Hacker News: anilshanbhag

New comment by anilshanbhag in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

anilshanbhag — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:42:32 +0000

Grammarly is one of the tools I pay for, and I am worried about the security risks of using it. Really wish there was an alternative that: 1) Does local processing (local LLM?) instead of sending all my data to their server. 2) Had a lightweight Chrome extension that didn't inject many MBs of scripts on each page.

New comment by anilshanbhag in "Databricks acquires Neon"

anilshanbhag — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:11:18 +0000

Looking at StarRocks site (https://www.starrocks.io/), they compare against Clickhouse, Druid and Trino. Don't even compare against Spark/Databricks! Guess Spark is just not competitive.

How AI Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers

anilshanbhag — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:00:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/16/technology/ai-data-centers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43392698

Points: 1

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New comment by anilshanbhag in "Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy"

anilshanbhag — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:50:59 +0000

Merchant of record can be really big - the biggest issue today is price. 5% + 50c doesn't make sense if you are selling $5 per month subscriptions.

Reduce the price to Stripe pricing + 1%, and this will be the default for everyone!

Show HN: Voice Out – Text-to-speech to read any webpage, Google Doc, or PDF

anilshanbhag — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:09:09 +0000

Hey everyone

I'm the creator of Voice Out, and I'm super excited to share it with you!

Voice Out is a Chrome extension that lets you 'read' by listening. It turns any webpage, Google Doc, or PDF into speech with just a click. Now, you can go through your reading list while working, commuting, or doing chores.

I packed it with tons of languages and voices so you can customize your listening experience. And the best part? It's completely free! You can also enable commercial voices from OpenAI, Google, Azure, Amazon etc, using an API key. I set mine to use the OpenAI voice - it works great and costs almost nothing.

Voice Out will soon add support for three more TTS providers, support reading content inside iframes, and be able to create rules to transform site text (you can use this to rewrite links, bullet points, etc).

I'd love for you to try Voice Out and hear your thoughts! Direct link to the Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/voice-out-text-to-s...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41069586

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by anilshanbhag in "I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit (2020)"

anilshanbhag — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:30:19 +0000

Planning to add this as an option into my extension SuperFocus https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/superfocus-ultimate...

It currently lets you hide all the distracting elements in YouTube - one of the methods the author references. YouTube is my #1 time suck. From personal experience, this alone makes a lot of difference.

New comment by anilshanbhag in "Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?"

anilshanbhag — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:44:52 +0000

https://www.photopea.com/ is a good free alternative to Photoshop. It is a 90100 product - 90% of the features 100% free.

Walmart's PhonePe launches India app store in challenge to Google

anilshanbhag — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:31:58 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/phonepe-launches-android-app-store-with-amazon-meta-and-microsoft-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39455928

Points: 2

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New comment by anilshanbhag in "HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly"

anilshanbhag — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:52:33 +0000

You can enable HTTP/3 with one click in Cloudflare. Just enabled it after reading this for Dictanote.

New comment by anilshanbhag in "More malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store"

anilshanbhag — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 03:02:36 +0000

I am the developer of Voice In (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/voice-in-speech-to...), a Chrome extension with 300k+ users. Every month, I have 2-3 folks reach out asking for one of two things:

1) Something something Bing. Here is one from two days ago - https://imgur.com/a/KOwLRIC

2) They want anonymized web browsing data.

Google just yesterday sent out an email cracking down on this. From the email:

To better protect users' browsing experience, the Quality Guideline changes clarify that an extension's purpose is to provide complimentary functionality for the browsing experience and should not seek to hijack a user's browsing or search experience. This update aims to ensure that users have full control over their browsing sessions, without any unwarranted interruptions or manipulations. By enforcing this policy, we strive to foster a safer and more enjoyable environment for all Chrome users, where their trust and satisfaction remain our top priorities. Together, we can create a web ecosystem that respects users' autonomy and offers seamless browsing experiences that truly enhance their lives.

New comment by anilshanbhag in "We will be shutting down neeva.com"

anilshanbhag — Sat, 20 May 2023 17:42:30 +0000

The team at Neeva was A+. It is quite commendable that they managed to build a real search engine (unlike DuckDuckGo which is a shim on Bing) that was comparable to Google with such a small team.

Neeva aimed to solve the problem of ads clogging the entire search results page with an ad-free search experience. My opinion of Neeva was that it solved a problem that doesn't exist. Anyone who is annoyed with ads can install uBlock (or one of the other extensions) and hide them all.

New comment by anilshanbhag in "Launch HN: Clearspace (YC W23) – Cut back on screen time"

anilshanbhag — Wed, 10 May 2023 17:06:49 +0000

I can relate to this. I created SuperFocus (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/superfocus-stop-sc...) with a similar idea. Dopamine loop is a big problem. I have tried site blockers / SuperFocus which is a feed blocker but there was something missing and have been looking for the magic solution. Just signed up for Clearspace and immediately felt this is it.

Planning to rewrite SuperFocus later this week to do the same on desktop as most of my time spent is on the desktop browser.

New comment by anilshanbhag in "Astral"

anilshanbhag — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 19:51:44 +0000

I really hope they develop a faster mypy. In my dev workflows, mypy takes most of the time. Linting is a small fraction of it.

Amazon's Buy with Prime is now available to everyone

anilshanbhag — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazons-buy-with-prime-increases-shopper-conversion-by-25-on-average

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34341184

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by anilshanbhag in "NanoGPT"

anilshanbhag — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:09:35 +0000

If GPT-2 / nanoGPT needs this setup, just imagine what GPT3 / chatGPT needs!

New comment by anilshanbhag in "Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately"

anilshanbhag — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:20:26 +0000

Got too excited with this, created https://portablesecrets.com/

Extends OP's page to allow saving secrets for later use.

New comment by anilshanbhag in "Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc."

anilshanbhag — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:05:24 +0000

Curious why are you selling your lifetime plan on AppSumo instead of on the website? Doesn't AppSumo take a fat cut.

New comment by anilshanbhag in "Google Ad Disguising Itself as www.gimp.org"

anilshanbhag — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 16:28:37 +0000

Just tested, you can still see this Ad if you search for gimp!

New comment by anilshanbhag in "Fork of the popular “I don't care about cookies” extension"

anilshanbhag — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 21:41:10 +0000

This is a manifest V2 extension. Unless someone converts it to V3, it will stop working end of this year.

New comment by anilshanbhag in "Telegram Cooperates with FSB (Rus)"

anilshanbhag — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 15:04:05 +0000

I used to follow ASBMil on Twitter before Twitter banned it :/ I can't vouch for others but ASBMil was doing accurate reporting. Just searching for ASBMil on twitter will show many saying that Twitter is censoring accounts that do not repeat the accepted Western narrative.