Hacker News: me_vinayakakv

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"

me_vinayakakv — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:28:17 +0000

I just experienced this some time ago and could not sign in still.

Their status page shows everything is okay.

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "An interactive intro to quadtrees"

me_vinayakakv — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:06:15 +0000

Nice visualizations, thank you!

I was thinking of building an interactive visualization of mountain prominence, by progressing down the contour lines till the current contour line encircles a peak that is taller than the one that I started with.

I think Quadtrees will come handy in this visualization, if a precomputed list of all the peaks were available.

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]"

me_vinayakakv — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 04:40:04 +0000

Nice art and a good way of story telling. Thanks for your work!

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux"

me_vinayakakv — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:15:31 +0000

Agree. I immediately remembered k9s[1], a TUI to manage Kubernetes workloads.

It is written in Go as well.

[1]: https://github.com/derailed/k9s

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "When stick figures fought"

me_vinayakakv — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:40:01 +0000

Yeah, I discovered the channel through this series as well.

"Animation vs Physics"[1] was video which got started me with the channel. The presentation is beautiful there!

[1]: https://youtu.be/ErMSHiQRnc8

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "When stick figures fought"

me_vinayakakv — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 03:55:33 +0000

I remembered Alan Becker (https://youtube.com/@alanbecker) who creates stories with an array of his stick figure characters.

Sometimes, they interact with real world too!

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs"

me_vinayakakv — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:58:53 +0000

Thanks for the article and approach. How did you come up with min_score at the end? Was it by trial and error?

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs"

me_vinayakakv — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:29:21 +0000

Yeah. But I think one problem could be if this list is very large and overflows the context.

I was thinking giving the LLM a tool `(query: string) => string[]` to retrieve a list of matching labels to check if they already exist.

But the above approach sounds similar to OP, where they use embeddings to achieve that.

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "Hacker News – The Good Parts"

me_vinayakakv — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 03:23:28 +0000

Sometimes I feel hide can be used as some sort of bookmarking functionality since it can be accessed from profile always.

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "Packing the world for longest lines of sight"

me_vinayakakv — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:08:48 +0000

Nice work! Do the tiles point to actual heatmap?

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release"

me_vinayakakv — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:00:26 +0000

That happened to me yesterday and got solved on its own automatically.

If it happens next time, will check app logs (Profile Icon > Logs) to see if it contains anything useful

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras"

me_vinayakakv — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:26:39 +0000

There was a YouTube video published about them yesterday - https://youtu.be/vWj26RIlN_I

It is really amazing how much power and impact private company can have on public.

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”"

me_vinayakakv — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:12:46 +0000

Tyrion did that thing in GoT (fictional btw) - https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/45256e/s2e3_...

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files"

me_vinayakakv — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:31:27 +0000

Gemini sounds like someone trying to remove French language pack using `sudo rm -fr /*`!

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "Fine-Tuning LLMs Is a Waste of Time"

me_vinayakakv — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 03:58:18 +0000

What is the way out in such cases?

I've hit this with gemini-2.0-flash and changing the prompt ever so slightly seems to make things work, just to break it at other input.

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "PyPI Blog: Project Quarantine"

me_vinayakakv — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 10:52:37 +0000

https://socket.dev/ does a good job in detecting malicious packages in npm.

In their FAQ[1], they mention that they have plans to expand to PyPI as well.

[1]: https://docs.socket.dev/docs/faq

Stagehand - Browser automation with AI

me_vinayakakv — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 16:53:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42027532

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "Ask HN: Book recommendations for CS fundamentals for a self-taught programmer?"

me_vinayakakv — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:10:56 +0000

For CS fundamentals, I would say "Computer Science: A Programmes Perspective" covers a good portion.

https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "Rainfrog – a database management TUI for Postgres"

me_vinayakakv — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:19:16 +0000

Nice! I see DBeaver and DataGrip implementing connection layer through JDBC.

Not sure if that would be a viable option in Rust.

New comment by me_vinayakakv in "Rainfrog – a database management TUI for Postgres"

me_vinayakakv — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:17:17 +0000

Yeah. Reminds me of k9s.