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ashu1461··on PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
Right, Not sure why but a lot of code which claude generates also comes with local dependencies vs globally declared import statements. Don't promote that pattern because

- It reduces visibility into a module’s dependencies.

- It increases the risk of introducing circular dependencies later on.

ashu1461··on PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
Not sure if this can be made backward compatible.

Right now all the imports are getting resolved at runtime example in a code like below

  from file1 import function1
When you write this, the entire file1 module is executed right away, which may trigger side effects.

If lazy imports suddenly defer execution, those side effects won’t run until much later (or not at all, if the code path isn’t hit). That shift in timing could easily break existing code that depends on import-time behavior.

To avoid using lazy, this there is also a proposal of adding the modules you want to load lazily to a global `__lazy_modules__` variable.

ashu1461··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
The burn out due to unproductive meetings would probably be at a similar scale
ashu1461··on Sora 2 Video Examples
Where are the examples ? Just see the ads.
ashu1461··on Diff Algorithms
Interesting, didn’t think of it that way
ashu1461··on Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run – Now Open Source
This is more like a local ci / cd workflow
ashu1461··on Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run – Now Open Source
What are some of the examples of workflows which people have built with atuin desktop ?
ashu1461··on Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan
What decides if a founder will get convicted or walk free like Adam Neumann did / Builder.ai guys did ?
ashu1461··on Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
Fundamentally weight lifting should reduce inflammation, but at the same time I’m less certain about how things like protein powders or very high protein intake factor into this.
ashu1461··on Diff Algorithms
Apart from source code versioning what are the other most important real world use cases of diff algorithms ?
ashu1461··on Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement
Hasn't Tim Apple done his share by releasing apple watch and airpods, which have been good successors to other ancillary products which apple had earlier (ipad / ipod).

And right now as well, no laptop comes close to the overall experience that the Mac provides so he has been able to maintain market leadership.

Far better than Zuck for whom the only source of innovation has been acquisitions rather than releasing original products.

ashu1461··on Launch HN: Airweave (YC X25) – Let agents search any app
Great release,

1. How do you decide whether to cache the data into a vector database or fetch it on runtime using a tool call ?

2. Slowly all players like Open AI / Claude are trying to provide a somewhat equivalent offering of connecting your workspaces and then providing search on top of it either via direct integrations / mcp servers, how do you see that spanning out ?

ashu1461··on Sora 2
This is a good comparison thread of capabilities of sora vs sora 2

https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/1973085321928515783

ashu1461··on Sora 2
Those `nature is amazing type of videos` are already flooded with AI
ashu1461··on Claude Code 2.0
How do checkpoints work ?
ashu1461··on A New Chapter Begins – Quo (Formerly OpenPhone)
Nice, we used to use open phone. All the best
ashu1461··on Ask HN: How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently?
It is totally fine to just say it simple terms.

What will give you confidence is actually following up and getting back to people and closing the thread.

Then people will trust you as well.

ashu1461··on Play snake in the URL address bar
See closely there should be snake in the bar as well, which responds if you use the arrows.
ashu1461··on Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying
Retargeting ads also add value, it helps in reinforcement in a targeted way.

It can be thought of a good way of branding on a cohort of customers who would be interested in your product.

Just the definition of interest is something which is skewed.

ashu1461··on Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and sea peoples
> In general, that argument is that there shouldn’t be any simple technology that would make humans dramatically smarter, since if there was, then evolution would have already found it.

With technology we have massively extended lifespan, so does this argument really hold valid ?

ashu1461··on A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails
MCPs are just fancy wrappers over rest apis, at least majority of the MCP servers out in the market are like that.

Having an MCP necessarily does not mean it is unsafe until and unless the company rushed execution and released something which it should not have in the first place.

ashu1461··on A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails
This article was published few days ago citing notion's mcp server and it looks legit

https://www.codeintegrity.ai/blog/notion

ashu1461··on The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding
Reminds be of how people use typescript types like a hidden programming language making calculators etc.
ashu1461··on I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it
What was AI used for in this ? not able to access the room right now

-- The room is now closed for the night. Come back soon.

ashu1461··on Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust
Landing page is indeed very refreshing
ashu1461··on Python developers are embracing type hints
A huge supporter of typing in python, but have observed that type sense which pycharm provides out of the box has its fair share of bugs as well.

Also should check out ty by astral, it is pretty fast and does a good job at typechecking.

https://docs.astral.sh/ty/editors/

ashu1461··on Python developers are embracing type hints
This

Without typing it is literally 100x harder to refactor your code, types are like a contract which if are maintained after the refactor gives you confidence. Over time it leads to faster development

ashu1461··on Python developers are embracing type hints
Sometimes that is not an option, consider the bias which python gets due to all the LLM libraries being python first.
ashu1461··on Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
This surpasses the previous record of 4 months

https://www.science.org/content/article/longest-human-transp...

Pretty amazing tech tbh

ashu1461··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
Somehow after looking at the video, it is hard to believe that it is actually much different than your standard knife.
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