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New comment by adithyareddy in "Resetting Xbox"

adithyareddy — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:57:32 +0000

If you're a grocery chain you know exactly how much an item costs and exactly how much you sell it for. You also simply order more or less stock of the item depending on how it's selling.

If you're a video game company, you invest millions of dollars in a project up front, for years, and you don't know until after release whether you:

- Make back all the money you spent plus a healthy profit on top.

- Just break even, but you lost the opportunity cost of all the other things that money could have been spent on with better utility.

- Your game flops and you wasted all the money you spent developing it.

It's also highly uneven. Extremely likely that King (Candy Crush) and Mojang (Minecraft) are making a ton of money, and everything else is a money pit where you pour in millions of dollars and you don't even make your money back.

New comment by adithyareddy in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

adithyareddy — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:27:02 +0000

If that was the case they would have said "equals" or "matches". Instead they say "competitive", as in win-some lose-some.

New comment by adithyareddy in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

adithyareddy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:07:43 +0000

It's changing the number of days it's looking back from 90 days to 60 days on smaller viewports - the uptime reflects that.

New comment by adithyareddy in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

adithyareddy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:39:11 +0000

It's not about the cost, it's about ideology. Same reason they've paid nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds to energy developers to abandon offshore wind farm projects. The point isn't to save money, it's to stop green energy projects, which is an ideological goal. If their decisions don't make sense to you it's because you're not viewing them through their ideological lens.

New comment by adithyareddy in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

adithyareddy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:34:57 +0000

They're ideological goals, not technical ones. If they don't make sense to you it's because you're not viewing it through their ideological lens.

New comment by adithyareddy in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

adithyareddy — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:16:41 +0000

You can't use a GoPro or one of the many body cameras where it is clearly obvious to everyone who sees you that you:

(a) Have a camera (b) Are recording?

New comment by adithyareddy in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

adithyareddy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:26:47 +0000

If this ends up being the case, 15 years from now we might look back at this as the catalyst for supercharging the energy transition across the world ex-US.

New comment by adithyareddy in "Google I/O"

adithyareddy — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:25:30 +0000

I agree, the AI overview is definitely worse. I'm talking specifically about the AI mode search (at https://www.google.com/search?udm=50&aep=11). The AI overview seems to be summarizing the search results that were returned for your query already, while AI mode seems like it's doing its own searches based on your query.

I would definitely give it a shot if you haven't tried it before.

New comment by adithyareddy in "Google I/O"

adithyareddy — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:54:07 +0000

Only speaking for myself, but I use it a lot, and intentionally. Enough that I set up a search engine shortcut for it in my browser (g type prompt here ).

I much prefer it to having to click through links to find things. My last handful of searches were:

- Looking up open hours for a local store

- Defining words

- "postgres select where string has prefix"

- "cloudformation read parameter from ssm"

Things where I want to look up a fact, but want an answer right away without having to read through multiple pages.

New comment by adithyareddy in "South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf"

adithyareddy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:21:04 +0000

India is trying to increase it's wild tiger population, but that doesn't mean you let tigers roam around in the middle of New Delhi.

New comment by adithyareddy in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

adithyareddy — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:40:23 +0000

Yes, and you can still die in a car crash if you're wearing your seatbelt, and wearing a helmet on your motorcycle won't save you from a head-on with a truck, and you can still drown in a pool with a lifeguard, and you can still die in a burning building with smoke detectors.

Harm reduction is about shifting probability distributions, not guaranteeing outcomes. Kids can still get into pill bottles with childproof medication caps, but accidental ingestion of aspirin by children reduced by 40-55% after they were mandated. [0]

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/440889/

New comment by adithyareddy in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

adithyareddy — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:10:16 +0000

The #1 priority at GitHub for this year is migrating from their own data center to Azure, any other work that gets in the way of this is being deprioritized: https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

New comment by adithyareddy in "Global Intelligence Crisis"

adithyareddy — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:50:41 +0000

He said humans. He didn't say all of them, or specify which ones, but I think we can guess.

New comment by adithyareddy in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

adithyareddy — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:13:35 +0000

The chip on the server hosting this comment was almost certainly printed with an ASML lithography machine. I get the sentiment but the bottle-cap meme needs to die. Innovation and regulation are not opposite ends of a slider where you have to pick one or the other.

New comment by adithyareddy in "NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry"

adithyareddy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:13:52 +0000

Really fun / cool project!

I've always defaulted to using https://yarnpkg.com/ to search for packages cause the npmjs.com search is so slow, but while the yarnpkg.com search is super fast, actually clicking on a package and seeing the details page takes forever.

This is super fast for both search and the details page, and it's super keyboard friendly which makes it even faster to use in practice. Definitely going to become my go-to search now. Love it, thanks for building it!

New comment by adithyareddy in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

adithyareddy — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:10:25 +0000

You can also show context in the statusline within claude code: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/statusline#context-window-us...

New comment by adithyareddy in "SQL Studio"

adithyareddy — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:17:05 +0000

What pricing are you looking at? IntelliJ Ultimate is $199 a year - $16.53 a month. This is $4 a month.

New comment by adithyareddy in "Can Bundler be as fast as uv?"

adithyareddy — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:12:34 +0000

It's definitely not super straightforward, but there's plenty of recent prior art to steal from. Ruby was probably not the best place to solve this for the first time given the constraints (similar to pip), but there's no reason the Ruby ecosystem shouldn't now benefit from the work other ecosystems have done to solve it.

New comment by adithyareddy in "Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?"

adithyareddy — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:06:27 +0000

Palantir's Blueprint UI toolkit might scratch the same itch if you're looking to build very functional, dense UIs: https://blueprintjs.com/docs/

New comment by adithyareddy in "Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer"

adithyareddy — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:44:20 +0000

Zulip does this: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/zerver/models/__ini...

Zulip in general is a great example of a large open source Django app that's been maintained and actively developed for a long time. I use it as a reference quite a lot.