Hacker News: adi_kurian

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!

New comment by adi_kurian in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

adi_kurian — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:55:05 +0000

Uncle Sam likes tax payers.

I believe the current administration, in general, appreciates those with $$.

https://www.trumpcard.gov/

New comment by adi_kurian in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

adi_kurian — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:53:01 +0000

Uncle Sam likes tax payers.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

adi_kurian — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:38:29 +0000

By bearable do you mean it exists? It's fucking shite.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

adi_kurian — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:44:19 +0000

How so?

New comment by adi_kurian in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

adi_kurian — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:25:40 +0000

Anyone in the arts is aware that creativity is not the new, it is the repackaging of what already exists into something that is itself new.

New comment by adi_kurian in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

adi_kurian — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:55:58 +0000

Are the Met lying in these FOI request responses?

https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/disclos...

New comment by adi_kurian in "Green Card Holders Targeted for Deportation by New 'Removal Apparatus'"

adi_kurian — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:54:26 +0000

I remember feeling like a made man when I got my green card. Seems to be treated like a farm-work visa now?

New comment by adi_kurian in "Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing"

adi_kurian — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:13:28 +0000

Multimodal LLMs are not blind.

Claude design in my experience is very, very solid.

New comment by adi_kurian in "Googlebook"

adi_kurian — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:45:36 +0000

My chromecast audio still works great. No idea about the rest, but that I do know.