Hacker News: tonmoy

New comment by tonmoy in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

tonmoy — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:55:09 +0000

Im not sure I follow. AI barely consumes energy compared to other industries and instead of focusing on the heavy hitters first wasting time on the climate impact on AI doesn’t seem useful

New comment by tonmoy in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

tonmoy — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:58:40 +0000

I’m surprised to see not enough people using xargs, or maybe I overuse it

New comment by tonmoy in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

tonmoy — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:41:19 +0000

The main issue with population decline is the inability to depend on the growing younger population to fund the retirement of elderly people

New comment by tonmoy in "Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation"

tonmoy — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:15:55 +0000

The less context switching LLMs of current day need to do the better they seem to perform. If I’m writing C code using an agent but my spec needs complex SQL to be retried then it’s better to give access to the spec database through MCP to prevent the LLM from going haywire

New comment by tonmoy in "Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued"

tonmoy — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:24:05 +0000

Isn’t that a myth? Do you have any sources to back up your claim?

New comment by tonmoy in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

tonmoy — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:38:57 +0000

From what I read they engine caught fire right after they hit V1, so basically the only option was to take off and solve the problem in the air

New comment by tonmoy in "You are how you act"

tonmoy — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:19:27 +0000

As someone neurotypical I take it for granted that my feelings most often align with what’s best to fit in with society. A few times it doesn’t and I end up giving in to my feelings and do the morally wrong thing

New comment by tonmoy in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

tonmoy — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:32:53 +0000

It is often useful to chain multiple sed commands and sometimes shuffle them around. In those cases I would need to keep changing the fist sed. Sometimes I need to grep before I sed. Using cat, tail and head makes things more modular in the long run I feel. It’s the ethos of each command doing one small thing

New comment by tonmoy in "AI Is Too Big to Fail"

tonmoy — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:48:17 +0000

Internet was too big to fail in 2000, and in the long run was a net positive for the economy. Yet, a lot of internet companies still have not recovered the bubble bursting

New comment by tonmoy in "Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)"

tonmoy — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:41:51 +0000

Most EVs these days can recharge 300ish miles in 15 mins, but 99% of the time I don’t even have to drive anywhere to refuel as it get recharged overnight in my garage. EVs are waaay more efficient in terms of MPGe so at least for me it is less half in terms of cost to refuel compared to petrol not even considering the external cost of emitting CO2

New comment by tonmoy in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

tonmoy — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 01:40:57 +0000

Is that the reason Steam is still loved by users? (not sure how long that’ll last tho)

New comment by tonmoy in "FDA takes action to make a treatment available for autism symptoms"

tonmoy — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:52:55 +0000

> The FDA has conducted a systematic analysis of literature published between 2009-2024, including published case reports with patient-level information, as well as mechanistic data, and has determined that the information supports a finding that leucovorin calcium can help individuals suffering from CFD.

I would have liked to see some citations. I’m mostly curious about the sample sizes

New comment by tonmoy in "How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me"

tonmoy — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:56:32 +0000

This is how I feel trying to follow tutorials for using LLM or GenAI (LoRA, agentic, MCP what?)

New comment by tonmoy in "Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation"

tonmoy — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:09:11 +0000

> This cabinet is one of the most impressive on paper cabinet i've ever seen

How can I be on you side since said this without any source. I had to spend 15 minutes going through each of the cabinet members profile (and the ones in previous presidencies). While there are a few people with good experience in the present cabinet, majority of the members don't seemed to have any experience for the job they where hired for

New comment by tonmoy in "1910: The year the modern world lost its mind"

tonmoy — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:51:24 +0000

Something similar happened during WW2 I guess

New comment by tonmoy in "Study mode"

tonmoy — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:21:07 +0000

I don’t know what subject you are learning but for circuit design I have failed to get any response out of LLMs that’s not straight from a well known text book chapter that I have already read

New comment by tonmoy in "Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn"

tonmoy — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:00:42 +0000

Clearly the engineers are being made scapegoats

New comment by tonmoy in "Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough"

tonmoy — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:01:47 +0000

For reference the Sahara desert is 9.2 million square kilometers (obviously covering the entire desert in turbines is impractical, but we might be able to come up with 1% “useless” land if needed)

New comment by tonmoy in "Binary Wordle"

tonmoy — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:16:32 +0000

Odds of getting it within 2 attempts is 1. Odds of getting it on exactly the second attempt is 31/32

New comment by tonmoy in "What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics"

tonmoy — Tue, 20 May 2025 06:34:32 +0000

That could be because most people in the world currently are young. Hypothetically even if birth rate remains constant but suddenly a huge portion of the population start dying due to age then it could flip suddenly