<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: konaraddi</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=konaraddi</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:42:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=konaraddi" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s awesome! Do you know how it compares to Handy? Handy is open source and local only too. It’s been around a while and what I’ve been using.<p><a href="https://github.com/cjpais/handy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cjpais/handy</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:13:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666394</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks! I want to do something similar to your LLM suggestion, the endgame is tooling for forums and individuals to improve the quality of discourse. More broadly, I think LLMs and recent advancements now make it possible to assist with self improvement (e.g., see former startup Humu’s nudges but for everyone instead of just B2B)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:25:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660021</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In single-turn use, yeah, but across dozens of turns there's probably value in optimizing the output.<p>Btw your point lands just as well without "Cute idea, but" <a href="https://odap.knrdd.com/patterns/condescending-reveal" rel="nofollow">https://odap.knrdd.com/patterns/condescending-reveal</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:44:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652551</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> applying this compression algorithm at scale may significantly relax the memory bottleneck issue.<p>I don’t think they’re going to downsize though, I think the big players are just going to use the freed up memory for more workflows or larger models because the big players want to scale up. It’s a cat and mouse race for the best models.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:22:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562574</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Full quote from Fuller for others<p>> You do not have the right to eliminate yourself, you do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to highest advantage of others. You and all men are here for the sake of other men.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:14:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562496</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nvm! I used an artist link but it needed a track link</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:53:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525809</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525809</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> couldn't load artist — Spotify API is temporarily unavailable</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:50:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525791</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How? Are there instructions?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:46:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495552</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "You are not your job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>DoD spent $1.43 trillion in FY2026<p>Around ~1 million homeless in US<p>Let’s say it costs $10K/month/person so $120K/yr/person. Probably a big overestimate but gotta include healthcare and help people with long term stability.<p>That’s 120,000 x 1,000,000 = 120,000,000,000 or $120 billion USD.<p>Idk what the Nth order effects would be but yea I think what you’re saying tracks in the numbers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:43:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484056</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Nasdaq's Shame"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There’s a lot to address here but in short: VFIAX is an index fund, it tracks the S&P500 index, it’s not actively managed, SpaceX will likely be in the S&P500, so my comment around VT applies to VFIAX (as far as the question of exposure is concerned) but to a greater extent than VT (see VT’s composition vs VFIAX’s composition).<p>Obligatory not financial advice, I’m not an expert, don’t make any financial decisions based on hacker news comments, etc</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:11:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394798</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Nasdaq's Shame"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it’d be a rinse and repeat of the line of thinking for VT but more exposure than VT.<p>From VIFAX fund’s description on vanguard:<p>> The fund offers exposure to 500 of the largest U.S. companies</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:54:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394233</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Nasdaq's Shame"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>QQQ rebalances on a schedule. Existing holders are affected because the fund’s underlying composition will change.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:19:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393591</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Nasdaq's Shame"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My understanding: It depends on what index the fund is tracking. QQQ tracks the Nasdaq-100 so QQQ is vulnerable. VT tracks the FTSE Global All Cap Index so VT is not <i>directly</i> affected by Nasdaq’s choices but is still exposed to some extent because spacex is likely going to be in the aforementioned FTSE index, Nasdaq’s actions impact spacex’s market cap, and thus Nasdaq’s actions impact spacex’s position in the aforementioned FTSE index which in turn affects VT’s composition (to a smaller extent than QQQ’s).<p>EDIT: to be clear the above are just examples with two funds (QQQ and VT)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:10:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393522</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393522</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I work at aws and generally use Claude Opus 4.6 1M with Kiro (aws’s public competitor to Claude Code). My experience is positive. Kiro writes most of my code. My complaints:<p>1. Degraded quality over longer context window usage. I have to think about managing context and agents instead of focusing solely on the task.<p>2. It’s slow (when it’s “thinking”). Especially when it’s tasked with something simple (e.g., I could ask Claude Opus to commit code and submit for review but it’s just faster if I run the commands myself and I don’t want to have to think about conditionally switching to Haiku / faster models mid task execution).<p>3. It often requires a lot of upfront planning and feedback loop set up to the extent that sometimes I wonder if it would’ve been faster if I did it myself.<p>A smarter model would be great but there are bigger productivity gains to be had with a good set up, a faster model, and abstracting away the need to think about agents or context usage. I’m still figuring out a good set up. Something with the speed of Haiku with the reasoning of Opus without the overhead of having to think about the management of agents or context would be sweet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:24:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47391478</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47391478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47391478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "UBI as a productivity dividend"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We've effectively had that here with the ACA, where the government has decided that it will cover the first $800 or so dollars of your health insurance. What happened? Magically, the cost of health insurance increased by $800.<p>I don’t think that’s an accurate description of ACA [1], it didn’t lead to a dollar to dollar increase in premiums (share a citation if otherwise), and it’s a bit misleading to say it led to an increase in premiums because plans pre-ACA were effectively inaccessible to and lacking in benefits for impoverished people or people with pre-existing conditions.<p>[1] Here’s a brief description of ACA from Wikipedia:<p>> The act largely retained the existing structure of Medicare, Medicaid, and the employer market, but individual markets were radically overhauled.[1][11] Insurers were made to accept all applicants without charging based on pre-existing conditions or demographic status (except age). To combat the resultant adverse selection, the act mandated that individuals buy insurance (or pay a monetary penalty) and that insurers cover a list of "essential health benefits". Young people were allowed to stay on their parents' insurance plans until they were 26 years old.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:09:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381196</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "$3 ChromeOS Flex stick will revive old and outdated computers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I booted chromeos flex on a >12 year old laptop earlier this year and had a good experience with it. I wrote a bit about it here <a href="https://konaraddi.com/writing/2026-01-01-chromeos-flex/" rel="nofollow">https://konaraddi.com/writing/2026-01-01-chromeos-flex/</a> (tl;dr tried to use fedora at first but no luck with WiFi out of the box then I used chromeos flex and it worked out of the box)</p>
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<p>Speaking for myself : it's a bit creepy and unsettling. Using brain cells is probably inching closer to consciousness than today's silicon is, and consciousness isn't well understood so I'd fear this line of research could eventually lead to the "I have no mouth and I must scream" the other commenter referenced. Many decades from now we might be wondering how much of a human brain needs to be grown in a lab before it's considered unethical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:01:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304399</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://odap.knrdd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://odap.knrdd.com/</a><p>A site for anti patterns in online discourse.<p>Example: <a href="https://odap.knrdd.com/patterns/strawman-disclaimer" rel="nofollow">https://odap.knrdd.com/patterns/strawman-disclaimer</a><p>Need to gather more patterns then create tooling around making it easier to use.<p>The goal is to raise the quality of comments/posts in forums where the intent is productive discussion or persuasion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:02:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303549</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303549</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think that’s an awesome idea and I like that it proactively gets ahead of the problem instead of the retroactive approach like moderation today. I’m interested in a very similar goal; I’ve been working on a guide on anti patterns in internet discourses at <a href="https://odap.konaraddi.com" rel="nofollow">https://odap.konaraddi.com</a>  in hopes of it being used to make discourse on the internet more productive and pleasant (the guide is a work in progress).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:56:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159841</link><dc:creator>konaraddi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by konaraddi in "Claude Code Remote Control"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think a significant distinction between your approach and Claude’s approach is that your approach requires allowing your machine to accept inbound connections but Claude’s approach does not. Claude probably went with the latter to avoid a whole class of security issues and mitigate risk of users having their machines compromised. I’m not familiar with what the new vectors of attack are with Claude’s approach though.</p>
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