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Show HN: Going from 1+1=2 to Quantum Mechanics

quantum.schols.io
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Show HN: I built a free PDF editor to fix Claude's horribly-generated PDFs

composer-sepia.vercel.app
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Show HN: I built an AI that assigns YOU tasks

pause.build
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Ask HN: Why do people say LLMs create bad code "quality"?

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Show HN: I built my own ORM – roast my code?

github.com
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Ask HN: CASL or Casbin for Authorization?

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Show HN: Glass Caustic Simulation

chaidhat.com
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chaidhat
·9 giorni fa·discuss
The US also doesn't allow AI to be inventors. https://www.uspto.gov/subscription-center/2025/revised-inven...
chaidhat
·18 giorni fa·discuss
Whenever I see a tz post, I want to remind ya'll that the `tzdata` package is using data from `eggert/tz` by Paul Eggert -- a crazy good UCLA professor. I took his course once and in the exams, he'd like to put in a question he didn't know the answer to himself.
chaidhat
·20 giorni fa·discuss
How about expose an API so that users can put the name of a startup and it goes through your AI agent pipeline to acquire an estimate? That way, you don’t need to know every startup under the sun and focus on optimizing your pipeline instead.
chaidhat
·26 giorni fa·discuss
In the future, humans will just all be on hamster wheels generating power for our AI overlords.
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
I tried writing a free textbook as an undergraduate. It's on quantum mechanics derived from first principles -- https://quantum.chaidhat.com -- hope you like it!
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
If you want to learn more about quantum mechanics starting from 1+1=2 please check out https://quantum.chaidhat.com !
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
over half are unknown
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
do you work at Uber by any chance?
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
Thank you! Haha yes, I think some stuff are out of order (they were once ordered). I will have to revisit and reorder them again
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
Thank you!
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
Thank you very much. I never knew of those pronunciations, I will read up on them! I had a Russian physics professor once and he was very suave: he wore aviators during our final exams.
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
I prefer to do startups!
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
Thank you! Glad to hear you like it!
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
Lmk what you guys think!
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
Maybe they should stop pushing these bankers to do 48 hour shifts…
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
As a product of the STEM post-SAT UC system (UCLA ‘26), I never personally experienced “middle school math” being taught or a lack of mathematical understanding.

I’ve had my fair share of classes which throw you into the deep end and not many which coddle you. Never seen any professor teaching middle school mathematics. A lot of professors started off with a vague idea of prerequisites, covered the basic ideas and usually go straight into the deep end with new material. It is up to the student to make sure they are acquainted with the prerequisites, go to discussions or office hours to ask TAs or the professor, or just drop the class and do it next quarter (without penalty). At least in my four years at UCLA, we have ample opportunity to do it and the TAs are 90% empathetic towards “stupid questions.”

So in my personal opinion, I think profs shouldn’t be wasting time teaching basic math and there are more than enough opportunities for the student to learn it at their time in the UC.
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
Missed opportunity to make all variables global and public.
chaidhat
·mese scorso·discuss
please don’t drive that fast (I’m assuming you mean triple digits MPH). It endangers both yourself and others.
chaidhat
·2 mesi fa·discuss
That's very creative. I don't understand why the other comments are so critical. I think it is a good idea to always keep in mind new vulnerabilities and this certainly is one that I never thought about.
chaidhat
·2 mesi fa·discuss
It is unsafe for wires to be handling higher power than it was rated cause the wires act like very low ohm resistors. At some high enough I, you’re still gonna be generating power P=I^2R which is mainly thermal and melt the wires.