jharohit

I think what the report says is that onus on R&D is shifting to Corporates and Startup labs which are churning more cutting edge engineering and in some cases science faster

The OG is obv hard to beat but the situation has changed and we did need an update to something that reflected reality more closely. We all know that basic science funding through academia is having struggles

i have been pouring on my 10% free time into evolutionary algorithms. thinking about the premise of what a transformer alternative with evolutionary algorithms look like.

Would be keen on talking to anyone who has been researching in this area. X: @jharohit

Xteink and such companies are proving it can be. And surprisingly Apple of all people are pulling prices down!

Done its beautiful https://imgur.com/a/tH39FAS

(telescopes in space looking outside should have happened long ago, lets just get it done man)

what model was used to create the visual at the top of the article?

on that theme it reminds my of the Pico-8 community (although technically it is an engine but you dont need to do engine programming even for generating music!!)

compiled a personal webpage to play with mobile controls and a javascript engine to play the pico-8 games and i love the celeste port on that!

https://rohitjha.com/labs/flynns-arcade

“Also I have no idea why the average score was increased in 2022. A lot of new users?”

Possibly. Post covid many companies laid off people and that could have led to more time and interaction with HN and many more new builders and solopreneurs joining the community

sharing a few books I recommended in my annual list (recommend reading!) https://rohitjha.com/blog/reading-highlights-2025/

Non Fiction:

- Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang (2025)

- How to Live an Extraordinary Life by Anthony Pompliano (2024)

Fiction:

- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (1956)

- Consider Phlebas (Culture Series #1) by Iain M. Banks (1987)

- The Way of Kings (2010, Stormlight #1) & Words of Radiance (2014, Stormlight #2) by Brandon Sanderson

love it. been using for personal projects.

some things that still need to be done before v1 launch:

- easy data migration in and out (right now is a pain if its large volume of data from other DB eg firebase or sqlite!)

- API/programmatic setup of tables (right now its only via UI making it hard to setup large complex tables with variable permissions)

- Multi-instance: easiest is to have another pocketbase in "mirror" mode that it updates once a day or whatever with primary (primary > secondary method like in mongo is a great mechanism, with some kind of voting for primary)

Obsidian for notes in markdown + Claude Code/Gemini Cli pointed to the Obsidian Vault Folder

There is probably already Obsidian Extension for this in Co-Pilot format

Created a short orbital simulation with gemini pro to show its trajectory (weirdly none of the google results showed anything!)

https://g.co/gemini/share/df34014f2588

love this idea! started my journey on bluesky just documenting long form videos only that i have loved https://bsky.app/profile/rohitjha.com

yes!

Use it everyday https://github.com/jharohit/team-timezone-wall

Also built a AI NDA tracker for all our NDAs in the company which is awesome! We will open source soon.

ah! like names of people is it? hmm let me see, good point for larger teams. how would you ideally want to see it - just click on tile and it pops up a textbox with all names? dont want to complicate it

You mean you just know the city the person is in but not the timezone?

Use Ghostty

So...can we run SteamOS then on android?

this. plus most CRMs have a huge attack vector for info leak.

We have been building tons of internal apps with AI - some just cool widgets vs serious vertical apps.

Cool useful widget - A simple multi city clock homepage which is totally offline https://x.com/jharohit/status/1945756661706330574

vs.

A full blown NDA tracker which uses uploaded signed NDAs to process using gemini 2.5flash, metadata stored in Firebase and then a lightweight table to list all (incl when some are expiring in next 6 months) and what are key items to keep an eye out for, key details (name, company, country, counterparty, etc). NextJS deployed app on standard VM on office server (no replit tho). Will open source this shortly.

one dude sitting in 11A jumped out & survived pretty much unharmed. This was the Emergency Exit.

https://x.com/indiatoday/status/1933160181871099943?s=46

Exact same experience on 1 & 2

Wow! Thanks for the super detailed feedback. Found myself deja-vuing on my previous experience with it. I guess I was also looking at an IC pov rather than a manager/owner piv (which i had).

I had eyeballed one in a random image from Hubble few years ago! Finally found my answer of what it was

https://x.com/jharohit/status/1479100020049678339?s=46

Great use of AI!

why not enable Canvas for this model on Gemini.google.com? Arguably the weakest link of Canvas is the terrible code that Gemini 2.0 Flash writes for Canvas to run..

how was the data compiled behind the scenes?

this is cool! How could one extend that to a broader set of games? E.g another one where you can run larger simulations on behaviour are procedural games like No Man's Sky

its just for this game - prev I have seen python bots extended to GTA V or Counter Strike or other games. So was wondering if broader set of tools are available?

Everytime a paper like this comes out, I always have 1 question - How do they control the game using the LLMs? How does the control-feedback loop work? WHat tools, software and APIs they use to do it on Mac or Windows?

I wonder if Factorio multiplayer could be used to play with an AI companion? Here is what I am thinking:

Computer 1 - Human

Computer 2 - Claude Computer Use or other controlling the other

A chat interface or voice interface (Whisper Speech to Text) for Human to feed instructions to Computer 2?

Amazing benefits of doing this:

- infinitely scalable

- could let agents continue to implement strategy and unblock themselves without needing constant intervention