

AnishLaddha — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:13:14 +0000

an underrated reason for the decline in windows is that it went from a core product focus to being crowded out. I wouldn't be surprised if azure, sharepoint, office 365, devices, GH/Linkedin, bing/copilot, etc are all more important to msft leadership than windows.

New comment by AnishLaddha in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

AnishLaddha — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:15:08 +0000

one of my favorite shows of all time!

New comment by AnishLaddha in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

AnishLaddha — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:04:39 +0000

I imagine this is due to the decline of local civic life. When you're a stay at home parent, and you are a part of some voluntary association, a church, PTA-type organizations, and the neighborhood is filled with other stay at home parents that you can organize play dates with (or hang out with while the kids are at school), life is less lonely.

New comment by AnishLaddha in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

AnishLaddha — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:00:53 +0000

fascinating, hope our critical infrastructure can handle this. how long does something like this last, and will it have an effect on artemis 2?

hypothetical: if a carrington event-esque storm happens during the mission, how badly will the houston <-> orion module communication links be affected?

New comment by AnishLaddha in "Meta announces nuclear energy projects"

AnishLaddha — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:26:32 +0000

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250612778008/en/XGS...

seems like they're getting the ball rolling, will be interesting to see how this scales

New comment by AnishLaddha in "Meta announces nuclear energy projects"

AnishLaddha — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:16:45 +0000

A core assumption of capitalism is that when individuals act in their own self-interest, their actions tend to produce outcomes that are beneficial for society as a whole. This seems like a compelling piece of evidence!

New comment by AnishLaddha in "Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication"

AnishLaddha — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:44:52 +0000

talk to me when we start domesticating bears!

New comment by AnishLaddha in "Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft"

AnishLaddha — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:03:27 +0000

what moat does lyft have? i know san francisco is a special case but waymo is already beating out lyft, with its own app: https://www.fastcompany.com/91347503/waymo-is-winning-in-san...

New comment by AnishLaddha in "ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones"

AnishLaddha — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:39:25 +0000

since reagan, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory

John Yoo is probably the most influential lawyer of the 21st century.

New comment by AnishLaddha in "You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB"

AnishLaddha — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:12:11 +0000

i've seen some queries that look like they were written by an engineer with CTE

New comment by AnishLaddha in "What’s new in Swift 6.2"

AnishLaddha — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:07:15 +0000

what advantages does swift offer over go/rust/js/java for server side programming? I always presumed the advantages of swift were native code compilation + top tier integration w/the apple ecosystem.

New comment by AnishLaddha in "The number of CS grads who don't even know basic Git commands is astounding"

AnishLaddha — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:15:40 +0000

i feel like this is being blown way out of proportion. learning git is never the bottleneck to becoming a software engineer, and it doesn't take longer than an hour to grasp the basics.

CS majors should learn it just by messing around with projects, but I don't see why an otherwise great candidate couldn't learn it very quickly

New comment by AnishLaddha in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

AnishLaddha — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:31:40 +0000

1) he represented openAI at APEC just yesterday. what happened in 24 hours that would cause such a drastic decision.

2) generally, even when a board fires a CEO, they rarely "call them out" or say what they did wrong. they must have some extremely strong evidence against him.

i think it could be any of the following: - something personal, i.e. the controversy w/his sister - a financial issue: chatgpt stopped signups a couple of days ago - a safetyist coup: maybe the board thought he was moving to fast - a microsoft coup: microsoft used its power to knock out what they perceived to be their biggest threat

New comment by AnishLaddha in "GM reverses plan to retire Chevrolet Bolt as it chases EV target"

AnishLaddha — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:44:03 +0000

a new bolt, with all the rebates available to CA residents, can cost as little as 12k for a single person earning less than 55k a year.

its hard to find a reliable used car for that price, let alone a new ev! i don't know what gm was thinking when they killed it.

New comment by AnishLaddha in "Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI"

AnishLaddha — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:49:39 +0000

I really hope this works. Siri is essentially useless except for very small commands like "Call X", and even if X is a clear and unique name sometimes it messes it up. Apple is miles behind google and alexa :/

New comment by AnishLaddha in "Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I"

AnishLaddha — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:07:14 +0000

in 10 years we will see posts on hackernews and cscq wondering why europe has so few AI giants...

New comment by AnishLaddha in "US Rural Hospital Closures Since 2005"

AnishLaddha — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:26:49 +0000

"Immigrants from poorer countries will do anything for a buck. It becomes a race to the bottom. As long as conditions here don't get worse than where they came from they'll be happy. But for us, its just down, down down in terms of quality of living." would you be open to mass immigration from europe and east asia, in that case? some of the countries have even higher standards of living, so logically those immigrants will demand better and raise our standards of living. Also, most cities like san diego, miami, dallas, atlanta etc have all become safer, cleaner, and the QoL has increased dramatically from 30-40 years ago. These cities have all become increasingly immigrant populated relative to 30-40 years ago, many of these immigrants coming from latin america or asia.

"If rural hospitals need to pay doctors even more than so be it. I want that job going to an American."

the crux of the issue is that there literally aren't enough american doctors. med schools giving recruitment preferences to doctors willing to work in rural areas + a much higher salary + a much lower COL still aren't enough to attract american doctors there. I don't know what magical solution you have to make thesecommunities desirable destinations but I am all ears.

"Is it concerning because I don't care about what society thinks? Is it concerning that I don't care about getting an attaboy (e.g. karma) for towing society's latest groupthink?"

no? There are many valid arguments to heavily restrict immigration, largely based on middle class incomes and cultural attrition, i just don't see how any of those apply to doctors in rural areas. and i was responding to how you openly admitted that you dislike it because wall street likes it. seems like a bad way to approach policy!