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arunkant··on Seedance 2.5
This looks insane!
arunkant··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
Even opus 4.8 rejected, Haiku worked
arunkant··on MAI-Code-1-Flash
Why do websites still hijack scrolling? It sucks
arunkant··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
Location: Bengaluru, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, Bash AI / ML Serving: model serving over HTTP, async inference pipelines, job queues, edge deployment of DL models Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Bazel, on-prem deployment automation Data: PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ / queue-based messaging Practices: distributed systems design, API design, incident response, engineering process for regulated/clinical software

Résumé/CV: https://www.arunkant.com/resume/

Email: iarunkant@gmail.com

Engineering leader, 10+ years. Spent 7 years at Qure.AI (medical imaging AI) — built the backend serving deep-learning models, then led the migration of three product lines into a unified Bazel monorepo, then ran engineering for the Global Health BU (~20 engineers, scaled chest X-ray AI to 80+ countries and 2,000+ sites). Left in May 2025, currently building two AI side projects (releasedog.com, Vellum). Looking for Director / Head of Engineering / VP roles at AI/ML startups, or founding-engineer at seed stage.

arunkant··on Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence
This is pretty well done
arunkant··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
I'm working on https://releasedog.com/ - It collects changes from JIRA/slack/github and create a changelog/release notes.
arunkant··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
Why does your agent have permission to delete production database?
arunkant··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
Why does your agents have permissions to delete production database?
arunkant··on DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence
Yep, it should be better and more efficient then sonnet.
arunkant··on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
Probably coming next
arunkant··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://www.arunkant.com/
arunkant··on Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android
Maybe just ask for confirmation
arunkant··on The Future of Flatpak
Application developer should be able to package and distribute the app. See how easy it is for casual user to download and install any application on windows. Maintainers cannot scale and depending on them will just hold back Desktop Linux
arunkant··on Crun: Fast and lightweight OCI runtime and C library for running containers
I think people in generate are happy that systemd happend
arunkant··on NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed
If you can detect them, sure
arunkant··on Show HN: Engineering Book Club
Lol no
arunkant··on What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
Python packaging is coming along quite good
arunkant··on Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules
Why should it void warranty? It must not void warranty unless apple can prove that unlocking/tinkering was the real cause of damange. Don't give up on your rights easily folks
arunkant··on What’s the point of tech conferences?
What do you mean by after-work grinding?
arunkant··on Singapore software vendor says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud
Cloud is cheap when starting. Saves time
arunkant··on Our production servers were suspended by Google Cloud
More like "we gonna mess up customer's entire business because we can't bother to give a call on phone (even robocall would have been fine)". I get phone calls/sms for my phone bill/internet bill/electricity bill or even amazon deliveries. I guess a customer's business is not that important for google cloud
arunkant··on Our production servers were suspended by Google Cloud
Or maybe, make a phone call?
arunkant··on DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20B Figma Deal
Ask Elon
arunkant··on How to improve Python packaging
One more thing we need is app distribution for desktop apps written in python. I need to be able to package python app as single binary. There are tools like pyoxidizer https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ . hopefully it become standard in python community
arunkant··on The Rise of Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Healthcare is stuck in pre 2000 IT technologies because of privacy concerns. I hope that with FHE, Heathcare providers can move to cloud technologies without fear of losing privacy
arunkant··on Freezing Requirements with Pip-Tools
We are migrating our company codebase to bazel which uses this and it is quite helpful. Hermetic builds are nice and all devs share same versions of packages so reproducing bugs is easy
arunkant··on Apple hit with EU antitrust charge over its payment technology
I hope it was sarcasm
arunkant··on Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap)
Using Pop os for some time. working great
arunkant··on Disabling automatic refresh for Snap from store
constantly high CPU usage. Moved on to k3s and happy since then
arunkant··on Disabling automatic refresh for Snap from store
I tried microk8s snap once. Never again
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