subhobroto

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by subhobroto 4d ago
FUD is nothing new in our industry. The same playbook had been used, for eg. by Microsoft trying to fight Linux adoption and growth decades ago. This is the *exact* same playbook used to instill fear and scare people into regulating and set
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
Citadel are using which models on bedrock and for what purpose? Core portfolio research? Update Confluence pages and JIRA tickets? Create marketing copy?
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
> but they will probably soon have a GPT-bio that they license to Pfizer and a GPT-quant that they license to Citadel, rather than keeping those valuable capabilities in the public models Nein. Neither Pfizer nor Citadel are going to use
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
> If you ask an LLM to give you a 500-word summary of quantum physics, it'll give you an oversimplification that probably leans on a hodgepodge of pop-sci metaphors What would a double PhD in quantum physics provide differently if y
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
Wait, I can purchase $2-$4 "find hub" compatible beacons all day and have been for months. I have even made my own using a CR2032 + ESP32-C3 and they work fantastic with "find hub" - is this just an official version of t
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
> who wrote a somewhat successful OS kernel I hope this is a joke. Linux runs on toasters, rockets, phones, tablets, TVs, and systems I can't even think of right now. There's a popular public debate about an OS professor, whose
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
> It’s much harder to write well without practicing Is the point of writing, to communicate information from one person to another group or something else? Which of these fail to communicate the need: i. "Need to go poo poo! NOW!&qu
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
I honestly don't understand what we're discussing/debating? It feels like you think I'm countering your postition but I'm not. I'm tired of people echoing a common trope that somehow LLMs replace critical think
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
I heard your points - you communicated them very well. I failed to communicate that the first, while true, isn't going to matter in a few years time and the second is not true. I will repeat what I said - if an employer arbitrarily res
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
> because theoretical understanding tends to stay valid longer than practical skills, and because it's easier to learn practical skills at work depends. If you're building a datacenter and need welders to weld two very specific
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
> Why do we make kids learn how to do math if they can pull out their phone and open the calculator app? Because learning how to learn is important and there is value in understanding how the answer is produced, even if you have a machin
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
> allowing students to write their assessments with the help of LLMs changes the students’ depth of understanding, as well as their ability to synthesize, formalize, and drum up their own arguments and objections indeed but LLMs improve
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by subhobroto 1mo ago
The more I read about articles like these, I grow even more convinced that the education industry as a whole, regardless of the country or stature, has kind of lost their plot. Sometimes I even wonder if this is the outcome of sheer lazines
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Tell HN: Cursor Auto is no longer "Auto"! Let's welcome Auto Cost(forum.cursor.com)
5 points by subhobroto 2mo ago|1 comments
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
Cursor's "Auto", to me, used to mean "cheap flat rate, don't worry which model ran". That assumption is now a financial mishap waiting to happen as of today: 2026-07-22. Cursor just shipped "Cursor Router&
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
> "the future is changed now, so you can't change it again" that's not what I said. As technologists, we repeatedly change the future - that's what makes all the pain, sweat and tears worth it. 35 years ago, when
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
I love your project on many fronts. One, you're using Claude. Two, you used Python - but most importantly, you personally care about it. I will be using this, and I will be making contributions to it as well. > I'm actually th
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
> What is the alternative to microchips? There are different ways to answer this. One person gave a literal answer - Vacuum Tubes. My, alternate answer is, humans. Computers are machines that automate human processes. If we didn't h
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
> What do people use uncensored Grok for (like, real use cases) that they can't or won't use other LLMs for? Literally the only thing I can think of is generating bad porn of unconsenting people untrue. There's a full thre
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
> anyone who is willing to build on stolen property just so that we can accelerate enshittification and damage the environment Others have made solid arguments(Stackoverflow, open weight models, and fully open source models) - but I enco
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
> A diverse market full of choices keeps it from becoming the browser wars all over again. This is a great analogy but I worry you might be implying something I don't agree with but you didn't explicitly say what I'm worri
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
> this doesn’t make sense to me My hypothesis is that all the top providers realize that, lacking vendor lock in, all SOTA models in a year or so's time will be similar in capability. Also, open weights models are continuing to catc
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
What would have been fantastic is if Cursor offered Grok 4.5 in the same usage tier as "Auto + Composer", than provide it as "double usage until July 12" under the API tier (which is what they're doing right now).
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
I think we need to be explicit about the domains we're applying Composer 2.5 to in these discussions. I mentioned here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766275 ) how poorly it handles my specific use cases. My cow
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
Are you in the U.S.? Which state? You're trying to establish a chain of custody here. The only person who remotely cares about the forensic integrity of the message is the judge (and the jury if it's a jury trial) and it seems lik
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by subhobroto 2mo ago
> Indeed. And re the image fingerprinting, it just checks the file names of "message parts", not content-type or content-disposition (even though imapflow exposes those) Thank You for the explanation. This sheds some light on w
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by subhobroto 3mo ago
I was monitoring this thread because of the comments. Unsure how I came across this post to begin with! (was it on the FP?) You really handled all the feedback well and if you wouldn't mind answering (email works too), I had some follo
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by subhobroto 3mo ago
The details are interesting! How did you find all of this out? Did you download the tool in a VM and disasm it? I assumed the OP was literally making throttled, batched, parallel IMAP FETCH calls with the BODYSTRUCTURE parameter to the mail
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by subhobroto 3mo ago
Watching this thread unfold over 24h was illuminating. The biggest pushback seemed to be the price: people are upset it's priced at $30. Some suggested $3. A few suggested open sourcing it under MIT and moving on. The primary argument
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by subhobroto 3mo ago
> it tends to leave big, dangerous holes hiding inside implementations unless babied it's fascinating that I used these same exact words to express my distaste for Composer and my preference for Opus. I suspect, the domains and prob

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