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New comment by sbmthakur in "LinkedIn Feed Blocker"

sbmthakur — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:38:55 +0000

I'd built a small extension for myself to ignore posts that included words like thrilled, excited, and so on.

DeepSeek's Theory of the AI Gap

sbmthakur — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:16:07 +0000

Article URL: https://hellochinatech.com/p/deepseek-liang-wenfeng-transcript

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141929

Points: 3

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New comment by sbmthakur in "An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold"

sbmthakur — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:07:05 +0000

Reading that one now. I finished The Anarchy before that and it was a great intro to the 18th century and how it made the ground fertile for upcoming colonial period.

Egypt denied flight to Seattle ahead of final World Cup group match

sbmthakur — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:32:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/6/22/egypt-denied-flight-to-seattle-ahead-of-final-world-cup-group-match

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640306

Points: 3

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New comment by sbmthakur in "Running local models is good now"

sbmthakur — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:17:06 +0000

Someone was able to run gemma-4-26B-A4B on an i5-8500 with 32 gb ram with NO GPU. Granted this is an extreme example these MoE models are value for money for a lot of use cases.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/YontVNVRbL

New comment by sbmthakur in "Running local models is good now"

sbmthakur — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:10:54 +0000

I could run it on 7900 XT with 64k context. You could run it more comfortably on a 24 gb vram.

New comment by sbmthakur in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

sbmthakur — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:40:06 +0000

Wonder how much of a temperature difference is due to El Nino? As a kid I used to spend some time in central India during summers(temp: 40-43C). It helped that schools used to be shut around that time and expectedly, people would spend as little time outside as possible. Also, it's the hot winds that get you(usually more prevalent in the countryside).

New comment by sbmthakur in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

sbmthakur — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:32:38 +0000

Y'all are welcome to Washington if you can stand the gloom.

New comment by sbmthakur in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

sbmthakur — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:09:16 +0000

Even without those incentives, the messaging is clear: you don't want your inference to be shut arbitrarily. Export controls are nothing new but a lot of people have underestimated them due to globalization and the general nature of software. This is a good opportunity for entities around the world to get their setup going.

New comment by sbmthakur in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

sbmthakur — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:33:41 +0000

Affordable inference will be around longer if more Big tech companies cap their AI sending.

New comment by sbmthakur in "NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open"

sbmthakur — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:41:16 +0000

One of my concern is LLMs are going to generate a lot of low quality code for languages that do not have sufficient discussions on forums like Stackoverflow.

Exposure to microplastics from food: Comparative analysis of food types

sbmthakur — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:36:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389425035770

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825630

Points: 4

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New comment by sbmthakur in "Ask HN: My AI app builder has users, not buyers – why?"

sbmthakur — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:22:31 +0000

Have you checked where do your paid tier offerings stack up to free tier offerings of your competitors?

New comment by sbmthakur in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

sbmthakur — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:26:52 +0000

Someone suggested a nice thought experiment - train LLMs on all Physics before quantum physics was discovered. If the LLM can see still figure out the latter then certainly we have achieved some success in the space.

New comment by sbmthakur in "Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs"

sbmthakur — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:21:59 +0000

Looks nice! I would love to see a resource that teaches you Zig by writing tests. Something similar for Go was posted a few years ago.

https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests/

New comment by sbmthakur in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

sbmthakur — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:07:03 +0000

> IRCTC is a private company.

Lol, at least do your research before writing random things.

Indian Airports Targeted by GPS Spoofing Cyber Attack

sbmthakur — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:14:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/indian-airports-targeted-by-gps-spoofing-cyber-attack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130546

Points: 3

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New comment by sbmthakur in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

sbmthakur — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:19:36 +0000

From what I know, religions except Christianity and Islam are generally grouped under Hinduism for most things(marriage law for instance) and by default you're considered a Hindu(you can't be officially an atheist).

New comment by sbmthakur in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

sbmthakur — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:04:29 +0000

I don't think the government is going to treat it like a local district website. IRCTC, UPI, e-Filing portal seem to be working fine for the most part, so pretty sure they can make this work eventually.

New comment by sbmthakur in "Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles"

sbmthakur — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:17:33 +0000

Why if I may ask?