Hacker News: VirenM

New comment by VirenM in "Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?"

VirenM — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 03:00:06 +0000

In 2016, my second year at university, I was betting on the US elections. I'd collated multiple sources (FiveThirtyEight and a bunch of publications) to calculate each states swing and decided it would be a democratic sweep.

Unfortunately, I ended up losing a good portion of my savings I'd made developing websites over the years. I choose to take the night off to figure out how the make the best out of this situation, which ended up turning into TrumpTracker.

TrumpTracker [1] followed Donald Trump's Electoral Promises and kept the previous president-elect accountable for all actions and promises he made prior to his commencement. I deliberately open sourced [2] the project so that everyone could equally vote on whether a promise was comprised via GitHub issues. There was also a published iOS app for a bit.

Since I'd completed the project in 12 hours post election results it got picked up by the news cycle.

I enjoyed working on something at scale which collaborated with engineers, data scientists, and economists from all around the world, especially when the codebase was forked and used in other countries for their respective electives.

This project paved the way for a number of projects, as well as my current job, and also helped in securing my eventual O1.

[1] https://trumptracker.github.io/ [2] https://github.com/TrumpTracker/trumptracker.github.io

Nikita Bier – Gas has been acquired by Discord

VirenM — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:09:41 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/1615444742296436737

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34419184

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

We scripted Spotify to make room for both silence and conversations

VirenM — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:00:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.remotion.com/blog/building-spotify-sharing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32223664

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Show me your ML development pipeline and I’ll tell you who you are

VirenM — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 04:14:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unbox.ai/blog/post/show-me-your-ml-development-pipeline-and-i-ll-tell-you-who-you-are

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30623151

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The rise and fall of the Dungeon Master

VirenM — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 07:20:05 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@ziobrando/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dungeon-master-c2d511eed12f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30524705

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A 12-Year-Old from New Jersey Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster Ever

VirenM — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 17:17:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/youngest-chess-grandmaster-abhimanyu-mishra-11636415739

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234509

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by VirenM in "Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust"

VirenM — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:20:20 +0000

This link should help[0]!

[0] https://github.com/jpochyla/psst/issues/87#issuecomment-9003...

New comment by VirenM in "Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust"

VirenM — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 04:43:37 +0000

IIRC the workflow targets macOS-latest, which is macOS Catalina 10.15 and the default host is `x86_64-apple-darwin`.

Does Github Workflow currently support M1 (arm 64 based). Am I missing something?

Google Hacking Database

VirenM — Tue, 18 May 2021 02:38:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27190720

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Endless Stream

VirenM — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 02:37:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/style/ludwig-ahgren-twitch-livestream.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26509721

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by VirenM in "Ask HN: How to learn writing blog posts?"

VirenM — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:58:14 +0000

Tried checking out your writing, but it seems like your websites down. If you're extending your generosity to other commenters, I'd love to take you up on the offer :)

New comment by VirenM in "How much is YouTube worth today?"

VirenM — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 17:12:01 +0000

With ~745MM outstanding GOOG shares, I'll gladly take the 20x P/E ratio over the other _overvalued_ FAANG letters.

I understand if YouTube spins off they might have comparatively lesser shares, but it's an interesting thought experiment. Only time will tell.

New comment by VirenM in "3,500-tonne goldmine found in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district"

VirenM — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 02:14:36 +0000

tl;dr: no reputable sources to back this up, elections, gross quantity in USD$ is greater than the GDP of the state it was discovered in ~$224b. will theoretically not affect gold prices

New comment by VirenM in "3,500-tonne goldmine found in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district"

VirenM — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 02:03:02 +0000

some context: https://twitter.com/VirenMohindra/status/1231021674482544640

New comment by VirenM in "DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts"

VirenM — Tue, 21 May 2019 04:26:54 +0000

Could you give more context to this story, perhaps a link?

New comment by VirenM in "Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch"

VirenM — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 10:52:22 +0000

I think this is a fantastic idea -- I hope the footage is getting archived for future viewers who can watch it at their pace -- 2/3x.

New comment by VirenM in "Product Updates Based on Your Feedback"

VirenM — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 07:48:02 +0000

Is my only option for accessing my email/ google drive on a public computer through incognito now?

New comment by VirenM in "Tidelift wants open-source developers to get paid"

VirenM — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 06:24:50 +0000

> the company analyzes the customer's code to see what open source software it depends on, and what open source projects those programs depend on.

I'm sure fortune 500 companies will be alright with Tidelift analyzing their proprietary code.

New comment by VirenM in "In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users"

VirenM — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 04:34:00 +0000

I understand most of the switches, but unfortunately any gmail address you correspond with will eventually tag and index you. Its difficult to fully separate your email history from Google when the whole market has been colonized.

What I'm trying to say is your data will be accessible by Google servers regardless of which email service you use -- so why the paid switch?

New comment by VirenM in "Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub"

VirenM — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 03:37:23 +0000

I've honestly moved to Google, adding

`{search query} -site:github.com/{repo}/{file i want to target}`

Its much clearer and concise.