Hacker News: akras14

Ask HN: Generative AI Enthusiasts Community

akras14 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:20:30 +0000

I enjoy automating small things in my daily life with LLMs and Python.

I was looking to join a group of like minded individuals to converse about this technology. Perhaps an active Slack or WhatsApp up group.

Any recommendations?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752954

Points: 1

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New comment by akras14 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)"

akras14 — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 02:14:44 +0000

AppFolio | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Full Time | Remote (US)

Our team in Tenant Screening is hiring! Don't worry about the listed level (up or down); if you dig computers/software (reading this site is a great sign that you do), we want to talk to you! You can find my contact info linked in my profile. Please mention Hacker News if you decide to reach out.

More info about the role can be found here: https://www.appfolio.com/open-roles?p=job%2FoD2uufwn

AppFolio has many roles open: https://www.appfolio.com/open-roles

New comment by akras14 in "Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT"

akras14 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 04:00:20 +0000

Whisper worked great on an old speech by Winston Churchill. Haven’t looked into the time limit.

API used and results can be found here: https://techtldr.com/transcribing-speech-to-text-with-python...

Transcribing Speech to Text with Python and OpenAI API (Whisper)

akras14 — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 04:35:35 +0000

Article URL: https://techtldr.com/transcribing-speech-to-text-with-python-and-openai-api-whisper/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34992059

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Learning Ruby on Rails in 2022

akras14 — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 17:19:14 +0000

Any advice on best way to learn RoR in 2022? Books, Courses etc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34128954

Points: 19

# Comments: 14

New comment by akras14 in "Watchman: Execute a command when something changes"

akras14 — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:34:56 +0000

Edit: it may have been a different watchman, but same point still applies.

It’s been a few years, so perhaps it got addressed, but this library used to introduce a “memory leak” by design, by infinity storing pointers to files being watched.

It was a pain to isolate (https://techtldr.com/simple-guide-to-finding-a-javascript-me...)

Ultimately I ended up fixing it by writing my own version using native system calls available on Node.

The moral of the story, this library is great if you are building cross platform dev tool. It is not (at least wasn’t at the time) great for long lived processes that target only one type of operating system.

Ask HN: Who is NOT hiring? (October 2022)

akras14 — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:26:04 +0000

Just curious to get a pulse how many companies have hiring freeze etc.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33071613

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Evernote’s completely redesigned iOS app arrives today

akras14 — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 22:13:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/evernote-rebuilt-ios-app-launches-130010252.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498609

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

What do you expect from a Principal Software Engineer?

akras14 — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 19:06:09 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@alexey.tsitkin/what-do-you-expect-from-a-principal-software-engineer-2d8f9e4e317c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22836304

Points: 1

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Ask HN: What market verticals are benefiting from Coronavirus?

akras14 — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:12:48 +0000

The world is changing around us. There will be new winners and new losers created by this change. Which market verticals do you think are poised to benefit from this? To start off here are a few:

- Online marketplaces like Amazon

- Remote work tools like Zoom and Slack

- Food delivery like Instacart

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22835743

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by akras14 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?"

akras14 — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:05:27 +0000

Evernote | Various | Full-Time| Onsite (Flexible WFH) | US & Chile

https://evernote.com/careers

Click on my profiler for contact info, if you have more questions.

Simple Guide to Finding a JavaScript Memory Leak in Node.js (2015)

akras14 — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:02:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.alexkras.com/simple-guide-to-finding-a-javascript-memory-leak-in-node-js/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21713959

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

One Year Without Self-Promotion

akras14 — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:09:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.alexkras.com/one-year-without-self-promotion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21340032

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

YouTube Should Stream Audio for Free

akras14 — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 07:31:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.alexkras.com/youtube-should-stream-audio-only-version-from-videos-for-free/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21256303

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by akras14 in "Ask HN: If your job was remote, which city would you choose to live in?"

akras14 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:26:07 +0000

What does CBD stands for? Google is not being helpful, unless you do mean weed.

New comment by akras14 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)"

akras14 — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 18:27:25 +0000

Forgot to mention, our tech stack is: Golang, Typescript, React, React Native, GraphQL, gRPC, AWS/Terraform.

New comment by akras14 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)"

akras14 — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:19:01 +0000

Samsara | Hundreds of Roles | San Francisco, San Jose, Atlanta, and London

#16 Top Start Up according to LinkedIn [1]

Top CEO in 2018 According to Glassdoor and 4.5 Glassdoor Rating [2]

All funding rounds led by Andreessen Horowitz [3]

Feel free to contact me, if you have any questions [4]

>>> I’d be happy to personally submit you, just fill out this form: https://bit.ly/2KaOakW

1. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-startups-2018-50...

2. https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Top-CEOs-at-SMBs-2018-LST_KQ...

3. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/samsara-2

4. My profiler has instructions to find contact information.

New comment by akras14 in "Google Photos is making photos semi-public"

akras14 — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 01:05:21 +0000

Glad to see it trending again. I raised the same concern years ago, and was mostly ridiculed. Nothing has changed since then.

I’ve been using Google Drive integration to share photos securely, but Google just announced that this will be going away.

In addition I realized that Google strips out metadata from my files during conversion. Common sense, but not something I thought about before.

Time to switch. If anybody has good alternatives I am all ears.

https://www.alexkras.com/do-not-share-your-google-photos/

New comment by akras14 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)"

akras14 — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 06:24:07 +0000

Samsara | Hundreds of Roles | San Francisco, San Jose, Atlanta, and London

IoT company that makes sense

#16 Top Start Up according to LinkedIn [1]

Top CEO in 2018 According to Glassdoor and 4.5 Glassdoor Rating [2]

All funding rounds led by Andreessen Horowitz [3]

Feel free to contact me, if you have any questions [4]

>>> See all open positions and apply here: https://grnh.se/05fc18371

1. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-startups-2018-50...

2. https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Top-CEOs-at-SMBs-2018-LST_KQ...

3. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/samsara-2

4. My profiler has instructions to find contact information.

New comment by akras14 in "The battle in Israel to create an unhackable phone"

akras14 — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 07:34:35 +0000

He is clearly not a fan, just look through his comment history.