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New comment by orsenthil in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

orsenthil — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:59:20 +0000

> I think it funny how much average engineers are beginning to discover the challenges of engineering leadership and program management.

This looks like we choose to hear what we want to hear.

The understanding argument is about making the point that "The point was always to augment" the human understanding when we worked with the machines.

New comment by orsenthil in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

orsenthil — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:49:19 +0000

Congrats on supporting Linux. It makes the ecosystem more rich. Hope they will continue to maintain it and provide parity support.

New comment by orsenthil in "2026 Eclipse Webcams"

orsenthil — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:33:24 +0000

Eclipses have a special consequence to the human history. It is noted by Asimov that the first correct prediction of the Eclipse was done in May 28, 585 by Thales of Miletus and this event is considered the "Birth of Science". It took approximately 1500 years from the first (recorded) observation of eclipse (in china), the correct prediction of the solar eclipse in advance. This is truly marvelous.

Incidentally, unknown and not connected with the prediction, during the same eclipse, a 5 year battle between Medes and the Lydians came to stop as the armies got scared, if it was a divine intervention and they let their arms down.

New comment by orsenthil in "Chicken Scheme 6.0"

orsenthil — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:37:56 +0000

For an introduction:

CHICKEN is a compiler that translates Scheme source files into C, which in turn can be fed to a C compiler to generate a standalone executable. An interpreter is also available and can be used as a scripting environment or for testing programs before compilation.

The Norway Problem in YAML

orsenthil — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:39:52 +0000

Article URL: https://senthil.learntosolveit.com/posts/2026/08/10/the-norway-problem-in-yaml.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249387

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by orsenthil in "Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse"

orsenthil — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:54:18 +0000

Such a sophisticated website with great details. Good luck on watching. I think, rest of folks in other parts of the word will be tuning in virtually.

New comment by orsenthil in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

orsenthil — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:47:53 +0000

> I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health. It’s time for AI to prove its unequivocal value to the world, and what better way to demonstrate that than to help finally cure diseases like cancer.

Here is someone spelling out explicitly what we should be discussing. More power to you, Demis Hassabis. Thank you!

New comment by orsenthil in "Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields"

orsenthil — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:25:54 +0000

Mental Health Data.

New comment by orsenthil in "Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields"

orsenthil — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:18:25 +0000

Shouldn't this be a private dataset?

Ask HN: Which Linux distribution is capitalizing on AI momentum?

orsenthil — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:53:22 +0000

It looks like there is a huge opportunity for Linux distros to become the de-facto operating system not just on servers, but on desktop used by general public too. It is free and perhaps using AI can be made significantly better for people using windows or mac to migrate over.

Which distribution is trying to capitalizing on this momentum? If no one, why not?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129429

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by orsenthil in "The bond market isn’t buying what Fed Chair Warsh is selling"

orsenthil — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:54:13 +0000

The interesting thing is, US media, US social media driven by Big Tech algorithms, Google Search, nytimes, reddit, Social newsfeeds of students, teens, teachers is not exposing this at all. It feels like we are self-contained information exposure bubble too. Only a physical visit outside of US, and looking at the information from outside of US will give a picture of the mistakes being made here.

New comment by orsenthil in "Trump administration needs to stop 'public harassment' of Fauci and scientists"

orsenthil — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:35:07 +0000

Your statement is a general one. But in this specific case, it seems like particular senator is using his personal vendetta and abusing his power with the help of secretary of health, and going after an individual, who has track record of over 40 years of serving in public health.

New comment by orsenthil in "Trump administration needs to stop 'public harassment' of Fauci and scientists"

orsenthil — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:17:23 +0000

What are you talking about? Aren't private notes written on computer before you form your cohesive understanding?

New comment by orsenthil in "Trump administration needs to stop 'public harassment' of Fauci and scientists"

orsenthil — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:03:59 +0000

I find this wildly disturbing development. Releasing his personal dairy and public harassment using lies and mis-construed statements.

New comment by orsenthil in "KOReader"

orsenthil — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:05:41 +0000

Does it have Kindle X-Ray like features, like integration with Wikipedia or possibly integration with AI for contextual information?

New comment by orsenthil in "Show HN: Segue – Save context in one AI, load it in another by a short handle"

orsenthil — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:07:19 +0000

This would be better if it was open source, and giving the option for the user to save the context in their storage (like Google drive) and load from it. I think, people might find it useful. The target audience could be folks who use claude , chatgpt on web or as desktop clients. They hardly know or care about .md files.

New comment by orsenthil in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

orsenthil — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:39:23 +0000

I think, we all are phrasing this wrong. Bun was ~~rewritten~~ retooled in Rust by AI with only ensuring integration tests and usage tests succeed. That's similar how to a C program was compiled to binary or Typescript was transpiled to Javascript and run. We didn't make a very big deal of it then, and I think, we should see this operation as a similar higher level source to source translation, which machines have been doing.

Writing code is a different thing.

New comment by orsenthil in "Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach"

orsenthil — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:49:21 +0000

I heard it first through the the book Leelavati's daugthers (2019). India's celebration of women in science.

New comment by orsenthil in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

orsenthil — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:11:58 +0000

An important context is, there is a large scale non-violent protest and a Gandhian fast lead by Sonam Wangchuk. https://x.com/Wangchuk66/status/2080471599237702014

Indian Government is struggling to address this issue at face. PM Modi hasn't responded to this in public. To address this, Government is taking into all sort of measures like blocking public communication and social media. Like they have done for other measures like for terrorism , control and govt lead propaganda to control the narrative.

It is interesting that they tried to do this app with a _miniscule_ usage. Usage might be so small, that they could have bothered less about it.

But since they did it, Jack Dorsey is now using his clout to share about this app and bring some light on the situation. With what we have seen with Twitter/X and not-standing up to Elon, let's just remember that Dorsey isn't champion of free speech either.

New comment by orsenthil in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

orsenthil — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:41:31 +0000

Why did the model have to hack the hugging face servers? Aren't the ones hosted by Hugging face downloadable over the Internet?