Hacker News: arijun

New comment by arijun in "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"

arijun — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:21:20 +0000

I’m not sure why they don’t just open the source (are they planning on monetizing it?), but GitHub has a convenient issue tracker that everyone already has a user account for.

New comment by arijun in "When oil prices spike, where does the money go?"

arijun — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:06:17 +0000

It’s totally fair to point the first domino being his. In fact, most of your comment seems to be arguing against a position I don’t hold. However, unlike a blender, Iran has agency. You cannot rewrite history because you don’t like the actors.

New comment by arijun in "When oil prices spike, where does the money go?"

arijun — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:00:19 +0000

The first example was just the first that came to mind. The second was chosen in the opposite direction because that poster didn’t like the unintentional insinuation that the US was in the moral right; I chose something that has the opposite framing to show that it holds independently of who’s wrong.

New comment by arijun in "When oil prices spike, where does the money go?"

arijun — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:45:23 +0000

I wasn't trying to talk about the morality of the US's actions (not that the police are inherently moral), only point how it seems purposefully misleading to remove the direct actor from the equation.

If you want, we can change the moral insinuations. "The bully hit himself in the face." No, the poor kid being teased hit the bully in the face.

And in fact, rhetorical tools like that make it easier for people who disagree with the authors stance to discard the author's argument on the whole. "This person either doesn't understand the situation well enough, or is willingly lying to me. Why would I listen to them."

New comment by arijun in "When oil prices spike, where does the money go?"

arijun — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:25:22 +0000

If you want to read it as one would normally, where the X axis is the input variable, you could read it as "For a given quantity of demand, what is the maximum price the market can sustain?" So if you want to sell higher quantities of oil, the price has to decrease. The supply side is the opposite direction since costs go up as quantities go up (ignoring efficiencies of scale).

Since the graph is without units, the only relevant of their positions are the signs of the slopes, and that you need a higher price to supply oil at any given quantity (hence the Straight closed" line being higher on the graph).

New comment by arijun in "When oil prices spike, where does the money go?"

arijun — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:09:14 +0000

> the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz

Am I the only one who finds this disingenuous? It's like saying: "the police's arrival to the bank robbery took someone hostage." The police's arrival may have triggered the hostage taker's actions but it was still their actions. It's like the author let their dislike of Trump get in the way of accuracy.

It's easy enough to argue that the war is a disaster without being misleading about who did what.

New comment by arijun in "Built Dental Scope"

arijun — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:53:10 +0000

Did you click the link? Are you a bot? This is not about a physical scope, it's an online tool showing jaw/tooth anatomy.

New comment by arijun in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

arijun — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:37:29 +0000

I won’t buy Chevy since they removed CarPlay. I’m not paying $10/month for an ability my phone gives me for free (to say nothing of the other integrations CarPlay gives you).

New comment by arijun in "Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity"

arijun — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:31:25 +0000

I thought fuel cells were an energy storage system, not an energy generation system. Surely it’s cheaper to just connect the data center to the generation directly (either by upgrading the grid to handle it or building generators nearby).

New comment by arijun in "Fearless SIMD v1.0"

arijun — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:34:29 +0000

How do you compare your experience with fearless_simd vs std::simd? Besides the nightly aspect of course.

New comment by arijun in "Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?"

arijun — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:31:56 +0000

Isn’t copyright duration like 70 years? How could it have left copyright (one of the editions were published in 2013)?

New comment by arijun in "Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?"

arijun — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:29:16 +0000

The internet archive has a copy of the epub, but I have no idea if it’s a legal copy or piracy:

https://archive.org/details/the-biology-of-cancer-3rd-editio...

New comment by arijun in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

arijun — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:36:22 +0000

Care to elaborate? How is eclipse a disaster, and how does that pertain to pushing new ideas for an OS?

New comment by arijun in "Tokens too cheap to meter"

arijun — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:01:44 +0000

It might never beat out grep, but it could beat some more expensive to call tools, similar to how heuristics will often be faster than exact answers. Rust Analyzer can be slow at times, I could see an AI tool taking over a subset of its work.

New comment by arijun in "I am done with this shit"

arijun — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:21:14 +0000

Theres something ironic about the top comment being an AI summary of everything, so I don’t have think or synthesize a view for myself.

New comment by arijun in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

arijun — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:08:06 +0000

I assume cutting a trench is far cheaper than making the massive pipes that would be needed to move that amount of water.

But I would be interested to see how a solar panel covering compares economically to some other, cheaper setup.

New comment by arijun in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

arijun — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:04:08 +0000

The point is to lose less water, you’re talking about leaking water into the surrounding soil.

New comment by arijun in "Why don't machine learning research agents overfit?"

arijun — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:13:59 +0000

“You should prefer it, because it’s simple” is just restating Occam’s razor, not giving any explanation. “The simplest is more likely to be accurate” is a much better interpretation than yours.

I think the most accessible example of Occam’s razor is fitting a line to some points; you can always use a high enough order polynomial to fit the seen points exactly, but a straight line is likely closer to representing the underlying distribution.

New comment by arijun in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

arijun — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:54:31 +0000

> skills/unique_and_interesting.md

Yes, I’m sure the thousands of LLMs running the exact same instructions will all be unique.

New comment by arijun in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

arijun — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:49:49 +0000

I don't want to be tracked by x.com, but still want to be able to read links people send me to tweets. It's pretty reductive to say that people are using it because they "hate Elon so much," or even that they "want to engage with it.'