Hacker News: pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pcshah1996Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:14:32 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by pcshah1996 in "507 Mechanical Movements"]]>If you haven't checked it out before, Nicholas Rougeux often does these types of modernization conversions for older printed content: https://www.c82.net/

e.g. here's a very beautiful reproduction of Euclid's elements https://www.c82.net/work/euclid

]]>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:15:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468981pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468981<![CDATA[Anosmia: Olfactory Intelligence]]>Article URL: https://smelllm.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650454

Points: 3

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]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:56:27 +0000https://smelllm.com/pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650454https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650454<![CDATA[New comment by pcshah1996 in "GM's Cruise Unit Is Laying Off 24% of Workforce"]]>Alternate source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/cruise-slashes-24-of-self-...

]]>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:04:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645645pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645645https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645645<![CDATA[GM's Cruise Unit Is Laying Off 24% of Workforce]]>Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/gms-cruise-robotaxi-unit-laying-off-24-of-workforce-b129ccf8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645633

Points: 3

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]]>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:03:00 +0000https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/gms-cruise-robotaxi-unit-laying-off-24-of-workforce-b129ccf8pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645633https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645633<![CDATA[New comment by pcshah1996 in "Gemini AI"]]>Some discussion on twitter about misleading evaluation: https://twitter.com/a_a_cabrera/status/1732454328307511807

(nitter: https://nitter.net/a_a_cabrera/status/1732454328307511807#m)

]]>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:49:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38547196pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38547196https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38547196<![CDATA[New comment by pcshah1996 in "Time to preserve those floppy disks"]]>One of my first (toy) websites was a silly floppy disk size calculator. You could enter an amount of songs/movies/files/etc and it would tell you how many disks it would take: https://howmanyfloppydisks.com/

It was very grounding to understand how disk capacity has grown over time.

]]>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:32:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37398708pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37398708https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37398708<![CDATA[New comment by pcshah1996 in "Who invented vector clocks?"]]>As usual, a (semi-)relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/978/ (Citogenesis)

]]>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 04:26:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35509165pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35509165https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35509165<![CDATA[New comment by pcshah1996 in "ChatGPT-4 is unable to do a simple thing"]]>Interesting stuff! Prompt engineering can really help improve the LLM output(s).

For example, replacing "that's two part name, I want one part name" with "those are compound names, I want a single-part name." Note that the only change is changing "two part" to "compound."

Results look much more reasonable with that: I apologize for misunderstanding your request earlier. Here are some single-part name options for a Diablo 2 Necromancer:

Vex Kain Zoltar Mordecai Stryfe Xander Grimoire Lazarus Zephyr Azrael

]]>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 19:18:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35473083pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35473083https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35473083<![CDATA[Spanning Labs Launches Testnet]]>Article URL: https://www.spanninglabs.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32241718

Points: 6

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]]>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:09:32 +0000https://www.spanninglabs.compcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32241718https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32241718<![CDATA[Ask HN: Funny Corporate April Jokes?]]>Has anyone stumbled upon some good april fools jokes for this year?

e.g. From Cruise: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNIeLYLLz-c/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26664171

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

]]>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:20:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26664171pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26664171https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26664171<![CDATA[Is My Phone On?]]>Article URL: https://ismyphoneonrightnow.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23691348

Points: 3

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]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:55:10 +0000https://ismyphoneonrightnow.com/pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23691348https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23691348<![CDATA[New comment by pcshah1996 in "New 13-inch MacBook Pro"]]>Something that I've found useful is https://pock.dev/ . It lets the touchbar replace the on-screen dock

]]>Mon, 04 May 2020 16:38:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23070153pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23070153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23070153<![CDATA[Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour]]>Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/17/watch-zooxs-autonomous-car-drive-around-san-francisco-for-an-hour/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903436

Points: 139

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]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:10:41 +0000https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/17/watch-zooxs-autonomous-car-drive-around-san-francisco-for-an-hour/pcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903436https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903436<![CDATA[Zoox: ~1-Hour Fully Autonomous Drive]]>Article URL: https://youtu.be/6r7vDhPXmiM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903100

Points: 4

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]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:23:27 +0000https://youtu.be/6r7vDhPXmiMpcshah1996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903100https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903100