Hacker News: sbmthakur

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?

New comment by sbmthakur in "Project Euler"

sbmthakur — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:18:35 +0000

Hackerrank also used to host(still has?) PE problems with additional test cases.

Get Stronger by Greasing the Groove

sbmthakur — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:23:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitness/get-stronger-by-greasing-the-groove/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852907

Points: 6

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New comment by sbmthakur in "YouTube Is Down"

sbmthakur — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:01:56 +0000

Playback fails once/twice, but eventually runs for me.

YouTube outage hits users as error messages block video playback

sbmthakur — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/youtube-outage-hits-users-as-error-messages-block-video-playback/NBKV4KQ46BEBXMFEY2RLWS3IZQ/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599896

Points: 14

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New comment by sbmthakur in "What happens to college towns after peak 18-year-old?"

sbmthakur — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 03:00:09 +0000

The supply of foreign students does depends on their career prospects in the US(which is getting worse at least in tech) and also the current administration is weighing policies that would cap intake of foreign students.

https://thebusinessfrontier.com/trump-tells-universities-to-...

New comment by sbmthakur in "Getting More Strategic"

sbmthakur — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:30:22 +0000

Thank you! My initial hunch was to treat it as a self-help book but it does look something better than that.

New comment by sbmthakur in "Getting More Strategic"

sbmthakur — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:30:52 +0000

Can anyone recommend a good summary?

New comment by sbmthakur in "UK, Canada and Australia formally recognise Palestinian state"

sbmthakur — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 03:58:19 +0000

I wonder if their experience with Black September impacts their decision w.r.t Gaza.

New comment by sbmthakur in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

sbmthakur — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:13:59 +0000

Wasn't the application linked to the candidate's passport number?

New comment by sbmthakur in "An engineering history of the Manhattan Project"

sbmthakur — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:02:19 +0000

Learned about that book from HN, so thanks HN. Of late, I've been reading The Alchemy of Air which revolves around Haber-Bosch process and it's been a delight so far. Highly recommend if you love a mix of non-fiction, history & science.