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New comment by abhishekbasu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

abhishekbasu — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:21:38 +0000

Thank you for your kind words! Your marketplace idea definitely sounds interesting to me, if not for payments, it would definitely provide a way to improve visibility through easier data exchange due to a common platform.

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

abhishekbasu — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:47:44 +0000

Hosted on premise for enterprise, VPC for mid market customers. For enterprise customers, FDE model makes most sense for a product like this and they would assist with implementation and training. For mid market customers, I'm still exploring options to make it cost effective.

For domain-specific optimization, the value is in the solver integrations, specific constraints that form the seed, and the modular simulation that powers the visuals. The software is monetized, not the services around it.

> How will you stop LLMs from recreating it? Having worked this space for a while now I think there are two ways to ensure reliability (the real moat here), first is going deep into five-six problems that are complex enough that out of box solutions/simple prompting don't work well. Second, tightly coupling a simulator to provide rapid feedback that actually helps change manage and solve the "people" problem when optimizing operations.

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

abhishekbasu — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:11:54 +0000

Also, this was a quick fun project for a multi-agent flow https://flickfeast.party/

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

abhishekbasu — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:50:06 +0000

Developing LogiModel AI (https://www.logimodel.com/) which is an agentic supply chain optimization engine that forecasts demand, optimizes operations, and simulates scenarios to reduce costs while keeping your network reliable and customers satisfied. It integrates seamlessly with your ERP and document repositories to learn your business context, then acts as an intelligent decision engine, freeing you to focus on strategy while it handles execution.

Always interested in possibilities of LLMs interfacing with MIP solvers.

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Pokémon Team Optimization"

abhishekbasu — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:04:05 +0000

you're right, it should be (3,0) with optimal obj value of 6.

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Pokémon Team Optimization"

abhishekbasu — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:47:33 +0000

this was a great read to start the new year! having worked extensively with mixed integer programs, it is always a bit disheartening to see them not used enough for everyday decision-making. one of my goals this year is to create a layer to make it easier to formulate mips and test them, via plain text input. this would hopefully increase adoption through a lower barrier to entry.

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Launch HN: Plexe (YC X25) – Build production-grade ML models from prompts"

abhishekbasu — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 05:53:33 +0000

Great product and congratulations on the launch. Who is the target user vs customer? On the surface, and I may be wrong here, this feels like a LLM layered on top of a typical AutoML structure eg: TPOT, Caret. Is that the correct mental model for a tool like this? And if so, do you see a similar problem that these tools faced in broader adoption at companies?

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Grokipedia by xAI"

abhishekbasu — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:26:37 +0000

Grokipedia at home: https://github.com/abhishekbasu/localwiki

Show HN: Excalidraw for Sticky Notes

abhishekbasu — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:21:08 +0000

I got tired of having to manage my sticky notes, and I'm not a huge fan of Google Keep. Stickyflo is how I prefer creating/editing/moving notes around. While this ain't a fancy AI app, it does the job (for me, and hopefully for you too!).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645674

Points: 2

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New comment by abhishekbasu in "Integer Programming (1977) [pdf]"

abhishekbasu — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:03:11 +0000

I've always had the impression that Mathematical programming esp. Mixed integer programming/Integer programming is largely "unknown" outside of core engineering and operations research. It's an excellent framework to solve a whole host of problems that arise in business and elsewhere, which are solved using suboptimal (hah) heuristics instead.

Okay, maybe I was a bit harsh, but it definitely doesn't pop up as often as deep learning and statistical machine learning. For those who wish to get deeper into this, I highly recommend Optimization over Integers by Bertsimas and Weismantel.

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz"

abhishekbasu — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:45:40 +0000

Interesting. Deepseek R1:

You prefer elegant, high-level solutions that are intuitive and accessible to other developers. You likely favor functional programming, clear abstractions, and code that reads like prose.

Abstract ↔ Concrete: +4 Abstract Human ↔ Computer Friendly: +9 Human-Friendly

New comment by abhishekbasu in "A (not so) small library for terminal based game development"

abhishekbasu — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:03:07 +0000

+1 for Pyxel, recently used it for a couple of hours to create a tiny project [1] and loved how intuitive it was.

[1] https://github.com/abhishekbasu/minesweeper

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Exercise: Minesweeper in 100 lines of Ruby"

abhishekbasu — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:40:34 +0000

This was fun. I saw a post on Pyxel a couple of days ago, and decided to write mine in Python using it.

https://github.com/abhishekbasu/minesweeper

New comment by abhishekbasu in "UnicodePlots"

abhishekbasu — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 20:33:32 +0000

There are [1, 2], and AFAICT they rely on gnuplot [3].

[1] https://github.com/nschloe/termplotlib [2] https://github.com/dkogan/gnuplotlib [3] http://www.gnuplot.info/

Deep Learning is now the #1 book in the Hockey Coaching category on Amazon

abhishekbasu — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 02:59:47 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/abhishekbasu/6955a305aeb507d399d9c6c589633d5a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35335331

Points: 1

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New comment by abhishekbasu in "Autodoc: Toolkit for auto-generating codebase documentation using LLMs"

abhishekbasu — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 02:42:08 +0000

your pessimism is hardly unwarranted. this will lead to rather lousy code documentation, and might be misused by folks. but on the other hand, i look at this as something that will be effective as a "summarizer" of sorts where it describes already written code with lack of/poor documentation.

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Show HN: Git Heat Map – a tool for visualising git repo activity for each file"

abhishekbasu — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 04:22:38 +0000

I wonder if this can somehow be used as a tool for quick visual inspection of architecture compliance. Maybe the size of the box could be selected before display to denote a custom metric. For example, if the size of the box for each file was proportional to the (number_of_lines_edited) * (current_date - file_creation_date), then modularity could demand that the size of the boxes remain small. (pardon the musings of a non software engineer on a Saturday night)

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Make a Resume in LaTeX"

abhishekbasu — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:19:16 +0000

While HTML and other markup languages are great, I wonder if there is a way to use a word processor while creating the document - focusing only on content (spellcheck, etc.) and not on formatting or on syntax. Then, a context specific converter (that is specific to the type of content - a resume, a newsletter, a FAQ page, etc.) takes care of adding the formatting and publishing it.

As an example, recently, I had to create a bunch of FAQ pages, and I created a tool like [1]. While Pandoc can be used, I still need to worry about (at least basic) formatting the doc while typing it out in the word processor to make it look good in the HTML output.

[1] https://github.com/abhishekbasu/faq2html

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Can't Unsee"

abhishekbasu — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:27:05 +0000

7380 with one forced error (was cooking while answering this). Can't agree with a few in the medium difficulty though, felt that the "correct" answer was arbitrary. However, IANAD so perhaps not the best person to say for sure.

New comment by abhishekbasu in "Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4"

abhishekbasu — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:32:17 +0000

First off, congrats on your venture! as a foodie I'm elated.

I realize that you're trying to create your own brand, my concern is:

- if it's a brand that does all cuisines, it is going to attract people mainly because of the price point, and not uniqueness

- if the idea is to build multiple brands, one each for a specific type of food: a brand for Pizza, another for Biryani, etc., then scaling each is its own demon

please correct me if I'm not understanding it right.

On a side note,

> But it didnt work and they shut down all locations

Do you have any knowledge of why it didn't work? I have a few thoughts around this, and have discussed this with a friend who's a restaurateur, but would love to hear from you!