Hacker News: achllies

The GPU Moat Has a Side Door: AI Research Outside the Frontier Labs

achllies — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:48:32 +0000

Article URL: https://mangeshgupte.substack.com/p/the-gpu-moat-has-a-side-door

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754752

Points: 3

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New comment by achllies in "Goodreads has no incentive to be good"

achllies — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:53:13 +0000

Lore & Quill is another site more focused on recommendations and genre based browsing and is actively being developed as well.

https://lorequill.com/

New comment by achllies in "Show HN: Lore and Quill – Yet another Goodreads replacement"

achllies — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:46:40 +0000

Hey HN,

My side project that is (finally!) good enough state to share.

Lore and Quill is book site to discover books via a clean browsable interface so you can quickly see lots of books that can match your tastes. E.g. Here are books about Business and Technology : https://lorequill.com/books?gg=59&gg=906&fc=nonfic&ac=r

If you find this useful, you can also curate your bookshelf and share it with friends with the same interface.

Would love to get your feedback on it.

Thanks, MG

Show HN: Lore and Quill – Yet another Goodreads replacement

achllies — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:38:46 +0000

Article URL: https://lorequill.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784460

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by achllies in "Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6"

achllies — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 18:25:02 +0000

This looks really interesting. How does it differ from something like Amundsen : https://github.com/amundsen-io/amundsen

Houzz Tops $2B Valuation, Opens million item marketplace

achllies — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:09:39 +0000

Article URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2014/10/01/houzz-tops-2-billion-valuation-opens-million-item-marketplace/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8396513

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by achllies in "To Get a Home in San Francisco, First Get a $200,000-a-Year Job"

achllies — Tue, 20 May 2014 22:57:12 +0000

Slightly lower risk. Typically, if you are taking a loan, then you have a condition stating that the sale is contingent on the loan getting passed. If it does not, then the seller has to put the house on the market again and loses a few days and possibly value.

New comment by achllies in "Studying the Rich"

achllies — Wed, 07 May 2014 21:24:49 +0000

A really good article, and it has succeeded in inspiring me to read the book.

Google shows more information about websites in search results

achllies — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:13:30 +0000

Article URL: http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2014/01/more-information-about-websites-to-help.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105734

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by achllies in "Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings"

achllies — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:09:04 +0000

Share price is hardly meaningless. Most people (correctly, i might add) think in term of relative movement of the share price, since that is the easiest one to track. In fact, as the second line of the article says: "Shares in the giant online search and ads company rose more than 13% to $1,006, and are now up 41% since the start of 2013." Such a big jump in a big company is what makes this really newsworthy.

New comment by achllies in "Songs of the IBM"

achllies — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:09:21 +0000

Wow ! These songs remind me of "traditional school songs" that a lot of universities have.

Gmail Results Embedded In Google Search Results

achllies — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:40:27 +0000

Article URL: http://searchengineland.com/new-gmail-results-embedded-in-google-search-results-129963

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4356854

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by achllies in "20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time"

achllies — Wed, 30 May 2012 05:22:18 +0000

What was meant was: If there is a period of time when you get a lot of visits, lots of clicks, and abnormally high CTR. This could happen due to external factors, for example if make the front page of HN. Over time, this effect will vanish, but you will be stuck with high CTR estimates for the design that was in place when this happened for a long time.

New comment by achllies in "Gamifying Algebra "

achllies — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:58:23 +0000

I absolutely love this concept. The game mechanics have the potential to make the concepts extremely clear, though we might end up with a generation of people who need "algebra calculators". I suppose that is why he suggest in game points for doing things by hand.

New comment by achllies in "Light Table - a new IDE concept"

achllies — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:47:54 +0000

This is a great idea. I can almost see my development time going down by a big factor and writing much more robust programs. I wonder, how hard it would be to do this in existing editors ?

New comment by achllies in "Facebook's Syntactical grep"

achllies — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:35:15 +0000

Looks pretty neat ! It probably should not be called sgrep though since its not regex anymore ... sfind maybe ?

Foursquare deals: A platform for others

achllies — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:32:48 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.foursquare.com/2011/07/13/more-powerful-tools-for-businesses-introducing-our-merchant-api/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764640

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Startup Visa 2011

achllies — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:54:13 +0000

Article URL: http://kerry.senate.gov/press/release/?id=4e6a51f6-fb2b-4212-b299-b0c46c7e6b58

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2545050

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Misallocation of Scientific Credit

achllies — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:45:58 +0000

www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/stoc11-credit.pdf

This is an interesting paper in the upcoming STOC which analyzes a stylized model of allocating credit for solving scientific problems. The main conclusion is that allocating more (or less) credit to some achievements and some people, while unfair, might improve utility for society as a whole by making people go towards less interesting/ harder problems.

Is similar kind of behavior observed in the startup or coder community ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2253785

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by achllies in "Ask HN: Please review my app onesmallpage"

achllies — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:33:54 +0000

Its a great idea. Congratulations on getting it up and working. One feature that might work well is allowing the user to do "flow control" by replying to the email you sent.