Hacker News: arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arunkantHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:08:27 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"]]>Even opus 4.8 rejected, Haiku worked

]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:46:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489604arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489604https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489604<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"]]>Why do websites still hijack scrolling? It sucks

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:21:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377132arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377132https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377132<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"]]>Location: Bengaluru, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, Bash AI / ML Serving: model serving over HTTP, async inference pipelines, job queues, edge deployment of DL models Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Bazel, on-prem deployment automation Data: PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ / queue-based messaging Practices: distributed systems design, API design, incident response, engineering process for regulated/clinical software

Résumé/CV: https://www.arunkant.com/resume/

Email: iarunkant@gmail.com

Engineering leader, 10+ years. Spent 7 years at Qure.AI (medical imaging AI) — built the backend serving deep-learning models, then led the migration of three product lines into a unified Bazel monorepo, then ran engineering for the Global Health BU (~20 engineers, scaled chest X-ray AI to 80+ countries and 2,000+ sites). Left in May 2025, currently building two AI side projects (releasedog.com, Vellum). Looking for Director / Head of Engineering / VP roles at AI/ML startups, or founding-engineer at seed stage.

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:00:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363231arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363231https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363231<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"]]>This is pretty well done

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 08:28:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190717arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190717https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190717<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"]]>I'm working on https://releasedog.com/ - It collects changes from JIRA/slack/github and create a changelog/release notes.

]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 20:22:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087535arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087535https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087535<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"]]>Why does your agent have permission to delete production database?

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:59:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913615arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913615https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913615<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"]]>Why does your agents have permissions to delete production database?

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:59:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913610arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913610https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913610<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence"]]>Yep, it should be better and more efficient then sonnet.

]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:36:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886008arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886008https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886008<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"]]>Probably coming next

]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:46:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793835arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793835https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793835<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]>https://www.arunkant.com/

]]>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:30:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633017arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633017https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633017<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android"]]>Maybe just ask for confirmation

]]>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:22:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44173635arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44173635https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44173635<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "The Future of Flatpak"]]>Application developer should be able to package and distribute the app. See how easy it is for casual user to download and install any application on windows. Maintainers cannot scale and depending on them will just hold back Desktop Linux

]]>Fri, 23 May 2025 07:31:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44070717arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44070717https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44070717<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Crun: Fast and lightweight OCI runtime and C library for running containers"]]>I think people in generate are happy that systemd happend

]]>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 08:44:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36193911arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36193911https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36193911<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed"]]>If you can detect them, sure

]]>Tue, 30 May 2023 08:19:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36122381arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36122381https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36122381<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Show HN: Engineering Book Club"]]>Lol no

]]>Wed, 10 May 2023 00:07:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35881995arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35881995https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35881995<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "What's up in the Python community? – April 2023"]]>Python packaging is coming along quite good

]]>Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:50:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35747525arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35747525https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35747525<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules"]]>Why should it void warranty? It must not void warranty unless apple can prove that unlocking/tinkering was the real cause of damange. Don't give up on your rights easily folks

]]>Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:51:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35698368arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35698368https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35698368<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "What’s the point of tech conferences?"]]>What do you mean by after-work grinding?

]]>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 11:37:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35686337arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35686337https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35686337<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Singapore software vendor says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud"]]>Cloud is cheap when starting. Saves time

]]>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:45:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35134952arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35134952https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35134952<![CDATA[New comment by arunkant in "Our production servers were suspended by Google Cloud"]]>More like "we gonna mess up customer's entire business because we can't bother to give a call on phone (even robocall would have been fine)". I get phone calls/sms for my phone bill/internet bill/electricity bill or even amazon deliveries. I guess a customer's business is not that important for google cloud

]]>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:20:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35134689arunkanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35134689https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35134689