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New comment by dhruvyads in "Washington blocks Kalshi's sports prediction market over state gambling law"

dhruvyads — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:28:30 +0000

Prediction markets are useful to society for some things, sports is probably not one of them.

New comment by dhruvyads in "Will YC ever increase its capital on offer?"

dhruvyads — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:18:52 +0000

Now you get tokens and more perks than before.

New comment by dhruvyads in "What makes life worth living?"

dhruvyads — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:47:35 +0000

To contribute to a future where we can understand the nature of reality and discover answers to important questions. Most other goals are artifacts of evolutionary pressures or become counterproductive in a world of abundance (i.e can be reward hacked).

New comment by dhruvyads in "75% of PlayStation 3 games are now playable on PC"

dhruvyads — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:42:49 +0000

This can be a new benchmark - see how quickly a model can create a working emulator from scratch.

New comment by dhruvyads in "Kbd-1.0-Codex-Micro"

dhruvyads — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:31:04 +0000

Wonder if Jony Ive designed this.

New comment by dhruvyads in "SpaceX stock sinks below $135 IPO price for the first time"

dhruvyads — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:39:15 +0000

And the lock up period isn't even over yet.

New comment by dhruvyads in "Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI"

dhruvyads — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:10:51 +0000

Depends heavily on the models you use. SOTA models (Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT 5.5) are quite good in their native harness.

New comment by dhruvyads in "Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?"

dhruvyads — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:06:28 +0000

Carbon capture will become feasible once we have cheap energy. Building fusion reactors is an engineering problem (AI can help), and the cost of building them is mainly dominated by labor instead of raw materials, which humanoid robots will drive to near zero. AI could of course go very wrong, but it will make environmental problems seem trivial.

New comment by dhruvyads in "Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do"

dhruvyads — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:59:57 +0000

You can make another account and use a virtual Revolut card for payment. Otherwise use GLM 5.2 with OpenCode or Codex.

New comment by dhruvyads in "Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?"

dhruvyads — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:11:18 +0000

Claude Code can do these types of really well unless you're trying to convert in bulk

New comment by dhruvyads in "Ask HN: Favorite Sorting Algorithm?"

dhruvyads — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:56:20 +0000

Bogo sort

New comment by dhruvyads in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

dhruvyads — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:31:29 +0000

Sad to see it's not going to be open source.