<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ashraful</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ashraful</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:56:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ashraful" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Show HN: Next.js SaaS Starter Kit/Boilerplate from RyzeKit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The animation at the top is lifted directly from <a href="https://reflect.app/" rel="nofollow">https://reflect.app/</a><p>I strongly suggest you remove that. It's one thing to get inspiration from another site - another to completely steal someone else's work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 05:00:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41198898</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41198898</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41198898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "What is the buying process for SME companies for consulting services?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its almost always through personal connections or word of mouth/referrals.<p>The primary concern for small to medium business is if the consultant being hired is actually capable of providing the service they are claiming to provide.<p>Hiring someone off of an online ad, cold call, etc. is just unnecessary risk. They'd happily pay more when they know that the output is going to be what they expect.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 01:41:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39415316</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39415316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39415316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Show HN: Free OpenAI Whisper Transcription Tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> results can be as fast as 10x the audio length<p>shouldn't this say 1/10th instead?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:10:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39113155</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39113155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39113155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Can someone's Venmo/PayPal balance be approved to show up in a 3rd party app?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can use PayPal's API to get the balance assuming the user authenticates:
<a href="https://developer.paypal.com/api/limited-release/balance-accounts/v2/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.paypal.com/api/limited-release/balance-acc...</a><p>Venmo might have a similar API: <a href="https://venmo.com/docs/users/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://venmo.com/docs/users/</a> (this shows a access_balance permission). Not familiar with it though.<p>PayPal's API also provide you with their transactions to search through so you might be able to actually verify/highlight your payment directly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 22:27:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277474</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Ask HN: What are some captivating fair play mystery books that you've read"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Fair play" in mystery novels means the author gives you all the clues up front, so you have a shot at solving the mystery just like the book's detective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2023 20:33:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37016045</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37016045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37016045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Seeking help: Shopify has banned my partner’s account"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Events are considered high risk by payment processors because the nature of events is that you sell the tickets before the event (ie. you accept payment without providing the service).<p>Shopify focuses more on people selling physical goods (traditional ecommerce), so maybe consider a platform that caters specifically to events/services - maybe something like woocommerce?.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 05:43:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36067391</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36067391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36067391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Ask HN: Why does the Bing chatbot have a low limit of dialog iterations?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can use some clever prompts to see this summarization in action.<p>I had a long conversation with chatgpt, asking it about a book, and provide plot summaries, and asking about specific characters. After about 40-50 questions, I asked it questions like how many questions I have asked in this conversation and what they were. Eventually I was able to get it to print out the questions I asked, and they all got shortened (a lot!).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 01:35:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34932834</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34932834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34932834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Ask HN: Why does the Bing chatbot have a low limit of dialog iterations?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From what I understand (this might be an oversimplification).<p>Each prompt-response is independent, and it doesn't have a real understanding of the historical context of the conversation. This means that when you talk to the chatbot, the entire conversation history needs to be included in the prompt to give it context.<p>For instance, if your first prompt is "Who is the current sitting president of the United States?" and the response is "Joe Biden," and you then ask a follow-up prompt like "How tall is he?", GPT-3 won't understand what you're referring to unless the prior conversation is included in the prompt, like so:<p>```<p>User: Who is the current sitting president of the United States?<p>AI: Joe Biden<p>User: How tall is he?<p>AI:<p>```<p>By doing this, GPT-3 can use the context of the previous conversation to generate an appropriate response. However, as the conversation history gets longer, GPT-3's ability to maintain context weakens, and it may begin to provide irrelevant or nonsensical responses.<p>There is a soft limit of around 2000 tokens, which translates to approximately 1500 words. When the conversation history becomes too long, GPT-3 will summarize it in a way that preserves the important information. For example, "Who is the current sitting president of the United States?" might become "Who's the president of USA" to save space.<p>For most users, including the entire conversation history in the prompt is feasible for up to six prompts before context begins to degrade. After that point, it may be necessary to restate previous information or use other methods to maintain context.<p>While I believe that ChatGPT and Bing likely have more advanced methods for retaining conversation history, based on the recent limitations implemented, it seems that the general principle of maintaining context still holds true.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 01:31:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34932811</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34932811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34932811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>maybe: <a href="https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-footnotes-now-supported-in-markdown-fields/" rel="nofollow">https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-footnotes-now-suppo...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 22:42:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33115067</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33115067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33115067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Show HN: Musish – Web client for Apple Music"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had created something similar using Spotify and Youtube to replace a need for a spotify subscription - <a href="https://www.livejam.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.livejam.com</a><p>Now I'm thinking about turning it into a desktop app coz its a pain to keep a tab open for playing music.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:32:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943311</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: LiveJam – Free Music Streaming with YouTube and Spotify]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://livejam.com/">https://livejam.com/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17922043">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17922043</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2018 21:23:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://livejam.com/</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17922043</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17922043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Show HN: LiveJam – A new way to listen to music on YouTube"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you let me know what part is not working for you? Does the entire site not load?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:08:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17506998</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17506998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17506998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Show HN: LiveJam – A new way to listen to music on YouTube"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To play a song, double-click on it, or click once and then click on the play button. Let me know if that doesnt work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:07:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17506991</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17506991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17506991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: LiveJam – A new way to listen to music on YouTube]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://livejam.com/heavyrotation/">https://livejam.com/heavyrotation/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17501213">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17501213</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 6</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:14:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://livejam.com/heavyrotation/</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17501213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17501213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Show HN: Call Buttons for your website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is really cool. What happens when multiple people try to call you at the same time?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:16:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14665599</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14665599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14665599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK - REMOTE - Web+Mobile UI designer and front-end developer.<p>5+ years of experience with designing usable interfaces with a focus on increasing user conversions with A/B and multivariate testing.<p>Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Javascript/Jquery, NodeJS.<p>Knowledge of Ruby, Rails, Python, EmberJS, BackboneJS, Git and Heroku/AWS.<p>Portfolio: <a href="http://ash.co" rel="nofollow">http://ash.co</a><p>Pricing: $85/hour<p>Email: ashrafulsf@gmail.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:29:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9305274</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9305274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9305274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ireland just made ecstasy and other drugs legal 'by accident']]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/ireland-just-made-ecstasy-drugs-5305905?ICID=FB_mirror_main">http://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/ireland-just-made-ecstasy-drugs-5305905?ICID=FB_mirror_main</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9182831">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9182831</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:21:51 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/ireland-just-made-ecstasy-drugs-5305905?ICID=FB_mirror_main</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9182831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9182831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK - REMOTE - Web+Mobile UI designer and front-end developer.<p>5+ years of experience with designing usable interfaces with a focus on increasing user conversions with A/B and multivariate testing.<p>Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Javascript/Jquery, NodeJS.<p>Knowledge of Ruby, Rails, Python, EmberJS, BackboneJS, Git and Heroku/AWS.<p>Portfolio: <a href="http://ash.co" rel="nofollow">http://ash.co</a><p>Pricing: $85/hour<p>Email: ashrafulsf@gmail.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:01:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9128627</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9128627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9128627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Productivity Future Vision]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/productivityvision/default.aspx">http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/productivityvision/default.aspx</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109283">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109283</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:23:21 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/productivityvision/default.aspx</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashraful in "What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It wasn't just renting out their flat, they let other people rent out their air mattresses (or couches) too.<p>Early on their idea was to be a "Bed and Breakfast", to the point where they required the hosts to cook breakfast for the guests.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:37:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109002</link><dc:creator>ashraful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109002</guid></item></channel></rss>