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New comment by asxndu in "Lobbying"

asxndu — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:10:18 +0000

I am of the perspective that it's usually politician's extorting business people.

Kind of like, "If you don't bribe us, we shall pass laws that hurt you."

Business people just want to run their businesses.

Politicians however depend on strife. Which explains why, no matter the politician, nothing ever changes.

If you are to classify business people & politicians in an ecological sense.

- Business people would be symbiotes

- Politicians are parasites

New comment by asxndu in "Theranos.world"

asxndu — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:36:12 +0000

Even the Theranos machine

New comment by asxndu in "Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language"

asxndu — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:35:15 +0000

APL would win in that regard.

Ask HN: Any cool Blue Sky accounts for hackers?

asxndu — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:24:13 +0000

What interesting Blue Sky accounts are hackers following?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935348

Points: 1

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New comment by asxndu in "56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience"

asxndu — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:54:29 +0000

Why do the websites feel faster than modern internet?

New comment by asxndu in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

asxndu — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:26:16 +0000

Wall Street Stories by Edwin Lefèvre

Ask HN: What's your AI coding set up?

asxndu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:44:41 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636239

Points: 6

# Comments: 5

New comment by asxndu in "AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA"

asxndu — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:55:28 +0000

I really love Deep Mind, its genuinely focused on using AI to make the world a better place.

New comment by asxndu in "AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward"

asxndu — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:36:37 +0000

Already exists (finasteride), only problem is that it castrates you chemicallym

New comment by asxndu in "The Master of Consilience"

asxndu — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:45:37 +0000

Internet archive link - https://web.archive.org/web/20260814052708/https://asindu.bl...

The Master of Consilience

asxndu — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:44:39 +0000

Article URL: https://asindu.blog/posts/the-master-of-consilience

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295106

Points: 1

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How to read the Attention formula from the Attention is all you need paper

asxndu — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:36:04 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2085629807656862037

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207075

Points: 2

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New comment by asxndu in "Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform?"

asxndu — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:57:47 +0000

Ok. What system WordPress?

Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform?

asxndu — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:32:20 +0000

What is the best blogging platform for personal content with a good UI?

I'm looking at EmDash

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138177

Points: 5

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New comment by asxndu in "Why don't people use formal methods? (2019)"

asxndu — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:35:12 +0000

I think it's the culture is software engineering.

In a food delivery app/social network it seems like a waste of time to use formal methods.

When designing software for aircraft, pacemakers, fintechs, cryptography and DeFi protocols there is a bit of value for formal methods. The problem is that often, people with the food app/social network culture are hired to build DeFi protocols.

Which explains why so much money is being stolen form DeFi protocols of late. So why people don't use formal methods.

- 95% of the time, the stakes are low

- 5% of the time, the engineers don't understand the value of formal methods.

Leslie Lamport once joked that if software developers were architects, they would first build a skyscraper and then later draw the blueprint.

New comment by asxndu in "Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits"

asxndu — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:25:10 +0000

With what platform? Stripe, Visa and Banks that arbitrarily ban users?

Ask HN: Why are Meta products so bad?

asxndu — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:32:09 +0000

I am trying to use WhatsApp web and it's taking over 4 minutes just to load.

Other apps like Telegram, Gmail load in seconds.

I generally noticed all meta products are so clunky. What causes this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047883

Points: 4

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New comment by asxndu in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

asxndu — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:43:50 +0000

>Use cursive

Any good resources to learn cursive?

New comment by asxndu in "What is the most beneficial way AI has impacted your daily life?"

asxndu — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:30:01 +0000

Fantastic for research!

I not longer need to talk to toxic people on Reddit.

New comment by asxndu in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

asxndu — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:20:42 +0000

"I want the defaults to be good and just work, and when I do need to tweak something minor, it should take seconds."

This is Apple's secret, its strange how so many people can't see this or why no ine has comprehensively replicated it.