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mandeepj

3,942 karma · joined November 20, 2011

I am an entrepreneur at heart. Currently working on an AI Executive Assistant. You don't have to be a CEO of an $$$ MM company to get one.

You can contact me at ihacker [@] outlook dot com

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mandeepj··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
"use all of the compute capacity at their Colossus 1 data center"

So, they handed out all of their data center to Anthropic; Grok wasn't using it much?

mandeepj··on Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
Point On! Probably done by two different teams, who don't know about each other. I hate this (re)captcha so bad. They assume everyone is bad.
mandeepj··on Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
> possibly because of fears that someone will trick the agent into giving them a refund or something.

Refunds could require approval. And, it could not be just the agent's sole decision.

mandeepj··on Welcome to Gas City
Not if you want to write code by yourself.
mandeepj··on GitHub Is Down
I think there should be another page 'GitHub is NOT down'. Needless to say, for all the other times it's Down.
mandeepj··on DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
That’s the classic phenomenon of cheaper pricing due to offshoring! If your expenses are in dollars then for sure recovery is going to be in dollars as well. Why is that a surprise to anyone?
mandeepj··on How an oil refinery works
It’s worth mentioning here - the founder (Dhiru bhai) of Reliance used to pump gas in Dubai and that’s where he got the dream to start his own refinery one day. Dream one side, but just going about setting up such a giant production facility at an enormous scale is nothing short of an extraordinary achievement. Pretty sure he had overflow of grit, commitment, and all around strength, and of course high dose of highest level of talent.
mandeepj··on U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP
Not counting the damages to US bases; it’s pretty significant. https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/world/video/us-military-bases...
mandeepj··on U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP
Well, he’s single handedly responsible for 1/3 of the debt! And, will add more before his term ends either by force, naturally, or duration completion. He don’t know how to cancel debt, but would happily add more to it and laughingly take home that cash.
mandeepj··on I analyzed 571M Amazon reviews to find the most profanity-filled customer rants
I don’t think a login wall can stop scrappers
mandeepj··on Zed 1.0
wait, there's more [copied from the top comment of their youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Bns1T77HM)] -

1. Mandatory arbitration by default. You waive your right to a jury trial and cannot join class action lawsuits. You have only 30 days to opt out after agreeing to the terms.

2. 1-year statute of limitations. You must file any legal claim within one year, which is much shorter than the default period under most state laws.

3. Zed can terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with no liability. No notice is required, and they owe you nothing if they pull the plug.

4. Autocomplete sends your code to AI providers in the background unless you turn it off. Worth knowing if you're working on proprietary or sensitive code.

5. No guarantees about data retention. If your payment lapses, they reserve the right to delete your account and all associated data with no liability.

6. All fees are non-refundable except where required by law, with one narrow exception for disagreeing with modified terms.

7. Zed can modify the terms at any time. For existing users, material changes take effect after just 30 days, and continued use counts as acceptance.

8. Zed can use your name, logo, and brand in their marketing without asking. You'd have to send a written request to stop them.

9. No warranties whatsoever. The service is "as is", they disclaim all responsibility for errors, data loss, or AI-generated output being inaccurate or harmful.

10. Liability is capped very low, at most, whatever you paid in the last 12 months, or $100, whichever is higher.

mandeepj··on First DeepSeek V4 Flash-Base-Int4 Quant
Would you mind sharing your bill?
mandeepj··on Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good
> developers to pay them their 30% tax

There are provisions for 15%

mandeepj··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
> Circles in Google Plus is the most underrated thing I have ever seen.

Facebook now has 'Audience', which is quite analogous to 'Circles'

mandeepj··on Show HN: HNswered – watches for replies to your Hacker News posts and comments
The “Threads” link came much later; “Comments” link on your profile is there from a long time ago, or maybe since beginning. Now it’s a redirect to “Threads”.
mandeepj··on Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
How did you find that? Any notification?
mandeepj··on YC as a Service
.lol domain ? :-)
mandeepj··on Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task
How do you past Claudflare bot protection and other heuristics that some sites use to stop automated browser activity?
mandeepj··on I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
Sure, Opus is next level than Sonnet, but it still doesn't free OP from these handcuffs - It is reading the code, understanding it and making a mental model that's way more labour intensive.
mandeepj··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
> that would be >900k tokens written to cache all at once

Probably that's why I hit my weekly limits 3-4 days ago, and was scheduled to reset later today. I just checked, and they are already reset.

Not sure if it's already done, shouldn't there be a check somewhere to alert on if an outrageous number of tokens are getting written, then it's not right ?

mandeepj··on Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
> Modern rewrite: 2 days

How much time to verify and validate that large corpus of code that they generated? Not including back and forth to get rid of hallucinations and other mistakes.

mandeepj··on Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
> It's very nerve-racking for people who like to have a deep understanding of everything they ship.

A deep domain knowledge of your industry and your business (company/org) makes you very valuable in your team and your company. I've seen people survive layoffs and other cost-cutting cycles just because they possessed immense knowledge compared to those who did not.

mandeepj··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
> users who haven't caught on yet

They are catching up fast!

https://www.businessinsider.com/chamath-palihapitiya-ai-cost...

mandeepj··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
Your definition of Tesla's self-driving product is very different than what Tesla itself promised, and that's what the person you are replying to...is telling you as well.
mandeepj··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
some plausible analysis here on motivations https://x.com/0xrwu/status/2046721359263285478
mandeepj··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
Microsoft was also doing the same in their VIVA program.
mandeepj··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
> Elon Musk Mars Conglomerate

That’s SpaceX’s version of Tesla’s self driving car pipe dream

Edit - I use self-driving car and Autopilot interchangeably

mandeepj··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
> is their entire executive also this creepy?

What does this link tell you? https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-told...

mandeepj··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Some people might say Tim is leaving but he got himself promoted, just like Bezos. So, being an “Executive” chairman he’s going to be actively involved and be responsible, but not on daily basis and deep into each of verticals.

Also, going over his past statements as recent as during this year, it seems like he didn’t want to leave his CEO position, so he got forced out?

mandeepj··on Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure
If you always fail, you aren’t learning

Isn't that better?

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