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pritambarhate

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My name is Pritam. I am a programmer (iOS, JEE, PHP, JavaScript/Node and Web Front End). I am cofounder of Mobisoft Infotech. I live in Pune, India.
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pritambarhate··on Gemini 4 Argon
At least one can sue on the basis of those checkboxes. Without those you don't even have that.
pritambarhate··on Gemini 4 Argon
Has someone found out how to stop Antigravity from training on your data? I had checked 10-15 days ago on the pro plan (around $20 per month) and I couldn't find a clear option to turn off training like all other big players give.

So no matter how good their model is, it's useless to most of the regular users.

pritambarhate··on HP ZGX Fury Is Now Orderable: GB300 Superchip, 748GB Unified Memory
Looks like multiple vendors are seeling these:

https://www.gigabyte.com/in/Enterprise/Tower-Server/W775-V10...

https://www.msi.com/Landing/NVIDIA-DGX-STATION

pritambarhate··on An Introduction to YOLO26
Is the license for this AGPL? Can someone please confirm?
pritambarhate··on Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs
Which can be said of any country. Most of the good devs in US are working for the best US comapnies and not for small companies with less budgets.
pritambarhate··on Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
I guess you need to know about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597781
pritambarhate··on Claude Cowork first impression: Cowork Deleted 11GB of files [video]
The YouTuber discovers the deletion around 9m 20s in the video.

Also I don't think many non programmers will even know "rm -rf" command and what it does. So even if a non programmer was doing it command by command by giving permissions, he/she will have a hard time figuring out what those commands do.

pritambarhate··on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A
It's all the things Apple's processors are excellent at and AMD is not far behind Apple. So unless Intel delivers on all those things they can't hope to gain the market share they have lost.
pritambarhate··on Lessons from 14 years at Google
May be because you are not familiar with Addy Osmani and his work. He is known for his very high quality performance optimisation work for web for almost a decade now. So anything he has read, edited and put his stamp of authority on is worth reading.
pritambarhate··on LLMs Are Not Fun
What is good design and code quality?

If I can keep adding new features without introducing big regressions that is good design and good code quality. (Of course there will come a time when it will not be possible and it will need a rewrite. Same like software created by top paid developers from the best universities.)

As long as we can keep new bugs to the same level as hand written code with LLM written code, I think, LLMs writing code is much superior just because of the speed with which it allows us to implement features.

We write software to solve (mostly) business efficiency problems. The businesses which will solve those problems faster than their competitors will win.

pritambarhate··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
As far as I understand Claude (or any other LLM) doesn't do anything on it's own account. It has to be prompted to something and it's actions depend on the prompt. The responsibility of this is on the creators of Agent Village.
pritambarhate··on How uv got so fast
Does anyone know how does Astral.sh plan to make money?
pritambarhate··on Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
Even with LLMs delivering software that consistently works requires quite a bit of work and in most cases requires certain level of expertise. Humans also write quite a bit of garbage code.

People using LLMs to code these days is similar to how majority people stopped using assembly and moved to C and C++, then to garbage collected languages and dynamically typed languages. People were always looking for ways to make programmers more productive.

Programming is evolving. LLMs are just next generation programming tools. They make programmers more productive and in majority of the cases people and companies are going to use them more and more.

pritambarhate··on Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
Even billion dollar software products have similar clauses, it doesn't have anything to do with vibe coding. To build and sell software no educational qualification is needed.

Quality of the software comes from testing. Humans and LLMs both make mistakes while coding.

pritambarhate··on Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
Let's say there is an architect and he also owns a construction company. This architect, then designs a building and gets it built from of his employees and contractors.

In such cases the person says, I have built this building. People who found companies, say they have built companies. It's commonly accepted in our society.

So even if Claude built for it for GP, as long as GP designed it, paid for tools (Claude) to build it, also tested it to make sure that it works, I personally think, he has right to say he has built it.

If you don't like it, you are not required to use it.

pritambarhate··on How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy
May be because you are not OpenAI user. I am. I find it useful and I pay for it. I don't want my data to be retained beyond what's promised in the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

I don't think the Judge is equipped to handle this case if they don't understand how their order jeopardies the privacy of millions of users worldwide who don't even care about NYT's content or bypassing their paywalls.

pritambarhate··on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
> Why on earth would they delete their most valuable competitive advantage?

Becuase they are bound by their terms of service? Because if they won't no business would ever use their service and without businesses using their service they won't have any revenue?

pritambarhate··on Show HN: Samchika – A Java Library for Fast, Multithreaded File Processing
What's wrong in it? LLM is a tool which makes one more productive.
pritambarhate··on Cogentcore: Open-source framework for building multi-platform apps with Go
>> May I suggest that everyone just drop this whole 'develop/program it once, run it everywhere' slogan that just gets repeated endlessly when people try to promote their new platform/framework/library or whatever? I've never seen it work out that way in practice. Never.

Many apps that make hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and have millions of users are built on cross platform technologies. (IntelliJ IDEs for example, and many Mobile apps which use same code for iOS and Android, Cursor, VS Code, etc). People use these apps even though they are not platform native and some of them have die hard fans too.

pritambarhate··on Cogentcore: Open-source framework for building multi-platform apps with Go
Google is trying to build the same with Flutter.

Kudos to the CogentCore team to build and ship this! Looks like this is made by a 2 people team. That's a lot of work to pull off!

I personally wanted something like this for Go for a while! Will try it out.

pritambarhate··on How to vibe code for free: Running Qwen3 on your Mac, using MLX
Just tried Qwen 3 32B 4bit and 8bit GGUF via Ollama today on RunPod A40 GPUs. For general knowledge questions the results were very underwhelming. Here are answers to 3 questions I asked to the 8 bit GGUF model (skipping the thinking tokens to keep it short):

Q: who won the cricket worldcup 2023?

A: The *2023 ICC Cricket World Cup* was won by *Australia*. They defeated *New Zealand* in the final on *November 19, 2023*, at the *M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, India*.

### Key Details: - *Final Score*: Australia scored *334/5* in their 50 overs, while New Zealand reached *199/8* in their chase. - *Man of the Match*: Pat Cummins (Australia) with 5 wickets for 34 runs. - *Tournament Host*: India. - *Notable Performance*: Australia's aggressive batting and disciplined bowling sealed the victory, marking their *sixth Cricket World Cup title* (tying them with West Indies for the most titles).

This was the 13th edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup (50-over format). The T20 World Cup is a separate tournament, with India winning the 2024 edition. Let me know if you need further details!

total duration: 34.911890735s load duration: 65.034584ms prompt eval count: 20 token(s) prompt eval duration: 305.460537ms prompt eval rate: 65.47 tokens/s eval count: 511 token(s) eval duration: 34.539660654s eval rate: 14.79 tokens/s

Comment: Wrong - https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-20...

Q: give last 10 movies to win the oscar best picture award

Here is a clear and accurate list of the *last 10 Best Picture winners* at the Academy Awards, from *2014 to 2023*, including the ceremony year, the winning film, and the film's release year:

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1. *2023 (95th Oscars)* - *Winner*: Everything Everywhere All at Once - *Release Year*: 2022

2. *2022 (94th Oscars)* - *Winner*: The Power of the Dog - *Release Year*: 2021

3. *2021 (93rd Oscars)* - *Winner*: Nomadland - *Release Year*: 2020

4. *2020 (92nd Oscars)* - *Winner*: Parasite - *Release Year*: 2019

5. *2019 (91st Oscars)* - *Winner*: Green Book - *Release Year*: 2018

6. *2018 (90th Oscars)* - *Winner*: The Shape of Water - *Release Year*: 2017

7. *2017 (89th Oscars)* - *Winner*: Moonlight - *Release Year*: 2016

8. *2016 (88th Oscars)* - *Winner*: Spotlight - *Release Year*: 2015

9. *2015 (87th Oscars)* - *Winner*: 12 Years a Slave - *Release Year*: 2013

10. *2014 (86th Oscars)* - *Winner*: Argo - *Release Year*: 2012

Comment: Answer number 2 ans 9 are wrong. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture)

I would have expected it to get things which are such big events right at least.

pritambarhate··on Lessons from open source in the Mexican government
I think at this moment all governments should start funding the open source foundations so that the foundations can train as well as retain good programming talent to keep the important open source software maintained. I think it will serve better in the long term to the government departments as well as the citizens.
pritambarhate··on Netflix’s Media Production Suite
Also creates an image that Netflix is a tech company!
pritambarhate··on Ask HN: can Wireless-CarPlay dongles steal your data?
I have wireless CarPlay in my car and I don't care about plugging it in for short rides. It's convenient that I don't have to plug it in every time I am on a 20-30 min ride just to get directions. It's a very useful feature. Not a deal breaker but a very good nice to have.
pritambarhate··on Show HN: Agents.json – OpenAPI Specification for LLMs
What's the license of the Python package: https://pypi.org/project/agentsjson/

AGPL? https://github.com/wild-card-ai/agents-json/blob/master/LICE...

pritambarhate··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
If an employee demonstrates the same level of productivity without using AI, most managers would likely be fine with that approach. However, if a manager observes that several team members are more productive with AI and are achieving business goals more quickly, they will naturally expect everyone to adopt it. Those who refuse to use AI and cannot match the efficiency of their peers may eventually be replaced. While this outcome may be emotionally challenging, economic realities primarily drive these decisions.
pritambarhate··on Sora is here
That’s because in this case scaling to big traffic needs more hardware which is very expensive and even if you have money the manufacturers may not have the capacity you need.
pritambarhate··on We're forking Flutter
In India Flutter is quite popular. But I also doubt there will be professional 1M flutter devs our there. However if we include students and hobbyists, then definitely there could be a 1M Flutter devs out there.
pritambarhate··on We're forking Flutter
A lot of people here are comparing Flutter with programming languages like Python, PHP, etc. It shows how under appreciated UI development is and the amount of complexity UI developers need to handle. Also UI framework developers are always at the mercy of someone else when it comes to their destiny, unlike programming language creators which "almost" control it fully. Apple, Google, MS all keep changing their OS and browser behaviours all the time and cross platform devs need to adapt to those things continuously.
pritambarhate··on Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
My experience has been exactly opposite. Ability to do Vacuums is good. MySQL doesn’t free up space taken by deleted rows. The only option to free up the space is to mysqldump the db and load it again. Not practical in most of the situations.
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