Hacker News: shibaprasadb

New comment by shibaprasadb in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

shibaprasadb — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:35:42 +0000

I cancelled my subscription recently and moved to Sol. So far - it has been a great experience. The only aspect where Fable/Claude is better I feel is doing some research from the web and summarising the facts.

New comment by shibaprasadb in "The age of token efficiency, the age of libraries"

shibaprasadb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:13:00 +0000

Absolutely. When you narrow the solution space by adding more constraints, your probability of success increases. At least, that’s what I’ve noticed.

For vague, divergent tasks, the overall experience hasn’t been quite as good.

New comment by shibaprasadb in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

shibaprasadb — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:23:25 +0000

I get what you are saying, but your joy shouldn't always be utility-driven IMO.

New comment by shibaprasadb in "Never Enough"

shibaprasadb — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:27:08 +0000

Really appreciate the authenticity of the site design in the age of AI but damn! It is hurting my eyes!

New comment by shibaprasadb in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

shibaprasadb — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:23:20 +0000

The ugly designs are sadly everywhere nowadays. Saw a poster at my gym - gave me the ick!

New comment by shibaprasadb in "Back to Kagi"

shibaprasadb — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:22:25 +0000

I was recently looking at the search engine referrers for my personal website. Was a bit surprised to see Kagi at the top of the list. Don't know how!

Cost vs. accuracy in CursorBench 3.1: the effect of family and spend

shibaprasadb — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:34:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shibaprasadb.com/2026/07/09/cursorbench-analysis.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870366

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

After WhatsApp, Indian govt sends notices to Telegram, Signal over usernames

shibaprasadb — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:19:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/after-whatsapp-centre-notices-to-telegram-signal-today-over-username-feature-101783039992870.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771500

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shibaprasadb in "The operating cost starts after the demo"

shibaprasadb — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:08:25 +0000

I see no issues in articles where AI was in the loop or made the article better than it otherwise would have been. Why not?

But if 100% is generated by AI - and you just prompted it - then I would like to avoid that piece. Personally.

New comment by shibaprasadb in "The operating cost starts after the demo"

shibaprasadb — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:45:02 +0000

Writing about the operating cost of AI tools while the whole article is a complete AI slop. :)

New comment by shibaprasadb in "The Doorman's Fallacy in action"

shibaprasadb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:42:06 +0000

I was a bit surprised by the way the payment is being made here.

Do people pay it separately like this? In general, if it isn't a prepaid restaurant, then just one of us makes the whole payment, and we pay our share to that person.

Don't people follow that generally?

New comment by shibaprasadb in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

shibaprasadb — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:21:04 +0000

Yeah. Did they want this all along? This will just create more hype, and may push towards significant usage once and when it is available.

New comment by shibaprasadb in "Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia"

shibaprasadb — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:02:01 +0000

Are people using Julia in the industries yet? This looks promising.

New comment by shibaprasadb in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

shibaprasadb — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:21:54 +0000

I had written about the same: https://www.shibaprasadb.com/2026/04/29/tokenmaxxing-tap-in....

This is the new tap-in tap-out!

Social market liberalism has no political home in India

shibaprasadb — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:37:00 +0000

Article URL: https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/the-inner-dialogue-of-a-social-market

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121744

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shibaprasadb in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

shibaprasadb — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:17:19 +0000

Python is the 2nd/3rd best language for almost everything. So I guess it helps.

New comment by shibaprasadb in "Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax"

shibaprasadb — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:49:36 +0000

Personally, I write to think out loud. And I am not looking to monetize my writing anytime soon. So, I am quite happy with Substack at this moment. I don't have to pay for any hosting or sending the newsletter, and my awesome 90ish subscribers get them!

But if you are a serious professional writer, then there are other better options. For sure. And as someone suggested, owning and hosting your content is absolutely the best way to go!

New comment by shibaprasadb in "Think Linear Algebra (2023)"

shibaprasadb — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:53:48 +0000

I love his blog too! Probably overthinking it.

New comment by shibaprasadb in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

shibaprasadb — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:48:41 +0000

I am not very tech-savvy, mostly into Analytics - DS. I love my Mac. The whole UX is far superior compared to Windows or a Chromebook.

The New Tap-In, Tap-Out

shibaprasadb — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:04:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shibaprasadb.com/2026/04/29/tokenmaxxing-tap-in.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966841

Points: 1

# Comments: 0