Hacker News: manav

New comment by manav in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

manav — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 06:32:33 +0000

Last time I had this problem, I got it fixed after applying for and accepting a job at Apple.

New comment by manav in "Grok 4 Fast"

manav — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:21:42 +0000

We're all training similarly large base++; near same data, just pricing it differently... with grok removing a few filters and maybe some safeguards? For that matter, many of the benchmarks are flawed and are just easily gamed and whatnot. iykyk.

New comment by manav in "Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end"

manav — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 22:18:34 +0000

Very cool and what an amazing way to learn so much beyond what you do in those years at university (at least in the engineering sense). I wish we had software and hardware open to be able to run custom setups whether its NVIDIA on x64 or Ampere/arm64 with MacOS.

New comment by manav in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8"

manav — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:43:21 +0000

What is a good alternative?

New comment by manav in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

manav — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:45:16 +0000

Considering Musk's power and the shrinking moat of OpenAI you would think he would be create something better with government support - or as some new department.

New comment by manav in "Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"

manav — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:46:13 +0000

Congrats Paras.

New comment by manav in "I will never need to buy a new computer again"

manav — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:24:22 +0000

I've been waiting for this to get good enough. Can any of these apps do passthrough of USB/webcam?

New comment by manav in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

manav — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:17:09 +0000

It seemed to be some capacity issue with the CDNs. When I stopped and restarted the stream it worked again. Perhaps they do not use real time multi-cdn switching.

New comment by manav in "Show HN: Ambulate – Detailed Trip Planning"

manav — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 22:13:35 +0000

I get that ambulate just means to walk around but it gives the sense to something medical (as an American).

New comment by manav in "Is the world really running out of sand?"

manav — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:47:56 +0000

Don't we have to move to GaN anyway?

New comment by manav in "CS Career fair cancelled at community college because no companies reached out"

manav — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:29:33 +0000

I know the California CC system pretty well and have taken a few courses. In tech, there are usually two main paths: either transferring to a 4-year school for CS/Engineering, or specializing in something like Cybersecurity, AWS, Cisco, etc. For Software Engineering, there’s not gonna be any employer demand for those students at CCs since most people going that route tend to transfer to a university and their education/experience isn't really complete for that role.

New comment by manav in "Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup"

manav — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 22:04:47 +0000

PCIe bifurcation - so splitting one of the x16 slots into two x8 or similar.

New comment by manav in "Intel Honesty"

manav — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:14:35 +0000

Intel was getting something like $20 billion from the CHIPS act - but it seems like by the time the fabs would have been ready TSMC will already have them beat to 1.4nm/a14 (also using High NA EUV). Intel has just consistently failed to execute whereas TSMC has been fairly close to schedule.

New comment by manav in "UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored"

manav — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 22:15:45 +0000

Their email systems are managed by Google Workspace.

New comment by manav in "Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?"

manav — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:03:38 +0000

Some of the apps do 3d maps / AI positioning.

New comment by manav in "The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim"

manav — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 01:51:53 +0000

Wouldn't it be 2U's $800M mistake?

New comment by manav in "Copying is the way design works (2020)"

manav — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:47:14 +0000

Copying from Xerox, some irony there.

New comment by manav in "Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones in mice"

manav — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:43:19 +0000

Is there a good HN equivalent specifically for science/med/bio news? I do find interesting papers here on the topic although it's not the core focus.

New comment by manav in "Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship"

manav — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 19:48:32 +0000

Chinese-Australian. Nearly 20% of AU is Asian.

New comment by manav in "Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship"

manav — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 19:45:03 +0000

Excellent.