<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>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:08:33 +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 "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wish someone would convince Google to may be leave the Google search be without AI responses and use all their resources for a Gemini subscription/API..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:47:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002726</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We were contemplating just this as a lunch time conversation among few engineers. Why can’t we have a sort of internal currency in the company and let teams use it as their “budget” to get things done? 
Infra team’s budget is broken up by the “user teams’ budgets + markup. Think your team needs a rlasticsearch cluster of your own versus the “managed” one by the infra team’s? Spend your budget accordingly. Want an increased budget? Get your director to pay from his currency budget.. all the way to the top..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:40:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978033</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wikis start out good, but get stale too quick and become useless or worse confusing.<p>I’ve experienced this over and over again to strongly believe it.<p>I genuinely wonder if throwing LLMs at this problem would solve it at least to some extent. Make a LLM agent whose sole purpose is to act as a librarian. It periodically reviews _all_ of the wiki and validates them against codebases, newer docs, anything. Whatever it finds, it should be allowed to intelligently quiz the team/dev whether something is right/stale/wrong and updated it accordingly.<p>If one tolerates that toil - answering questions of a library bot, would it result in a usable wiki base?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:59:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760061</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760061</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All this will fly until a competitor from outside the US releases a “freedom” model that is even 90% as capable as Fable was without its shackles.<p>But, as a frustrated EU resident lamenting a lack of European option(Mistral is just not competitive enough), I will spread my money towards the Chinese models as well. Thank you Murica! You achieved your soft power by pushing us towards the Chinese :-)<p>This protectionism and hypocrisy (free markets and freedom!! Until it is us who needs to practice what we preach) is so tiring. I wish European nations would come together closer and put their differences aside and realise larger things together. Become the new power that the US is clearly stumbling away from being.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:01:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743193</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1 to service unavailable annoyances.<p>It has been close to unusable for anything serious. I did really like the ability of Gemini-pro models to ground their research using Google Search. This meant that they were often much more thorough and up to date in their recommendations and finding solutions that came to life after the models themselves were trained. But even using Gemini as a reviewer was a weak point in my harness because of the poor reliability of their service (529 or 503).<p>I’ve since paid for a search API(linkup, exa, and valyu) and hooked them up to Deepseekv4-pro. It has been doing a stellar job.<p>The key was to prompt them to systematically use search to validate their answers(not simply “use the tool”, but something like find possibilities using web search, then once you formulate a solution, validate it with this check list -<p>1. Is there a better way to do this in 2026?<p>2. Are the libraries and its docs you’re using up to date?<p>This seems to help very much based on experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:41:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671159</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How are folks using “computer use” to click things on intranet portals that are behind an SSO? 
Even this OP example shows visitors a url and enter this search term… that is port of useless.<p>How can I automate things behind an SSO wall? Even if it means I manually authorize it once and watch it do things on its own..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:18:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665107</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was easy to be a rebel and use Linux when it was clearly competent, but needed hacks and extra elbow grease to get it polished for use. IME, the open models are “not there yet” in terms of capability or operational needs. Sure, GLM5.2 looks competent, but I will only be able to get it to run that competent if I had a huge cluster of GPUs.. if I am accessing an open model via hosted API, I might as well run a closed model via hosted API. The incentives fall apart in comparison to using Linux 15 years ago.<p>Don’t get me wrong. I wish I could run a local model and be happy about it. At the moment, I’m not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:16:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48627750</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48627750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48627750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You could’ve said what you said except the “immigrant kind” bit. I see enough Dutch assholes on fat bikes just as well. No need to be xenophobic here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525167</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The cynic outside observer of this administration’s mode of operation wonders if someone from OpenAI visited someone at the Trump admin and offered some benefit if they could scuttle Anthropic until they could catch up….<p>I’m looking for that news article in the next weeks…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:30:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515283</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fact that government agencies, particularly those that deal with international concerns like these are using non sovereign tech for communications is mind-blowing. They might as well use public gmail.. atleast it would be cheaper. If you want it not exposed directly, host it yourself and take measures to secure it for intended eyes only. This should be common sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:27:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500960</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>HTML first, minimal JS, not using any frameworks unless absolutely justified is already part of my prompts to LLMs when I build stuff for myself. I’m not a frontend developer, and have not kept up to date with the ton of frameworks. That HTMl first approach already makes the LLM outputs faster/fresher for me. 
I wish more people went this route for public facing services.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:33:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479752</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479752</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reacharavindh in "DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m using Claude with a $100/month subscription. I’m playing around with using Opus as the Architect, Sonnet as the implementer/engineer and Deepseek-pro as the deep reviewer, and tester. It’s been quite good as I expected. If my usage pattern holds up, I would downgrade my subscription to the $20/month one and toss more money to Deepseek.<p>Repo reference here: <a href="https://github.com/aravindhsampath/agentic-template" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/aravindhsampath/agentic-template</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:54:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442066</link><dc:creator>reacharavindh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442066</guid></item><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>
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