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New comment by orsenthil in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

orsenthil — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:03:18 +0000

Thank you. It is just funny and interesting to note people seeing Homebrew as their choice of default package manager on linux! It shows that people clearly care about the technically better solution which has a very good UX over the native choices that linux distros made over years, be it apt or yum or something else.

I install homebrew as a first thing on my corporate amazon linux too as many system packages are lacking, and I couldn't get neovim in a different way.

New comment by orsenthil in "C++: The Documentary"

orsenthil — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:46:59 +0000

Wow! This is an excellent info.

New comment by orsenthil in "C++: The Documentary"

orsenthil — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:39:50 +0000

I haven't watched this yet. With all due respect, why John Romero instead of John Carmack for a C++ documentary ?

New comment by orsenthil in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

orsenthil — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:36:24 +0000

Brooke Vibber is the single most person responsible for creating the software that runs wikipedia. There is a Brooke Vibber day in her honor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Brooke_Vibber_Day

It is wild to see she getting fired.

New comment by orsenthil in "Usborne 1980s Computer Books"

orsenthil — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:46:42 +0000

How cool it will be to pick up some interesting book from this, and give me to llm and direct it to make it a modern multiplayer game. Has anyone tried this?

New comment by orsenthil in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

orsenthil — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:20:48 +0000

If you and I can understand this paper, or use the process to achieve something similar for the ends we care about, wouldn't that be enough? Why do you care who it is coming from and what their motivations are?

New comment by orsenthil in "If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog"

orsenthil — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:40:55 +0000

How likely will an LLM agent actually donates either using credit card or using Monero tokens ? I think, it is very clever, and I give a non-zero chance of a donation happening with this text.

New comment by orsenthil in "Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket"

orsenthil — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:02:08 +0000

wow! excellent explanation. Thank you!

New comment by orsenthil in "Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket"

orsenthil — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:13:07 +0000

If the prediction markets are between people, why do people bet against the mostly likely outcome at all ?

Real anecdote. For e.g, during Superbowl 2026. The markets were allowed bets to be placed until 6 minutes to close, when Seahawks were way ahead of New England Patriots. The probablity of Seahawks winning was almost 99% and any person who places a 1000 dollar bet will make 1100 in 6 minutes. Where is the 100 dollar going to come from? Who loses that?

New comment by orsenthil in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

orsenthil — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:55:38 +0000

Since you built it, I am curious about the scientific accuracy of the movie, book and while taking the information GAIA DR3. I wanted to assume at least the stars part is science, but I think, there is a lot of fiction in that setting. Is this map the reality of what we know as science, since it came from GAIA DR3 dataset?

And, thank you very much. This is super cool and exciting. I wish such a one exists for Asimov's foundation universe (fiction).

New comment by orsenthil in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

orsenthil — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:51:14 +0000

> nothing beats the plan-review-implement loop

This is correct. I have switched back to Cursor, with sota models, after I discovered that I lost control when I gave in to industry drumbeat of using cli based agents and which presented _something_ to review and then went back again in full swing.

Ask HN: US is planning another Invasion (Cuba).Can Congress/public stop this?

orsenthil — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:47:31 +0000

Source: Dropsite / Nytimes. I am just a concerned human.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212228

Points: 7

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New comment by orsenthil in "Ask a Foolish Question"

orsenthil — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:13:36 +0000

In the other Project Gutenberg discussion, I started checking out science fiction stories, and came across this one.

Robert Sheckley wrote this in 1953, but the story has so much parallels to the modern day LLMs and their capabilities and limitations to humans.

> It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So ... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations.

Ask a Foolish Question

orsenthil — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:13:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33854/pg33854-images.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155145

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New comment by orsenthil in "Why LLMs Make Learning to Code More Important, Not Less"

orsenthil — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:30:51 +0000

> how LLMs can make learning to code more productive,

> "LLMs make learning to code as important" >> I don't see how you can get to "more important"

Oh, well, the semantics and I know it matters.

If you agree to the statement that "learning to code as important", then, it is pretty is a positive reinforcement to learn to code, rather than negative signal (don't learn as it a waste) or 0 signal (don't bother, it's a waste of time as you can prompt it away).

All I am saying is industry drumbeat is misleading us, and learning to code IS important, as much or more as we want to take our trajectory with us. Coding is not just typing code, which I have emphasized a lot in the post.

New comment by orsenthil in "Who Trusts Sam Altman?"

orsenthil — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:19:05 +0000

I really meant it.

New comment by orsenthil in "Who Trusts Sam Altman?"

orsenthil — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:47:23 +0000

I do. He is responsible for one of the major breakthroughs in the world. He is as trustworthy as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Bill Gates is. Remember, they are playing the game of Business. The rules of the game are different than say rules of scientific breakthroughs.

New comment by orsenthil in "Why LLMs Make Learning to Code More Important, Not Less"

orsenthil — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:24:52 +0000

I explore some thoughts on why LLMs make learning to code more important for a software developer.

Why LLMs Make Learning to Code More Important, Not Less

orsenthil — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:24:52 +0000

Article URL: https://senthil.learntosolveit.com/posts/2026/05/10/why-llms-make-learning-to-code-more-important-not-less.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102114

Points: 3

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People and Timeline of Modern AI

orsenthil — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:10:18 +0000

Article URL: https://senthil.learntosolveit.com/posts/2026/05/09/annotated-history-of-modern-ai-and-deep-learning.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083321

Points: 1

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