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ankit84··on OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor
A Video editor landing pages with still screenshots doesn't do any justice for new comer. The power can only be shown with smal 10-30s in-inline videos.
ankit84··on Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
Stacked PRs are not a new GitHub capability. They are an accessibility. Why so hype?

The underlying stacked PR workflow is unchanged:

1. Create branch B from branch A.

2. Open PR A against main.

3. Open PR B against branch A.

4. Repeat for additional layers.

ankit84··on The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
I learnt a lot today from the interactive demo. You have the best clarity and right skill to educate
ankit84··on Clickup Reduced Headcount by 22%
- THE 100X ORGANIZATION The common narrative is that AI makes everyone more productive. It doesn't. Many of the workflows of today, if left unchanged, create bottlenecks in AI systems.

- THE BUILDERS: 10X ENGINEERS If your best engineers are spending time reviewing other people's code, then this is inherently an inefficient bottleneck. These engineers can review their agent's code much faster than reviewing human code.

- THE BUILDERS: 10X PRODUCT MANAGERS The bottleneck of user research is gone. It takes us just one mention of an agent to kickoff research and analyze results.

ankit84··on Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
We have been using Caddy for many years now. Picked just because it has automatic cert provisioning. Caddy is really an easier alternative, secure out of the box.
ankit84··on Show HN: OpenAPI mocks that don't suck – realistic test data, quick setup
Great to see your usage @anitil. These aren't just static dummy mocks. Beeceptor looks at schema, fields, description, format, datatypes, and then generats a realistic mock responses to match real response.
ankit84··on A New Alexa
- Early access to US customers who own or purchase an Echo Show 8, 10, 15 or 21.

- Not available for Echo Dot 1st Gen, Echo 1st Gen, Echo Plus 1st Gen, Echo Tap, Echo Show 1st Gen, Echo Show 2nd Gen, and Echo Spot 1st Gen

- Not available in many markets. E.g. Currently unavailable in India.

ankit84··on Show HN: Room Magic Design – Your Ultimate Interior Design Platform
I feel the home page should have input vs output examples. A picture tells 1000 words. I don't want to signup unless I see the value.
ankit84··on Show HN: File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps
It isn't just developer experience.

- Can I trust you?

- Where are your company credentials?

- What's the business continuity plan?

- What's your support? Sending an email to hi@ may not work, when my application is dead because of some bug at your end.

ankit84··on Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works
Can it answer customer support questions on API's cryptic error messages? E.g. Give hints on changes needed in the request payload.
ankit84··on Egypt builds worlds largest man-made river
The Narmada Canal is 500+ kms.

https://twitter.com/sumitsonii/status/1645832376730390528

ankit84··on Show HN: Mock – setup and test APIs easily
There is another hosted mock Beeceptor.com

it has support for http mocking, intercepting, proxying, tunneling and single click OAS Mock setup.

ankit84··on Show HN: Endpoints.dev – Pastebin for HTTP Requests
Another good alternative https://beeceptor.com/

* named subdomain / endpoints

* Build Rest API and Mocking responses

* HTTP Intercepting

* HTTP Proxy pass

* nice UI, live updating, json formatting, sharable requests, etc

ankit84··on Show HN: Mockit – Open-source app to create and configure HTTP mocked endpoints
Http://beeceptor.com is another hosted one. And it gives named endpoints for drop-in replacement for API base url.
ankit84··on Everyone’s Income Taxes Should Be Public
In India, all politicians have to make their income sources, cash in hand, investments, Income Tax ID, un-movable assets, etc in a public affidavit to Election Commission of India.
ankit84··on Data Visualization with Elasticsearch and AnyChart JavaScript Charts
Why not use Kibana?
ankit84··on Beeceptor: Rest API mocking and intercepting
Thank you Voltagex for submitting it. I am the author of the tool. Will be happy to answer any questions.
ankit84··on Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple
Impressive!
ankit84··on Crypto Cows
April Fool?
ankit84··on Show HN: Non unicode hindi fonts to unicode conversion
Should be super helpful for migrating content from an 10 years old website. A lot of text is still jailed in those obsolete fonts.
ankit84··on Ask HN: How do you think of ideas to surface data in new ways?
There is a Pattern always
ankit84··on Ask HN: How long does it take for you to become productive in a new job?
I'll say, when you join a new company, it takes some time when you feel you are "involved" and care about the company.

> If the product involves 50+ engineering team members, then 2-4 months takes you to onboard, and post that you learn new things and feel involved in day to day.

ankit84··on Show HN: Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping
Great tutorial! Also, you look like a Full stack. How's the reception for Hospital Run software you worked on? (https://github.com/HospitalRun/hospitalrun-frontend)

""Somewhat similar is the case with Internet that we traversed today in quest of data.""

ankit84··on HackerNews Grid
Is this a side effect of Puppeteer lib?

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

ankit84··on Computer scientist Viral Shah helped build Julia from Bengaluru, India
I see Python fan following everywhere when there is a discussion on languages!! Someone is always there to defend :P
ankit84··on Computer scientist Viral Shah helped build Julia from Bengaluru, India
I am from Hyderabad, India and felt racist reading that title - "IT coolies". I believe the author just want to make headline.

A lot of innovation happens that gets unnoticed in Silicon Valley or around the world. People here do not have access to mentorship & peer network so easily (openly available in California), still being self-motivated and connected by reading tech blogs, advises, etc. Just top of my head are following two examples.

* Little Eye Labs => Facebook * HackerRank ==> YC

ankit84··on There are no small changes (2011)
Saying a "issue is small", depends on someone's knowledge.

* An individual's knowledge can be limited based on his technical experience.

* his knowledge about product features

ankit84··on There are no small changes (2011)
Being as engineers or manager, we often over look this aspect. If quality is important, nothing is a small change.
ankit84··on Ask HN: What techniques do you use to keep your current users engaged?
I will refer the techniques mentioned by _Nir Eyal_ in his book "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products". The

* Trigger

* Actions

* Rewards (variable rewards)

Ref book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ngLIuz

ankit84··on Ask HN: Is Product Hunt just a launchpad for new YC startups?
I too realised the same a year back.
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