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On top of my mind, not an exhaustive list

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geetha_Govindam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2796_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saathiya_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sairat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_States_(2014_film)

https://youtu.be/XTTAHt4VlUA

Unrelated:

If you enjoyed RRR and it's over the top drama, action sequences you might also like following movies.

1) Bahubali 1 & 2 (same director)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G62HrubdD6o

2) KGF chapter 1 and 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qah9sSIXJqk

Can someone who is into chips explain how big of a thing this is? And what maybe next?

India is breaking this dominance by government backed Rupay and UPI payment methods. Both have 0 MDR charges.

Rupay is a direct alternative to Visa and MasterCard. UPI is peer to peer payment system for any bank account linked with a phone and debit card.

So far government has been successfully in both of these endeavours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPay?wprov=sfla1

https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/rup...

Related:

If you want to read policy research on Indian goverment PRS research is a good resource. They usually analyse new bills and amendments in Indian parliament.

https://prsindia.org/

Rule of law is a joke in India.

Center has central agencies and each states has their own police department. So whenever there is a noticeable criticism from someone centre or state govt will send their police/agency your way. You will be detained, put through the worst conditions and false charges will be filed. Most of these charges don't hold in higher courts but the damage is done. You will suffer, a lot. You will not dare to speak up again.

This is even so comical, sometimes centre will send agencies against another party politicians in power in a state they are not in power, and state will send police for local politicians from centre party. (https://scroll.in/article/1027571/how-the-modi-government-ha...)

Sometimes diff state police with diff party governments fight with each other. (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-editorials/sto...)

And sometimes police will just plant evidence in your email with their work email address as backup email address. They literally jailed bunch of very old left activists with fake charges by hacking their email accounts. (https://www.wired.com/story/modified-elephant-planted-eviden...)

I wish I had Tailscale when I was playing LAN games in college. Spent a lot of time debugging around network issues.

I am not sure about that factoid, but before pandemic in FY 2019-20 IR did 8.08 Billion trips. IR runs in losses for passenger service, it makes up for those losses in freight service.

ref: https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directora...

Yes, IR is largest employer employing 1.54 million people. There has been a lot of automation in signalling, switching recently, because of which we will see number of employees going down in near future.

But beyond this, yes it is a humungous project that keeps humming without major glitches. Supported by a lot of workers on the ground doing tasks like track inspections, cleaning, maintenance day and night.

Indian railways is really good at managing much higher traffic at lower number of platforms and tracks in general. New infra upgrades are much slow and expensive. So at a majority of high traffic stations, track sections IR has to do a really tight exercise of managing schedules and maintenance. They also have recently improved on time performance. It is not Japan like or anything, but it is getting better.

That is good idea.

I have noted and will add to roadmap. Score will be calculated differently for different categories of software. Like for Desktop apps and SAAS projects, metrics will be different. Will have to think through this.

Been using Orion browser for a while now. I switched from Chrome because in Indian summer temperatures, even inside house my MacBook would heat up and go in throttling mode very fast. Even with 1-2 tabs open. Basically made my Mac unusable.

Good things I loved:

- Easy onboarding, switch was easier.

- Love the help interface, full text search that directs you to steps.

- Makes my MacBook usable in hot Indian summers.

Things that need improvement:

- Extension support, only supports few popular extensions for now. I miss Pocket, Raindrop.

- Devtools could be much better.

- Buggy sometimes, but I hope this will get better with time.

Thanks.

> Are the alternatives simply listed in order by their GitHub stars?

No specific algorithm for now, but that is a good idea.

Yes, I have seeded the data from multiple open source projects for now. But I will also check how can I leverage APIs or maybe scraping to gather relevant data to this project. Libhunt and Saashub are under CC4 but not alternative.to I guess.

I have also been building something similar at

https://ossdatabase.com

Recently released code under AGPL-3.(https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase)

But I want to go beyond aggregation and add following things

- User reviews, ratings

- Researcherd guides comparing features in most common usecases

- Interviews with Opensource maintainers, founders.

- Being able to create collections like awesome lists

- Everything being user editable and basic karma system for accepted edits.

Edits: Formatting and added links.

Shameless self plug

Open source/ proprietary projects similar to Appwrite.

https://ossdatabase.com/projects/appwrite

India needs to move to homegrown manufacturing of cheap solar and green hydrogen for storage. Solar energy is something that India gets a lot of. Especially during summer solar energy could help with the extra demand in energy because of high heat.

Self plug. Some other open source/ proprietary projects like Heroku

https://ossdatabase.com/projects/heroku

Yes, that could be easier to rather develop it from scratch.

2 questions:

1) When are you planning to launch in India?

2) Have you thought about launching your own Linux distro optimized for Framework? You could upgrade Linux desktop experience. That would be awesome.

Thanks!

That is a good idea, I could create a metric from recent commits, releases, open issues, open PRs. I will also add these details to each projects own page.

Thanks! Yes, that is the plan. I have put together a list of OSS alternatives lists on Github. I will start seeding the database to get the network effects going.

Hi HN,

OSS Database is a crowdsourced database of Open Source alternatives to popular software. I am building this database so people can search and filter open-source alternatives easily. Do let me know what you think.

Built using: - Rails - Postgres - Redis - StimulusJS

In India both freight and train services are government owned and are part of same network. Revenue from freight subsidises passenger services which run in losses [1]. But in general passenger service is given preference over freight every day. Hence there are some serious delays in freight service. So government is building these special double electric lines across country especially designed for freight called as dedicated freight corridors [2].

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/railways-earning-f...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSsRmbUnvK4

Here is IRB running in the browser by author of this feature

https://irb-wasm.vercel.app/

No installation required :)

Unrelated: I read the title of this link and I knew who wrote it before even checking the website. Love Julia's writing. Always something from scratch and explained really well.

Hard to tell, they are waiting for supreme leader to inaugurate metro before Pune municipality elections.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/pune-news/inauguration...

Still waiting for Pune metro. I think metros will do wonders for most big cities in India.

You are not alone. I also have been going through something similar. I recently quit my job to work full time on my side project. I am financially secure for another year. I am very energetic for few days, I work my ass off and ship stuff. But after that I have these periods where I just can't do anything. It is hard to get out of bed. I feel like I am never going to make it with any of my projects.

I have been to a neurologists in the past multiple times and completed multiple courses of medicine. But those medicines I took had really bad side effects. And I realised the more I used them the more I was dependent on them for a normal mood. Also my brain felt foggy while working when I took them.

I do take time off after a few days of working but that alone does not help. This is a cycle. Planning on going out daily and exercising, eating more healthy and having a schedule with less screen time. Let us see how it goes. These things seem trivial, but I have never them for more than a month continuously. I want to give them a try this time like my life depends on it.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

By far the best sci-fi book I have read in a long time