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pulkitanandon Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps

Interesting! Would love to check that out as well, have you released it?

pulkitanandon Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Your landing page talks about all the right goals. postx is a good placeholder name, I recommend ideating a better name for launch. looking forward, wish you the best.

pulkitanandon Android 16 is here

Nice to see someone still using a 4a. I'm still rocking a 3a XL with lineage (massively resisting the urge to upgrade to a Pixel 9). I'm quite certain they'll do a lineage release for our phones for Android 16, hoping to use my phone for as much longer as possible!

pulkitanandon Product-led growth for dev-first business: Is it inevitable?

with unbelievable weissman scores, including 3D video.

pulkitanandon Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

> Also, do you often send messages to people you don't know via chat apps linked to phone numbers?

Haha, thanks for the chuckle.

pulkitanandon Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

Cloud going up in smoke.

pulkitanandon NASA’s Sofia Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

Tidal forces from Earth have slowed the Moon's rotation to the point where the same side is always facing the Earth—a phenomenon called tidal locking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon

pulkitanandon SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce

Mathematically, never. :)

pulkitanandon SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

They lost the center core: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_tWbjFIGI&t=2307

But 2/3 is impressive! Seeing the simultaneous landings had me in tears!

pulkitanandon Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email

You could use gmail to send email from these addresses. Gmail requires you to verify that you own the email ids, which should be possible to do with the way mailhero works.

pulkitanandon Show HN: A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative

Except that the meshtags won't last forever by design.

pulkitanandon The Best of Material Design, Daily

Why should that be a problem? Product Hunt wasn't the first to do aggregation. I personally feel this is a really neat attempt!

pulkitanandon Show HN: Award Street – Oscar history, movies/people, and live notifications

A couple of us movie buffs got together to build this app ahead of the event this Sunday. Appreciate your suggestions/feedback!

pulkitanandon Nokia 215

If it had whatsapp, it would have been displayed prominently. I think it is a push for Facebook messenger over whatsapp. A lack of whatsapp could be a deal-breaker, atleast here in India.

pulkitanandon Google’s New Bookmarking Service, Previously Called Stars, Has Gone Live

The problem with RSS is that the publisher needs to support it, and quite a few are actively moving away from it. For example, Wikipedia Picture of the Day RSS feeds don't work anymore: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/Pi...

Also, considering the "fire-hose" nature of typical RSS feeds, there needs to be an intelligent layer that sits between it and the user for it to be useful.

pulkitanandon Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell Out of Verizon and AT&T

Read about it some time ago, interesting concept along similar lines. https://yourkarma.com/

pulkitanandon Show HN: A different way to follow xkcd – xkcd Filr stream

Glad you liked it! Here are some of the popular ones we've done: http://blog.filr.io/we-heart-webcomics/ If we've missed any of your favorites, let us know and we'll get it done.

pulkitanandon Interactive Google Doodle celebrates 40th anniversary of Rubik's cube

Agreed. I managed to solve it, but only after I got to know the keyboard controls. Much easier to manage. http://www.google.com/doodles/rubiks-cube