<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: shaism</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shaism</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:08:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=shaism" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Awesome. Perfect for editing with agents and sharing with coworkers.<p>- Even works well on mobile.<p>- Embedding images and videos also works flawlessly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009853</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is your use case?<p>Have you considered moving to open source / Chinese models?<p>If gemini-2.5-flash-lite is good enough for your application, you will find even lower cost options with better performance outside of the Google ecosystem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:55:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005299</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked in a startup whose value proposition was largely derived from using graph data and graph databases under the hood. The main benefit is, as the repo even states "Fast data processing: Links traversal is processed with O(1) complexity."<p>So, technically, you can do deep traversals quicker. A few notes:<p>1. Few use cases truly need low-latency deep traversal on realtime data (>5 hops). There are some well known ones like fraud detection in payment processing and, possibly,  social media recommendation engines. But I am not even sure how latest social media engines work, and whether they still rely on graph DBs.<p>2. However, in practice the advantage is often marginal. With modern analytical databases, or even an optimized PostgreSQL (ltree, materialized views, pgrouting, pg_duckdb, etc), you often get more than good enough performance. In addition those traditional SQL DBs scale with hardware more easily than graph databases. So, you can always use the lever: "Throw more hardware at it."<p>3. Even Graph DBs don't get good traversal performance under all conditions without hand tuning. For example, there is the "super node" issue, a node with an abnormally high number of connections (edges). And if you still need hand-tuning, you might as well choose something more versatile.<p>4. The ecosystem of a PostgreSQL and other popular DBs is just unbeaten. With graph DBs, you often prematurely put yourself in a corner that you don't want to be in.<p>Hence, my recommendation. Unless you are really sure that a graph DB is the right fit for your use case, start with something else, and go the graph db way when you have established a true need.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:48:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903862</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I created a version for personal use a month ago.<p><a href="https://github.com/SharifIsmail/tendril" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/SharifIsmail/tendril</a><p>Feel free to give it a try. Agents can also directly interact with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:14:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898169</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Volkswagen planning to cut up to 100.000 jobs globally"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is unfortunate for the employees but it is necessary, and hopefully also a wake up call for other German companies and the government.<p>It’s time for leaner structures, smaller teams, faster decisions, and shorter development cycles. Volkswagen, like no other company, symbolizes the lethargy of the German economy and business environment.<p>Hopefully, the seven years with barely any economic growth will end soon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:34:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896826</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> A small task that cost 121,000 tokens done directly cost 513,000 tokens when fanned out to two subagents, because every subagent has its own bootstrap cost, and the parent then consumes its transcript.<p>Is that true? My understanding is that the subagent only returns the result of the request without the main agent consuming its entire transcript.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:12:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890380</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Show HN: An unmetered LLM API–$6/month, no token tracking, no limits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which provider do you use to access the MI300x?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:28:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824100</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824100</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks! There is something magical about those symbolic approaches. But in practice, they seem to often fall short of expectations. Wonder whether there will be another "symbolic AI summer" one day.</p>
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<p>Thanks for sharing!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:37:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763983</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763983</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see. Cool. So did you generate the inference / reasoning rules to map those 500k events to 40 by hand or are there solutions to automatically discover those rules based on past incidences?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:02:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730539</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What would be a good use case for this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:20:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727056</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "German swimming lake criticised for ban on non-German speakers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Halle is in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, which has an election in September. The far-right anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which is leading the polls with about 42%, has seized on the row."<p>That is the important part.</p>
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<p>Yeah. Agree. The workload changes towards more orchestrating, editing, and reviewing rather than writing.<p>I see the same for slide decks. The bar has changed. Expectations are higher, but the high quality decks are still heavily edited, reviewed, and created by humans.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:57:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671243</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671243</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Based on your message, I assume you are and want to stay in software engineering.<p>Having worked in regulated and very sensitive industries (banking and semiconductor), I can tell you adoption is slower but AI is still everywhere. Because those industries have many constraints, they have to think hard how to adopt it. So, you will encounter AI initiatives everywhere.<p>If you want to be part of those adoption initiatives but just want more thoughtful and slower adoption, such industries might be a good fit. If you want to avoid AI initiatives in general, I am not sure whether software engineering is the right function.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:35:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656911</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ilya mentioned in the video that 2012 and 2020 was the “Age of Research”, followed by the “Age of Scaling” from 2020 to 2025. Now, we are about to reenter the “Age of Research”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46056580</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46056580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46056580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Show HN: Sink – Sync any directory with any device on your local network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do I get stuff from my “onesmartphone” to  the “onecomputer”?<p>Or shall I also put the “onesmartphone” in the cupboard?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:34:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44394560</link><dc:creator>shaism</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44394560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44394560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shaism in "Sorcerer (YC S24) raises $3.9M to launch more weather balloons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you mind elaborating?<p>I agree that weather data should be public but I don’t see why we should restrict innovation in the private market if there is demand for it.<p>Also more generally, I see no issue in the government outsourcing work to a competitive private market wherever possible.</p>
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<p>Very cool. I implemented something similar for personal use before.<p>At that time, LLMs weren't as proficient in coding as they are today. Nowadays, the decorator approach might even go further and not just wrap LLM calls but also write Python code based on the description in the Docstring.<p>This would incentivize writing unambiguous DocStrings, and guarantee (if the LLMs don't hallucinate) consistency between code and documentation.<p>It would bring us closer to the world that Jensen Huang described, i.e., natural language becoming a programming language.</p>
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<p>The answer almost certainly is no. While lithography is one of the largest single contributor to manufacturing costs, the contribution to overall cost is still far below 10%.<p>And one cannot simply substitute an optical lithography with a nano imprint machine without redesigning some part of the process (etch, metrology etc.).<p>Investing R&D resources for a (best case) 10% reduction in costs while still having a decent probability of failure in a big but declining node is not worth it.</p>
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<p>Maybe the market hasn’t recognized the value yet.<p>Hence, buy $GOOG.</p>
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