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New comment by sremani in "Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation"

sremani — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:56:47 +0000

I once did some research on Mirai and found at that time Plano, TX where Toyota NA is Headquartered did not have a Hydrogen station. Not sure if they have one now. It is such a limited car and because of the infrastructure stuck to LA and San Diego, I guess.

Pure range is 500+ miles but not many Hydrogen stations.

New comment by sremani in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

sremani — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:15:19 +0000

thank you for fighting the enshitification of American Experience.

New comment by sremani in "See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments"

sremani — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:26:04 +0000

Good to know I am top 1% of something. You made my day bro!

New comment by sremani in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

sremani — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:04:01 +0000

I have donated and was immensely disappointed the donations thus far are about $16K.

note to self: take HN righteous indignations less seriously.

New comment by sremani in "US companies, consumers are paying for tariffs, not foreign firms"

sremani — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:38:05 +0000

The academic fraud in US is at its peak. Harvard President was caught red handed plagiarizing. Many scientific papers are not reproducible and more than 50% in some cases.

Most academics are sophist. Most universities practice scientism instead of science.

Erudition has been replaced with test taking and sophistry.

New comment by sremani in "US companies, consumers are paying for tariffs, not foreign firms"

sremani — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 01:28:15 +0000

Birds did not read Ornithology to fly. Accumulation of knowledge is useful but real world experience and hard earned wisdom is more important.

That is what you test-taking, credential hustlers do not understand.

India regulator bars Jane Street from local securities market

sremani — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 02:26:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-regulator-bars-jane-street-accessing-its-securities-market-2025-07-04/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44460649

Points: 15

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New comment by sremani in "How renewables are saving Texans billions"

sremani — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 03:42:23 +0000

take a look at coal consumption in China. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361652086/figure/fi...

New comment by sremani in "U.S. Chemical Safety Board Could be Eliminated"

sremani — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:00:50 +0000

In India, The lower level bureaucracy lives off people and higher level bureaucracy lives off state.

In US, the bureaucracy lives off entirely on State. That is why it feels less corrupt.

$36 Trillion in debt but fights are on one million dollar budgets.

New comment by sremani in "Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level"

sremani — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 16:07:51 +0000

The book - PMPP - Programming Massively Parallel Processors

The YouTube Channel - CUDA_MODE - it is based on PMPP I could not find the channel, but here is the playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuhJEEJQgUM&list=PLVEjdmwEDk...

Once done, you would be on solid foundation.

New comment by sremani in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"

sremani — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:56:24 +0000

So this is speculation that laws "may" be broken but nothing beyond that. Might be harassed. Even by HN standards this daily Elon burning rituals are a new low.

New comment by sremani in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

sremani — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:29:25 +0000

A hostile regime 90 miles from US mainland will be treated differently. Cuba is not some vanilla leftist regime that has no love for America. Cuban intelligence and elite for the past 50 years have been active subverting US interests. A unilateral withdrawal of sanctions would mean rewarding bad behavior. Do not let the small size of Cuba underestimate them, they are behind all major anti-American activity in Latin America. They were are major force supporting Maduro in Venezuela.

Why does not the Communist regime in Cuba "open up"? Because they know the day Cuba becomes a multiparty state with elections -- they have to run out of the country. Both Cuban and Venezuelan elite along with many Caribbean states are active in Drug Dealings and Money Laundering.

Yes, the hawks in US have a role but they are not only active players, there are hawks in Cuba too.

New comment by sremani in "Microsoft Is Dead (2007)"

sremani — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:58:42 +0000

This is classic demonstration of the fact, you do not have to get most of the things right, but extract maximum value when you are right.

We have the excellent advantage of hindsight but definitely in 2007 the general agreement was Microsoft was losing to Google and Apple, which were the darlings of the stock market while Microsoft remained stagnant.

New comment by sremani in "It's Now Cheaper to Lease a Tesla Model 3 Than a Toyota Camry"

sremani — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:35:11 +0000

Instead of slashing the sale price, incentivizing leases seems to be the go to for now in the EV market. You can only kick the can so much -- 2024 December will be a glorious time to buy vehicles.

New comment by sremani in "The “3.5% rule”: How a small minority can change the world"

sremani — Thu, 16 May 2024 15:33:22 +0000

The power of Intolerant minority is covered by N.N.Taleb.. the easy examples are Kosher and Halal foods becoming mainstream even though the size of minority itself is small.

New comment by sremani in "I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on HTMX"

sremani — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:52:35 +0000

Fat Web Client are generally bad idea and most sites are better off being Thin Web Clients with Servers doing heavy lifting and lite frameworks like htmx fill in the gaps.

The more appropriate analogy is, you do not need a sky-crane to build a single family home.

New comment by sremani in "AI Leapfrogging: How AI Will Transform “Lagging” Industries (2023)"

sremani — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:26:36 +0000

AI is useful especially when there is a tight feedback loop. Validating what the AI suggests via a 'System' or a Competent Mahoot riding it. I find it incredibly useful when I am specific and can test out.

I installed the new Ubuntu LTS and was trying to install a cargo package and was running into issue. Google/Bing search took me on a tangent. I put in the error in ChatGPT 3.5, got exact apt install to solve the issue and it worked when tried.

A million of these a day is going to have one heck of an effect on the planet.

I am not saying AI fixes the search but the Search Results are hit and miss any way. The real low hanging fruit are the domains, where the existing system is hit and miss.

The AI long case is, that People are also glorified LLMs/Pattern-matching machines. People who can make Computers sing will make AI sing (most likely). For most domains, AI elevates their 'base line' from the existing floor.

New comment by sremani in "C isn't a hangover and Rust isn't a cure"

sremani — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:27:27 +0000

C is Lindy. People will be writing C code in 2072.

New comment by sremani in "A primer on x86 by Casey Muratori and The Primeagen [video]"

sremani — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 02:57:49 +0000

Primagen is not everyones cup of tea. I enjoy his videos and he does it in a fun way. Could there be more value per minute, definitely. In his case, the medium is the message - keeping his twitch/youtube audience engaged with video means there are trade-offs. I find he does good within the medium in a honest way.

Casey has his 'nominally' priced course, which is excellent. I recommend it.

New comment by sremani in "A Brazilian special-forces unit fighting to save the Amazon"

sremani — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:38:55 +0000

I am excited about the future movie "Saving Forest Rain".