aitchnyu (u/aitchnyu)

aitchnyu commented on Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki... · Posted by u/trms

siva7 · 6 days ago

It was a fascinating symbiotic between nerdy med students from all over the world and an obscure open source flashcard app that originally targeted language learners. I've been part of that community for many years and would have never foreseen this outcome but in hindsight it seems the best path forward for anki.

aitchnyu · 6 days ago

Does the community have extensive medicine syllabus as decks? I got 429ed from searching their decks.

aitchnyu commented on I Test Drove a Chinese EV. Now I Don't Want to Buy American Cars Anymore wsj.com/tech/personal-tec... · Posted by u/dkobia

cucumber3732842 · 7 days ago

>Does anyone outside America wants to buy an American car?

"Nobody buys American" is a circle jerk meme in white collar parts of the internet where everyone has a $50k Japanese car/SUV/pickup in their driveway they need to feel validated about.

Ford and GM sell small cars, crossovers and midsize trucks hand over fist in "wet equatorial places", roughly speaking, though in GM's case typically not branded as GM/Chevy.

The Daimler Benz and FCA thing was actually really good for Chrysler/Jeep getting their products out there[1]. Due to the inherent multi nationality of Stellantis, those platforms are basically global at this point anyway even if they're not badged as Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler overseas or badged as French/Italian in the US.

That said, the "first world" markets have been so insular for so long due to protectionism that they are in serious danger.

aitchnyu · 7 days ago

GM mostly rebadged Subaru, Isuzu, Daewoo (Korean) models as Chevies in India before leaving. Are they doing better in other "wet equatorial places"?

aitchnyu commented on Ratchets in software development (2021) qntm.org/ratchet... · Posted by u/nvader

burticlies · 7 days ago

I’ve never understood why linters don’t have this baked in. You want to deprecate a pattern, but marking it as an error and failing the build won’t work. So you mark it warning and fill everyone’s editors with yellow lines. And then we just get used to the noisy warnings.

Ratchet is such a good word for it.

aitchnyu · 7 days ago

Python linters have a one-step way to suppress all individual errors. I assumed a SaaS like Sourcegraph is the only solution to ensure a codebase doesnt become worse.

aitchnyu commented on Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation github.com/gavrielc/nanoc... · Posted by u/jimminyx

aitchnyu · 7 days ago

That Baileys api for Whatsapp may (AFAICT) put you in thin ice with Meta. Is there a cheap legit alternative?

https://baileys.wiki/docs/intro/

aitchnyu commented on nanochat can now train GPT-2 grade LLM for –$73 (3 hours on single 8XH100 node) twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/tosh

aitchnyu · 8 days ago

Is there a theoritical minimum for computing power required to say, target GPT-2? Is there something fundamental to prevent a gaming laptop from exceeding Claude Opus?

aitchnyu commented on Developers say AI coding tools work–and that's precisely what worries them arstechnica.com/ai/2026/0... · Posted by u/pseudolus

aitchnyu · 9 days ago

"build, then rebuild 3 times in less time than it would have taken to build manually" - wish this is explored more. I saw the typical guy one-shot code generation (seen one with undefined variable in happy path) and throw it over the wall. I'm trying to use my 1200 words per minute typing gift for harder tests, readable code, refactors, scripts etc. Starting with my side project though.

aitchnyu commented on AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected semiengineering.com/ais-i... · Posted by u/rbanffy

3vidence · 10 days ago

Ironically I feel like our QA team is busier than ever since most e2e user-ish tests require coordinating tools that is just beyond current LLM capabilities. We are pumping out features faster that require more QA to verify.

aitchnyu · 10 days ago

Would this be a problem if you can write E2E tests just like unit tests, like with Django+playwright?

https://github.com/mxschmitt/python-django-playwright/blob/m...

aitchnyu commented on Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025) soapstone.mradford.com/em... · Posted by u/MattyRad

malfist · 10 days ago

2D plotters are what, $100? That's basically no cost for someone wanting to spam "handwritten" letters

aitchnyu · 10 days ago

Two students built their own https://makezine.com/article/technology/robotics/homework-ma...

aitchnyu commented on Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025) soapstone.mradford.com/em... · Posted by u/MattyRad

msten · 10 days ago

Last job I hired for I required short video submission answering some basic questions. If you didn't submit a video you were automatically disqualified. The previous position we hired for had over 1,000 applicants this last position around 500.

aitchnyu · 10 days ago

I did this once for an AI training data management company in 2022. I assumed I just generated training data.

aitchnyu commented on Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? fourplex.net/2026/01/29/i... · Posted by u/neelc

Gigachad · 10 days ago

Vultr has one that's $2.5/month v6 only. Probably good if you just need something tiny to run some automation.

aitchnyu · 10 days ago

What are the issues faced by v6-only hosts and are there countries where it is a non-issue?