Hacker News: nimish

New comment by nimish in "Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming"

nimish — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:35:41 +0000

I remember writing a little screensaver for the NDS. Got me into programming in a way

New comment by nimish in "Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future"

nimish — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:31:50 +0000

That seems like it's within striking distance of competitive, no? You get some major advantages in size and production automation. Perhaps it's ok for it to die sooner if you can get it built now and then replace it later.

New comment by nimish in "In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far?"

nimish — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:40:46 +0000

We already have had that ossified layer thing multiple times in mathematics. Formalisms change. For example, prior to vector calculus writing out multidimensional PDEs was tedious. Vector calculus has serious issues in its own right, so you get people pushing geometric algebra. In more rarefied domains you have things like categories and sheafs replacing the previous "ossified" layer.

It'll keep going on and on.

New comment by nimish in "Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source"

nimish — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:01:38 +0000

Have to say marimo is excellent and is a breath of fresh air compared to Jupyter!

New comment by nimish in "The illegible nature of software development talent"

nimish — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:29:33 +0000

Over a century old! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect

New comment by nimish in "Reverse brain drain: governments hope to lure talent after US visa change"

nimish — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:53:05 +0000

The UK's tier 2 and the EU's blue card are strictly better than the US H-1B to green card mechanism and have been for over a decade. You face no 7% per country capping on naturalization. Has it worked out? These visas look like O-1 competitors more than anything, not H-1B.

New comment by nimish in "Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments"

nimish — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 03:17:31 +0000

Are there details on what visas Hyundai needed they couldn't get? L-1A/B for sending experts or management would make sense but I'm not sure there's any real issue getting those, especially not in 2023 when the plant was started.

New comment by nimish in "Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door"

nimish — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:28:00 +0000

That consumption figure is per acre of almonds. But your point is still valid. In total almonds or other crops like alfalfa consume millions of acre-feet of water a year in a dry state like California while a single data center only consumes ~500-1000.

New comment by nimish in "EU rules ask tech giants to publicly track how, when AI models go off the rails"

nimish — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:10:26 +0000

Why would anyone develop AI models in the EU? You have a lot of compliance requirements and there's fewer enterprises that will pay for them

New comment by nimish in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

nimish — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:21:14 +0000

A half baked programming language that isn't deterministic or reproducible or guaranteed to do what you want. Worst of all worlds unless your input and output domains are tolerant to that, which most aren't. But if they are, then it's great

New comment by nimish in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

nimish — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:50:06 +0000

Interoperability is, and always was, the hardest part of programming systems together. It's telling that the ai tooling needed sustained non ai effort to expose the interfaces via MCP (or ws-* or rest or an enterprise service bus or xml or CORBA or EJB or...)

New comment by nimish in "Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights"

nimish — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:07:38 +0000

I wish I wasn't medically barred from having a pilot's license. Not for the pay, but I just like the idea of flying. Unfortunately, I cannot. I recommend people use their salaries to learn how to fly regardless! It's maybe ~$15-20k to get a PPL which is doable for the tech crowd with some planning.

New comment by nimish in "Libraries are under-used. LLMs make this problem worse"

nimish — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:56:24 +0000

At this point it seems like just learning the library is easier than trying to cram the documentation into an LLM compatible format.

New comment by nimish in "The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More"

nimish — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 01:19:01 +0000

Iirc it was due to a literal computer finding it funny, back when computer was a job title and not a machine.

New comment by nimish in "Infinite Grid of Resistors"

nimish — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 01:16:04 +0000

In the integral, the h_m(s) are chebyshev polynomials of the first kind

New comment by nimish in "The race to find GPS alternatives"

nimish — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 23:36:30 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar-based_navigation is a fun one, if not that practical

New comment by nimish in "(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling"

nimish — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:27:18 +0000

This paragraph alone is fundamentally better than the page or so of text in the blog post.

I'm not sure what it is about the style of technical writing I've seen lately but just directly getting to the point versus trying to obfuscate the thesis on a potentially controversial topic is increasingly rare

New comment by nimish in "MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0"

nimish — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:03:06 +0000

Rent seeking is the name of the game for much of b2b SaaS.

MCP is an attempt to make that easy, but the issue here is that a lot of the companies offering integration could be disintermediated entirely by LLMs. Hard to say what that means.

New comment by nimish in "Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings"

nimish — Wed, 21 May 2025 20:17:12 +0000

Hooray, finally we are getting the geometric analysis of embedding spaces we need. Information geometry and differential geometry is finally getting its moment in the sun!

New comment by nimish in "Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost"

nimish — Mon, 19 May 2025 22:22:32 +0000

Lack of wisdom and judgment. Ironic.