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paramaggarwal

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paramaggarwal··on JavaScript trends that are going mainstream soon
From compiled languages, to databases on the edge, a lot of new things came out last year that will go mainstream this year.
paramaggarwal··on Beyond Summaries: How to Use GPT to Learn from Long YouTube Interviews
Pulling key topics, claims and other insights from the interview between Stripe CEO and OpenAI CEO at Sohn 2023 using GPT-3 API and an open-source script for you to do the same.
paramaggarwal··on Are local LLMs good enough now?
The new Zephyr 7B model can run locally on an M1 Pro MacBook as fast as ChatGPT is able to stream responses in the browser.
paramaggarwal··on Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
Hello!

Article author here - I wrote this after realising that buzz words have entered our industry again in the form of the JAM stack terminology. Hence I took an approach of actually what is going on under the hood.

paramaggarwal··on Stylebook – explore and shop for clothing collections
Sorry about that, I linked to the YouTube screen capture instead of the GitHub repo in error. Reposted correctly.
paramaggarwal··on Show HN: Teddy – A physical pet made possible using Estimote beacons
While we tried to think about new ways a toy could be implemented, our brains were stuck in the ways we play today - with points and achievements. So while the idea is radical, it suffers from having parts of it get inspiration from today's apps.
paramaggarwal··on Show HN: A Collaborative Art Canvas (experimental)
Awesome! pixelSpacing is now 0 for all. Thanks!
paramaggarwal··on Show HN: A Collaborative Art Canvas (experimental)
I made it so that even the code is very hackable. Fiddle around in the source+console, and you can add your very own colors too!
paramaggarwal··on Open Letter to Flipkart - Doing eBooks Better Than Amazon
Yes, I am also unsure, hence the whole article is based on the premise of 'if and ever' they do so.
paramaggarwal··on Open Letter to Flipkart - Doing eBooks Better Than Amazon
Yup, you are right! I would also be ready to pay a premium to not have the books take up space on the shelf.

But for a truly ground-breaking product (read: to beat Amazon) Flipkart needs to either 1. make it cheaper or 2. make it better.

paramaggarwal··on Open Letter to Flipkart - Doing eBooks Better Than Amazon
I would love to get the opinion of the HN community on this. Can Flipkart beat Amazon?
paramaggarwal··on Show HN: A tiny device that displays the Verge's tweets, wirelessly.
I built a scrolling text display that shows me the latest tweets from the @verge account, live using WiFi.

Completely wireless and uses a Heroku backend to get the tweets from the Twitter API. Built on the Arduino platform and parts from Sparkfun.

I have open-sourced all the code for the Arduino as well as the Node.js application on the link in the video info.

Let me know what you think!

paramaggarwal··on I built a tiny device for displaying Twitter updates on my table-top.
Yup! Of course! Used a smaller one for reduced complexity right now.
paramaggarwal··on I built a tiny device for displaying Twitter updates on my table-top.
A scrolling text display that shows me the latest tweets from the @verge account.

Completely wireless via WiFi and uses a Heroku backend to get the tweets from the Twitter API. Built on the Arduino platform.

I have open-sourced all the code for the Arduino as well as the Node.js application.

paramaggarwal··on Node.native - Node.js in C++0x
I would like to understand the implications. Does this improve performance? Or does it just allow coding in C++.

Please help. (Sorry, noob here.)

paramaggarwal··on Show HN: Favicon alert bubbles
This is what makes checking Hacker News worthwhile every morning. Small things that make developer's lives easy.

Motivates me to stop being intimidated by the difficulty of implementation, and concentrate on the power of the idea.

paramaggarwal··on Show HN: My weekend hack project, Appload.io, get your app's first 1k users
Wow, thats really something. The problem that apps face: to gain visibility in the first week.

This solves it. Would love to see an article on the backstory of how the idea struck you.

paramaggarwal··on Node.js isn't a silver bullet, but it's still a bullet.
Each language fills a void, a different way of doing something, just because it can be done. Because it is possible. And there are always uses for every way something can be done.

Node.js is nothing different, it has its pros and cons. You simply cannot tag it as 'good' or 'bad'. You are smart if you use it where it suits you. You are silly if you just try to trash it.

paramaggarwal··on You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You
This article is so beautiful.

I spoke to my dad regarding this hub-hub on piracy vs. freedom. His thinking is very similar to the publishing industry that pirating something is simply illegal, and that's that.

I lost out in the discussion, because I wasn't able to provide good points on the aspect of freedom, and that actually it is not piracy, but just sharing, and it actually benefits the industry, not ruin it.

This article just made my job easier. It mentions all the important points.

paramaggarwal··on Ask HN: Building a search engine using the Hacker News archive
For example, a search for 'mongodb tutorial' on HNSearch should have given me more useful results than searching on Google. But it is not so, because the results aren't presented well.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=mongodb+tut...

paramaggarwal··on Ask HN: Building a search engine using the Hacker News archive
Oh, yes of course, the default engine. But it is more of just an index. It just shows the link names, and it links to purely what was posted on Hacker News.

What I am dreaming of is something like Google bot with the Hacker News links as the seed to start indexing... Also displaying the results with snippets and rating the results.

What say?

paramaggarwal··on I Did What I Loved and Nearly Destroyed Myself
People misunderstand the whole 'do what you love' philosophy. They think that you just go about doing whatever seems interesting. The truth is that you have to 'do'. If you like philosophy, then write a book, talk about it, give a theory. 'Do something about it'.
paramaggarwal··on Do Facebook B’day wishes mean anything?
This is great! I am also setting my Facebook birthday to today. This is gonna be fun.
paramaggarwal··on You don’t profit in a monopoly, you work harder: A lesson from Apple
Your analysis of my article is brilliant. Thanks a lot. I hadn't realized how flawed my analysis was.
paramaggarwal··on You don’t profit in a monopoly, you work harder: A lesson from Apple
I was trying to point out the balancing act between profit and quantity in my article. But your point is perfect. I missed it. Thanks.
paramaggarwal··on You don’t profit in a monopoly, you work harder: A lesson from Apple
You are right. I got the meaning of monopoly horribly wrong in my article.
paramaggarwal··on Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
A true visionary.
paramaggarwal··on Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus
Wow, such a beautiful campus.