Hacker News: kinj28

New comment by kinj28 in "An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them"

kinj28 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 02:37:12 +0000

Problem with modern grains 1) gluten 2) weed killers/ pesticides 3) lack of nutritional value

My father and many other people in my family increased to neutral millets and started giving up wheat as much as they can.

Those problems are worth solving for or roll back to grossini seeds and use his creative technique to not let it withered by wind and let’s you have better nutritional value

New comment by kinj28 in "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue"

kinj28 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 22:48:21 +0000

Today open AI is serving ads to App free users post their queries. If the ad is relevant and adjacent to the query then it does show the ad in the chat. It isn’t clear how relevant ads are and users behaviour on this yet but worth experimenting to learn.

New comment by kinj28 in "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue"

kinj28 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:03:00 +0000

Pre-AI, we used to spend upwards of $60K a year on Google Ads to keep our inbound pipeline running.

In the post-AI world, that spend dropped to $0. Not because Google Search suddenly stopped working, but because our segment (low-code platforms) was one of those that AI was going to disrupt significantly. We had to rethink and adapt our offering to the AI world before doubling down on marketing.

Now that we’ve repositioned and adapted our product, our marketing team has started experimenting with OpenAI as a channel, but we haven’t switched Google Ads back on.

There’s also something I find interesting about this shift. Google Ads always felt a bit like a mafia tax. When we stopped paying, our organic traffic seemed to take a disproportionate hit too. We could never quite figure out why. Maybe it was coincidence, maybe something else, but it left us questioning how independent organic search traffic really was from paid search.

New comment by kinj28 in "Ask HN: My Gemini bill shot up suddenly to 2500 USD in one day"

kinj28 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:06:49 +0000

update -- been over 5 days and google has just kept pushing their time lines. saying it needs cross team evaluation. I had similar experience with AWS and they were swift to give back credits to us. this tells me some serious issues with google and their org structure if this 2500$ is taking them a long long time to decide and involves cross functional teams. or maybe they have many more such incidents and adding up many more $$ or this is the 1st of its kind and are now putting an SOP. any one from google here?

Ask HN: My Gemini bill shot up suddenly to 2500 USD in one day

kinj28 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:24:53 +0000

our usage of gemini is very limited. using 2.5 flash or similar models. at a hackathon in bay area i used the api key in my google app script. from that day my usage overshot to insane amounts.Google started charging y card every 30 mins or so. Google support said they will help significantly waive this off but they havent been swift. any one else experienced anything similar?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50168795

Points: 10

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New comment by kinj28 in "We must pace the frontier"

kinj28 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:13:06 +0000

I would like to imagine pacing frontier is in interest of both (anthropic and open AI) as it will enable them to enlarged their depreciation

New comment by kinj28 in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

kinj28 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:44:09 +0000

I would like to imagine accounting inference revenue on trained model and the depreciation cost for training that specific model must already been capitalized + compute to serve would be a net positive margin business. Ongoing training must rather be for future models.

But again once future models arrive they would render older models useless, so the asset must be depreciating really fast.

Would love someone to throw light on revenue and cost recognition at the unit level for this.

Race to bottom in Indias voice AI market (0.15 cents/min)

kinj28 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:59:46 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/rajananandan/status/2092952143078490550

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509222

Points: 2

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New comment by kinj28 in "Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma"

kinj28 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:26:49 +0000

My father has gastric melonama and pretty much last few days left — does someone with knowledge know if this vaccine can be of any help? Or any registry available?

Show HN: MCP for building secured apps on SQL databases

kinj28 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:36:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dronahq.com/mcp-server/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49177928

Points: 1

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New comment by kinj28 in "The Cold Email"

kinj28 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:01:26 +0000

I cold emailed a researcher in Japan about gut bacteria e. Americana for cancer treatment and registering my dad for clinical trials as and when they happen. And hell yea - professor replied :)

So yes — just do it!

New comment by kinj28 in "Ask HN: Can't we think out of the box to kill the tumor?"

kinj28 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:13:31 +0000

But isn’t the case that faster you fail you get to the goal post better? Terminally ill trial vs non terminally ill can be differentiated somehow while measuring efficacy and other post trial parameters ?

New comment by kinj28 in "Ask HN: Can't we think out of the box to kill the tumor?"

kinj28 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:51:58 +0000

This seems very promising

New comment by kinj28 in "Ask HN: Can't we think out of the box to kill the tumor?"

kinj28 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:41:20 +0000

This is helpful.

Ask HN: Can't we think out of the box to kill the tumor?

kinj28 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:19:29 +0000

Current creativity is all focused around making T cells recognize tumor in my knowledge. Is there any one working in other kind of injectable cells that feed on this tumor and thinking differently?

Context: my father is a last stage patient (gastric melonama) and I think as an engineer that there ought to be some solution!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087851

Points: 7

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New comment by kinj28 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

kinj28 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:31:24 +0000

I would think everything boils down to source of funding and their narrative should get pushed!

New comment by kinj28 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

kinj28 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:37:08 +0000

I am afraid — if Chinese models go mainstream it has a clear way of pushing its narrative way beyond its otherwise borders. More like a Trojan horse it is for the Chinese.

Here is a quick example of how Chinese deepseeks agent works kn its underlying model) when asked a tough question

https://x.com/jinen83/status/2079406993979383902?s=46&t=D7hQ...

New comment by kinj28 in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

kinj28 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:33:28 +0000

Maybe a tangent point but quality of their open weights is a directly proportional to what’s gone in while training. IMHO Chinese models must have gotten heavily biased “official Chinese view” in most topics of how it sees the world. So for AGI purposes — yes a challenge would be win in the west for these open weights

I tried DeepSeek agent to get answers from Chinese models on some tough questions regarding Chinese govt and it refused. I am very keen to go a level deep and host the model and see what it really gives an answer

https://x.com/jinen83/status/2079406993979383902?s=46&t=D7hQ...

Twilio Account Hacked

kinj28 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:25:48 +0000

I did try to give VAPI my twilio account to play around. Yesterday I saw unauthorized usage & SMS's for authy was heavily used on my account. I deleted all API keys. Yet my billing kept going higher. Twilio helped me suspend the account. But i am curious an account without any API keys ideally shouldnt have got further misused. what am i missing?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805680

Points: 3

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New comment by kinj28 in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

kinj28 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:18:54 +0000

I am using it as one the agent that is automating LinkedIn outreach by running a bash script & using ai wherever it needs some decision like finding first name or what message to write, etc.