Hacker News: 2gremlin181

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names"

2gremlin181 — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:26:45 +0000

A lesser known one (which makes it all the more confusing) is Cleary, right off similarly sounding Geary.

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw"

2gremlin181 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:19:32 +0000

I do not forsee GoogleClaw, MetaClaw, and AppleClaw all playing well with each other. Everyone will have their own walled garden and we will be no better off than we are now.

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

2gremlin181 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:33:43 +0000

I knew I had to add GLaDOS as soon as I saw this. Unfortunately, while testing my PR I realized there’s no support for Linux. Hopefully someone smarter than me can get that added sooner rather than later.

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

2gremlin181 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:10:23 +0000

Is there any reason why one would use an ad-filled ChatGPT over any alternative or open-source LLM providers? I feel like things have stagnated from a model perspective for simple queries one might ask ChatGPT. The key differentiators for it being their user intent understanding, web search tooling, and deep research/thinking mode, all of which are much smaller moats compared to training an LLM.

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

2gremlin181 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:59:46 +0000

What makes this any more personalized than Google Search ads?

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

2gremlin181 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:43:41 +0000

Senior Data Scientist with 5+ years of experience building and scaling ML, analytics, and GenAI systems. Expertise in large-scale data analysis, model evaluation, and experimentation. Proficient in Python, SQL, Spark, and statistics, with a Computer Engineering foundation.

  Location: San Francisco, CA  
  Remote: Yes  
  Willing to relocate: No  
  Technologies:  
    * Programming Languages: Python, SQL (Presto, Postgres, Spark), R, PHP/Hack, Bash  
    * Frameworks: PyData (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn), PyTorch/Lightning, TensorFlow/Keras, PySpark, LangChain, XGBoost  
    * Tools: AWS, GCP, Spark, Gurobi, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Git, Tableau, OpenAI API  
  Résumé/CV: https://kavi.sh/assets/resume/KavishHukmani_resume.pdf  
  Email: khukmani at gmail.com  
  GitHub: https://github.com/DoubleGremlin181  
  Website: https://kavi.sh/  
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kavish-hukmani/

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

2gremlin181 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:45:41 +0000

I acquired a new domain last year: https://kavi.sh/

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "YouTube has removed the ability to search by upload date"

2gremlin181 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:21:00 +0000

Search results is by far the biggest one. Now after 3-4 relevant results it just shows shorts and other recommended content

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "Why I think Valve’s retiring the Steam Deck LCD"

2gremlin181 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:06:06 +0000

The article is glaring over a key point- Valve often sold the model at a 20% discount for $320. Clearly this is because the amount spent by a Steam Deck owner would make up the loss in BoM. If they believed they could continue to do so, they would.

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy"

2gremlin181 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:05:01 +0000

Genuinely curious, what are some use cases that you require live Twitter data in your LLM for?

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

2gremlin181 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:55:27 +0000

IMO this is a smart move. A lot of these next-gen dev tools are genuinely great, but the ecosystem is fragmented and the subscriptions add up quickly. If Cursor aquires a few more, like Warp or Linear, they can become a very compelling all-in-one dev platform.

Pandas 3.0.0 Release Candidate

2gremlin181 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:10:35 +0000

Article URL: https://pandas.pydata.org/community/blog/pandas-3.0-release-candidate.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297807

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Laundry Insights from Scraping 4000 Washer/Dryers in San Francisco

2gremlin181 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:46:41 +0000

Article URL: https://kavi.sh/san-francisco-laundry-analysis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260118

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "I made a downdetector for downdetector's downdetector's downdetector"

2gremlin181 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:53:56 +0000

The next step: Point downdector to downdector's downdector's downdector and create a cyclic dependency

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "Ask HN: Why are most status pages delayed?"

2gremlin181 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:31:00 +0000

Copying my response over from another comment:

I totally get that, but how hard would it be to actually make calls to your own API from the status page? If it fails, display a vague message saying there might be issues and that you are looking into it. Clearly these metrics and alerts exist internally too. I'm not asking for an instant RCA or confirmation of the scope of the outage. Just stop gaslighting me.

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "Ask HN: Why are most status pages delayed?"

2gremlin181 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:28:50 +0000

IMO if you have an endpoint or service on your status page, you most definitely have an oncall rotation for it. Regarding the second point, your service might be down due to an AWS outage. It's an upstream issue and I fully understand that but I should not have to track things upstream by guessing what cloud provider your use. Where do we draw the line too? What if its not AWS but Hetzner or some other boutique provider?

New comment by 2gremlin181 in "Ask HN: Why are most status pages delayed?"

2gremlin181 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:10:11 +0000

I'm not asking for an instant RCA or confirmation of the scope of the outage. Just stop gaslighting me.

Ask HN: Why are most status pages delayed?

2gremlin181 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:27:46 +0000

As I type this, Reddit is down. My own requests return 500s, Down Detector reports that there is an outage but Reddit itself says all systems operational.

This is a pattern that I have noticed time and time again with many services. Why even have a status page if it is not going to be accurate in real time? It's also not uncommon that smaller issues never get acknowledged.

Is this a factor of how Atlassian Statuspage works?

Edit: Redditstatus finally acknowledged the issue as of 04:27 PST, a good 20+ minutes after Down Detector charts show the spike

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810127

Points: 48

# Comments: 55

Purchasing a Domain in 2025 – Enshitiffication

2gremlin181 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:48:32 +0000

Article URL: https://kavi.sh/domains-in-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813791

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Fast Travel – Supercharge your search bar

2gremlin181 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:11:48 +0000

Hi HN!

Ever feel like traditional bangs (!commands) just aren't powerful or customizable enough? I built Fast Travel, a Bunnylol-inspired, command-based search engine replacement that you can host effortlessly on GitHub Pages. It's made for people who want even faster, simpler, and more personalized web navigation.

Here's what it looks like:

- `g kittens` instantly Googles "kittens". - `ddg privacy` searches DuckDuckGo for "privacy". - `r/technology` takes you straight to the r/technology subreddit. - `hn` brings you right here to Hacker News. - `apps balatro` finds "balatro" on Steam (desktop), Google Play (Android), or App Store (iOS). - `$AAPL` opens Apple's Yahoo Finance stock page.

Key Features:

- *Fully Configurable Commands:* Personalize, add, or remove commands easily. - *Ultra Lightweight & Fast:* Minimalistic static design for instant searches—perfect for GitHub Pages. - *Smart Device-Aware Routing:* Automatically adjusts your searches depending on your device. - *Built-in Typo Detection:* Auto-corrects mistyped commands.

Check out the code on GitHub (setup instructions included!): github.com/DoubleGremlin181/fast-travel Or try my config live here: fast-travel.kavishhukmani.me