Hacker News: shrikant

New comment by shrikant in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

shrikant — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:46:34 +0000

"Loophole"? The secret ingredient is crime...

New comment by shrikant in "CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development"

shrikant — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:12 +0000

I used chota.css (https://jenil.github.io/chota/) in the past to build a couple internal sites for my then-employer. Only ~3kb compressed! And the name stays relevant-ish because it means "small" in Hindi...

Edited to add: it's not classless though. Marx would disapprove.

New comment by shrikant in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

shrikant — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:30:43 +0000

I remember the inverse of that in Chennai -- scheduled running water for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evenings when we had to stockpile water in every container possible.

New comment by shrikant in "The senior engineer death spiral"

shrikant — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:51:47 +0000

I call this (well, in my head) the Sam Altman Fellow Kids style.

It's clearly a deliberate affectation that they're putting on because other words are properly capitalise (COVID, PIP, I, his own name, etc.). The author's other posts are properly formatted so I assume this was a a stylistic choice they made to illustrate their point on it being stream-of-consciousness.

I just find it more annoying on tweets because they've clearly fought the phone keyboard to override autocaps just to sound down with their fellow kids.

New comment by shrikant in "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"

shrikant — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:07:41 +0000

As always with smallish tools/services like these whipped up with an LLM, I find there's more value in seeing the "source code", i.e. the prompt itself.

Turns out it's quite useful in this instance, and I just made a small couple of tweaks to get a summary of my own workflow.

FWIW, this is what I modified it to:

Help me share how I work with AI with my teammates.

Use our existing conversations and relevant local tools within my permissions to discover my agents, harnesses, skills, connections and working practices. Keep secrets, raw configuration and private project details out of the draft. Explain how my tools work together and develop a concrete workflow where the evidence supports it, rather than listing installed software. Draft from what you know without a questionnaire; ask one short question only if an essential gap prevents a useful draft. If local inspection is unavailable, use our conversation without claiming otherwise. Save a private draft, show me the exact preview, and wait for my explicit approval before publishing.

New comment by shrikant in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

shrikant — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:15:21 +0000

What harness do you use for Gemini? Antigravity?

New comment by shrikant in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

shrikant — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:13:28 +0000

Also, that user's last four (three of them in the last hour) submissions have all been similar "finding" reports from a Claude-generated mystery research group website. All which contain exclusively AI slop articles. Ugh.

New comment by shrikant in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

shrikant — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:57:35 +0000

Pretty sure that OP ("jakobgreenfeld") is the "founder". That user's last four submissions have all been similar "finding" reports from a Claude-generated mystery research group website.

New comment by shrikant in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

shrikant — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:53:24 +0000

Agreed, I thought the subject matter was interesting enough to try and labour through the tedious prose, but once I got to "Their scale is the point." I just had to stop and just skim the rest.

New comment by shrikant in "Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude"

shrikant — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:48:33 +0000

Yeah Ctrl/Cmd+F works just fine on Firefox as well.

New comment by shrikant in "How to organize Claude Code for product work"

shrikant — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:17:37 +0000

Especially since all OP seems to do is churn these out and exclusively only post them? Ugh, these AI thought leaders...

New comment by shrikant in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

shrikant — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:17:19 +0000

Yeah when I worked at Deloitte Consulting, we had similar training that said something to the effect of "don't put something in an email that wouldn't feel comfortable as a newspaper headline".

New comment by shrikant in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

shrikant — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:51:35 +0000

I believe the bigger failure mode in that scenario is the fact that the site was storing user passwords in plaintext (either directly or effectively). Users tend to reuse passwords, so when there's a breach, more than just the user accounts for that site would be compromised.

Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, BBC finds

shrikant — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:22:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgm4e0316zo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784038

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Wez Furlong returns to WezTerm maintenance

shrikant — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:53:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/6341

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490381

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

TCS ties up with Anthropic to roll out Claude access to 50k employees

shrikant — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:02:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/tcs-ties-up-with-anthropic-to-roll-out-claude-ai-access-to-50-000-employees-13946875.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489779

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by shrikant in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

shrikant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:49:44 +0000

Well, there's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution...

Anthropic enables self-service data analytics with Claude

shrikant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:09:50 +0000

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/how-anthropic-enables-self-service-data-analytics-with-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444896

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shrikant in "NPM packages from RedHat have been compromised"

shrikant — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:01:50 +0000

Oooh now I'm wondering if this may have contributed to their Docker image distribution service getting disrupted earlier today... https://status.redhat.com/incidents/jn6r256zc62c

New comment by shrikant in "The worst job interview I ever had"

shrikant — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:11:38 +0000

Wow, why do you think the communication was so off? (I don't know much about French)

My guess would be that the intervewing manager was just translating English sentences directly into their French worded equivalent without actually following the rules/grammmar, and so it was confusing -- right?

I initially thought they might be attempting to read off a Google Translate conversion but I suppose if that interview was face to face then that'd be implausible.