Hacker News: chintan

New comment by chintan in "Kiwi.com flight search MCP server"

chintan — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:37:43 +0000

Kinda funny - agentic flight booking was the poster use case for Semantic Web Services [1] 2001-2005. The whole thing collapsed because no one could agree on inputs/outputs (RDF/XML, ontologies). Now LLMs just wing it from plain text.

1. http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/sam/ieee01.pdf

New comment by chintan in "Framework Laptop 12 press reviews are live and Framework Laptop 13 in-stock"

chintan — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:03:31 +0000

I ran XPS Developer Edition (Ubuntu) for 5+ years without any issues.

Using Framework for past year - every day I have to reboot because it freezes with 20+ Firefox tabs (Ubuntu 22.04, AMD). Tried all options (disable vGPU etc) but no luck.

New comment by chintan in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

chintan — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:43:09 +0000

The iOS Mail app has gotten so bad. It shows errors for no reason whatosover. The other day I typed a message and hit sent (and status showed all synced) but it was not sent and not even in draft.

Any recommendations for an alternative?

New comment by chintan in "Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage"

chintan — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:56:41 +0000

As per the Ramayana (Hindu mythology), Hanuman (the monkey God) had set the city of Lanka on fire. https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/15588/why-did-h...

Just a strange coincidence.

New comment by chintan in "Meta Launches AI Studio in US"

chintan — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:14:26 +0000

What if my "AI Character" says things that are offensive or insensitive or considered rude by someone in some culture? I can see this making headlines with a AIs offending someone...

New comment by chintan in "iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens calls out Anthropic for disruptive crawling"

chintan — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:00:49 +0000

This is real. We got severely hit by their bots causing our service to go unresponsive.

New comment by chintan in "Tesla's Sales in Europe Fall to a 15-Month Low"

chintan — Wed, 22 May 2024 20:58:10 +0000

Had the exact same experience. One of the car dealerships told me that I still have to get a 6 month "service" where they move around battery packs (why?). And secondly, I remembered how I hated talking to car salesmen.

New comment by chintan in "How Amazon Became the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US"

chintan — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:16:15 +0000

Imagine the amount of solar they could put on the roof tops of those warehouses to offset the costs

New comment by chintan in "Google Brings Gemini to Gmail, Docs, Slides, and More"

chintan — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:11:32 +0000

"Google One AI Premium" - I just spilled my coffee reading this... I dont know what this is?

Locality-Sensitive Hashing

chintan — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 19:19:21 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28121133

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chintan in "Show HN: Lofi.cafe"

chintan — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:05:27 +0000

Happy satisfied user of your app! Love all the imagery! Thank You!

New comment by chintan in "Google open-sources the Lyra audio codec"

chintan — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 18:41:51 +0000

Now what could go wrong? 4 dots becomes 3 dots...[1]

1). Silicon Valley - Finale S6E7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Y77jSSHGU

New comment by chintan in "Google will delete new accounts' data by default in 18 months"

chintan — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:11:57 +0000

What about the "profile" (i.e. the model) of me that is created based on the history? i.e. https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en

I'd think thats more valuable - raw data would not really be necessary unless they need to re-learn things.

New comment by chintan in "Project Covalence"

chintan — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 22:51:17 +0000

Great initiative! There needs to be more effort towards streamlining these trials.

At TrialX [1], we also launched Covid Labs Initiative to Hack The Pandemic [2] by bringing together hackers in Clinical Trials informatics space - Drop us a note hackcovid@trialx.com if interested.

We are seeing an unprecedented activity on-the-ground at various orgs[3,4,5] where we power the clinical trials recruitment. There is a huge interest in patient/volunteer community. Any effort to streamline and accelerate would be welcome.

1. https://trialx.com

2. https://trialx.com/covid-labs/

3. https://www.pennmedicine.org/coronavirus/covid-19-clinical-t...

4. https://www.centerwatch.com/covid-19-treatment-information

5. https://clinicaltrials.med.nyu.edu/clinicaltrials/?keyword=C...

New comment by chintan in "EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices"

chintan — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:32:55 +0000

It is not necessary that my billing and shipping be same. I might order to ship elsewhere

New comment by chintan in "EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices"

chintan — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:20:37 +0000

Here is my anecdata on Apple Pay and why I stopped using it altogether:

Once I used Apple Pay from my phone to pay on a third-party website, it showed a nice popover on Safari and it automagically used my address from my info as the SHIPPING address. Neat but the address was my old address, so I edited and changed the SHIPPING address to my new address. I press OK. Then Checkout.

I see that order was shipped to my old/incorrect address. The vendor said this is the address they received. I remember changing and updating the address on the APPLE PAY popover.

I called Apple as I had entered the correct address on APPLE PAY popover, they said may be the website vendor implemented it incorrectly, there are millions of websites using Apple Pay and they CANNOT/DO NOT check those integrations. This was a breach of trust. I entered my information on a pop-over shown on Apple iPhone by Apple iOS and not the third-party website.

Bottomline: Either Apple takes full responsibility of the data entry or leave it to third-party. Else consumers are stuck in limbo

New comment by chintan in "Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap"

chintan — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:41:02 +0000

Hundreds of organizations, including ours, rely on Rocket.Chat for their internal messaging. It all went down when a release was pushed and snap decided to auto-update [1] I can imagine it resulted in a huge loss of productivity at all these orgs in the Covid era.

Just learnt from this thread that apt-install will install snap! I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 + i3 (Dell Developer Edition) but will change to Debian.

[1]. https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/17628

New comment by chintan in "Siri, What Time Is It in London?"

chintan — Fri, 22 May 2020 15:04:44 +0000

There is an entire new class of species breeding over there: "Artificial Humans" [1]: A quantum state thing that may or may not be a real human. You can never tell. This is beyond Turing test. A real human behaving as bot or vice versa.

[1]. https://trialx.com/blog/google-play-bans-our-covid-app-built...

New comment by chintan in "YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy"

chintan — Fri, 22 May 2020 04:03:33 +0000

Our Covid app was built for a local Govt in India with all official documentation and yet it was banned and no explanation.

New comment by chintan in "Google apologises for removing Podcast Addict app from store"

chintan — Wed, 20 May 2020 23:26:13 +0000

We got banned even after producing documentation from government - https://trialx.com/blog/google-play-bans-our-covid-app-built...