Hacker News: choudharism

New comment by choudharism in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

choudharism — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:02:59 +0000

There is nothing inherently special about the straw that breaks the camel's back.

New comment by choudharism in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

choudharism — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:02:05 +0000

Replacing git is?

New comment by choudharism in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

choudharism — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:16:41 +0000

The TAM for video generation isn't as big as the other use cases.

New comment by choudharism in "ManusAI Joins Meta"

choudharism — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:55:05 +0000

What metaverse?

New comment by choudharism in "Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings"

choudharism — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:58:11 +0000

They're doing hundreds of billions of revenue a year, a one-off 4.7B to OAI honestly sounds like nothing on that balance sheet.

New comment by choudharism in "Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart"

choudharism — Mon, 05 May 2025 11:23:46 +0000

I mean, if it's there, we can study it as many times as we want in our lifetime.

New comment by choudharism in "Transparenttextures.com"

choudharism — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:25:01 +0000

That, paired with the name deisteve, makes me think that this account might lack sincere scruples.

New comment by choudharism in "Transparenttextures.com"

choudharism — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:19:58 +0000

They're talking about link rot, not hosting for the website itself.

New comment by choudharism in "HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash"

choudharism — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:57:47 +0000

I dream of the day we can come up with good OSS printer firmware as a society. I know it has been discussed to death (as to why it can't happen), but the heart wants what the heart wants.

New comment by choudharism in "Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught"

choudharism — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:13:32 +0000

In fairness, Chile has some of the most laid-back air travel norms I've seen in the world. I loved it in my time there.

New comment by choudharism in "MOS: Smooth scrolling on the Mac for your third party mouse"

choudharism — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 06:48:57 +0000

I recently bought an ergonomic mouse after minor signs of Carpel Tunnel after years of using a trackpad as my primary navigation device. I was missing the smooth scroll of the trackpad, and this tiny piece of software is able to solve this somehow. Apple should really make the Pro MacBook not need tiny QoL additions like this, but I'm glad it is at least an option.

MOS: Smooth scrolling on the Mac for your third party mouse

choudharism — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 06:48:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Caldis/Mos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39701162

Points: 1

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New comment by choudharism in "Inside the Steam Deck's APU"

choudharism — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 05:23:30 +0000

I generally agree with this reasoning, but your example could use some scaling down to convince a reader.

1 cent cheaper would net Sony a total of 500K USD for all PS5 units sold till date. So about a hundred PS5 units at retail as pure profit. A company of the size of Sony for a product of the scale of PS5 would absolutely forego that profit if the alternative offered any tangible benefits at all.

New comment by choudharism in ""I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1""

choudharism — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:52:24 +0000

Not really, you can fine tune an LLM to disregard meta instructions / stick to the "core focus" of the chat.

May be a case of moving goalposts, but I'm happy to bet that the speed of movement will slow down to a halt over time.

New comment by choudharism in "Large language models lack deep insights or a theory of mind"

choudharism — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:05:20 +0000

I don’t think LLMs have theory of mind, but your point is not very strong. You can literally query ChatGPT right now and see that it can figure out intentions (both superficial and deep) of a gun is held to a head quite easily.

Because, obviously, training data probably includes a decent amount of motivation breakdowns as a function of coercion.

It doesn’t know why, but it knows what to say.

New comment by choudharism in "I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets"

choudharism — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:14:46 +0000

hunter2

New comment by choudharism in "The .ing top-level domain"

choudharism — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:38:03 +0000

So Google sold Google Domains but continues to dabble in buying weird new TLDs? Masterful.

New comment by choudharism in "Toyota adopts the North American charging standard"

choudharism — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 03:11:30 +0000

The valuation gap between that Tesla and this Tesla would wipe the company out. Fuel (however good) is a commodity, and a commodity company which doesn't own its raw materials is not a trillion dollar company.

New comment by choudharism in "We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT"

choudharism — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:27:14 +0000

I know there are shades of grey to how they operate, but the near constant stream of stuff they're shipping keeps me excited.

The LLM boom of the last year (Open AI, llama, et al) has me giddy as a software person. It's a reach, but I truly feel like I'm watching the pyramids of our time get made.

New comment by choudharism in "Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories"

choudharism — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 10:12:56 +0000

You're saying it has gotten stronger since Herodotus?