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New comment by vhiremath4 in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

vhiremath4 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:13:35 +0000

I hate to be negative but it feels like this is relevant to the article. I cannot bring myself to read articles that are so clearly spat out as AI slop. There’s a part of me that dies inside knowing the author did not take the time to actually write something but still demands I spend my time reading what they have written. It feels like I am betraying my own self respect.

I know this is dramatic but I genuinely fear a future where this is the default state of all writing and I still need to get information important to me.

New comment by vhiremath4 in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

vhiremath4 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:39:59 +0000

I don't really know how to word this, but it feels like we've lost a loving kind of wisdom as a society. In an effort to be better and provide access to women (a good thing), we have also pushed down men. I don't exactly know how we get back to lifting both up while evolving norms as a society. It seems so simple on the surface, but it doesn't seem to be happening in practice.

New comment by vhiremath4 in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

vhiremath4 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:24:51 +0000

This looks really cool.

I have never colo'd my laptop, but I do work off my Windows laptop from my Mac via Parsec (remote viewing software for gaming) and by flipping system settings so my Windows machine never turns off when connected to the power bank and lid is closed. There are obviously hiccups (if internet goes out, if Windows decides to restart from an update, etc.), but it mostly just works and I think I've only had 2 instances in the past 3 months where it's gone offline. I use Tailscale on top to provide a universal mouse server for my 3d mouse, and I'm able to magically CAD from my Mac.

Highly recommend if you need to use one OS/machine for some specific software (especially if it's beefy/heavy) but prefer using another as your daily driver.

New comment by vhiremath4 in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

vhiremath4 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:17:36 +0000

> “Along with physically redundant wires, we have logically redundant network planes. We have redundant flight computers. All this is in place to cover for a hardware failure.”

It would be really cool to see a visualization of redundancy measures/utilization over the course of the trip to get a more tangible feel for its importance. I'm hoping a bunch of interesting data is made public after this mission!

New comment by vhiremath4 in "Inside the 'self-driving' lab revolution"

vhiremath4 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:19:08 +0000

> Eve independently screened some 1,600 chemicals and modelled how their structure related to their activity to predict which ones were worth testing. King and his group armed the robot with background knowledge and a machine-learning framework for developing hypotheses. Eve then used those elements to design experiments to test these hypotheses and, crucially, performed them itself.

> King plans to use the system — which occupies one-fifth of floor space than Eve does — to model how genes, proteins and small molecules interact in cells. Part of that will involve taking around 10,000 mass-spectrometry measurements each day.

The throughput here is astounding, especially when driven by researchers who really know how to chart a path. I feel every time a critical feedback loop is made both faster and cheaper, it makes everyone participating better. I wonder whether we will see many more "whiz kid" scientific researchers than we have today.

New comment by vhiremath4 in "What fork() Actually Copies"

vhiremath4 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:34:06 +0000

Is it kosher to start flagging posts as AI slop?

LLMs take the fun out of coding

vhiremath4 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:59:45 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/atmoio/status/2030289138126107074

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295479

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by vhiremath4 in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

vhiremath4 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:58:17 +0000

This is an interesting perspective. What happens if there is a large global war? Do researchers who were previously against working with the DoD end up flipping out of duty? Does the war budget go up? Does the DoD decide to lift any ban on Anthropic for the sake of getting the best model and does Anthropic warm its stance on not working with autonomous weapons systems?

I don’t know the answers to these questions, but if the answer is “yes” to at least 1 or 2, then I think the equation flips quite a bit. This is what I’m seeing in the world right now, and it’s disconcerting:

1. Ukraine and Russia have been in a skirmish that has been drawn out much longer than I would guess most people would have guessed. This has created a divide in political allegiance within the United States and Europe.

2. We captured the leader of Venezuela. Cuba is now scared they are next.

3. We just bombed Iran and killed their supreme leader.

4. China and the US are, of course, in a massive economic race for world power supremacy. The tensions have been steadily rising, and they are now feeling the pressure of oil exports from Iran grinding to a halt.

5. The past couple days Macron has been trying to quell tension between Israel and Lebanon.

I really do not hope we are not headed into war. I hope the fact that we all have nukes and rely on each others’ supply chains deters one. But man does it feel like the odds are increasing in favor of one, and man does that seem to throw a wrench in this whole thing with Anthropic vs. OpenAI.

New comment by vhiremath4 in "IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup"

vhiremath4 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:17:32 +0000

I am on the same site. It’s trash and doesn’t even come close to detailing the internal dynamics.

People have no idea what’s actually going on inside, but I guess it’s simpler to just be upset and take sides. There are people associated with DOGE (Sam included) who are tirelessly doing unsexy and thankless work while not being sensational like Trump or Elon. But they still get trampled on by people who simply want to be upset and ignorant.

New comment by vhiremath4 in "Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020)"

vhiremath4 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:41:36 +0000

Might be a dumb question, but isn’t the risk of cold joints proportional to your skill in soldering in general? Important context: I am definitely a noob to soldering

New comment by vhiremath4 in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

vhiremath4 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:17:38 +0000

I will be honest. I love open source. But something that really annoys me about the open source community is that the developers take this holier-than-thou approach to backing up maintainers in circumstances like this, but obviously they are not paying with their own money. They are just complaining, and it feels a lot like virtue signaling at worst and pure naivety at best. It feels extremely disengenous at this point, and it's annoying.

What do we actually know?

1. People are inherently selfish. If you give me this shit for free, I'm gonna use it for free. Obviously everyone is doing this. Spare me the "but I go to this conference or that conference".

2. Code is cheap. Why would I ever pay for something that is not gated behind a service with API limits and costs?

3. Coding as we know it is getting commoditized. That's correct. We are all going to lose our jobs as we know it today. Clearly that's the future. Wake up!

But when making these points, open source devs (and honestly a lot of people on hacker news) whine and complain. I don't really know why I'm leaving this comment - I just feel like I'm at an annoyance breaking point. This guy is obviously struggling to pivot and all the grandstanding and virtue signaling just feels like additional noise and wanting to feel good with very little action.

New comment by vhiremath4 in "Maybe you’re not trying"

vhiremath4 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:14:27 +0000

There are agentic ways to submit to the journey even if it’s going to suck for a while and there’s no apparent end in sight. Gratitude. God. Whatever. Lots of people submit by withering away and letting their emotions take them down a path of steady erosion. That is not high agency.

New comment by vhiremath4 in "GPT-4.5"

vhiremath4 — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:03:53 +0000

I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription today in favor of using Grok. It’s literally the difference between me never using ChatGPT to using Grok all the time, and the only way I can explain it is twofold:

1. The output from Grok doesn’t feel constrained. I don’t know how much of this is the marketing pitch of it “not being woke”, but I feel it in its answers. It never tells me it’s not going to return a result or sugarcoats some analysis it found from Reddit that’s less than savory.

2. Speed. Jesus Christ ChatGPT has gotten so slow.

Can’t wait to pay for Grok. Can’t believe I’m here. I’m usually a big proponent of just sticking with the thing that’s the most popular when it comes to technology, but that’s not panning out this time around.

New comment by vhiremath4 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

vhiremath4 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:55:16 +0000

A seriously impressive piece of work, especially only in 6 months. Bravo! :)

New comment by vhiremath4 in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

vhiremath4 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:26:00 +0000

This gave me a good laugh. Thanks for that :)

I am rich and have no idea what to do

vhiremath4 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:50:15 +0000

Article URL: https://vinay.sh/i-am-rich-and-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with-my-life/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579873

Points: 967

# Comments: 1628

New comment by vhiremath4 in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

vhiremath4 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:31:17 +0000

Excellent thank you!

New comment by vhiremath4 in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

vhiremath4 — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:30:20 +0000

I really wish the release videos made things a ~tad~ bit less technical. I know quantum computers are still very early so the target audience is technical for this kind of release, but I can’t help wonder how many more people would be excited and pulled in if they made the main release video more approachable.

Ghost engineers – 9.5% of software engineers contribute close to nothing

vhiremath4 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/yegordb/status/1859290734257635439

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42204136

Points: 9

# Comments: 8

New comment by vhiremath4 in "Physical Intelligence's first generalist policy AI can finally do your laundry"

vhiremath4 — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:16:23 +0000

I don’t really understand what you’re proposing. How would we fix things to “not run away”. If we’re not trying to value fix to be more objective, what guiding principle should we follow?

On the wealth weighting, I’m a fan of a 100% inheritance tax tbh. I’m in the “top 1%” and I don’t plan on giving my kids more than a great upbringing and education. I’m not giving them any additional cash injection. I think that solves a lot of the wealth weighting problem by shortening the lifecycle of capital holds, but I don’t know if I’ll ever live to see it (or some form of it like inheritance caps).