Hacker News: abalaji

New comment by abalaji in "EFF is leaving X"

abalaji — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:50:36 +0000

Honestly, tbh it just looks like a skill issue when looking through their feed:

Making content platform "native" and garner attention is hard work and while their first party content might be great, it isn't great "X" content which is part of the problem. There are many examples of legacy organizations optimizing for the platform and garner a lot of attention:

https://x.com/JohnCarreyrou/status/2041737922458599477?s=20

Also, people want to hear from individuals or a distinct voice, not an organization:

https://x.com/FFmpeg

New comment by abalaji in "Stop picking my Go version for me"

abalaji — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:58:07 +0000

this is great and should be in the blog post

New comment by abalaji in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

abalaji — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:25:41 +0000

adithyabalaji.com

New comment by abalaji in "`std::flip`"

abalaji — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:14:42 +0000

this blog post will be a great barometer of commenters who read the post vs those who don't

New comment by abalaji in "University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test"

abalaji — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:29:19 +0000

57. I got a ton of shape rotation problems. Figured out a strategy for those:

Focus on the 3 pronged shape. It is unique in all 4 orientations. You can use this to filter out bad rotations. Then use adjacencies to filer out the rest.

New comment by abalaji in "Obsidian Bases"

abalaji — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:08:34 +0000

This seems useful for folks who use Obsidian as a personal CRM. I got some queries with data view that I'm going to see if this can replace:

https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/

I often want to answer questions like:

- When was the last time I chatted with this person - What did we talk about - Who haven't I spoken to in a while

New comment by abalaji in "Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs"

abalaji — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:50:45 +0000

I think this flips at the frontier which may be what Tao is commenting on.

New comment by abalaji in "Show HN: AirBending – Hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller"

abalaji — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:59:23 +0000

Seems like the same software could be used as a soundtrack for Tai Chi exercises. Would be pretty neat.

New comment by abalaji in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

abalaji — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 07:43:18 +0000

Honestly, this might have gone over better with messaging such as. "We added Ads to WhatsApp, here's what we're doing keep the user first"

There is a cult understanding that Instagram ads are highly relevant and quite useful at times and WhatsApp ads have the same possibility. But the messaging is quite poor.

New comment by abalaji in "The Gentle Singularity"

abalaji — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:31:25 +0000

> the scientific insights that got us to systems like GPT-4 and o3 were hard-won, but will take us very far.

Does anyone know if there are well established scaling laws for reasoning models similar to chinchilla scaling. (i.e. is the above claim valid?)

New comment by abalaji in "Help ChatGPT discover your products"

abalaji — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:19:17 +0000

faustian bargain: you trade scrape ability for your website for one click buy of your product.

New comment by abalaji in "Claim for a missing tooth"

abalaji — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:27:44 +0000

Gotta start 'em young on dealing with government bureaucracy.

New comment by abalaji in "Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network"

abalaji — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:33:24 +0000

Looking through the code, it looks like this uses your personal Apple Mail entitlements to pull the locations that get collected by devices on the FindMy network:

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack/blob/8d214aa5eb68...

I wonder if this were also possible by making an Apple developer account.

New comment by abalaji in "Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)"

abalaji — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:08:32 +0000

Hence, the qualification of stable API. You can mark fields as unused and fields as optional (recently):

https://stackoverflow.com/a/62566052

When your API changes that dramatically, you should use a new message definition on the client and server and deprecate the old RPC.

New comment by abalaji in "Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)"

abalaji — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:47:09 +0000

Everyone is hating on gRPC in this thread, but I thought I'd chime in as to where it shines. Because of the generated message definition stubs (which require additional tooling), clients almost never send malformed requests and the servers send a well understood response.

This makes stable APIs so much easier to integrate with.

New comment by abalaji in "Tesla Cybertruck Becomes Extensively Corroded After Exposed to Magnet"

abalaji — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:27:20 +0000

Never thought I'd see the day where HN needed a community note.

New comment by abalaji in "Django: Fix a view using a debugger with breakpoint()"

abalaji — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 19:37:38 +0000

another option from the sibling comment is to use `remote-pdb` which you can then telnet into from outside the container after exposing the port

New comment by abalaji in "Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess"

abalaji — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:40:33 +0000

An easy way to make all LLMs somewhat good at chess is to make a Chess Eval that you publish and get traction with. Suddenly you will find that all newer frontier models are half decent at chess.

New comment by abalaji in "We fine-tuned Llama 405B on AMD GPUs"

abalaji — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:31:17 +0000

@dang: could we get url to include the username since this isn't about Obsidian itself, but rather a user generated blog?

New comment by abalaji in "Do quests, not goals"

abalaji — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:49:25 +0000

Sounds similar to the theme system that CGP Grey and Mike advocate for in the Cortex podcast.

https://www.themesystem.com/