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I help startups and early-stage businesses validate their ideas, build web products, and grow/market it.

Visit https://cruns.com to work with me.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/cnu; my proof: https://keybase.io/cnu/sigs/136Gwo4SgGRQIdHNDx0P9tmNO0P_nMyCmp6W8yFeEJE ]

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cnu··on Ask HN: What side projects are you working on this year?
Last week of 2023, I built an HN TLDR site that summarizes Hacker News articles into 3-5 sentences — just something to try my hands on OpenAI APIs.

I want to build more features and add support for any RSS feeds too.

Nothing to make money out of, but something for my personal use.

cnu··on Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses
I think having a single place to record all your transactions would be a good feature. And if they have a way to send receipts to customers via SMS/whatsapp, it would be a great.
cnu··on Python should not be taught as a foundational language
It's a poorly written post. I think mostly written for SEO and traffic.

One thing that I didn't notice others here didn't comment about:

In the section where they write about xrange vs range in python 2 vs 3, they reference a piece of code supposedly written for py3 which isn't there.

xrange was fast in python 2 because it allows you to evaluate lazily, which is what range does in python 3.

So whatever benefits you got out of xrange is there in range.

cnu··on Net Neutrality being challenged in India.
We few people know it could be bypassed. But how will the millions of other users who know nothing about VPNs? Also what if Airtel blocks all these popular VPNs?

Also its not about if we can bypass it or not. It is about what is morally/ethically right and what is wrong.

cnu··on Learn Haskell Fast and Hard
Check out http://learnxinyminutes.com/. Loads of languages/tools to learn.
cnu··on Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates
And if I am travelling from New Delhi to London, how would I know/sync what time the sun rises/sets?
cnu··on R.I.P Atul Chitnis : The Man Who Changed the Open Source World
> You wouldn't be the author of that blog by any chance?

The author of that blog, "Kenneth Gonsalves" is dead for almost a year.

cnu··on Hexo – A fast, simple and powerful blog framework
If you have compiled it to HTML, wouldn't it be more efficient to serve it up as static HTML files via nginx (or any web server). Why store the HTML in redis and serve off it via an application?
cnu··on Trying out this Go thing at Disqus
Can you do a blog post instead? Would help lot of developers like me who are looking into Go as the next programming language to learn.
cnu··on Ask HN: How do I choose the right domain registrar?
I use gandi for all my domains. Even use their mailbox for 1 domain and haven't had a problem. I would recommend only gandi to anyone.
cnu··on The Setup: Joe Armstrong
We tried using it in the previous startup I worked with.

It was pretty hard to make everyone use it and soon we ended up installing redmine for issue tracking.

cnu··on How not to send password reset notification email
I didn't even get the email from evernote regarding the password reset.

Luckily, I had the evernote app sign me out and asking me to login again (which didn't work with my old password). I had to login through the website and it prompted me to change my password (no link on why) and then it worked with the new password.

I searched through my email trying to see if any email got eaten by the spam folder, but none, "No emails".

cnu··on Google Search is only 18% Search
Do Google employees also see the same interface with ads? And if so, shouldn't it be illegal as the employees (in)directly increase Google's revenue?
cnu··on Why is < faster than <=?
Betteridge's Law of Headlines - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
cnu··on Apple v. Samsung Verdict: Could Bill Gates Have Patented The iPhone in 1995?
"I've yet to read any convincing argument about how this verdict will lead to more innovation"

The verdict will lead to more innovation and R&D from Samsung, instead of just copying from Apple.

cnu··on Being Featured on the App Store
Maybe that is his point. Good product names with two words must be able to rank high for both "twowords" and "two words"(with space).
cnu··on New distributed fault-tolerant cloud provider u2601
Didn't work on Safari 6.0.
cnu··on India's street children bank on the future
Interest rates for Fixed deposits are around 8-9% for a year in some Indian banks. There were times when it was more than 10% too.
cnu··on 0bin: A Client-Side Encrypted Pastebin
The short URL feature doesn't work. The short URL created is http://0bin.net/paste/undefined
cnu··on Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail
Great product. But do check for broken links on the website.

The download page http://boomerangcalendar.com/beta/download.php link to /beta/features.html and /beta/faq.html.

cnu··on Hit Shift key 4x on a NYTimes article and see what happens
Chrome 18.0.1025.142 beta here and works for me.
cnu··on 26 Start-Up Chile startups that have launched
They don't have any official policy regarding number of founders. I think wedoist is one such startup which has a single founder.
cnu··on Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?
Coincidentally, I had such an idea for a long time and have started writing an application for such a blog in my spare time. But my blog isnt just for the tech community. Will do a "Show HN" soon, when I have a working site.

But would be nice to see a github hosted version.

cnu··on Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams
What @napoleoncomplex meant was hipchat has the file upload feature, but grove doesn't. And he would move to grove if that was present.
cnu··on Ask HN: have you ever marketed the same product under two different names?
There is a whole group of website part of Bharat Matrimony (site where parents find life partners for their sons/daughters) catering to the particular regions/languages in India - bengali, tamil, kannada, telugu, etc. Each on its own domain.

There are also separate sites for various religions and some exclusive sites like Privilege Matrimony, Elite Matrimony, DivorceeMatrimony, Defence Matrimony, etc.

Check out http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/

cnu··on Why do pilots still die from not knowing which end is up?
One page print version - http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?expire=&tit...
cnu··on An HN style social news site written in Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/JQuery by Antirez
> This application is designed to hold a lot of news and comments even using little memory.

Can you post some benchmarks on that? Would like to see how many (average sized) news/comments can be stored on the 512mb VPS.

cnu··on Show HN: SupportBee - A Help Desk that is a joy to use
Why three different blogs? Can't all these be posted to a single blog and split based on categories?
cnu··on Show HN: We made a self-categorizing image board
Yes, even I expected it to automatically tag images. But after reading the instructions (which was hard to get at first look), I got what the site does.
cnu··on 3.5 Inches
I don't think you read the article fully. The author has a SGS2 and while using it he realised that it was not as comfortable to reach the edges and corners as it was on an iPhone.
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