Hacker News: pathikrit

New comment by pathikrit in "Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer"

pathikrit — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:44:34 +0000

Why is it so hard lol? I have the Bank of America Rewards card for 25+ years. 2.62% cashback on everything, 3.5% on dining/travel. Maybe there are better ones out there but this is good. I have auto-pay setup so I don't have to worry. I have not spent a second of my time optimizing anything in last 15 years

New comment by pathikrit in "How I write software with LLMs"

pathikrit — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:36:44 +0000

10-15 years ago HN was the place where everyone showed off their new shiny toys and people would jump over themselves to try some new framework or db or tool. Now, so much negative sentiment about AI coding. I bet if LLMs came 15 years ago, HN would be brimming with excitement. What happened?

New comment by pathikrit in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

pathikrit — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:01:49 +0000

Related: My project to display daily newspaper: https://github.com/pathikrit/newswall

New comment by pathikrit in "Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too"

pathikrit — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:04:59 +0000

I love math but the symbology and notations get in my way. 2 ideas:

1. Can we reinvent notation and symbology? No superscripts or subscripts or greek letters and weird symbols? Just functions with input and output? Verifiable by type systems AND human readable

2. Also, make the symbology hyperlinked i.e. if it uses a theorem or axiom that's not on the paper - hyperlink to its proof and so on..

New comment by pathikrit in "E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens"

pathikrit — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:47:41 +0000

I made a e-ink newspaper display: https://github.com/pathikrit/newswall

This would be amazing

New comment by pathikrit in "Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?"

pathikrit — Sun, 25 May 2025 04:14:08 +0000

Do you need to know internals of a database or just use them as a tool. If you hit some bottleneck, you go deep.

New comment by pathikrit in "E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays"

pathikrit — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:08:13 +0000

Cool! I make this as a hobby project: https://framed.news/

Would be cool to have a color option too

New comment by pathikrit in "CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins"

pathikrit — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:55:36 +0000

My favorite conspiracy theory:

After Tiananmen, the CCP planned many contingents next time something similar happened.

Cue, the [2019 Hong Kong Democracy Protests][1]. The MSS releases Covid19 at the peak of the protests (actually they do pick Wuhan so they can use lab leak as a plausibility if needed) in Sep 2019 and later they use the lockdown laws to completely clamp down the protests.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Hong_Kong_pr...

New comment by pathikrit in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

pathikrit — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 03:55:18 +0000

Most likely he realized once the authorities have his name - he can't run forever.

That being said - some obvious stuff he could have done like grow a beard and shave it after and fly out of the country to somewhere cheap like Thailand with $10k

New comment by pathikrit in "MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia"

pathikrit — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:50:01 +0000

Cool! Btw, I make this: https://framed.news/ framed e-ink news display

New comment by pathikrit in "32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)"

pathikrit — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:38:18 +0000

Here's my version: https://github.com/pathikrit/newswall/

Show HN: A tiny toy CLI ChatGPT interface in Node.js (<200 LOC)

pathikrit — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:18:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pathikrit/chatgpt-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35617747

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: A Node.js based e-ink live newspaper display

pathikrit — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 01:54:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pathikrit/newswall

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34498055

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by pathikrit in "The X-Y Problem"

pathikrit — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 21:08:31 +0000

Why not respond with both X and Y? e.g. for the last 3 character thing, here would be an appropriate response:

To get the last 3 characters, do `echo ${foo: -3}`. Are you trying to get the file extension though? What if the extension is not 3 characters e.g. `foo.jpeg`? You then want to do `${foo##*.}`

New comment by pathikrit in "The End of Manual Transmission"

pathikrit — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:34:42 +0000

Teslas have creep off by default.

New comment by pathikrit in "Argo CD goes mainstream with hosted version"

pathikrit — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:24:03 +0000

Honestly, probably worth it just to not have to pay for hosting.

Hyperart Thomasson

pathikrit — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:58:32 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29501427

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pathikrit in "Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious"

pathikrit — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:34:13 +0000

When I first read Monty Hall problem, I actually thought it was blindingly obvious to switch. The fact the presenter had 2 doors to chose from and the one he opens is a goat _should_ increase the chance of the other one being not(goat) right?

Brahui Language

pathikrit — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 01:19:48 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahui_language

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20511624

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pathikrit in "Math.Round opens the browser print dialog"

pathikrit — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 01:02:41 +0000

Haskell