Hacker News: aadhavans

New comment by aadhavans in "Midjourney is alemwjsl"

aadhavans — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:09:04 +0000

Fascinating. Not only that, it even fetches https://www.youtube.com/feed/gr as the first result, at least on duckduckgo.

New comment by aadhavans in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

aadhavans — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:49:11 +0000

I was talking about this with a friend earlier this week. The people who work in software these days seem much more extroverted and outgoing than the 'introverted nerd' stereotype from the 90s.

Gnu.org Is Down

aadhavans — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:43:03 +0000

Article URL: https://gnu.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118534

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by aadhavans in "A list is a monad"

aadhavans — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:07:57 +0000

Could you elaborate on that? What does 'flatMappable' mean in this context?

New comment by aadhavans in "NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along an Odd Line: Car Ownership"

aadhavans — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:01:04 +0000

Interesting news, but the source seems blatantly partisan.

New comment by aadhavans in "Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024)"

aadhavans — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:08:14 +0000

I grew up ~20 minutes from the place you're describing, and you just made me very nostalgic :D

New comment by aadhavans in "Radio Garden"

aadhavans — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:36:09 +0000

I was fully expecting a radio station in Tamil Nadu, but this one's in Sri Lanka. I know there's a lot of Tamil people in Sri Lanka, but that's still pretty interesting!

New comment by aadhavans in "Destination: Jupiter"

aadhavans — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:21:19 +0000

I feel the same way, although I think technology's inspiration on fiction is stronger. Today's fiction, as you said, is simply tomorrow's science.

New comment by aadhavans in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

aadhavans — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:52:07 +0000

As another Tamilian, thank you for making this! I'm fluent in spoken Tamil from my parents and I've learned to read and write at a basic level, but I'd never formally learned the language.

New comment by aadhavans in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

aadhavans — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:48:40 +0000

https://indiantranslate.com

It's a translation map of Indian languages - type in a word, see the translations across 22 languages.

I was inspired by this HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152587), and wanted to make something similar for India (which has similar linguistic diversity). Translations are fetched with Google Translate, but I also display 'romanizations' (transliterated into Latin script), which are generated with a local ML model.

Now that it's done, I've mostly been working on a little Markdown-to-HTML parser in Haskell.

New comment by aadhavans in "People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test"

aadhavans — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:22:55 +0000

I believe they meant an additional $110, which would be a 110% markup.

New comment by aadhavans in "Regex Isn't Hard (2023)"

aadhavans — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:33:42 +0000

Shameless plug: My Regex engine (https://pkg.go.dev/gitea.twomorecents.org/Rockingcool/kleing...) has dedicated syntax for this kind of task.

  <0-255>\.<0-255>\.<0-255>\.<0-255>

will only match full IPv4 addresses, but is a lot stricter than the one in the article.

EDIT: formatting

New comment by aadhavans in "Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security"

aadhavans — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:24:28 +0000

A very well-written piece. The section on funding open source is as relevant as it's ever been, and I don't think we've learnt much since last year.

As the proportion of younger engineers contributing to open-source decreases (a reasonable choice, given the state of the economy), I see only two future possibilities:

1. Big corporations take ownership of key open-source libraries in an effort to continue their development.

2. Said key open-source libraries die, and corporations develop proprietary replacements for their own use. The open source scene remains alive, but with a much smaller influence.

New comment by aadhavans in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

aadhavans — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:30:00 +0000

> There's a stark difference between the "haha, what the fuck, US" sentiment I used to sense and the "what the fuck, US" we're getting now.

Agreed, and this is a nice way of putting it. There's a sense that shit is really hitting the fan this time.

New comment by aadhavans in "Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life"

aadhavans — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:54:28 +0000

> The articles predict ... a handheld electronic device with contrast equivalent to printed paper (Kindle Paperwhite etc)

Fascinating. I get predictions about something large-scale like the internet, but this seems like a rather specific to predict, doesn't it?

> regular manned missions to Mars and a human colony on the moon aren't any more realistic than they were back in the 90s.

Fingers crossed that the Artemis program gets us closer to the latter.

Your Annual Reminder to Move to Vegas (2021)

aadhavans — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:42:43 +0000

Article URL: https://tynan.com/vegasbaby/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504670

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aadhavans in "Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Past: Fitzgerald, Gatsby and WWI"

aadhavans — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:43:13 +0000

Agreed, one of my favorite pieces of literature. It's what got me into American historical fiction - I later ventured into Steinbeck and Mark Twain, both of whom are masters of the genre.

New comment by aadhavans in "I stopped everything and started writing C again"

aadhavans — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:08:25 +0000

For those who like C because of the simplicity, I can wholeheartedly recommend Go. It's replaced C as my go-to for personal CLI projects - while it is more complex than C, the core language features fit in my head pretty well. Add to that the excellent tooling, primitive OOP and clean syntax, and it's a damn good replacement.

New comment by aadhavans in "What made the Irish famine so deadly"

aadhavans — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:37:41 +0000

Not the parent, but:

Neither. While colonialism didn't _create_ generational poverty, the systemic genocides of the British were new. Colonial policy of prioritizing exports directly led to the deaths of millions. That's a fact.

A similar comparison would be between Roman slavery and the chattel slavery of the Americas. They are both abhorrent practices (just like the genocides caused by Indian rulers in the pre-British period), but it pales in comparison to the scale and horror of antebellum slavery.

New comment by aadhavans in "The gem Apple discontinued: the 11-inch MacBook Air (2019)"

aadhavans — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:50:10 +0000

> The only downside i

Still waiting :D