Hacker News: DesiLurker

New comment by DesiLurker in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

DesiLurker — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:43:04 +0000

let me put it this way .. it will come before the wallet gives out! (for masses)

New comment by DesiLurker in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

DesiLurker — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:13:07 +0000

I am seriously thinking about adapting Kate with a fully opensource ai harness. it should be good enough for mac and linux for most devs. it already supports lsp server & has a established plugin infra so it should not really be any blockers. anybody wanna collab?

this class of spyware pretending to be ide makes me sick.

New comment by DesiLurker in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

DesiLurker — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:24:04 +0000

I actually think Chinese models have already popped the bubble, we just dont see it yet. the only way to justify AI IPO market cap is basically if they get to hold most sw industry code hostage and then token-flate budgets to collect AI tax. short of that AI expense would very quickly mean revert to model + some margin. this means the moat for AI 'trillion club' is gone. In fact AI virtually guarantees that there is no execution-moat left anywhere, definitely not in code or that engineer with knowledge about that obscure mechanism. without the moat most of the sw ecossytem's margins would shrink (as they should).

Ironically enough the only moat left would be what you can buy from Washington.

New comment by DesiLurker in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

DesiLurker — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:14:37 +0000

this is the reason I refuse to budge from my index portfolio besides small 'play money' ventures. My investing philosophy is basically by the time it hits wire you dont know what portion of it factored in. especially in age of AI and automation IMO alpha will vanish faster as anyone can code up eqv of a bloomberg terminal themselves. So all thats left is how do you manage downturns, when market heads down 30% but your handpicked stocks go down 60% you need to have enough wherewithal to hold through bad times. this is where true test of faith comes, I believe I would be cowardly and sell out at wrong time. So its best to just hold index and market sort the bloodbath out itself.

New comment by DesiLurker in "How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works"

DesiLurker — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:23:11 +0000

SSS works pretty well. IIRC somebody in bitcoin community started using this for storing private keys using 3/5 schema. they basically divide the secret keys into 5 parts out of which you only need 3 to recover original private key. IDK if there are any hardware wallets that actually support it yet though.

New comment by DesiLurker in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

DesiLurker — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:30:38 +0000

We need a 'Framework (as in laptop maker) for physical devices'. Basically most of this physical tech can be relatively easily recreated with current tech and 3D printing. In fact probably better done with electric motors and batteries. There is definitly a moat there to be disrupted.

New comment by DesiLurker in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

DesiLurker — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:27:29 +0000

they also need to strike down the state laws restricting collection of rainwater on you own property.

New comment by DesiLurker in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

DesiLurker — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:25:58 +0000

what happened to the old gerrit reviews, I loved its handling on incremental patchsets. github is primitive by comparison.

New comment by DesiLurker in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

DesiLurker — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:58:27 +0000

its free for all at the moment. its not like any of these rule were ever enforced before, lots of our govt worked on honor system & DJT exploited the heck out of it all.

New comment by DesiLurker in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

DesiLurker — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:02:17 +0000

the biggest red flag I see is this: https://youtu.be/iOyFja87uyw?si=5INnIG1kZI0AbCGa

tldr: they are trying hard to change S&P500 inclusion rules so that they dont have to wait 12months after going public so they can list mega-ipo asap in force index funds to buy a portion (presumably before revenue exponential growth settles and profits start tanking due to opensource catching up). They know something that we dont.

btw if they are public and part of S&P500 then potentially they'll be a candidate for a bailout.

New comment by DesiLurker in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

DesiLurker — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:29:01 +0000

you are missing a but 'given a choice' disclaimer. Meta is pretty much a monopoly in social space. So is Android. given a choice people will absolutely gravitate towards not-always-snooping device. most people with resources anyway, who matter for the AI adoption.

Oh an wait till ad companies start selling your healthcare data and you will see how fast things turn 'given a choice'.

New comment by DesiLurker in "How to turn anything into a router"

DesiLurker — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:42:43 +0000

is this the new age .. how to run doom on it?

New comment by DesiLurker in "Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?"

DesiLurker — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:31:08 +0000

why? its all private money funding AI at the moment, sure some data centre reality companies would go belly up but you will be surprised to find out how much of it is big headlines and very little action. there is a lot of installations and GPUs not yet brought online but marked as sold because of .. well physical world delays.

Let me put it this way, IF AI is a bubble then I'd like it to go bust asap instead of dragging along and going public and then us discovering BS/creative accounting revenue in S1 filings. by then it would be much worse. Right now VCs and PE firms will absorb it all.

The thing with dot-com was that there was actual public market corruption & euphoria. that caused the bust painful for everybody. RN its bigtech & PE how has heavy cash reserver and margins to bun through. I'd much rather have them take it then average 401k.

New comment by DesiLurker in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

DesiLurker — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:22:36 +0000

oh you'll be able to run a vm but they'll screwup support for anything that matters like graphics or gpu-compute stack.

New comment by DesiLurker in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

DesiLurker — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:45:14 +0000

share some good (easy on remembering keyboard & mouse) tmux configs. I usually struggle with copy pasting many scrollback lines from/to tmux. would love for my claude to be natively tmux aware.

New comment by DesiLurker in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

DesiLurker — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:01:46 +0000

makes me wonder what if I just wanted to sync with nfc every once in a while. wifi seems overkill for this. maybe it could be done much cheaper with nfc sync witha phone twice a year?

New comment by DesiLurker in "Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL"

DesiLurker — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:30:09 +0000

looks kinda like wolfarm physics project: ref: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-t...

New comment by DesiLurker in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

DesiLurker — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:37:20 +0000

I have a less charitable and more direct answer. Right now there is a notion in Left that Israeli are the oppressor. In Iran large majority of population is Persian but MINO (Muslim in name only due to dictatorship). They are struggling to get freedom from the Islamic regime and getting some help from Israel. This flips the narrative in Left's mind (if they accept it) that Muslims can be oppressors too and that is untenable for them. especially because Left in Western nations has basically aligned themselves with muslims so its easier for them to just ignore it.

BTW its not just left here, I originally hail from India and you can feel the pin-drop silence from left on Iran there too. They just hope the rebellion gets crushed by regime like other ones and they'll pretend status quo.

My TLDR takeaway: Muslims only care about when they are oppressed & Left is completely aligned with them right now.

New comment by DesiLurker in "California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info"

DesiLurker — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:03:28 +0000

thats a strawman, its not like advertisement & brainwashing people is the only way to make money in tech. I am old enough to have seen how valley was before this big-tech ad garbage showed up. In fact I'd say all this power with 7 or so big tech is hindering innovation, so, IMnsHO Fuck 'em all.

Asking 300M people to leave country and move to europe instead of fixing problems here is just stupid and at best a shoddy attempt at victim blaming.

New comment by DesiLurker in "Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does"

DesiLurker — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:01:11 +0000

check if they accept zcash