Hacker News: vaidhy

New comment by vaidhy in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

vaidhy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:36:06 +0000

I am also very curious what the actual cost of this is, esp. if you are not an Anthropic employee and have to pay the API cost.

New comment by vaidhy in "Phloto for My Photo Flow"

vaidhy — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:00:20 +0000

On a side note, what is your take on AVIF vs WebP? I recently moved my site to 11ty and looking to re-encode several hundreds of images. I do want to keep the quality of the photos as much as I can, while reducing the network load.

New comment by vaidhy in "Why Europe doesn't have a Tesla"

vaidhy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:28:06 +0000

I think there is a fundamental idea that the only way to measure success of companies is the monetary value to shareholders. US companies optimize for that and they cannot believe other countries/cultures would have a different value system.

New comment by vaidhy in "Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)"

vaidhy — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:06:55 +0000

Neurodivergent is not just one thing.

Are there people on the autism spectrum at leadership level? - Steve Jobs was considered to be one even though he was not formally diagnosed as one.

Are there people on ADD/ADHD spectrum at leadership levels - yes, I know of a few..

Are there people with sociopathic tendencies at leadership level - You can answer this one :)

New comment by vaidhy in "Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)"

vaidhy — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:01:57 +0000

I guess you have not been to LinkedIn in a while :)

The fact he did not even spot the actual problem is worrying. Did someone know that the button color was changed in the new version of the software?

New comment by vaidhy in "Being poor vs. being broke"

vaidhy — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:13:10 +0000

I do not remember where I read this, but it has struck with me for the last 35+ years - "Poverty is a crime, but the poor are not guilty of it".

I have seen abject poverty growing up in India.. It is right in your face most of the times. I have friends from the other side of the street and pretty much, you live in very different realities.

New comment by vaidhy in "The end of the rip-off economy: AI is radically improving market efficiency"

vaidhy — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:01:24 +0000

Looking at the graph in the article, it starts falling off from 2010 and it is actually on a uptick in last year. A honest reading would be that internet has increased access to information and AI is obfuscating it again.

New comment by vaidhy in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

vaidhy — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:54:54 +0000

As in, you witnessed 5 murders or 5 people you know got killed/happened near you etc?

If so, I do not know how to tell you that this sounds insane..

New comment by vaidhy in "When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army"

vaidhy — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 03:30:07 +0000

From what I am reading, that is not the final price.. that is the room price and they add a ton of fees to that price

New comment by vaidhy in "US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief"

vaidhy — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:17:24 +0000

Winning is different from taking over.. Russia wants to rule over Ukraine, not destroy it.

US was all into destroying Afghanistan and Iraq. They had no intention of being there long term.

New comment by vaidhy in "6 weeks of Claude Code"

vaidhy — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 11:27:59 +0000

You know senior developers can also be off-shored, right?

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

vaidhy — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:31:42 +0000

A tariff across the board is same as a sales tax (rather a value added tax, as it is dependent on the value of goods).

I would love to understand why you think it is punitive for the ultra rich.

New comment by vaidhy in "The U.S. Will Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Aid"

vaidhy — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:37:14 +0000

Where does it say logistics shortage? A shortage of mercy and empathy is more like it.

New comment by vaidhy in "US inflation rises as tariffs drive up prices"

vaidhy — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:34:50 +0000

Further, the tariffs have not be implemented across the board. There were only the threats. If and when they are implemented, we will see how all of this falls out.

New comment by vaidhy in "Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase"

vaidhy — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:25:16 +0000

I am a bit confused.. If you are willing to work at Applebee's for minimum wage job, then you are employed. Why should you be considered unemployed?

If you all you can find are the minimum wage jobs and you choose not to work there, then you should be considered unemployed and if you are long term unemployed, U6 captures that.

New comment by vaidhy in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"

vaidhy — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:53:22 +0000

I think the discussions are also missing another key element. The time in takes to read someone else code is way more mentally tiring.

When I am writing the code, my mind tracks what I have done and the new pieces flow. When I am reading code written by someone else, there is no flow.. I have to track individual pieces and go back and forth on what was done before.

I can see myself using LLMs for short snippets rather than start something top down.

New comment by vaidhy in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

vaidhy — Mon, 26 May 2025 23:14:28 +0000

I do not know if you will see this.. however, the consequence is faced by the society for electing someone. It is not that the republican voters face something separate.

If you agree that the actions of the current administration are detrimental to the US over long term, those are the consequences.

Take Alabama or Oklahoma for example - their policies have made those states backward. People in those states have poor education outcomes, less wealth and less health, lower social mobility etc. It impacts everyone in those states. Either the opposition needs to mobilize, message better etc. or the voters need to compare and realize what they are missing. If not, they will continue to face the consequences.

New comment by vaidhy in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

vaidhy — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:35:08 +0000

yes, but that is just a form a political attrition war

New comment by vaidhy in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

vaidhy — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:33:09 +0000

Maybe they think Harvard will replace international students with american ones? Poor foreign workers are taking away our jobs, and rich foreign students are taking away our education argument??

New comment by vaidhy in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

vaidhy — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:26:09 +0000

Voters face the consequence for their voting. So, in that meaning, they are responsible for the actions of the representatives.