HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

pknerd

1,738 karma · joined April 26, 2011

Software Technology Consultant Skype: sidlabs email: kadnan(at)gmail (dot) com Web: http://adnansiddiqi.me/ Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me
submissionscomments
pknerd··on Gold hits all time high
Question from experts: I have been itching to buy silver and hodl it for a year or two.. Maybe more..should I buy it? Will there be more consumption in coming years?
pknerd··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
Location: Pakistan Remote: Yes Email: kadnanATgmail.com

--

I'm a software engineer with 15+ years of experience, currently leading AI/Automation at a marketing agency in Los Angeles. My focus is on building scalable AI workflows, streamlining ops, and integrating LLM-based systems to drive real business value.

Led automation of internal workflows

Built AI-powered customer support bots

Integrated LLMs for smarter decision-making

If you're exploring how AI can give your team an edge, I'd love to chat. Here's a quick way to connect:

Schedule a 15-min call

Also shared a short audio resume

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HpDELb-6Q8

pknerd··on PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator
Am I the only one who found it ugly?
pknerd··on Show HN: Windows 7 GUI for the web
why nobody tries KDE or GNOME?
pknerd··on Show HN: WTFfmpeg – Natural Language to FFmpeg Translator
Superb. I always refer GPT to learn about what I need to do with ffmpeg. Glad to see someone made an AI wrapper out of it.

PS: Yeah, ffmpeg is not an easy tool to use.

pknerd··on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
I don't get why the articles behind paywalls are shared here.
pknerd··on Why I don't ride the AI Hype Train
Will be using AI to summarize this HN disucssion and finding insights.
pknerd··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Exploring n8n these days for automation/AI Agents. I am a software developer, but I enjoy this no-code/semi-code tool, already found a few use cases via Upwork and SEMRush that I am going to implement.

Besides, I have initiated two series on my blog: T4P and GenAI on my blog and writing about Algo trading and GenAI stuff(https://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/)

PS: If anyone has any interesting ideas, then do ping me

pknerd··on OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter
I guess it'd work even if you make it 2.5 or evebn 3x.
pknerd··on Can your terminal do emojis? How big?
> Am I the only one who actually dislikes the recent trend of putting emojis everywhere in CLI tools?

No.

pknerd··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)
SEEKING WORK Remote – Python / PHP / Go / OpenAI/LLMs / n8n / Web Scraping / APIs Technologies: Python, PHP, Go, n8n, OpenAI, Voiceflow, APIs, Web Scraping, Data Pipelines.

I’m a senior developer (14+ yrs) focused on automating boring business processes—chatbots, data pipelines, scraping, AI tools, internal bots, CRM workflows, etc.

Past work includes:

* Scraping millions of records weekly at a California startup * Ticket analysis bot using LLMs (cause, accountability, delay reasons) * Internal bot reading from CRM, ticketing, and brand guides * Chat transcript → lead → auto-sync to GoHighLevel * Voiceflow/OpenAI tools with ChatGPT-style frontend

Currently lead AI automation at a LA-based agency. I build full-stack AI tools and workflow automations (code/no-code).

Let’s build something useful:

pknerd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2025)
SEEKING WORK Remote – Python / PHP / Go / OpenAI/LLMs / n8n / Web Scraping / APIs

Technologies: Python, PHP, Go, n8n, OpenAI, Voiceflow, APIs, Web Scraping, Data Pipelines.

I’m a senior developer (14+ yrs) focused on automating boring business processes—chatbots, data pipelines, scraping, AI tools, internal bots, CRM workflows, etc.

Past work includes:

* Scraping millions of records weekly at a California startup * Ticket analysis bot using LLMs (cause, accountability, delay reasons) * Internal bot reading from CRM, ticketing, and brand guides * Chat transcript → lead → auto-sync to GoHighLevel * Voiceflow/OpenAI tools with ChatGPT-style frontend

Currently lead AI automation at a LA-based agency. I build full-stack AI tools and workflow automations (code/no-code).

Let’s build something useful:

*→ [Book 15-min call](https://calendly.com/kadnan/one_one_15min)* [Website](https://adnansiddiqi.me) | [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@adnansiddiqiprojects)

pknerd··on How to Store Data on Paper?
But how to decode it back?
pknerd··on How to Store Data on Paper?
But how to decode it back?
pknerd··on Human coders are still better than LLMs
Let's not forget that LLMs can't give a solution they have not experienced themselves
pknerd··on Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction
The inclusion of shorts on the home page or search is the biggest irritative feature
pknerd··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)
Working mostly in AI/automation. Fiddling with LLMs to automate different parts of the business processes and making business owners' lives easier.

Keywords: Python, LLM, Inference, RAG, OpenAI, Claude, ollama, scraping.

Visit my audio resume(in podcast format) to learn more about what I can do:

https://youtu.be/5HpDELb-6Q8?si=Cm552Z112OXfFTHq

Traditional Resume: https://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume.pdf

PS: If you have some interesting...Ok, even some boring workflows that take both time and sanity, buzz me without worrying about cost or something. I am a good listener :-)

Shoot me an email at kadnan @ gmail dot com

pknerd··on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
hmm..

Tell me what AI wrapper do I make that you would acquire my product?

pknerd··on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
I am happy with Copilot with VSCode..I do not think so, I would need to let AI generate the entire code. Even if I need, I copy/paste from Claude/GPT
pknerd··on The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
The site is down
pknerd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE

Working mostly in AI/automation. Fiddling with LLMs to automate different parts of the business processes and making business owners' lives easier.

Keywords: Python, LLM, Inference, RAG, OpenAI, Claude, ollama, scraping.

Visit my audio resume(in podcast format) to learn more about what I can do:

https://youtu.be/5HpDELb-6Q8?si=Cm552Z112OXfFTHq

pknerd··on U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter
It was already a bubble. It is correcting now, knowing the facts that US gave away all jobs to China.
pknerd··on CSS Zen Garden
CSS Zen Garden was the site that helped me to learn about the wonders of CSS.
pknerd··on Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
Thanks for your prompt and kind response. Yeah, it is expensive because it is new at the moment. They already mentioned the high token cost.
pknerd··on Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
wow!!!!

Any idea how much it costs to create a book?

pknerd··on Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
Ask GPT to give you a prompt that would create a color book :-)

I always use LLMs for meta-prompting. They know themselves better than others :>

pknerd··on Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
Gemini has released new models, maybe they are better.

Also, I request you to expand further, why Gemini is not better?

pknerd··on Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
Congrats!

I would like to know the cost of the tokens you are paying for an image. How many pages coloring book will be created against $24 book?

pknerd··on OpenAI releases image generation in the API
I would like to know some resources about prompt engineering to use the Image gen module by OpenAI, especially for products related to images or Ads.

PS: Does anyone know a good LLM/service to turn images into Videos?

pknerd··on Getting forked by Microsoft
What else can you expect from the company that was founded by Gates?(Ref, SCP,QDOS, IBM)
← PreviousPage 3 of 34Next →