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niyazpk

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Spellbound by everything in this world and beyond.

Humbled by the depth of wisdom yet to be consumed.

On a journey not knowing where it leads.

I promise you a better world.

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താണ നിലത്തേ നീരോടൂ... അവിടേ ദൈവം തുണയുള്ളൂ...

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"Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars." -Serbian proverb

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niyazpk gmail

Currently building an "Agentic workflow optimization engine" - check out https://papaya.fyi

If you have thoughts or feedback on the product, would love to connect. Please reach out!

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niyazpk··on Codex Micro
1. looks nice, want.

2. lol, why is this $230

niyazpk··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
Wow.. what?! How is this so fast?! Where can I read more?
niyazpk··on I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
Interesting. Thanks!
niyazpk··on I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
You are right, so I am probably completely on the wrong here. :D

A question to advance the discussion. What I am wondering is, if you can remember to go back to your time tracking system, why can you not remember to go back to your main goals?

niyazpk··on I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
I don't understand the problem here. If you cannot focus, just focus more?

More structure/checklist to force you to focus will have other side-effects like you found out. When you get rid of the structure, you still need to have a rough map in your mind of where you want to go.

To me, this is similar to being honest. You don't want to depend on a system or checklist for being honest. It is something you always need, as a policy. Focus is like that. If you want to focus seriously on something, just make it a policy, and don't use all these tricks as crutches.

niyazpk··on Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read
- Better formatting for text: (1) bullet points (2) markdown-like links (3) Slightly different background for code.

- More "sub-reddits". We already have Ask/Show HN. We probably can add a couple more to keep everything organized.

- Option to auto-collapse comments threads deeper than X levels by default. When they are all open by default like today, only the top comment and its children get more of the eyeballs.

niyazpk··on Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?
2024: I used to split time between IntelliJ IDEA (10% - for Java) and VSCode (90% - for everything else).

2025: Stopped writing so much Java, so used VSCode exclusively for Python, TS etc, with Claude Code or Cline.

2026: Time is split between Codex App (40%), Claude App (30%) and VSCode with Claude Code (30%).

Some other thoughts:

* Overall I feel like opening an IDE in the traditional sense is coming to an end.

* Tech-stack wise I am much more open to trying out new things than before since LLMs will help with the setup and debugging.

* For small teams like ours, code reviews are the bottleneck, and we constantly have to decide what code we review vs what we don't.

* Building seems easy these days, but (1) so much competition no in every field, (2) much more product polish is expected than before, and (3) most products compete with Claude if they realize this or not.

niyazpk··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
Three of us friends are working on "Data Engineer in a box" or "Cursor for Data": https://getnile.ai

Our thesis is that a lot of Data Engineering practiced today is non-differentiated across companies and they'd rather spend that time on differentiated tasks. What if we can abstract away a lot of the tedious parts of DE work and let companies focus on just the data they want to store, and the questions they have on their data?

So today, we have an MVP that manages the compute, storage, lineage, versioning and pipeline building for datasets. Would LOVE to get feedback on this or your early thoughts!

niyazpk··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
It would be great if I can run this as a browser extension that works on Zillow and Redfin.
niyazpk··on Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
Microsoft, Apple, Amazon ...
niyazpk··on Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
Nice! Would love to use it.

I don't have a midi piano. Wondering if it is easy for you to support my inputs using microphone. I think there will be several noobs like me with the same problem.

niyazpk··on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
Nice features, and very professional website!

As others have mentioned, adding account integrations will make this much easier to use.

I would also love to hear more of your story, and motivations around this project.

niyazpk··on Show HN: Tiled Words, a daily puzzle inspired by board games and crosswords
This is amazing! Very well done, very entertaining game.

Feature request: Please create an apple TV app for this. I'd love my kids to play this on the TV together. I'd pay for this.

niyazpk··on Show HN: Inkeep (YC W23) – Agent Builder to create agents in code or visually
> true 2-way sync between code and a drag-and-drop visual editor...

EXACTLY what was missing in many tools, and exactly what is required for reducing the time from quick prototype to production quality code.

Congrats on the launch. Looking forward to trying this out. Please add support for AWS Bedrock based models.

niyazpk··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
Does anyone know whatever happened to the Haiku family of models? They've not been updated since 3.5! Did Anthropic give up on them?
niyazpk··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hi Peter!

Given YC asks founders to apply for a batch just a few weeks (or months) before each batch starts, I am wondering if you run into issues with timing. Do you see issues with visa delays etc, that can cause founders to miss their batch?

niyazpk··on React 19 Beta
Since the introduction of Hooks, I've been struggling with understanding React and React code. For context: UI development is not my full-time job (anymore), and I mostly do backend dev these days. I still read/write React once in a while, but I don't enjoy it anymore.

Here is what I am struggling with: I am not able to grasp the programming model with Hooks. I am not able to read the code easily, nor am I able to easily understand the interactions in the app. "easily" being the keyword here. I can understand what is happening if I put in the effort, but every time, it is a struggle. I switch between languages and platforms all the time, but react code is where I have to take a real pause to understand what is going on.

My suspicion is that this has to do mostly with the names of the Hooks, and how they are used in the code.

* Why are they named useState, useEffect etc? Are there better names if used will make it easier for me to read this code? Are there any other systems/languages (even in JS) where similar constructs are present? What are their names?

* If JSX is anyway getting compiled to JS, why do I have to still deal with strange looking useState and useEffect declarations? Is there a way to get cleaner syntax and make React code read like regular code?

This is mostly a cry for help, and not a criticism of React. I have used React in the past (several years ago, before Hooks) and I used to "get" React.

niyazpk··on Storage on Vercel
What are the leading alternatives? I know about RemixJS, but not too up to date on others and how each of these compare against each other.
niyazpk··on Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta
> I would much rather be fired from Facebook than Twitter.

Also, it was all over the news that Twitter fired probably based on performance (lines of code, yeah, I know). Wondering if this will make it difficult for the twitter folks to get hired compared to those from FB.

niyazpk··on Dear Chess World
So basically, no concrete proof (yet), except the fact that Niemann has past history of cheating in online chess.
niyazpk··on Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
Sure, but also, none of my (investing) friends use Tastyworks, and almost all of them are using RH as their primary investing platform!

Companies in hyper-growth stages may hire/fire differently than others.

niyazpk··on Confess your love with zero-knowledge
Well... hactually... This is kind like the opposite of zero-knowledge, where everyone can know your crush just by entering all suspecting names in the link.
niyazpk··on 1Password Has Raised $620M
Is there a real lock-in in case of 1Password though? I like their UX and integrations, but looks like it is easy to export and move my data to other products if required.
niyazpk··on Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
> Sending fraudulent people to jail for a long, long time is fundamental to running a healthy society

Really?! Interesting...

I agree, a functioning society needs good law and order, and some way to prosecute and bring criminals to justice.

But I am personally not convinced that sending someone "to jail for a long, long time" is the solution. How is that productive? I think we need to come up with better ways to serve justice than physically restricting otherwise smart or productive individuals to a room for decades on end. As soon as we are done with abolishing the death penalty, I would want us to start looking at abolishing this "decades long locking up" of folks. I don't have a good solution as I said, but I am convinced that this is not it.

niyazpk··on Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned
FWIW IMO: This should be marketed to the twitter croud, not the facebook crowd. I have no interest in writing journals for my friends and family, and even if I did, there won't be many who want to read what I write (in my personal network).

But I can see writing for folks with the same interests in tech, business, books or what not. So I am willing to open up my personal journals, but only to complete strangers (anonymously).

niyazpk··on Pixel prevented me from calling 911
IMO while Microsoft and Google should work together to solve this as soon as possible, the longer term solution should not involve Microsoft. This sounds like something Google should fix at their end.

No customization done by the user, including installation of apps should prevent a user from being able to call 911, period.

niyazpk··on 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company
> Energy usage means security

Umm.. No.

"More energy = More security" is a slogan now being used to scam non-technical users to buy into the crypto ecosystem, but that does not make any sense if you are willing to think about for a second. Also very convenient that this slogan started getting popular when BTC started getting bad press for energy usage.

BTW how you reach consensus on a chain is different from how the accounts in the chain are secured. Just because all BTC nodes are burning up electricity all the time does not mean that your accounts are more/less secure.

niyazpk··on Google Groups kills RSS support without notice
Google groups feels (UX & support wise) like one of those products that should have already been killed by Google. One of the reasons why Groups has survived so long must be Google's reluctance to give proper customer support for most of their products. Google groups is the only customer support you will get in many cases.
niyazpk··on New Google Fi Cell plans – unlimited data for $30
Yes, you are right, Fi is expensive compared to many other options in Canada.

For me, this number is pretty much used for all my Bank/Investment/Social accounts (from my US life), and it will be too much work to replace this everywhere. Too many 2FA accounts use this phone number, etc. I'd like to get out of this dependency, but slowly if I have a choice.

niyazpk··on New Google Fi Cell plans – unlimited data for $30
Really wish they'd start supporting Canada. I recently moved to Canada from the US, and I have been using my US Fi number here in Canada too, but I'm dreading the day they will reach out to stop services on my number. (You cannot permanently use a Google Fi number outside the US right now).
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