Hacker News: BhavdeepSethi

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Incident with multple GitHub services"

BhavdeepSethi — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:23:55 +0000

I'd really like to read the Post Mortem doc for this. I'm still shocked how they allowed this to happen in production.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"

BhavdeepSethi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:45:42 +0000

I got an ad recently on chatgpt for asking a question regarding bleach. The recommended product in the answer wasn't the same as the ad though. Ad was also at the bottom. Wondering how long before they go the Google route, and show top 5 links with ads before answering anything.

Ask HN: Alternatives to GH Actions?

BhavdeepSethi — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:57:52 +0000

Looks like Github actions are having an outage again: https://www.githubstatus.com/

We already use blacksmith to not use Github Runners. Highly recommend it if you haven't tried it yet. But we still rely on Github to actually trigger the workflow. With all their constant outages, I was wondering if there are alternatives available? Moving to Gitlab is quite a big migration, so I was wondering if there are ways to mitigate this for now and not relying on GitHub actions to trigger workflows periodically and on actions (eg. on merging to main)?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264080

Points: 9

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New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "GitHub is down again"

BhavdeepSethi — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:48:10 +0000

I wonder if GH charges for the runners during their downtime. Last week lot of them would retry multiple times and then fail.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

BhavdeepSethi — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:49:57 +0000

Most of the folks that are talking about this are the ones who work independently and work on greenfield projects (especially tooling related). The cost of making a mistake there is so low. I've used it similarly and it's absolutely amazing. Though I still use a mix of agents and code myself in my regular 9-5 job.

I've yet to see examples of folks using this in a team of 4+ folks working together in a production env with users, and just using AI for their regular development.

Claude code creator only using claude code doesn't count. That's more like dog-fooding.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

BhavdeepSethi — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:44:29 +0000

Cursor is an IDE.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

BhavdeepSethi — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:11:49 +0000

Pachinko has been one of my favorite reads for a long time. If you enjoyed that, you'll also like Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

BhavdeepSethi — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:18:56 +0000

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run"

BhavdeepSethi — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:51:17 +0000

First, allow anyone to sign up for the blue check mark for $8. Verified accounts loses its value and Twitter gets flooded with fake accounts and foreign run accounts. Now, try to fix it with by showing users country of origin. Now, these users will try to figure out ways to bypass it.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers"

BhavdeepSethi — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:16:29 +0000

From what I've learned, be as explicit as possible when users enter dates.

We had to change our date of birth field in the user sign-up to three separate "Month Name","Day" and "Year" drop downs, since so many people made mistakes (fat finger/ swap month and day) from the "MM/DD/YYYY" field, and would then send support ticket to update it.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"

BhavdeepSethi — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:07:40 +0000

Funny since they have a tender offer that hits their accounts on Oct 7.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "ChatGPT Pulse"

BhavdeepSethi — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:28:28 +0000

I don't think they meant desktops in the literal sense. Laptop with/without monitors is effectively considered desktop now (compared to mobile web/apps).

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Ghost kitchens are dying"

BhavdeepSethi — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 03:59:54 +0000

A lot of folks took the bet on CloudKitchens because of Travis. Even after raising $850m, CloudKitchens has never ran liquidation event for employees afaik. I wonder how they attract/retain talent in that scenario.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems"

BhavdeepSethi — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:17:41 +0000

My experience has been quite different. With Cursor/Claude code, I've ended up writing full fledge solutions (running cli/web servers with loggers and unit tests for each functionality). We're talking crawlers, cab booking service like uber, search engines with seed data. All within the hour.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems"

BhavdeepSethi — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:30:41 +0000

Definitely not insane. Ironic is the correct term. The field is evolving, a lot of these companies talk about replacing outdated practices using AI. Asking software engineers to not use their own tools to solve problems falls under the same bucket.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems"

BhavdeepSethi — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:13:09 +0000

It's insane how many of these new "AI" companies don't let you use AI or even your own IDE for coding interviews. And most questions from such companies are LC type problems so they know any AI tool can one shot it.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Incident Report for Anthropic"

BhavdeepSethi — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 05:57:00 +0000

You're absolutely right! The degraded model quality finally pushed me to stop paying for the max plan. Still on the Pro for now.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

BhavdeepSethi — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:44:00 +0000

It's funny that the MIT paper HN is trending higher than this post, so it propped up before I read this article.

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth"

BhavdeepSethi — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:30:18 +0000

I don't believe they did. This acquisition was by Flipkart, the poster child startup in India, who had a very high bar for hiring. They wanted to interview the non-founders to make sure they met the standard. The founders said you get all or you get none. To be fair, it was a small team of 6-8 employees, so I doubt Flipkart cared. :)

New comment by BhavdeepSethi in "Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth"

BhavdeepSethi — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:17:42 +0000

I went through an acquisition very early in my career, and for the longest time I believed it was the best outcome for everyone. Over time, I realized that my naive belief was purely due to the founders going way above and beyond to make sure each and every employee (including folks doing just data entry) got a good outcome (accelerated vesting, significant equity in new company, top of the band pay, etc.). It made me realize that if you ever want to work at a start up, bet on the founder, rather the company. Even with mediocre outcomes, you'll end up ahead in the long run compared to folks who're just looking out for themselves.