Hacker News: admiralrohan

New comment by admiralrohan in "Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite"

admiralrohan — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:25:14 +0000

Interesting concept. Looks like zip replacement. UX improveemnt. I have one concern, can my machine natively read capsule file format? Else no one would open the shared files.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"

admiralrohan — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:47:26 +0000

Where are you getting mimo-v2.5 for free?

New comment by admiralrohan in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

admiralrohan — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:04:08 +0000

What will Shopify gain from this deal? Why everyone is buying dev tools. Earlier Anthropic bought BunJs. Can anyone explain the business model here?

New comment by admiralrohan in "Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter"

admiralrohan — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:45:00 +0000

Thanks for preemptively answering the question of why. And it makes sense.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

admiralrohan — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:28:12 +0000

We should prioritize original thinking over thinking about whether it's written by AI. A human can type motivational nonsense by hand, and also can use AI as a thinking partner for their original thesis. Which is more valuable?

New comment by admiralrohan in "Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?"

admiralrohan — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:28:10 +0000

The feeling that it is theoretically impossible to give everyone equal opportunity. The more I study about this topic, the more convinced I am getting about it.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

admiralrohan — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:22:02 +0000

Working on the theory to unify all existing fragmented ideas on human psychology.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

admiralrohan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:27:20 +0000

Wispr flow released android version few months back but wasn't supported in my 6 year old phone so made a similar app named Floatspeak. Which motivated me to made a windows version of it and now stopped paying Wispr flow altogether.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

admiralrohan — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:31:09 +0000

The token plan is confusing.

From their docs "After using 10M input (cache miss) tokens of MiMo-V2.5-Pro, it is equivalent to consuming 3000M Credits, and you can still enjoy 1100M Credits of MiMo-V2.5". So it's around 12M input credit vs Earlier 60M tokens.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

admiralrohan — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:34:03 +0000

Everyone already said what I wanted to say. That all US companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, MS Copilot) have increased price recently while Chinese companies (Deepseek, Xiaomi) are reducing price.

The question is how they are managing to do so? They are supposed to struggle due to chip sanctions.

Secondly, why now? The US companies were supposed to subsidize too but now they are unable to keep up. Everyone going to usage based pricing, so it's unsustainable for them. They are well funded too.

If there are genuine hardware breakthrough reducing compute needs then that is good for the whole world I believe.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

admiralrohan — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:12:35 +0000

I can't use Antigravity after this upgrade, unfortunately. No option to connect WSL for both versions so completely locked out.

One good thing is I have gained so much confidence on my work. I can't surely do worse work than those smart Google engineers.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Geography is four-dimensional"

admiralrohan — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:15:57 +0000

Same is true for humans too. About their personality. Constantly changing and you will never meet the same person twice in that sense.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

admiralrohan — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:33:05 +0000

Wow, wasn't aware that this has a official term. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

admiralrohan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:54:55 +0000

In Kolkata, sweet sellers was struggling with cost management after covid due to increased prices of raw materials. But they couldn't increase the price any further without losing customers. So they reduced the size of sweets instead, and market slowly reduced expectations. And this is the new normal now.

Human psychology is surprisingly similar, and same pattern comes across domains.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

admiralrohan — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:10:14 +0000

"Security economy: to harden a system we need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers spend exploiting them. To harden a system you need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers will spend exploiting them." - This feels similar to missile defense dilemma. Spending 2M$ missile to attack a 20k$ drone.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic"

admiralrohan — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:59:33 +0000

Very interesting idea. Old school solutions but with new methods. But maybe we can't make everything deterministic for complex cases, the scenarios that opened after LLM arrived into scene. Maybe we need a mix of both.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

admiralrohan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:22:48 +0000

Easier to boycott La liga matches. They are the root problem.

New comment by admiralrohan in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

admiralrohan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:20:39 +0000

Few years back when Indian govt banned porn websites, they also blocked football news websites like Bleacher report. People at the top has no idea about ground reality.

New comment by admiralrohan in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

admiralrohan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:47:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Parallel git branching seems to be a useful feature for me, given AI agents can be used work on multiple features at same time.

New comment by admiralrohan in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

admiralrohan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:56:06 +0000

They need to have a dedicated page explaining me why should I change my current workflow. Else I don't get the point.