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prakashn27

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prakashn27··on I design with Claude more than Figma now
This is why hn is the best. First comment helps to decide if we need to read the article or not .
prakashn27··on Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
Very true. If a PR has 1000 lines I would check only a handful full of them and leave the rest for test suit .
prakashn27··on From Rust to Ruby
I always check hn comments before viewing the article . The comments alone saved me lot of time for not viewing the article
prakashn27··on GitHub Stacked PRs
Meta has something similar to this using mercurial. It was awesome.
prakashn27··on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
Ex-WhatsApp engineer here. WhatsApp team makes so much effort to make this end to end encrypted messages possible. From the time I worked I know for sure it is not possible to read the encrypted messages.

From business standpoint they don’t have to read these messages, since WhatsApp business API provide the necessary funding for the org as a whole.

prakashn27··on To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
I have not fired a technical writer, but writing documentation that understands and maintains users focus is hard even with llm. I am trying to write documentation for my start up and it is harder than I expected even with llm.

Kudos to all technical writer who made my job as software engineer easier.

prakashn27··on Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
I feel local rag system , slows down my computer (I got M1 Pro 32 GB)

So I use hosted one to prevent this. My business use vector db, so created a new db to vectorize and host my knowledge base. 1. All my knowledge base is markdown files. So I split that by header tags. 2. The split is hashed and hash value is stored in SQLite 3. The hashed version is vectorized and pushed to cloud db. 4. When ever I make changes , I run a script which splits and checks hash, if it is changed the. I upsert the document. If not I don’t do anything. This helps me keep the store up to date

For search I have a cli query which searches and fetches from vector store.

prakashn27··on Interview Coder Just Leaked Full Names and Companies of All SWEs Who Cheated [video]
The extent people go with cheating interviews. What happens after you pass by cheating? The reason they have rigorous interview is because the company moves at a different phase. You can not survive there if you cheat.
prakashn27··on CSS Grid Lanes
That makes sense. Safari is so smooth now in iOS. Moved from Firefox.
prakashn27··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Working on Ai agent (not chatbot) for customer support with automatic human handoff to Slack( in future for Zendesk, Teams, Jira)
prakashn27··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
Focusing on creating a omnichannel ai-powered support platform on Slack.
prakashn27··on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
i onboarded on planetscale when it was in free tier. Then they charged 40$.

Last year they increase the pricing again.

they attract users and increase the pricing. that is the game here.

prakashn27··on Doing Rails Wrong
And you forgot the js library that lets you check if the number is odd https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd

Funny enough there is another library which checks if it is even https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

prakashn27··on Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?
I feel it is hyped product oversold to people who cannot told. When we developers tell them that it cannot do as much as you expect, they think that we are afraid of loosing our job and downplaying the AI.

Like everyone said, my productivity boost is in 1-4% range and not more than that.

prakashn27··on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
I writing this just after the night end llm cannot even replace to using Trans i18n react component if it is not in context of the file. We are still far from agi
prakashn27··on Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
100% true.
prakashn27··on Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
How does this work? Does all files that I upload are in context or do you use rag?
prakashn27··on Just use HTML
Too much swearing and I lost the context midway
prakashn27··on Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run
This is not an official API, this is from third party. stop promoting appfire products as official api.
prakashn27··on Busy Bar
What happened to the good old timer. 250$ is steep for a timer.
prakashn27··on Gumroad’s source is available
What is the use of this opensurce when you have a strict license ?
prakashn27··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Working on “AI automations for Jira” to help Jira admins create automation scripts using AI.

- secure and complaint as it runs on Atlassian

- easy to create automation as AI does the heavy lifting of creating the automation scripts for Jira

- unlimited which was a major limitation in native Atlassian offering.

https://ai-automation.123x.dev/

prakashn27··on Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
wifey always wins. ;)
prakashn27··on Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge
Ex-meta engineer here. I miss their internal GitHub which is a mercurial fork. They have so many awesome features like layered PRs.

That is something I have not seen anywhere .

prakashn27··on I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
Page is full of ads
prakashn27··on I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
Serverless is the best thing that happened for cloud.

People argue that it is expensive for zillions of users but I have never reached that scale

prakashn27··on One-man SaaS, 9 Years In
Congrats.

Same with me. On my one year mark as a one person saas with 123x.dev . Helping Monday and Atlassian customers with custom apps.

prakashn27··on Launch HN: Overwatch (YC S22): OSINT platform for cyber and fraud risk
how many you thought it is "Overwatch" multiplayer game? :-)
prakashn27··on Desktop Linux is an Untapped Gold Mine
I use popos based on Ubuntu.

Pros: - tiling support - workspaces - all Ubuntu apps

prakashn27··on Dify, a visual workflow to build/test LLM applications
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