Hacker News: aakil

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

aakil — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:31:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388752

Points: 174

# Comments: 126

Let's Be Honest: Tokens Are Replacing Payrolls

aakil — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:17:22 +0000

Article URL: https://horse.energy/who_buys_the_tokens.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321376

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

OpenAI is starting to look like WeWork

aakil — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:36:19 +0000

Article URL: https://horse.energy/HorseEnergy/openai_wework_analysis.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680675

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by aakil in "Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?"

aakil — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 19:46:17 +0000

I built a flask app based chrome extension that takes content from the DOM and sends it to chatGPT for summarization, I also configured it to work on YouTube videos and PDFs, helps when you want to share the tl;dr of a site or video to a friend, I'm thinking I'm going to add some more specific summary functionality next, like listing out a recipe's ingredients and cooking steps

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/news-article-summar...

New comment by aakil in ""Et Tu, Ilya?""

aakil — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:08:41 +0000

I’m a bit surprised of how antagonistic HN is against the builders, Sam was/is a Seller, it’s a needed function to pair with Builders, but no one can reasonably say that Sam built anything, Ilya and the safety contingent are the builders, but somehow the mob is angry at them for protecting what they made from the Sellers, kind of hard to see us becoming so profit motivated that we choose IBM over Woz

My User Research Stack

aakil — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:46:36 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@adnanakil/my-user-research-stack-786da7daeb65#.ajc4jkt9r

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12705417

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Slingshot and Snapchat

aakil — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 22:04:09 +0000

Article URL: http://mokriya.quora.com/Slingshot-and-Snapchat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7959498

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by aakil in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)"

aakil — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 19:38:28 +0000

Downtown San Francisco Full Time

Full Stack Developer at Academia.edu

To apply just send us an email: ashley@academia.edu

Company:

* Our mission is to build a new system for scientists to share their results and broadcast their work

* We have over 10 million users and they are extremely important to us!

* Our investors include Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital and True Ventures

Team:

* We move quickly, everyone is in charge of their own projects but also very collaborative

* We get catered lunches from zerocater and lunch usually ends with a round of foosball

* We're a diverse group with backgrounds in philosophy, biology, music and art.

Technical:

* We are a Rails shop (you don't need to know Rails though, just how to tackle difficult technical challenges)

* Peer Review: We are revisiting peer review with a novel product built from the ground up that will allow layers of discussion on top of a single document and we are building this using Rails and Backbone

* Recommendation Engine: Lots of machine learning to parse science papers and figure out what people want to read. Pretty cool stuff.

* Servers, Speed, Security and Storage (Postgres / Dynamo / Elasticsearch / Redis): Speed and stability are really important to us because areas in the world with slower internet connections tend to be where researchers can benefit the most from open access to research

About you:

- You have a curious mind and enjoy tackling hard technical problems

- You work best when given a lot of autonomy

- You want to have a huge impact on a product that is making a positive impact on the world

- You like piña coladas, and getting caught in the rain

Please send ashley@academia.edu an email if you would like to apply or if you have any questions.

‘Rice Theory’ Explains North-South China Cultural Differences, Study Shows

aakil — Sat, 10 May 2014 18:09:03 +0000

Article URL: http://news.virginia.edu/content/rice-theory-explains-north-south-china-cultural-differences-study-shows

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726316

Points: 57

# Comments: 24

Google rebrand experiment

aakil — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:56:00 +0000

Article URL: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Google-Rebrand/10881655

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6411591

Points: 33

# Comments: 18

Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist

aakil — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:06:10 +0000

Article URL: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5814769

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aakil in "Ask HN: I am programmer, i wan't to die, what can i do?"

aakil — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:28:23 +0000

Hey hack_edu, been trying to get in touch with you, could you shoot me an email? akila@uci.edu

Dealing with Disappointment

aakil — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:25:05 +0000

Article URL: http://adnanakil.posterous.com/168761232

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4791907

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

It's time to stand up for good science

aakil — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:26:19 +0000

Article URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/nov/02/scientific-fraud-good-science?CMP=twt_fd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4733724

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by aakil in "Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?"

aakil — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:02:01 +0000

Awesome! We're glad you like it, we actually used your rice and beans recipe, was delicious

New comment by aakil in "Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?"

aakil — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:03:11 +0000

It's really just a tool we built for ourselves to get information from a specific trusted source. It helps that he has a huge catalog of work to draw from. We thought the ability to tap into that through a search dynamic would be interesting, it's been very useful for us. We hope it can be useful for you.