Hacker News: kaushalvivek

An elegant Pomodoro timer for your terminal

kaushalvivek — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:54:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kaushalvivek/pom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653218

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Putting Intelligence to Work

kaushalvivek — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:15:55 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekkaushal.substack.com/p/putting-intelligence-to-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638804

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kaushalvivek in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

kaushalvivek — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:21:54 +0000

One-handed finger swiping to type doesn’t work as reliably as it used to either. I am not sure why.

My recent experiment has been very disappointing. Mostly post upgrading to iOS 26? I’ve had to painfully change my behaviour to two-handed typing by default.

My suspicion— they’ve changed the ML system that inferred words based on swipes, and the new one isn’t as good in real world use.

New comment by kaushalvivek in "AI Timeline Curated by AI"

kaushalvivek — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 18:37:35 +0000

A timeline of important events in artificial intelligence, curated and maintained by AI. It lists key breakthroughs, models, and inventions from the 1700s to today. The goal is to show how AI has progressed over time, step by step.

AI Timeline Curated by AI

kaushalvivek — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 18:37:35 +0000

Article URL: https://aiprogress.today

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211597

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kaushalvivek in "When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide"

kaushalvivek — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 21:22:04 +0000

Without concrete examples, this reads like an advertisement.

I am personlly very bullish on post-traning and fine-tuning. This artice doesn't do justice to the promise.

The Era of the Product Creator

kaushalvivek — Fri, 30 May 2025 19:42:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.svpg.com/the-era-of-the-product-creator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139344

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Why is quality so rare?

kaushalvivek — Thu, 29 May 2025 03:44:10 +0000

Article URL: https://linear.app/blog/why-is-quality-so-rare

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122904

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

Poke

kaushalvivek — Wed, 28 May 2025 18:46:32 +0000

Article URL: https://poke.cx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44119295

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kaushalvivek in "Letter to Arc Members 2025"

kaushalvivek — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:02:04 +0000

The controversy of the decision aside, I think this is a very well written piece of honest, unfiltered, uncomfortable communication to customers.

As a DAU of Arc, I understand and respect the decision.

New comment by kaushalvivek in "Ask HN: What's a tool you use every day that most developers haven't heard of?"

kaushalvivek — Wed, 28 May 2025 05:41:32 +0000

Hex -- voice to words: https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

In general, I think voice to text for productive work (e.g. prompting cursor) isn't getting much attention. Hex is a great tool, that works locally on top of open models, and is quite reliably.

New comment by kaushalvivek in "Good Writing"

kaushalvivek — Sat, 24 May 2025 15:36:38 +0000

I feel the essence here is -- iterative writing improves both the prose and the core point.

When you write well, you iterate. When you iterate, you improve both the prose and the core point -- because you crystalize ideas further.

This makes improvements in these seemingly perpendicular directions counterintuitively correlated.

Ironically I found this specific PG essay uncharacteristically obtuse. This could have been much shorter.

New comment by kaushalvivek in "Do not kill your ego"

kaushalvivek — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 04:49:28 +0000

“killing your ego” might promise tranquility, but it also means sacrificing a part of what drives us to become more than what we are today.

Honor your ego. Seek peace, be kind, and stay receptive to feedback—but don’t mistake that for erasing your self-worth.

Do not kill your ego

kaushalvivek — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 04:49:28 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekkaushal.substack.com/p/do-not-kill-your-ego

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41979476

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by kaushalvivek in "A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing"

kaushalvivek — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:59:22 +0000

This reminds me of Benn Stancil’s post — “The posters decide”

Winners in the tech space are increasingly pre-determined by VC-influencer cos/ individuals, who create the buzz around products.

https://benn.substack.com/p/the-posters-decide

New comment by kaushalvivek in "The future is multi-modal, and needs your attention"

kaushalvivek — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 10:40:12 +0000

The combination of computer vision with analytical and creative AI is revolutionary. Multi-modal LLMs are going to change everything. Here are some very real reasons why you should be paying attention

The future is multi-modal, and needs your attention

kaushalvivek — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 10:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://vivekkaushal.substack.com/p/the-future-is-multi-modal-and-needs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888619

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by kaushalvivek in "The Ashley Book of Knots (1944)"

kaushalvivek — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 19:04:14 +0000

Saw this video on Knot Theory a while back — the developments in this obscure branch of mathematics have been phenomenal in the last century, with wide-ranging impact.

https://youtu.be/8DBhTXM_Br4?si=vDfNBPXpj4OMfLPY

New comment by kaushalvivek in "A search for technosignatures around nearby stars"

kaushalvivek — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 06:07:03 +0000

Rather than venting, the civilisation would probably convert CO2 to a different compound, on the same planet.

New comment by kaushalvivek in "Racket frustrates me"

kaushalvivek — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:16:43 +0000

I had a professor at college who mandated Racket as the mode of learning for a software engineering course. I remember how Racket just ended up taking centre stage, figuring language-specific concepts and hacks out let the larger engineering concepts fade into the background.

I did not learn much in that course.