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New comment by adi_kurian in "EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA"

adi_kurian — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:47:44 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing that URL! Works in US of A.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

adi_kurian — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:43:52 +0000

I lived two blocks from a Costco in Manhattan for quite some time.

I totally get where you are coming from, just offering a counter. I have observed that the packed like tinned sardines is one kind of life, typically lived by transient folks who desire to live in the hippest neighborhoods, get gouged, live in shitboxes, and then move on and say "I needed more space and convenience", when the space and convenience was always there, just not next to an Equinox.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

adi_kurian — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:34:54 +0000

Not even. It's literally "yeah bro, you gotta get a Mac Mini".

New comment by adi_kurian in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

adi_kurian — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:24:14 +0000

There are four Costco's in NYC, all but one in working class neighborhoods, and full of large families getting deals.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

adi_kurian — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:51:00 +0000

If the stats in this are true, Amazon’s warehouse workforce turns over at 25 times the rate of Costco’s workforce, for almost the same wage. That is remarkable.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep"

adi_kurian — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:29:36 +0000

Just thinking about that little big neck of the world puts me to sleep. In the best of ways. I love West Texas.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

adi_kurian — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:41:35 +0000

Not my argument.

I agree that we need structures in place to penalize misuse of the tool.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

adi_kurian — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:53:32 +0000

Colonoscopy detection has gotten modestly better with AI assistance.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39216648/

https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2023...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1309086

https://info.asge.org/083024-colon-asge/acg-quality-task-for...

New tool that does task better than worker leads to workers being less good at task. Net outcome for patient is positive. Next?

Programming: "for a given task, if you take a shortcut then you will not have the familiarity and expertise that someone who took the veritable and righteous path would have".

The question is then, what did you do with the extra time. If it's fuck all, then yes, that's a liability.

Like any technology, it comes down to the disposition of any given person in how they plan on applying it.

Not trying to say it's all going to be awesome. Definitely maybe the opposite. These arguments are weak tho.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Apple WWDC 2026"

adi_kurian — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:31:06 +0000

Zune was low key pretty damn solid. (Yes, I lived in Redmond as a teenager.) In fact I may even say it was their last gasp of a solid user interface. Right before Vista.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

adi_kurian — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:11:34 +0000

Is there a better Maps app?

I guess those gaussian splats on Apple Maps could be p. neat.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

adi_kurian — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:35:35 +0000

https://www.google.com/maps/search/england+chai+london/

New comment by adi_kurian in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

adi_kurian — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:27:02 +0000

Yes. This is good insight.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

adi_kurian — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:59:28 +0000

I was asking about the kids!

New comment by adi_kurian in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

adi_kurian — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:54:49 +0000

Do any of said PhDs gain anything positive from LLM usage? Or does it only lead to declining thinking skills in your view?

New comment by adi_kurian in "Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read?"

adi_kurian — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:14:00 +0000

Alone? No.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Ask HN: Anyone else observing a Widespread Outage of Archive.* Sites?"

adi_kurian — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:43:25 +0000

Yes.

New comment by adi_kurian in "MCP Is Dead"

adi_kurian — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:57:18 +0000

The vernacular around prompts, text, and docs, is quite amazing. Marketing really is value creation.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Claude Opus 4.8"

adi_kurian — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:05:41 +0000

Or the model could just be shite.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Claude Opus 4.8"

adi_kurian — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:00:37 +0000

1mm context window is pretty big. Even if dumber, opens new avenues. For the record I don't think we ever got better than 4 and 4.1.

New comment by adi_kurian in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

adi_kurian — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:19:13 +0000

There is an uncanny valley effect to websites where FE is created in full via an AI.

These sites have the immediate scent of 'high design', with errors that no 'high designer' would dare make.

The italics give me nausea. Text promoted with orange fill is seemingly random. There is no thought behind the combination of art and copy. Random smattering of Title Case and Sentence case and lower case. A lack of commitment to a full stop Widowed H1s. H1s with random spaces .

At the same time, if I hammer CMD - to 25%, it looks fancy. Perhaps nobody gives a fuck.

That said, I'm excited to try this tool!