<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: reacharavindh</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=reacharavindh</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:03:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=reacharavindh" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As unlikely it is to happen at scale, as a thought process - what would happen if people start selling those index funds in a mad rush? Just drives the transaction volume because those with that new money will just buy something else in the market?<p>I know SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI will probably be a drop in the bucket in terms of scale of these funds, (free float % etc). But, is it realistic to take the money out of index funds for a bit until the price of these new stocks come crashing eventually?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:06:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360470</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360470</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "We replaced Zendesk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It certainly is true that many SaaS subscriptions can be replaced with custom written(supercharged by AI) tools. The key question however remains “Who are you going to call when something goes wrong?” Or “who is going to maintain this software?” Because essentially that’s what SaaS subscriptions genuinely offloaded and let you focus on your core business things.<p>As is most things in engineering, this is a trade-off and the line where buy vs build exists somewhere to be found and justified. Sure AI moves the line closer to build these days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 16:23:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311201</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It will be an interesting vector for competition to attract customers.. when you search on {Claude, ChatGPT, whatever}, you get results based on what the model evaluated, and not based on advertisers who paid the most..<p>I thought Google would use their playbook of search - initially, everything works so good like magic until they enshittify the service by auctioning the results to who pay the most. This time around they are so bold they start from shit..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:13:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225143</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Zulip 12.0 Released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried to use Zulip as _the_ interface for my personal AI assistant because its topic based memory model fits nicely for a personal assistant. But, the iOS app was barely useful to use daily. It lacked even basic features like the ability to create a topic/channel. I could not believe it would be the case and to my surprise, it was.. I have moved on to choose Rocket.chat for my needs. Choosing to implement E2E notifications over basic functions of a mobile app reinforces my decision to move away.<p>Sorry for the tone. It was a rant not to sound like an unthankful freeloader, but highlight the outsider perspective. The project can prioritize what they want of course.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:47:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959488</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The part that makes ipadOS feels like a toy is Apple’s iron grip in “App Store only” app delivery. The thing has so much power, but to do anything useful, you gotta play by Apple’s rules. All that dream of quirky, useful, innovative ipadOS leveraging apps would show up if they relinquished that software control and let indie or otherwise apps get there without the Apple Tax both in money and rules.<p>Would the iPad still be that days long, cohesive device is another story..  it Apple cannot have their cake and eat it too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:10:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874801</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This specific form may be a joke, but token conscious work is becoming more and more relevant..
Look at 
<a href="https://github.com/AgusRdz/chop" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AgusRdz/chop</a><p>And<p><a href="https://github.com/toon-format/toon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/toon-format/toon</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795345</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m building HobbyBoard - A private(self-hosted) visual library(A Pinterest alternative).<p>Mostly for myself to use for my hobby. Sharing with everyone because I find it genuinely useful.<p>Yes, it is coded with assistance of LLMs, but I care for the details and it is not vibe-coded in hours.<p><a href="https://hobbyboard.aravindh.net/" rel="nofollow">https://hobbyboard.aravindh.net/</a><p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/aravindhsampath/hobbyboard" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/aravindhsampath/hobbyboard</a><p>Demo (resets every hour): <a href="https://demo.hobbyboard.aravindh.net/" rel="nofollow">https://demo.hobbyboard.aravindh.net/</a><p>Almost ready to do a show HN :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:54:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748578</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1 to amplify the voice that hates a subscription to a taskbar. If it was €15 one time I would’ve instantly bought it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:23:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742716</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reminded me of this from my bookmarks.<p><a href="https://github.com/chr15m/runprompt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chr15m/runprompt</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:11:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352995</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Lego's 0.002 mm Specification and Its Implications for Manufacturing (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean it is a business after all, trying to make money..<p>I must say, the new smart bricks with all sorts of sensors(color, gyro, distance etc) triggers the inner child in me. I can’t wait to get them for my kiddo and teach him how that magic actually works beneath.<p>The regular LEGO at this points feels “just plastic” and I won’t feel bad offloading that purchase to AliExpress.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:52:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336380</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: Anybody using multi LLM coding workflow?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wish to have a fully local Git workflow where Claude Opus translates my requirements into extremely detailed plan/spec broken down as implementation steps as a Markdown file, Gemini-pro picks up each task and submits a PR for Opus to review and give feedback. Gemini should not proceed until Opus is happy. Continue like this until all tasks are done. I dont want another 3rd party orchestrator or service. I dont want to self-host Gitea just for this. Any clever way to get such a workflow? Anybody doing something similar already?</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:05:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320320</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or may be an Open Slack that is as good as Slack :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:56:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285165</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On these lines… it has been on my “to be vibe-coded” list to make an extremely minimal node-exporter(the metrics collector for Prometheus) in rust (support only Linux, gather extremely minimal set of metrics) that uses tightly controlled concurrency so as to fetch all metrics within a short span of time.<p>If anyone has more AI tokens or spare time with mental energy to burn… go for it :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:46:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285117</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If this makes people develop stuff under the assumption that the user only has 8 GB of memory, I am happy for where we are going :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:06:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248588</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248588</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Pentagon Laser Shoots Down Customs Border Patrol Drone in Texas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, wouldn’t an even slightest clever adversary do just that? Launch a bunch of decoys(party balloons, drones, whatever) amidst one they actually want to actually use as an attack vector? 
Would the pentagon just play an expensive pew pew and potentially miss the real one?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:07:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177479</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I dont. I use this as my coding harness (replacement of gemini-cli/claudecode etc). I dont want to sandbox it because I expect it to be used only for coding on projects. I dont want to over complicate it.<p>I am building my own assistant as an AI harness - that is definitely getting sandboxed to run only as a VM on my Mac.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:07:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150460</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A few things. I intentionally clone the repo and build it locally for my use and use it as my-omp.. this way, I can make oh-my-pi make customisations like skills, tools, anything and yet retain the ability to do a git pull from upstream with cherry picking if necessary.<p>I have this in my shell rc.<p><pre><code>   # bun

   export BUN_INSTALL="$HOME/.bun"

   export PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"

   alias my-omp= "bun/Users/aravindhsampathkumar/ai_playground/oh-my-pi/packages/coding-agent/src/cli.ts"

</code></pre>
and do<p>1. git pull origin main<p>2. bun install<p>3. bun run build:native<p>every time I pull changes from upstream.<p>Until yesterday, this process was purely bliss - my own minimal custom system prompt, minimal AGENTS.md, and self curated skills.md. One thing I was wary of switching from pi to oh-my-pi was the use of Rust tools pi-native using NAPI. The last couple of days whatever changes I pulled from upstream is causing the models to get confused about which tool to use and how while editing/patching files. They are getting extremely annoyed - I see 11 iterations of a tool call to edit a damn file and the model then resorted to rewriting the whole file from memory, and we al know how that goes. This may not be a bug in oh-my-pi per se. My guess is that the agent developed its memory based on prior usage of the tools and my updating oh-my-pi brought changes in their usage. It might be okay if I could lose all agent memory and begin again, but I dont want to.<p>I'm going to be more diligent about pulling upstream changes from now on, and only do when I can afford a full session memory wipe.<p>Otherwise, the integrations with exa for search, LSP servers on local machine, syntax highlighting, steering prompts, custom tools (using trafilatura to fetch contents of any url as markdown, use calculator instead of making LLM do arithmetic) etc work like a charm. I haven't used the IPython integration nor do I plan to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150393</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I began with pi, and have been using oh-my-pi the last two weeks.<p><a href="https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi</a><p>More of a batteries included version of pi.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:01:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148695</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for this! I’ve been looking for a better solution to the .env files and this is ideal, covers all my needs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:53:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47134613</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47134613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47134613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am building Hobbyboard as a self hosted visual archive that uses vision models to curate inspiration media for hobbyists and makers.<p>Website: <a href="https://hobbyboard.aravindh.net" rel="nofollow">https://hobbyboard.aravindh.net</a><p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/aravindhsampath/hobbyboard" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/aravindhsampath/hobbyboard</a><p>I want to do a show HN later this week.. but here might be a softer launchpad :-)</p>
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