Hacker News: lazharichir

New comment by lazharichir in "GPT-6.1 Terra"

lazharichir — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:28:26 +0000

> Put yourself in the user's shoes. On what basis should one pick a model for a given task?

Create a realistic eval suite for your use case using your actual data that you manually label, with easier, more complex, rarer samples, and run each model you are considering against it and decide based on the usual confusion matrix, cost, latency, or whatever metrics matter to you. There's really no other way to know – and you might be surprised that cheaper models can often perform your task(s) relatively well at a fraction of the cost.

New comment by lazharichir in "Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?"

lazharichir — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:07:01 +0000

I am using A2A at work. It's a bit like the "microservices architecture" for agents... Allows you or teams to develop agents independently and have them interact as and when they need to. No major hurdles so far.

New comment by lazharichir in "Building secure, scalable agent sandbox infrastructure"

lazharichir — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:57:24 +0000

What can you NOT run on this, it's not very clear? Is it like MicroVMs on steroids where you can run more binaries than the strict minimum?

New comment by lazharichir in "ChatGPT Atlas"

lazharichir — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:39:50 +0000

Definitely the feature but I'm sure Gemini is seconds away (figuratively) from invading Chrome and if it has an agent mode itself, it will eat everybody's lunch in the browser space.

New comment by lazharichir in "ChatGPT Atlas"

lazharichir — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:37:47 +0000

Just excited about Agent Mode, I hope it delivers.

New comment by lazharichir in "Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps"

lazharichir — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:56:51 +0000

Quite happy when I got to play with it – but I do prefer Inngest as the code is hosted where our actual app is hosted; not on their server. So it's just easier (but it's a tradeoff).

Good tool, good tooling, congrats to the team!

New comment by lazharichir in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

lazharichir — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:51:29 +0000

From my (limited) understanding you cannot really switch these off inadvertently as they require a couple of actions in order to be switched off. So it would mean one of the pilots switched these off (and they were a few seconds later switched on again but it was too late).

But there was audio, too, and one pilot asked the other "why did you switch these off" and the second one said "I didn't".

Was there are third one in the jump seat?

New comment by lazharichir in "Batch Mode in the Gemini API: Process More for Less"

lazharichir — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:47:49 +0000

You can also do gemini flash lite for a subset and then batch the rest with flash or pro

New comment by lazharichir in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

lazharichir — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:04:30 +0000

Bedtimely[0], a personalised bedtime story generator for parents of kids aged 0-10yo. Scratching my own itch with it, especially with the participative interactive stories where the parent and child decide what happens next.

Work in progress...

[0] https://bedtimely.com/

New comment by lazharichir in "Writing toy software is a joy"

lazharichir — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:33:12 +0000

That's basically how I use it though I cannot wait for Gemini to be a click away in my browser with the current screen/page(s)/tab(s) embedded so I can ask it stuff about the current long article/documentation page. We're becoming very, very lazy.

New comment by lazharichir in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

lazharichir — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:44:44 +0000

to be fair, i'd take tame over horrendous and unparseable screen any day.

New comment by lazharichir in "Google AI Ultra"

lazharichir — Tue, 20 May 2025 20:33:02 +0000

Like taking on a gazillion of contract work?

New comment by lazharichir in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

lazharichir — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:26:25 +0000

Building HatchAStory for my own needs as a busy dad — to generate fun, personalised bedtime stories in seconds.

https://hatchastory.com/

Built a backend and web version but now focusing on an Expo/React Native app (my first ever).

New comment by lazharichir in "Alphabet Q1 2025 Earnings [pdf]"

lazharichir — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:48:30 +0000

I assume they mean that you send an Array to the model instead of a single system and user message.

New comment by lazharichir in "Show HN: Flappy Gopher with Online Ranking – A Go/WebAssembly Browser Game"

lazharichir — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 02:30:57 +0000

Good small fun project

New comment by lazharichir in "ChatGPT Pro"

lazharichir — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:25:57 +0000

The problem is user experience. It's still very much a chatbot... To justify that amount, it needs to integrate a lot more with an employee's day-to-day tools such as code editor for SWE, the browser for quickbooks, words/sheets/powerpoint, salesforce, HR tools, and so on.

New comment by lazharichir in "Our structure"

lazharichir — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 16:01:54 +0000

Still the best product/experience out there across the publicly available products. Bard is no GPT4, still, to this date.

New comment by lazharichir in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

lazharichir — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 11:34:54 +0000

I think it's also the surprise of how sudden it unfolded before the public's eyes. And that, seemingly in an organisation that's figuratively on top of the world currently, and pushing through.

New comment by lazharichir in "WeWork Goes Bankrupt"

lazharichir — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:15:35 +0000

> Most coworking places are clean, organized, have snacks, do not have Wi-fi issues

You would think so, but this is incorrect. Every single WeWork you go to, across the globe, offers the same fantastic experience from "feel good vibes" to functional meeting rooms, wifi, and ad-hoc services.

But even if there are local gems, it becomes another chore to browse listings, read reviews, spend time deciding between Coworking Space A and B and C. With WeWork and Regus/Spaces, you save a lot of time and can just get there, and get busy.

> The customer you describe "picky and willing to pay double normal rates when travelling to foreign countries" is quite of a niche use case.

Not OP but just like luxury hotels are niche, WeWork is not your local coffeeshop and does cater to a different crowd. Whether that's profitable for them or not, looks like not for now.

New comment by lazharichir in "On Depression and Founders"

lazharichir — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 06:46:34 +0000

Not true in my opinion. It's mostly that what is perceived as success may be birthed out of sacrifices, compromises, and loneliness. Many bootstrappers I know have managed to be successful but lost loved ones whilst getting there.

It does. It have to be this way, but it often takes obsessive behaviour for many to get results. And that's just unhealthy, whether you succeed or fail.