Hacker News: insumanth

New comment by insumanth in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

insumanth — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:21:56 +0000

Multi-Modal is the way to go. Deepmind nailed this a long back.

New comment by insumanth in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

insumanth — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:19:32 +0000

>> The bad guys won’t rest > Probably not. But we will.

This is Exceptional. Perfect EuroMaxxing

New comment by insumanth in "Apple Foundation Models"

insumanth — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:13:18 +0000

This was expected. Apple will carefully choose what & how people can use AI in their ecosystem and will make sure of it. I hope "Apple Foundation Models" Eco-system grows with support from major model providers.

New comment by insumanth in "Lisp's Influence on Ruby"

insumanth — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:12:14 +0000

As I read this, all of my favorite things about ruby compared to something like python were influenced by lisp. Ruby is a joy to program and it seems mostly due to design influence from lisp.

New comment by insumanth in "Chopped, Stored, Secured – The Story of the Hash Function"

insumanth — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:10:16 +0000

I have always been fascinated by Hash Functions. Modern hash functions are incredibly fast and unbelievably secure (crypto hashes). Also, equally important is how hashes have adopted to the usecases. We are intentionally developing slow hashes (BCrypt, Argon2id) with memory, time tradeoff to slow down hash generation as a security measure. One of the fascinating corners of Computers

New comment by insumanth in "I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models"

insumanth — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:01:38 +0000

I will be doing these things with local LLMs

Take a fast, small and powerful LLM running locally to index my personal data like images, videos, documents and enrich them and tag with the enriched metadata.

Want to group by people - Search tagged metadata and group it What to search an image by description - tagged metadata What to organize by anything - tagged metadata

This should (hopefully) put an end to my file clutter

New comment by insumanth in "The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE"

insumanth — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:56:35 +0000

This mostly applies to almost any database.

Deletes are Writes and Writes are resource intensive. This is more prominent on databases like Elastic Search.

When I was tasked to delete millions of (old) documents, it overloaded the cluster and almost brought it down. Only scalable solution was to split the index and drop the whole index.

New comment by insumanth in "Your ePub Is fine"

insumanth — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:50:00 +0000

> that bloated pinnacle of software that is 80% about DRM, 20% about the reading experience

I have never seen someone explain the adobe software so perfectly. Using any adobe software is exactly this.

New comment by insumanth in "Tailwind and slop apps"

insumanth — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:47:09 +0000

I honestly don't think this is bad. For anyone who is not a frontend engineer / designer, using tailwind gives good defaults and better LLM support. Frameworks were always about lowering the bar for entry with cost to genuine new design. The alternative is worse than this. I honestly prefer this over a backend engineer using WordPress / static site generators / other no-code platforms.

New comment by insumanth in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

insumanth — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:31:55 +0000

> MiMo Code is a terminal-based coding agent built by Xiaomi's MiMo team on top of OpenCode and open-sourced under the MIT license.

I think it is great that they built it on top of open code. Open Code harness is good and I want it to grow. Harness is very important and more projects use it, the more it is adopted.

New comment by insumanth in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

insumanth — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:27:38 +0000

> If Fable had been acting on malicious instructions—a prompt injection attack ... it’s alarming to think quite how far it could go to exfiltrate data or cause other forms of mischief.

Yet another reminder to use Sandbox and Guardrails. Trusting model to be nice is not a good way.

New comment by insumanth in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

insumanth — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:24:22 +0000

Boring is Better

New comment by insumanth in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

insumanth — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:46:55 +0000

I'm worried at the general direction of this. More and more companies will gatekeep the model capability even if it is just a few percent increase in capabilities than other models. Lot of companies will start doing this in various degrees.

New comment by insumanth in "When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug"

insumanth — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:30:11 +0000

The line that stuck with me: "Recovery after congestion collapse is an uncommon regime, but it is exactly the regime a congestion controller exists to handle." This generalizes well beyond congestion control.

Most control loops have the same property. The path the system follows 99% of the time gets well-exercised; the path it falls into when things go wrong is the path you actually need to be correct on. There's usually no way to discover the bug until you deliberately drive the system into the bad regime and watch it try to climb out.

New comment by insumanth in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

insumanth — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:19:50 +0000

My Guess

* Absorb the impact by some margin * Slash base models (which they are already doing) * Efficient software - So, end user experience is not affected. * Direct Price hike always be an option.

New comment by insumanth in "Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads"

insumanth — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:15:16 +0000

I like an AI that can answer questions with all information and context on a particular thread. It should not be visible to others in the thread / post.

You ask, it answers and that's it. It should not take over the feed.

I like the Grok Button at the side of Tweet, I dont like "@grok is this true"

New comment by insumanth in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

insumanth — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:08:20 +0000

I have used windows 7 since it launched and moved to 10 & 11. I like some design elements of windows 7, but I would absolutely not use it today.

If you think, "I should try this", Any reason why? I'm really curious to know

New comment by insumanth in "The other half of AI safety"

insumanth — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:00:51 +0000

The "route to a human" part is the bigger gap. Which human? OpenAI isn't licensed as a healthcare provider in any jurisdiction. A real intervention apparatus for 1-3M weekly flagged users is not feasible. I don't think the labs have refused to build it. I think nobody knows what it should look like, and "labs measure what they're pressured to measure" papers over that.

New comment by insumanth in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

insumanth — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:29:10 +0000

Smaller tool calling models are absolutely needed when we are trying to apply agentic workflow to on-device, small systems, where data is private.

I currently use small general purpose LLM. But a special finetune is always the way. I'll try this for my use case.

New comment by insumanth in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

insumanth — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:25:18 +0000

This is the first time I came across a change (a big one) that was implemented without passing through PEP. I thought it was standard.