Hacker News: indiantinker

New comment by indiantinker in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

indiantinker — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:48:51 +0000

It speaks like Kevin from The Office (US) https://youtube.com/shorts/sjpHiFKy1g8?is=M0H4G2o0d6Z-pBAC

How to help your entrepreneur friends

indiantinker — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:43:12 +0000

Article URL: https://indiantinker.bearblog.dev/fargin-or-how-to-truly-help-your-entrepreneur-friends/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296234

Points: 1

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Bet on German Train Delays

indiantinker — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:42:20 +0000

Article URL: https://bahn.bet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245211

Points: 303

# Comments: 199

China Floating Turbine Passes Testing and Completes a Grid-Connected Flight

indiantinker — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:53:56 +0000

Article URL: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/02/13/china-floating-turbine-passes-testing-completes-a-grid-connected-flight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178668

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

indiantinker — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:13:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924056

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Slurping the Claude Code Word Soup

indiantinker — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:49:55 +0000

Article URL: https://indiantinker.bearblog.dev/slurping-the-claude-code-word-soup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848323

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by indiantinker in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

indiantinker — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:39:09 +0000

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

New comment by indiantinker in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

indiantinker — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:48:20 +0000

Designed in the era of Use-maxing vs Status-maxing. I think modern cars are taking a lot of car experience out and putting in the phone experience in. My Maruti Suzuki 800 was such a fun car to drive. Easy to repair. Decently efficient. Repair manual was understandable.

The new electrics are great. But they are less of a car and more of a transportation technology.

Objects of Desire

indiantinker — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:09:57 +0000

Article URL: https://indiantinker.bearblog.dev/the-object-of-desire-embodiment-manipulation-and-desire/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436776

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by indiantinker in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

indiantinker — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:44:47 +0000

DB is weird. They seem to make their own rules and then run the game and “dont tell the rules to anyone”. I was on my way to catch a flight from Munich to my home (Madrid). I didn’t knew that apparently at one point the train splits into two parts and the front part goes to the airport and the other part just goes to the nearby cattle farms and comes back in 3 hours.

Google Maps - No idea Citymapper - what? English announcement - nien.

Thanks to an old lady, who told me that i needed to switch coaches to go the airport. Madre mia!!

AI Augmentation vs. AI Amputation

indiantinker — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:06:34 +0000

Article URL: https://indiantinker.bearblog.dev/ai-augmentation-ai-amputation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337116

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Self Vaping Vape Machines

indiantinker — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:42:09 +0000

Article URL: https://indiantinker.bearblog.dev/adding-more-smoke-to-your-projects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242466

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Psychogenic Machine: Simulating AI Psychosis

indiantinker — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:50:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10970

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45992517

Points: 4

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Kurgan Hypothesis

indiantinker — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 11:14:28 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780795

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by indiantinker in "Affinity Studio now free"

indiantinker — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:30:39 +0000

Interesting. Yes, the pro features seem to be just about ai these days. I used affinity’s indesign equivalent while at work and it was quite good. I wonder what the business model is? Same as figma a while back?

New comment by indiantinker in "Affinity Studio now free"

indiantinker — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:39:03 +0000

So did they buy Affinity and all their tools and gave it for free?

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/about/

New comment by indiantinker in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

indiantinker — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:27:58 +0000

She definitely trumped this one.

RIP Robert Murray-Smith (1963 – 2025) [video]

indiantinker — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:05:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhramXiUrY4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45515732

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by indiantinker in "The AI coding trap"

indiantinker — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:48:50 +0000

It is an interesting take. I teach programming to designers as a part of a course called "Emerging technologies". Although, it is fun to see what students create, but it is not fun to solve doubts. When you are teaching basics, the students would quickly fire up ChatGPT and make some slop up. In the end, I have to fix their codes. I think, the learning output is reduced as they have not written any code. I am genuinely concerned as an educator. One thing that is missing is differentiating AI output and understanding what to keep and what to ignore. The sheer "aesthetic" of it. I feel, many do not take time to develop this very "human" skill and become very output oriented from the very start. This, IMO, affects learning. These tools are also quite addictive due to the sense of 'manufactured' certainty they offer, which is something that hinders learning. What is the point of learning how to add when you have the cheatsheet next to you?

The male inequality problem is getting worse

indiantinker — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:35:33 +0000

Article URL: https://bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p/the-male-inequality-problem-is-getting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45396630

Points: 5

# Comments: 10