Hacker News: amykhar

New comment by amykhar in "Using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics"

amykhar — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:12:58 +0000

https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2039814446479192187#m

New comment by amykhar in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

amykhar — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:20:42 +0000

Fingers crossed that this https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.... doesn't have any effect.

New comment by amykhar in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

amykhar — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:49:09 +0000

He wasn't really getting rid of stuff though. He was moving it to "cold storage" so the primary storage was clear. When he needed a rarely used thing again, he could get it out of cold storage.

New comment by amykhar in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

amykhar — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:45:57 +0000

Doubtful. Despite your articulate counter-argument, I am unconvinced of your viewpoint.

New comment by amykhar in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

amykhar — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:46:22 +0000

When I was growing up, I remember some drama because East German and Soviet male athletes were trying to compete as women. If male to female trans athletes were allowed to compete, I imagine it would just be a matter of time before a female athlete would HAVE to be trans in order to stand a competitive chance.

New comment by amykhar in "Learnings from a No-Code Lib: Keep the Spec Driven Development Triangle in Sync"

amykhar — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:18:28 +0000

This is interesting. It seems like it may only be applicable to brand new projects though. Could you envision it working for large, existing applications that wouldn't have specs for the existing code?

New comment by amykhar in "Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation"

amykhar — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:11:46 +0000

Businesses should definitely support the open source projects that they use. I'm still astounded that professional developers seem so adverse to paying for the tools and libraries that they use to make their own money.

New comment by amykhar in "Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline"

amykhar — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:10:12 +0000

I'm frankly disappointed that number isn't much higher.

New comment by amykhar in "$6 Michelin Stock in 60 Minutes [video]"

amykhar — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:51:18 +0000

I watched that video the other day and immediately ordered an Instant Pot

New comment by amykhar in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

amykhar — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:36:25 +0000

Cause what this country needs is to automate away even the gig economy jobs that are out there. Let's keep making a few people rich and screw all the normal people out there.

New comment by amykhar in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

amykhar — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:44:50 +0000

I don't really need AI in my browser. I do like spaces in Arc, and how it handles cleaning up my tabs. The color coding of the sidebar for the various profiles is the one feature I haven't been able to find in things like Orion, Vivaldi, Firefox, etc. By color coding, I mean the ability to make the entire sidebar a different color, which helps me make certain I don't do stupid things in prod.

New comment by amykhar in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

amykhar — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:53:54 +0000

I also hated that they were trying to make it a free tool, which would mean selling user data to make money, and would require growth at all costs.

These days, I'm trying to migrate to paid tools. I would much rather work with a slower growing company that has a real business model other than grow and sell out.

New comment by amykhar in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

amykhar — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:50:35 +0000

I love the Arc Browser, but they discontinued development on that. I honestly have no interest in Dia at this point. AI is already available in any of the tools that I would want it in, and I don't think I would want any one company having visibility into more of my apps and data.

New comment by amykhar in "US deports immigrants from Jamaica, Cuba to African kingdom of Eswatini"

amykhar — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:12:19 +0000

One article I read said their home countries refused to accept them https://kagi.com/news#2025-07-16-11

New comment by amykhar in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

amykhar — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:12:44 +0000

I don't think this is true of all companies. My current company doesn't base bonuses on individual contributions, and even went so far as to reduce the number of "story points" that top contributors did in sprints so that the rest of the team wouldn't look bad.

New comment by amykhar in "Ask HN: How do you improve your writing?"

amykhar — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:44:19 +0000

Not sure if this is an option where you are, but I became a "stringer" for my local newspaper for a while. Writing tightly, under deadline, with an editor reviewing my work helped improve my clarity quite a bit.

New comment by amykhar in "Updates to H-1B"

amykhar — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:21:41 +0000

That is absolutely what these kinds of Visas are NOT supposed to be addressing.

New comment by amykhar in "The future of software is Nix"

amykhar — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:34:46 +0000

It's not going to be the future of anything if it doesn't get much better documentation.

New comment by amykhar in "New technology could reduce the amount of energy for air conditioning"

amykhar — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:36:33 +0000

It would be cool if they could put some of this technology into commercial grade dehumidifiers even before they get put into HVAC systems. If you could run a super efficient portable dehumidifier and boost the performance of your HVAC system, it would be much faster to reduce overall energy consumption because it would be far less expensive than upgrading an entire HVAC system.

New comment by amykhar in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"

amykhar — Fri, 24 May 2024 15:28:21 +0000

Would love one - but I was recently burned by an expensive Android e-ink tablet with janky software and meh hardware. I need to be able to touch and play with one before I'd even consider buying it. I hope you make it into retail stores.