prakashn27
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Dear HN, please stop posts like this in making to the top page. This actually normalizes the idea of suicide even with people not thinking about it. I don’t remember the book but it has been discussed a lot in psychological aspects of these news articles influencing the behaviour in them.
This is why hn is the best. First comment helps to decide if we need to read the article or not .
Very true. If a PR has 1000 lines I would check only a handful full of them and leave the rest for test suit .
I always check hn comments before viewing the article . The comments alone saved me lot of time for not viewing the article
Meta has something similar to this using mercurial. It was awesome.
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prakashn27 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @09:24PM
from the self-post dept.
I have an emoji in my name, to basically see who is using the LinkedIn sales manager to contact me vs who genuinely contact me. With latest LinkedIn updates you cannot have emoji in the name,Guess now I don’t know who wants to contact me for real after looking my profile.
Ex-WhatsApp engineer here. WhatsApp team makes so much effort to make this end to end encrypted messages possible. From the time I worked I know for sure it is not possible to read the encrypted messages.
From business standpoint they don’t have to read these messages, since WhatsApp business API provide the necessary funding for the org as a whole.
I have not fired a technical writer, but writing documentation that understands and maintains users focus is hard even with llm. I am trying to write documentation for my start up and it is harder than I expected even with llm.
Kudos to all technical writer who made my job as software engineer easier.
I feel local rag system , slows down my computer (I got M1 Pro 32 GB)
So I use hosted one to prevent this. My business use vector db, so created a new db to vectorize and host my knowledge base.
1. All my knowledge base is markdown files. So I split that by header tags.
2. The split is hashed and hash value is stored in SQLite
3. The hashed version is vectorized and pushed to cloud db.
4. When ever I make changes , I run a script which splits and checks hash, if it is changed the. I upsert the document. If not I don’t do anything. This helps me keep the store up to date
For search I have a cli query which searches and fetches from vector store.
The extent people go with cheating interviews. What happens after you pass by cheating? The reason they have rigorous interview is because the company moves at a different phase. You can not survive there if you cheat.
That makes sense.
Safari is so smooth now in iOS. Moved from Firefox.
Working on Ai agent (not chatbot) for customer support with automatic human handoff to Slack( in future for Zendesk, Teams, Jira)
Focusing on creating a omnichannel ai-powered support platform on Slack.
i onboarded on planetscale when it was in free tier.
Then they charged 40$.
Last year they increase the pricing again.
they attract users and increase the pricing. that is the game here.
I feel it is hyped product oversold to people who cannot told. When we developers tell them that it cannot do as much as you expect, they think that we are afraid of loosing our job and downplaying the AI.
Like everyone said, my productivity boost is in 1-4% range and not more than that.
I writing this just after the night end llm cannot even replace to using Trans i18n react component if it is not in context of the file. We are still far from agi
How does this work? Does all files that I upload are in context or do you use rag?
Too much swearing and I lost the context midway
This is not an official API, this is from third party. stop promoting appfire products as official api.
What happened to the good old timer. 250$ is steep for a timer.
What is the use of this opensurce when you have a strict license ?
Working on “AI automations for Jira” to help Jira admins create automation scripts using AI.
- secure and complaint as it runs on Atlassian
- easy to create automation as AI does the heavy lifting of creating the automation scripts for Jira
- unlimited which was a major limitation in native Atlassian offering.
https://ai-automation.123x.dev/
Ex-meta engineer here. I miss their internal GitHub which is a mercurial fork. They have so many awesome features like layered PRs.
That is something I have not seen anywhere .
Serverless is the best thing that happened for cloud.
People argue that it is expensive for zillions of users but I have never reached that scale
Congrats.
Same with me. On my one year mark as a one person saas with 123x.dev . Helping Monday and Atlassian customers with custom apps.
how many you thought it is "Overwatch" multiplayer game? :-)