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niteshpant

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build great ai products that people love

I run DevDash Labs, where we build our own AI products and help others create their own too

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niteshpant··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
I don't know how I feel when all the documentations are written by AI for humans.

AI to AI doc share: sure, do what you please.

AI to human: please make it legible and flowly.

example, "Every thinking block records which model produced it, and it's preserved in one direction only: Claude Fable 5.1 reads earlier models' thinking blocks, and no earlier model reads Claude Fable 5.1's." is a very Claude-isk way of writing. Choppy, long, and lacking flow.

niteshpant··on Midjourney Medical
This is the most insane thing to happen to medical imaging

To understand Midjourney Medical (MM), think about current major options: - CT/X-ray: harmful if done too much && can't do for pregnant women - MRI: slow, have to stay still, no metal - Ultrasound: really low fidelity

Midjourney Medical is fast, high fidelity, and perfectly safe!

The holy trifecta.

Insane vision. Insane work. Hats off to the team

niteshpant··on Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years
I have thoughts on this

1. Yes, vitamin D actually controls a lot of bodily functions it’s very easily set aside as not a “main” factor when in reality it actually controls a lot

2. This study was done on women in Denmark only which isn’t a great study subject considering Denmark doesn’t get a lot of sun to begin with so most of these women would already start at very low levels

3. This doesn’t directly correlate to women of color because WOC need higher dosage of vitamin D than white women do. The general range of “good” level of vitamin D that doctors tend to use is related to studies results gotten from white people when in reality brown and black people need way more for their range to be at a normal place.

niteshpant··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
These are cool laptops. But, after getting a decent config (32gb ram, 1tb ssd, 7 series chip), the price is ~$2300. At that point, a MacBook Pro seems like a better choice. I'd not want to develop on anything less than that config. The selling point seems to be the Linux + Framework brand + highly customizable machine you can actually own

I've always wondered if these laptops can scale beyond the enthusiast group. If so, how?

niteshpant··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
I added `CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL=max` to my shell's env so that every session is always effort:max by default

:)

niteshpant··on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
And Nepal elected its current interim prime minsiter using Discord, apparently...
niteshpant··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://niteshpant.com/

It's fully open source (MIT) as well. I write and post essays there. Currently making a library.

niteshpant··on Building an I-beam building in Far West, Nepal
The useful life is less than RCC. A RCC structure is good for about 50 years, steel for 25. The 4x4 is even less, about 15 years.

No, you paint them initially when you build the structure. It's quite hard to paint afterwards.

Also, if you notice closely, the steel is welded rather than bolted. Newer buildings are bolted now-a-days, which increases their useful life.

Example: https://imgur.com/a/f4z84dx

This is the current building being built that I talk about. Notice (1) the two layers of paint, and (2) bolts being used instead of welds compared to the steel structure photos in the essay

niteshpant··on Building an I-beam building in Far West, Nepal
I went down memory lane. In 2020, I dropped out of Dartmouth, flew back to Nepal on the second flight after borders reopened, and spent a year doing things I never expected.

One of them: building one of the first three-story I-beam steel structures in Far West Nepal. No local expertise. No supply chain. A crew that had never done it before. We figured it out anyway.

niteshpant··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
a catalog for all deliverables ever made by consultants so that they can search semantically among slides from differnt projects and more effectively reuse their previous slides in new projects

https://alkemy.devdashlabs.com

It has an ingestion layer where we break apart a project, it's deck and it's slides into relationships like frameworks/visual archetypes, and then save that in a graph database plus a vector database. The user can then query "find me work we've done on geology research that might be relevant to industrial mining"

niteshpant··on Facts about throwing good parties
Can confirm about police lol

Once we had police knock on our door for playing music too loud at 10 PM on a weekend - f'ck Boston NIMBYs

niteshpant··on Facts about throwing good parties
At our apartment in the South End in Boston (2023-2024), we had a nice backyard where me and my roommate would host a lot of parties. Some were more successful than others. In particular, one event (dubbed 727 for being on 7-27) was particularly unsuccessful. My good friend and DJ came to visit and we did a B2B backyard sesh. The music was amazing, vibes immaculate but we lacked the crowd. Looking back, our biggest mistakes were:

1. asking people to come at 2 PM on a weekend and saying party will go till 7 PM. There is a limit to expectations, as I have learned

2. not using Partiful or Luma (Apple Invites wasn't a thing back then) so we could never really remind people or confirm people. Plus, many flaked (~40%) or arrived very late (~70%)

3. not making the party interesting enough for 22-24 year olds - many flaked :(

4. not following rules 8 and 9 as mentioned here (whom to or not to invite given a group)

Some tips that worked for us in other parties:

1) Be very generous with drinks, make good ones and buy good beer/wine, avoid temptation to venmo request afterwards (please don't). atithi devo bhava

2) Have something to do. For us it was Dartmouth pong in our backyard lol

3) Have a good vibe

One major pro tip not mentioned: if inviting a girl you want to impress, learn to mix drinks and songs ;) A good shake goes a long way...

niteshpant··on 14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal
It is not a question of what, but a question of why.

Why do autocrats rise to power? Why are far-right parties rising in power in Germany, France, Spain and Portugal?

I've come to see this as a fundamental human nature one can't go against. Some people are, just evil. Humans will always love self more than others. This love of self can turn into a hatred of others, or easily be turned into a hatred of others.

Acceptance that evil forces and opportunitists and populists will always be around us is the first step in asnwering what is to be done

niteshpant··on 14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal
> I think when people, particularly in America, think "protest", they think of people walking around with placards and other such relatively low effort involvement.

Growing up in Nepal and witnessing some large non-violent and violent protests, I was frankly, baffled to see people standing on the sides of the streets and holding sign boards as protests

Where's the rallies? Where is the mass involvement needed for a successful protest? where are the street blocks? non-voilent doesn't mean just standing there.

The first time I actually saw something worth being called a protest was during the Black Lives Matter movement. I think it exposed the American police system for what it was, and the system's inability to control protesters peacefully

I've seen a lot of protests around NYC on various topics

Recently more with Palestine

> You could have tens of millions of students and otherwise unemployed individuals walking around with placards, and nobody's going to care.

I think you're wrong here Do it for one day nobody cares Do it for a week, people notice Do it for a month, you've got regime change

niteshpant··on Starship's Tenth Flight Test
I thought it exploded after it landed?
niteshpant··on DeepSeek-v3.1
how can deepseek be so cheap* yet so effective?

*pricing: MODEL deepseek-chat deepseek-reasoner 1M INPUT TOKENS (CACHE HIT) $0.07 1M INPUT TOKENS (CACHE MISS) $0.56 1M OUTPUT TOKENS $1.68

niteshpant··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
One of the qualifications is "Evidence that the beneficiary has either commanded a high salary or will command a high salary or other remuneration for services as evidenced by contracts or other reliable evidence" How does a startup founder go about proving this? They don't have quite the "high salary" and get paid in equity. What have you seen here? How do founders quialify for this part?
niteshpant··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
DevDash Labs | Full-stack AI Engineer (Frontend Focus) | Kathmandu, Nepal (remote) | Full-time

Hiring a full-stack AI engineer (front-end focused), with about 2+ years experience |

Applied AI research company building production products like Atlantis (deep research agent) and Luna (enterprise chatbot). Transform research into React/Next.js frontends that make complex AI intuitive. Need React/Next.js + Python + elite prompt/context engineering skills. Work on hard problems, ship products, represent Nepal globally!

Starting from NPR 35,000/month. Located in Nepal with reliable internet required.

email resume/why to innovate [at] devdashlabs [dot] com

niteshpant··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
My biggest frustration right now is just how much verbose the output is. Like a freshman aiming to hit that word count without substance, the model just spits out GenAI fluff.

Good thinking otherwise.

niteshpant··on Boston Dynamics shows off another major leap in humanoid mobility
How long until we see a war of humanoids? The new era of proxy wars? Maybe the new liberty ships will be humaniod robots and drones.
niteshpant··on Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software
very curious - why did it take you 5 years to launch post YC? (It says W20 batch)
niteshpant··on Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video]
Wow! Incredibly fascinated to see 1957 tech make such fascinating animations! It’s so time consuming. Imagine the patience to take those pictures frame by frame
niteshpant··on Things we've learned about building products
what was the process like? What made it so good? Asking because I'm trying to build out a process as well
niteshpant··on Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
> As an ADHD person, I've found the best way for me is not put effort in organizing at all

Agreed - I looked at the website for a hot second, got overwhelmed and immediately closed it

Consistency is key for a good organization system. Unfortunately, consistency in such manners of life isnt our forte

niteshpant··on Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)
Why does the shape look very familar to the Burj Khalifa?

And, if anyone is a structural engineer - would the taproot foundation actually work for such a high structure?

niteshpant··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)
Product, Growth, & GTM Lead + Developer

Location:

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: Yes - NYC/SF

  Technologies: React (TSX, Next.js), Python, Figma, Asana, APIs, GCP, AWS, Prompt Engineering

  Résumé/CV:niteshpant.com [or email me]

  Email: nitesh [at] niteshpant.com
niteshpant··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)
Location: New York NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React, Typescript, Tailwind, HTML/CSS/JS, Python, SQL

Résumé/CV: <please email />

Email: nitesh <dot> pant <at> devdashllc.com

niteshpant··on Student rocket group shatters amateur space record
thank you - this was the comment I was looking for
niteshpant··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, HTML, CSS, JS, React, SQL, Prompt Engineering

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niteshpant22/

Email: nitesh [dot] pant [at] devdashllc [dot] com

I'm a Growth lead who's also technical, looking for opportunities in SF/NYC, ideally in seed/growth stage startups. About 2 years of experience hacking away at various things.

niteshpant··on Thomas E. Kurtz has died
Consider me naive, but what way did Dijkstra thought it should be taught? Someone who first learned to code in QBASIC
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