Hacker News: shantnutiwari

New comment by shantnutiwari in "The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck"

shantnutiwari — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:51:36 +0000

"Facebook is not a person. Facebook should not have "rights" nor "political views"."

In the USA, the supreme court has ruled a corporation DOES in fact have rights. Like the lawsuit of advertising medicine that a state banned-- the SC ruled that was infringing the rights of corporations to "express" their speech.

As someone from UK, I find this whole "Corporations have more rights than I do" very disturbing but thats how it is

New comment by shantnutiwari in "Anthropic logged net loss of over $80B in first half of 2026"

shantnutiwari — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:05:03 +0000

"Where have I heard about this before? Oh right, months ago by Ed Zitron."

Please dont say that name here, the witch hunters will out with their forks!!

New comment by shantnutiwari in "MiniMax M3.1 Flash"

shantnutiwari — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:12:45 +0000

"I'm finding these LLM announcements to be pretty meaningless. They all look the same, with different numbers and graphs, even though the graphs are almost all identical."

How dare you, sir/ma'am! the LLM spent a whole 0.9 tokens creating the numbers and graphs!!

New comment by shantnutiwari in "An ad-free Android TV"

shantnutiwari — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:47:56 +0000

Here in the UK you can buy a normal TV without any tracking. Its expensive (200-250+ pounds vs 120-150 pounds for normal spyware)

But it doesnt matter. Normal people dont care about this shit, only the Hacker News types. My wife put her foot down when I said we should get dumb TV, and we ended up getting a Samsung even though I wanted to avoid Korean companies (as they have worst privacy features), mainly because it was in our budget and available

New comment by shantnutiwari in "Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system"

shantnutiwari — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:44:04 +0000

"Politicians are completely naive in their understand how people works"

Thats the one thing no politician is-- they are succesful because they understand people very well.

They just dont care.

Company used Al for a job interview, but this guy brings his own

shantnutiwari — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:08:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/GuysBeingDudes/comments/1x6k2nc/this_company_used_al_for_a_job_interview_but_this/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103912

Points: 2

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New comment by shantnutiwari in "Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac"

shantnutiwari — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:09:32 +0000

if you read the the fuckign article it explains why. What a whiny comment

New comment by shantnutiwari in "TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material"

shantnutiwari — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:56:06 +0000

Tried to read article-- hundreds of cookie choices all selected by default. literally, "cookie A, shared with 400 partners, cookie b shared with 100" etc etc

And no way to reject all

Noped out of there in seconds.

New comment by shantnutiwari in "Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac"

shantnutiwari — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:59:18 +0000

These seem to be coming once a week now. And most suck, I dont know why people keep creating new ones?

I wrote a blog about this[1] "Audio transcription is worse in 2026 than it was in 2016"

1 https://write.as/shantnu/audio-transcription-is-worse-in-202...

New comment by shantnutiwari in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

shantnutiwari — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:44:18 +0000

"Within Microsoft’s cloud and AI sector, monthly AI spending limits have reportedly been slashed from $100,000 per employee to approximately $10,000 in the majority of instances."

And what were they doing with $100,000/month? I'd really like to know.

New comment by shantnutiwari in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"

shantnutiwari — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:01:03 +0000

"Half the employees were laid off and what’s left are tweeting AI fantasies and vibe-coding Temu Cloudflare."

Ouch

New comment by shantnutiwari in "America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft""

shantnutiwari — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:16:06 +0000

Whatever was supposed to happen, no longer happens. The bug or easter egg or whatever has been fixed.

Now it just says: "I can only help with U.S. government services and official information.

If you have a question about a federal benefit, agency, form, or how to use a government website, ask that and I will point you to official sources. "

New comment by shantnutiwari in "When did Google get so weird?"

shantnutiwari — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:08:06 +0000

"why didn't you text your friends to ask them if they remembered those old memes? Why was your first thought to ask a computer rather than a person?"

Ummm, what? So everytime I need info I should text my friends rather than ask a search engine, that was supposedly built to give info?

Are you trying to troll the op?

New comment by shantnutiwari in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

shantnutiwari — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:34:03 +0000

They did the same thing in India/ There were student protests that were widely covered by Western media (and the students did have a valid concern, I dont want to downplay that)

The problem is when Indian Prime Minister posted a video asking for calm, that was blocked by Meta.

Pushing one side/narrative is something western media companies like BBC and CNN do a lot, and now it seems Meta has joined the party.

New comment by shantnutiwari in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

shantnutiwari — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:57:48 +0000

Terrible article

"Progressives have, on the whole, abandoned the forum." -- No they haven't. There are plenty of pro-union, left wing messages posted here everyday and often upvoted to top.

And the so called flagged comments he mentions-- they are correct to be flagged. I dont this site to turn into Reddit /r/politics (or indeed any subreddit) where the same messages are posted everyday, so much so I dont know who is a bot. And where only one type of view is allowed, and you get 10,000 downvotes for the smallest disagreement

New comment by shantnutiwari in "I don't want the details"

shantnutiwari — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:48:07 +0000

Thats a great article why are most of the comments here disagreeing with it?

The author is right-- often the details become an excuse for blaming someone, and not learning any lessons.

Only thing that matters-- figure out what system failed and fix it for next time

New comment by shantnutiwari in "28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days"

shantnutiwari — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:59:12 +0000

Warning: the page has been deleted and Im getting a 404. I wonder why? Its on the HN front page and people are still discussing it, but there is no article

New comment by shantnutiwari in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

shantnutiwari — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:42:22 +0000

Why are so many of the top comments like "But muh, nukelaer energy bad" and when pushed to explain why , its "bad. very expensive"

New comment by shantnutiwari in "ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you"

shantnutiwari — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:32:59 +0000

The 1st 2 were great but I didnt like the 3rd one. Its like the author was in a hurry to finish the book and just started killing characters to make his wordcount.

The 1st 2 are independent, I recommened people stop after 2nd book

New comment by shantnutiwari in "Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU"

shantnutiwari — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:52:16 +0000

Yeah, but this assumes the llm will follow the "Laws". I find llms routinely ignore steering docs etc, even outright instructions. Like "Dont use python", next line it is trying to use Python.

Seems to me the llm will just try to work around the "laws"