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New comment by ruthvik947 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

ruthvik947 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:46:54 +0000

I'm making https://pond.li to try and make our personal archives of text and other media we engage with more available to the present. It's an interesting design space at least, partly because it requires taking a stance on what meaningful/cognitive agency preserving human-LLM interaction looks like

New comment by ruthvik947 in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

ruthvik947 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:22:26 +0000

but they did?

New comment by ruthvik947 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

ruthvik947 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:23:16 +0000

my side-project is Possible World Wikis: https://www.possibleworldwikis.com/

LLM/procedurally-generated fictional wikis with worldbuilding history/context so the wiki stays coherent. Fun project to make the most of LLM hallucinations

Show HN: Possible World Wikis – fictional, generative wikis

ruthvik947 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:08:04 +0000

Hi HN; posted about this earlier but bungled the signup/welcome screens and then ran out of llm credits, so here I am again: PWW is a basic app you can use to build and explore LLM/procedurally-generated fictional wikis/worlds. It maintains a worldbuilding history/model so the wiki-world stays somewhat coherent. Hope you find it fun!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45501674

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ruthvik947 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

ruthvik947 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:34:17 +0000

Possible World Wikis! https://www.possibleworldwikis.com/

LLM/procedurally-generated fictional wikis with worldbuilding history/context so the wiki stays coherent. Fun project to make the most of LLM hallucinations

Show HN: PossibleWorldWikis – LLM-based fictional world wiki generator

ruthvik947 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:45:38 +0000

Hey, HN, this was inspired by Borges’ fictional encyclopaedias and the idea (Brian Eno’s I think) that the flaws of a system/tool (hallucinations and LLMs here) are what we come to value over time. Hope you find it interesting and/or fun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45387101

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by ruthvik947 in "PossibleWorldWikis – LLM-based fictional world wiki generator"

ruthvik947 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:47:17 +0000

Sorry I botched that. Fixing now and will post again, thank you for bringing it to my attention!

New comment by ruthvik947 in "PossibleWorldWikis – LLM-based fictional world wiki generator"

ruthvik947 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:07:59 +0000

PossibleWorldWikis – LLM-based fictional world wiki generator

ruthvik947 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:07:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.possibleworldwikis.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345368

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by ruthvik947 in "Read to forget"

ruthvik947 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:00:44 +0000

This stands in pretty stark contrast to a recent popular post on here about how important memorising things is to developing knowledge

New comment by ruthvik947 in "Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons"

ruthvik947 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:07:39 +0000

How did the Netherlands go from 0.9 in 2019 to 0.75 in 2021!? You'd need nothing short of a mini-revolution to do that in those timescales

New comment by ruthvik947 in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

ruthvik947 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:51:22 +0000

I have a philosophy degree, have worked in product teams, and have had very similar observations. I could've written this comment!

New comment by ruthvik947 in "Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions"

ruthvik947 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:57:34 +0000

Not sure if you actually read the article but infrastructural impact is clearly discussed.

You sent over two links about the environmental impact of data centres. There is no denial that these are burdensome on the environment; the question is to what degree AI and its applications contribute to that effect. If you wanted to argue in good faith you'd be advocating for everyone to stop watching Netflix, because video streaming generates a far greater demand than AI currently does, but I don't see you doing this.

New comment by ruthvik947 in "Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions"

ruthvik947 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:39:09 +0000

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversa...

New comment by ruthvik947 in "Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain"

ruthvik947 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:46:35 +0000

I had this for about a year, and it really only went away when I quit my job. It wasn't even a particularly demanding job, but I guess the lifestyle + the fact that I felt I was wasting my life away might have played a role. Nothing else is really different.

New comment by ruthvik947 in "DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication"

ruthvik947 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:18:57 +0000

Sorry, it's not really, just a personal nickname for him. Although I think I recall that Austin would call him Witters (very much to this annoyance).

New comment by ruthvik947 in "DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication"

ruthvik947 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:55:51 +0000

Indeed! As Witt once said, "if a lion could speak, we would not understand it." (https://iep.utm.edu/wittgens/#H5)

New comment by ruthvik947 in "Ask HN: Anyone left software to study non-STEM subjects?"

ruthvik947 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:31:55 +0000

I left to study for a masters in philosophy. Found it incredibly meaningful and enjoyable. I am however back in tech now as a product manager; I haven't yet been able to chart/imagine a reasonably stable career related to or within philosophy.

New comment by ruthvik947 in "A Project of One’s Own"

ruthvik947 — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:13:36 +0000

Needed to read this, thank you Paul! Was on the edge about a summer project -- deterred mostly by high-expectations, the project being likely non-monetisable, and a fear of failure. I see now none of those are valid excuses!

New comment by ruthvik947 in "Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation"

ruthvik947 — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:23:08 +0000

I think it is ridiculous to think that Facebook is sharing data to 3rd party sources out of charity. If you provide more value via data to integrating applications than any of your competitors, you will continue to have the largest share of the market. So yes, there is profit incentive.