<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: asaddhamani</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=asaddhamani</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:28:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=asaddhamani" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been building a shared memory layer across all AI tools<p>www.memoryplugin.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:12:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48885366</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48885366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48885366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They also posted on Instagram saying autonomous killing would hurt Americans. So non American people don’t matter?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:44:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177338</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "New YC homepage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or economic ruin, societal ruin they may cause along the way, like OpenAI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:51:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46741612</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46741612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46741612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yes thats the one</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:07:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587927</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The iOS compass redesign is particularly egregious</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:01:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580712</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Call me cynical but I think designers need to occasionally break things that were already solved long ago to justify their continued relevance. Explains a lot of redesigns that make things only worse, reshuffling interfaces, hiding things behind menus in form over function redesigns, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:56:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580662</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MemoryPlugin (<a href="https://www.memoryplugin.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.memoryplugin.com</a>)<p>Long term memory for dozens of AI tools, designed for power users who want more control and flexibility than native memory systems and who do not want to be locked into any one platform. You can also have the system remember your entire chat history going back years and use this information to help you better in new chats, it sometimes makes chats 10x more useful when I say something like: “Using recall tool, do 10+ calls for 1000 tokens context each to learn about my interests, strengths, curiosities, what I’ve tried in the past, what worked, what didn’t, etc and suggest a new hobby I would enjoy”.<p>Without long term recall, AI is a super intelligence in your hands that uses the knowledge of the world to give you generic, nearly useless advice because of how generic it is. With long term memory, you have a super-intelligence that knows YOU. This is what MemoryPlugin solves for.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.asad.pw/ai-and-the-economy/">https://www.asad.pw/ai-and-the-economy/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45889039">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45889039</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:15:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.asad.pw/ai-and-the-economy/</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45889039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45889039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love Tower and have paid for it for years. I can’t imagine using the git CLI now. GUIs were invented for a reason and the git CLI has terrible ergonomics and many ways to make costly mistakes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:14:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45884059</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45884059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45884059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been working on MemoryPlugin (<a href="https://www.memoryplugin.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.memoryplugin.com</a>), a tool that adds long term memory across AI tools<p>Lately I’ve worked on a chat history based memory feature that can recall information from every conversation you’ve ever had with ChatGPT and Claude. It’s been particularly useful and also technically fun to implement. Speed has been very important as I do just in time summarisation and a multi stage RAG pipeline, and most LLMs have unacceptable performance. I ended up going with GPT-OSS on Groq due to its ultra low latency often completing full generations before Gemini or ChatGPT APIs return even the first token.<p>The ability to recall details from conversations going back years makes tasks where I want personalised plans or feedback like 10x more useful, at times I get the AI to ingest tens of thousands of tokens of context to help me better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:41:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45872491</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45872491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45872491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find the python tooling so confusing now. There’s pip, virtualenv, pipx, uv, probably half a dozen others I’m missing. I like node, npm isolates by default, npx is easy to understand, and the ecosystem is much less fragmented. I see a python app on GitHub and they’re all listing different package management tools. Reminds me of that competing standards xkcd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:28:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751820</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been working on a tool to add long term memory to various AI tools. It started last year as a small scratch-your-own-itch side project. After using ChatGPT Plus for a month, I went back to TypingMind, my go-to AI client at the time, but I really missed the memory feature and wanted it there. So I made a simple memory plugin for it.<p>Over time, the project has grown to now support more than 17 platforms, thousands of users, and has been growing organically.<p>As of most recently a major feature I've been working on is full chat history based memory. Being able to remember and recall every conversation you've ever had across multiple supported AI tools, similar to the reference past conversations feature in various AI apps. This has been pretty intense and fun. Ingesting tens of millions of tokens per user, and doing complex multi-stage RAG on-the-fly across this vast dataset with a tight latency target for UX.<p>The project is MemoryPlugin: <a href="https://www.memoryplugin.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.memoryplugin.com</a><p>Another project is a RAG app that's built specifically for books. No "we work with your receipts, and legal documents, instruction manuals, product documentation, lecture transcripts, your dogs novel, the script for a play and everything else possible". I wanted something tailored for books, specifically, non-fiction books. When you try to work everywhere, you can not deliver an amazing experience for any one specific use case. AskLibrary is tailored for non-fiction books, so everything from the answer generation pipelines, to the ingestion pipeline, and various other features are all designed for this specific use case. <a href="https://www.asklibrary.ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.asklibrary.ai</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:14:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423500</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think a few of the things you’ve mentioned in the ChatGPT article are hallucinations. There’s no user interaction metadata about topics, average message length etc., you asked the AI and it gave you a plausible sounding answer. Also the memories / snippets of past conversations aren’t based on like last 30 conversations or so and they aren’t provided to every message. They are doing some kind of RAG prompt injection and they remove the injected context in the next message to not flood the context window. The AI itself seems to have no control over what’s injected and when, it’s a separate subsystem doing that injection.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:02:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45230226</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45230226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45230226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "DeepSeek-v3.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my experience, Qwen 3 coder has been very good for agentic coding with Cline. I tried DeepSeek v3.1 and wasn't pleased with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:23:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983651</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "Cerebras Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Claude now does have a weekly limit so if you are able to hit your weekly (undisclosed, dynamic) limit in 2 days, you're unable to use the services for the next 5 days. That is what Cerebras is referencing with no weekly limits. Claude has session count limits, dynamic limits within each session, and now weekly limits on top of all that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:43:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766824</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "Gemini 2.5 Deep Think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find it interesting, how OpenAI came out with a $200 plan, Anthropic did $100 and $200, then Gemini ups it to $250, and now Grok is at $300.<p>OpenAI is the only one that says "practically unlimited" and I have never hit any limit on my ChatGPT Pro plan. I hit limits on Claude Max (both plans) several times.<p>Why are these companies not upfront about what the limits are?</p>
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<p>I can't trust MTEB as there's been a huge difference between benchmark scores and actual performance.<p>I made a small tool to help me compare various embedding models: <a href="https://www.vectorsimilaritytest.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vectorsimilaritytest.com/</a><p>Qwen embedding models score very highly but are highly sensitive to word order (they use last token pooling which simplified means they only look at the last word of the input). Change the word order and the scores change completely. Voyage models score highly too, but changing a word from singular to plural can again completely change the scores.<p>I find myself doing a hybrid search, rerank and shortlist the results, then feed them to an LLM to judge what is and isn't relevant.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.asad.pw/the-app-i-never-launched/">https://www.asad.pw/the-app-i-never-launched/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692386">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692386</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 08:21:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.asad.pw/the-app-i-never-launched/</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>API prices are way higher than actual inference cost.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 05:15:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539503</link><dc:creator>asaddhamani</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by asaddhamani in "Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>DeepInfra is amazing in terms of price, like really, they have the Qwen3 embedding model for $0.002 per mn tokens. That's an order of magnitude cheaper than most alternatives with better benchmark scores. But the performance P99 is slow and the variance is huge. For latency sensitive workloads it's problematic, if they can fix that it'll be a no-brainer to use them. DeepInfra does tend to have the lowest prices of any API provider.</p>
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