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rdksuon Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

Hi ! Are you guys looking for interns or smth right now , this looks like something I would want to work on xD

rdksuon I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

Bruh the harry potter theme song scared the shit out of me as it turned itself on. Bad UX for a personal site. Great article btw !

rdksuon Why write code in 2026

exactly how many times do you plan on posting this here

rdksuon UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction

India is not an authoritarian country ffs

rdksuon Semantic/Hybrid Search in the Browser

Hi ! This was made mostly for me to use. I didnt think much about the UX back then. Will keep it in mind. Thanks for the feedback.

rdksuon Semantic/Hybrid Search in the Browser

This is a very exciting field to make stuff in! I also experimented with a completely client side wallpaper search xD,a while back.

In case some one is interested here is it : https://web-inky-ten-60.vercel.app/

rdksuon Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API

Hey ! Is this kind of like structured output over a large scale document corpora ?

rdksuon Show HN: Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape

This is so cool! Could you add a feature to export my tree as an svg please? Would love to put it on my git profile !

rdksuon Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation

The article is so opaque in arriving at its conclusion; no prompts are disclosed, and nothing about the said simulation. What is stopping me from believing that you just put 'mandatory usage of nukes' in your system prompt?

rdksuon Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't

The only bit AI can't replace is probably the need for a 'fall guy' or someone to take responsibility for something. This, however, will obviously not be sufficient to prevent job losses.

rdksuon Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor

Only if they could mass produce flux capacitor.

rdksuon Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

I made a semantic search-based wallpaper setter by indexing a couple of 1000 thumbnails off wallhaven :)

rdksuon Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

I have updated the popular /grill-me skill for this exact purpose! I had a very insightful grilling session yesterday on what exactly happens when you try to load an extremely large dataset in pandas, covering everything down to the last detail !

rdksuon Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM

Google also released colab-cli a couple of days back and its pretty good at functioning as an isolated sandbox for running random python scriptS .

rdksuon Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices

Have you run ablations on the actual effect/impact of on-policy distillation on contributing to the performance ? Just Curious ! As Unsloth based mixed quantisation methods on MoE models are widely used with great community rep.

rdksuon The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers

I find takes like this weird for the primary economic conundrum of 'who' exactly will this increased productivity be for , to produce what , to render what service , when everyone is out of their jobs ?