Hacker News: anish_m

New comment by anish_m in "Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents"

anish_m — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:27:54 +0000

Nice! I want to use this for my product at ngram.com. Btw, I also created a sample teaser video: https://www.ngram.com/watch/dari-explainer-video-brief-d7991.... Feel free to use it on your social media

New comment by anish_m in "Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell"

anish_m — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 21:30:43 +0000

I worked on one of these Fraud detection systems at Airbnb. Statistically, You are in 1% population with the your usage patterns. For most part, all ML models which are used to detect fraud have to take a trade off between precision/recall - meaning how often they let good guys suffer vs let bad guys in. BUt what most of these systems are missing is the appeal and escape path.

New comment by anish_m in "Mistral 7B"

anish_m — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:31:05 +0000

What are the SOTA benchmarks for LLMs now? Love the progress on opensource models, but would like to see an uncontaminated and objective framework to evaluate them.

New comment by anish_m in "Show HN: Launching Struct – Knowledge-Rich, AI-Powered Chat Platform"

anish_m — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:49:54 +0000

Love the idea, and looking forward to using it. The unfortunate thing with slack and discord is that most of them are behind public search, and there is so much of lost wisdom for communities.

New comment by anish_m in "LangChain: The Missing Manual"

anish_m — Fri, 19 May 2023 18:58:21 +0000

Resonate with the assessment. I like guidance too so far, but the dev community is far behind langchain. One big problem I have with langchain is that there are too many wrappers, and its often very confusing what little additional functionality each wrapper is adding up.

New comment by anish_m in "Launch HN: Lifecast (YC W22) – 3D video for VR"

anish_m — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:27:44 +0000

This is awesome project! I looked into starting a "real world travel" app for oculus with recorded videos, but not having an easy way to record 6dof videos is a big problem for true VR experience with videos. If you can pull this off, you have the potential to actually make VR more mainstream outside gameverse. Good luck and congrats!

New comment by anish_m in "Watching video twice at 2x can benefit learning better than once at normal speed"

anish_m — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 15:55:15 +0000

Ditto for me. when people speak, they tend to speak slow add a lot of unnecessary/repetitive information especially lectures. On the learner side, I tend to be much more focussed when watching at 2x speed, otherwise, i get distracted and think of something else during those slow paces. That was a big problem for me in classroom lectures, moments of important information gets overshadowed by low density information. WOnder how well I would have performed in college if it were through a video lecture!

New comment by anish_m in "Ask HN: Why crypto is rising so fast when its not creating value?"

anish_m — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 02:39:02 +0000

Good read on greater money printing: https://blog.ftx.com/blog/the-everything-bubble/

"In the US alone the Fed has bought $4 trillion of bonds in the past 18 months, while the US government is spending $875M per hour in 2021.

This is driving people further out the risk curve, and as we’ve said in the past, “QE Infinity turned your savings account into your checking account, the bond market into your savings account, the equity market into the bond market, the venture market into the equity market, while given rise to the crypto market as the new venture market.”"

New comment by anish_m in "Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP"

anish_m — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:27:56 +0000

Second this. It's not only intellectually draining, emotionally too. Great job.

New comment by anish_m in "Do we need a Scrum Master forever?"

anish_m — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:42:57 +0000

This is one of the roles that I passionately hated in my previous company. No value add, and just wasted time with meetings. If your team, product manager, eng manager has no clue on what they are doing, then yes scrum master's role has a concrete outcome (atleast to keep people busy working). but if any one in the team has any clue on what they are doing, I found no value. Most of the scrum master/agile coaches i interacted with are more married to the whole process of scrum ceremonies rather than the concrete goal they are trying to hit at end of month.

New comment by anish_m in "I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

anish_m — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 22:55:13 +0000

I'm on H1B trying to start a company. I have been working in USA for 10 years now and was on H1B the whole time (Born in India). What are my options to start a company? I have a co-founder in mind in similar situation with H1B visa. How much money should I raise to be able to sponsor H1B for my own company?

New comment by anish_m in "LinkedIn quietly removes option to export contacts"

anish_m — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:29:44 +0000

I have the same opinion about them. worst UI. Useless emails. You have to pay them money for no reason.

Housing.com founder/ceo gives away his stocks

anish_m — Thu, 14 May 2015 18:00:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techinasia.com/india-housing-ceo-offloads-stocks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546539

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by anish_m in "Be aware of phishing at airbnb"

anish_m — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:07:17 +0000

If you pay through Airbnb, I think they are responsible for any such frauds.

New comment by anish_m in "Tell HN: Startup school acceptance emails are out"

anish_m — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:40:30 +0000

see yall in cupertino!

New comment by anish_m in "Show HN: Find and Join activities nearby. Be truly social"

anish_m — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:48:55 +0000

Thanks for asking. Yes, its somewhat similar (IMO, as similar as facebook vs Twitter). Meetup is pretty close though - the core philosophy of meetup is you want to plan ahead and find people of similar interests. you need to have a continuous meeting groups. Its a big overhead and not a simple task to lets say conduct a garage sale or find a buddy for running around a park.

I would say tellStreet is more like twitter whereas, others are more like email groups.

New comment by anish_m in "Show HN: Find and Join activities nearby. Be truly social"

anish_m — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:47:07 +0000

good point. But the core philosophy of both of them are very different. EventBrite is for organizing big events.. if you are looking for a buddy to play video game or if you are running a garage sale, its not the platform. Meetup is pretty close though - the core philosophy is you want to plan ahead and find people of similar interests. you need to have a continuous meeting groups. Its a big overhead and not a simple taks to lets say conduct a garage sale.

I would say tellStreet is more like twitter whereas, others are more like email groups.

New comment by anish_m in "Show HN: Find and Join activities nearby. Be truly social"

anish_m — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:12:10 +0000

We were working on tellStreet for few months. Out IOS app is ready and is waiting for Apple's blessing.

TellStreet shows you all the activities happening right now or in the past/future at any location. You are looking for that extra player to join your game in the park now? for a buddy to play video games at home? You found an awesome deal in a local store and want to tell others about it? You want to quickly pull python experts around to hack a weekend project? What ever be the case, tell others what you are doing and and join interesting activities around you.

Finding activities is very snappy and creating is fun too. For now, we are pulling data from meetup to get you started. Checkout and Please leave your feedback.

Show HN: Find and Join activities nearby. Be truly social

anish_m — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:10:55 +0000

Article URL: http://www.tellstreet.com/signup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4872289

Points: 2

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New comment by anish_m in "The Worst"

anish_m — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:47:33 +0000

Ah, what a fking wonderful nice philosophy. We should show the world that humans matter more than things.