Hacker News: adi_kurian

New comment by adi_kurian in "Codex is switching to API pricing based usage for all users"

adi_kurian — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:07:10 +0000

Makes sense. Right now the subscriptions are like Uber as I remember it in NYC in 2014.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

adi_kurian — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:00:35 +0000

I'm not recommending we build a frictionless plane, I'm just saying it doesn't have friction.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell"

adi_kurian — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:05:14 +0000

The grammar doesn't matter. It's a total waste of time. Obviously not when writing to another human, when then it's a show of respect.

New comment by adi_kurian in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

adi_kurian — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:36:48 +0000

Think any platform becomes terrible over time once it hits a certain level of mass appeal. I loved Reddit and Quora in 2010.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

adi_kurian — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:47:26 +0000

It's okay to use the chatbot. Nothing bad will happen.

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> Yes — the universal fallback is `full-time employees`. That phrase appears in the employee-count disclosure across Oracle's filings in this run. ([Securities and Exchange Commission][1]) > > If you want the exact string to paste into `Cmd-F`, use these: > > * FY2010: `As of May 31, 2010, we employed approximately 105,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][1]) > * FY2011: `As of May 31, 2011, we employed approximately 108,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][2]) > * FY2012: `As of May 31, 2012, we employed approximately 115,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][3]) > * FY2013: `As of May 31, 2013, we employed approximately 120,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][4]) > * FY2014: `As of May 31, 2014, we employed approximately 122,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][5]) > * FY2015: `As of May 31, 2015, we employed approximately 132,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][6]) > * FY2016: `As of May 31, 2016, we employed approximately 136,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][7]) > * FY2017: `As of May 31, 2017, we employed approximately 138,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][8]) > * FY2018: `As of May 31, 2018, we employed approximately 137,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][9]) > * FY2019: `As of May 31, 2019, we employed approximately 136,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][10]) > * FY2020: `As of May 31, 2020, we employed approximately 135,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][11]) > * FY2021: `As of May 31, 2021, we employed approximately 132,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][12]) > * FY2022: `As of May 31, 2022, we employed approximately 143,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][13]) > * FY2023: `As of May 31, 2023, we employed approximately 164,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][14]) > * FY2024: `As of May 31, 2024, we employed approximately 159,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][15]) > * FY2025: `As of May 31, 2025, we employed approximately 162,000 full-time employees` ([Securities and Exchange Commission][16]) > > If the browser/PDF viewer is annoying, use this order: `full-time employees` → `As of May 31, 20XX` → `Employees`. The first one is usually the fastest. > > [1]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312510... > [2]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312511... > [3]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312512... > [4]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312513... > [5]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312514... > [6]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312515... > [7]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312516... > [8]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312517... > [9]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312518... > [10]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000156459019... > [11]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000156459020... > [12]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000156459021... > [13]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000156459022... > [14]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000095017023... > [15]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000095017024... > [16]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000095017025... ```

New comment by adi_kurian in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

adi_kurian — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:08:11 +0000

Nah but I'd be happy to share it with you over DM! (If they have DMs on here?)

New comment by adi_kurian in "Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle"

adi_kurian — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:43:44 +0000

Pro tip for those who like risk and are traveling regularly for non timely purposes they have dynamic pricing that rewards literal last 5m. I do Amtrak for like $15-40 NYC-PHL. You have to be signed in to the app otherwise they won't give you the sweetheart deal. Refresh reguarly the price changes constantly in the last 3-4h though I'll typically rock up to Penn and buy one 10m before.

New comment by adi_kurian in "CSS is DOOMed"

adi_kurian — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:56:29 +0000

Really cool!

New comment by adi_kurian in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"

adi_kurian — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:43:29 +0000

Yes exactly there's lossless FLAC of everything ever recorded sitting out there for the takers

New comment by adi_kurian in "Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them"

adi_kurian — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:28:06 +0000

Lots of people gaining skills with AI too.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

adi_kurian — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:22:56 +0000

I have a pretty insane thing where I patched the screen sharing binary and hand rolled a dummy MDN so I can have multiple profiles logged in at once on my Mac Studio. Then have screen share of diff profiles in diff "windows". Was for some ML data gathering / CV training.

It's pretty neat, screen sharing app is extremely high quality these days, I can barely notice a diff unless watching video. Almost feels like Firefox containers at OS level.

Have thought that could be a pretty efficient way to have restricted unrestricted convenient AI access. Maybe I'll get around to that one day.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

adi_kurian — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:18:33 +0000

I think it will, in the modern AI slop era, look more legitimate when the web UI looks a) hand rolled and b) like not much time was spent on it at all. Which makes me a tad embarassed as someone who used to sell fancy websites for a living.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

adi_kurian — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:44:03 +0000

Claude's stock unprompted / uninspired UI code creates carbon clone components. That "jai is not a promise of perfect safety" callout box is like the em dash of FE code. The contrast, or lack thereof, makes some of the text particularly invisible.

I wonder if shitty looking websites and unambitious grammar will become how we prove we are human soon.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

adi_kurian — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:39:19 +0000

I'm not recommending we build a frictionless plane, I'm just saying it doesn't have friction. This is the most politely I've ever been called a libertarian.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

adi_kurian — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:39:30 +0000

No they don't. That is the very definition.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

adi_kurian — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:42:29 +0000

People would have a different response if they did not, in my view accurately, perceive that wool is being pulled over their eyes.

New comment by adi_kurian in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

adi_kurian — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:16:00 +0000

Did it lose important detail?

New comment by adi_kurian in "Oil at $150 will trigger global recession, says boss of financial BlackRock"

adi_kurian — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:28:27 +0000

How quickly could we electrify our economies and what dent in oil dependence could be made with a will?

New comment by adi_kurian in "Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning"

adi_kurian — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:57:04 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoy_effect

New comment by adi_kurian in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

adi_kurian — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:10:36 +0000

Worth noting that it very much can cause feelings of depression, also.