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Re:Find roles in Indian Deeptech startups on Thursday August 13, 2026 @02:44PM (#49290267)
built this simple job aggregator for Indian deeptech startups.
Re:Ask HN: Online kids games for math and memory? on Sunday September 06, 2020 @11:36PM (#24396420)
Have you tried Elevate app or Lumosity apps, they have fancy UIs and have those game challenges.

Ask HN: How do I get Facebook to unblock my website url?

Whenever I try to share my URL on a FB post ,I am told that"my URL goes against our Community Standards on spam" andFB don't allow people to post certain URLs on Facebook. This includes things like: • Websites with spammy pop-ups • Websites that pretend to be well-known brands • Misleading websites • URLs previously posted by suspicious accountsI just bought this domain a few months ago and...

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Ask HN: Will Facial Recognition be ever commercially successful?

There are tens if not hundreds of companies investing millions of dollars in facial recognition, only to find majority of them are biased.Further, each effort to commercialize is met with resistance via privacy, legal and ethical issues. In this scenario, why are these companies spending so much money on facial recognition research. Will they ever be able to make money out of this research?Edit...

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> Wordpress has been around for a very long time, it's popular, and it's consistent.

Isn't same for Disqus.

It's an optional step[1] if you list your app as a G Suite marketplace app with domain only install. Of course, it makes sense if your app targets only G Suite customers and not general Gmail customers. It also limits the market reach.

[1] https://developers.google.com/gsuite/marketplace/security-as...

In this gif[1] between 4-7 seconds, they just remove app and not actually uninstalling

Even the words in GIF clearly say it's easy to remove the default browser and not uninstall.

[1] https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/android-h...

Planning to move everything to Basecamp. Having discussions in multiple places makes it difficult to track at a later point.
Re:Did Google Fake Its Big A.I. Demo? on Friday May 18, 2018 @01:17AM (#17098911)
Google claims that restaurant booking quoted in the blog[1] was done using Duplex.

someone should reverse lookup this image[2], match it with bay area based restaurants and find the restaurant then

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natur... [2] https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Arp_jhtS4F0/WvD7KzLvDRI/AAAAAAAAC...

Edit: It looks like Chinese/Korean restaurant from Image.

Re:Ask HN: Facebook Pages alternative for NonTech people on Friday March 30, 2018 @03:50AM (#16714471)
Decent option. But is it still a thing? My perception is, both Tumblr & Blogger may be killed anytime now.

Edit: Changed Blogspot to Blogger

Ask HN: Facebook Pages alternative for NonTech people

Maybe a wrong place to post. But Facebook pages enabled a lot of content creators, media teams of brands(mostly non-tech/semi-tech) to set up and share their content with wide audience.What is the best alternative for Facebook pages now, where creators can create/setup interact with their audience easily and post a wide variety of content?The first thing that comes to my mind is a blog, but...

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Re:Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:30AM (#15273786)
Not even a day and see the number of negative comments on the playstore.

Ask HN: Is it too late for a late 30s person to start learning coding

I am in my late 30s , i learnt basic C programming in school some 15 years back , means i picked up some basic programming concepts. I work in Software product company in a managerial/coordination role. I did make a few failed attempts to start with Python on Coursera , but could never finish the course due to work commitments .In each attempt I manage to reach the basic...

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Re:Launch HN: Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Low-Cost Wifi in India on Thursday March 16, 2017 @10:35AM (#13885311)
Does these Dabbas require maintenance? How do you plan to handle that? What if some dabba is down for some reason unknown the chaishop walla? How are you handling these repair requests?
Re:Ask HN: Is there any IMDB for softwares? on Monday March 13, 2017 @08:29AM (#13857158)
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