<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: vishnugupta</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vishnugupta</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2026 07:36:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vishnugupta" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mathematicians inhibit and explore a world that is completely made up and exists only in abstract.<p>I wonder if this makes them slowly get disconnected from the lived realities of billions of ordinary people.</p>
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<p>It is very pervasive in certain parts of India. Google Pan Masala India.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:15:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716538</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "Dario, Please"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> People generally follow them because they expect to be caught and punished.<p>Laws are the last line of defense. People don’t do bad things primarily because their human nature and moral compass stops them from doing so.</p>
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<p>For my wife, who (a doctor) I'm confident is a representative of 95% of smartphone user-base, uses her iPhone for all[0] the tasks you described.<p>[0] At work she uses hospital provided Windows PC. Used only for patient records, nothing else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:56:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49641584</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49641584</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49641584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "Site Is Closed on Sundays"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People have different ways of dealing with overuse of technology. For some, one day a week off works for some notification off, for some using dumb phones. It is perfectly normal for people to tryout and share anything that works. And it is also perfectly normal to ignore it.<p>> There is A LOT of this sort of pressure and sentiment.<p>There’s absolutely no pressure that can’t be ignored. Just because you feel the pressure there’s no need to call everyone else’s way of dealing with overuse nonsensical.<p>> It's not screens that are bad, it's what you do with them and how you use them.<p>“Medium is the message” is a highly recommended reading.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:12:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584630</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "Being ambitious and being a dad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are two things that jump out at me being a parent of two children.<p>Until kids get to about 10 years old they need 24x7 supervision. Which means your time and energy is spent there. Your schedule completely revolves around them.<p>It’s hard to be 100% committed to anything else because you could get a call to attend to them regardless of your situation.<p>So yes, kids need their parents most of the time in early childhood.<p>However it also depends upon how much of community, relatives & governmental support you have. So take my words with a grain of salt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:27:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360075</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "Hello, me. It's been a while"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can relate. Though I was never that big into podcast/earphones etc., I had gotten into the habit of instinctively reaching out to play something while driving. However, I stopped doing that and it's so fun to be with myself again, me and my own voice in my head.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:57:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294299</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "Don't use your phone while you poop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to take news papers and magazines and sometimes still do. So yes it’s perfectly fine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:42:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222892</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222892</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "How to Exist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“..for me..”, “…my version…”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:18:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135205</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "How to Exist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seconded. For me "doing nothing" also means "doing nothing without following any rules" as you've stated. My version of doing nothing involves either just sitting outside watching the world go by or walking & wandering around. May poke at plants here or there, pick up a stone or throw it etc., But no, I'm not consciously trying to "calm my mind"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:54:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134996</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps you could edit the submission to add this context?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:25:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956202</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956202</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And crypto.</p>
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<p>Thank you! What a beautiful and appropriate meta comment!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:16:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918202</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918202</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just checked out the Google map satellite view and no kidding! The solar panels are crazy! Highly recommend exploring it yourselves. Mind blowing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:26:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847527</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847527</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And yet JK Rowling is a billionaire and movies make hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.<p>So I guess we can have a world in which knowledge can be free without starving knowledge creators?</p>
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<p>I agree 100%. I stopped watching after iPhone 15 event or maybe M2.<p>Absolutely everything seems scripted including hand movements, shifting of postures, smiles..the whole works.<p>Now I just wait for the press release and that’s that.</p>
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<p>Looks like it was a satire? I couldn’t find any authoritative sources on it.<p><a href="https://www.m9.news/social-media-viral/viral-microsoft-caste-bias-claim-satire-fact-check/" rel="nofollow">https://www.m9.news/social-media-viral/viral-microsoft-caste...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:22:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424320</link><dc:creator>vishnugupta</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vishnugupta in "Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it’s about software engineers, who are supposed to be impervious about effects of caste structures and hierarchy, judging programming languages from the caste lens.<p>That is my interpretation, please don’t hold me against it</p>
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<p>"I have written this maxim a few different ways, but it is worth writing again: no army can help but recreate its civilian social structures on the battlefield."<p>Interesting to see Conway's law show up here. Companies tend to ship their org structure in a product.</p>
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<p>+1 to Fastmail. Been their happy customer for 5+ years.</p>
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