Hacker News: atif089

New comment by atif089 in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

atif089 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:32:54 +0000

Just to add context those are just dumb lamps and I acknowledge that the product here has a lot more features including IoT support and the ability to change Hue.

Is it the ability to change Hue that makes this expensive?

New comment by atif089 in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

atif089 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:30:52 +0000

For someone who has no idea about light engineering or electronics if I stack two 25k Lm lamps next to each other does it make 50k Lm light?

I recently changed my car's headlamps to Chinese LED which claims to be about 37kLm and I don't know how much it is probably less than that.

Two of those lamps costee me around $24 on Amazon US (pretty sure under $10 in China).

What makes this $800+ ?

New comment by atif089 in "An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil"

atif089 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:19:14 +0000

Hey that sounds familiar. I did buy AMD at $2 and sold it at $4 when first Ryzen came out

New comment by atif089 in "Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole"

atif089 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:39:02 +0000

> GroqCloud will wind down over 12-18 months. They'll either get laid off or jump ship to wherever they can land. They built the LPU architecture, contributed to the compiler stack, supported the infrastructure, and got nothing while Chamath made $2B.

This is depressing.

New comment by atif089 in "I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud"

atif089 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:46:37 +0000

Hey Jeff, I follow you on YouTube. I hope you're recovering well. Wishing you all the best.

New comment by atif089 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)"

atif089 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:49:20 +0000

      Location: Austin, TX
      Remote: Yes (or in office in Austin)
      Willing to relocate: No
      Technologies: JavaScript, Typescript, Node.js PHP, Python, Java, Golang, React, Vue, Svelte, React Native, Expo, Firebase, Strapi, ContentStack, WordPress, Woocommerce, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB, BigTable, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Google Pub Sub, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Jenkins, TestOps, Cypress, Vitest, BrowserStack, Firebase Test Lab, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Terraform, Pulumi, Elastic, Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, New Relic, Datadog, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Elasticsearch, Algolia, Zapier, n8n, Temporal, OpenTofu & Terragrunt
      Email: atif089@gmail.com

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D8wyOXy2GWEKJQLSiHtHNnRJ...

Hi, I'm currently a Senior Engineering Manager leading 5 teams (4 managers & 40 people) and looking for my next challenge in the US (GC). I have leadership experience that includes both people and product side and I'm very strong in system design, databases & microservices. My ideal role could be a mix of responsibilities between 50% people/product management & 50% technical (architecture & hands-on coding) but I'm open for anything between 100% management to 100% individual contribution

Also, happy to discuss any kind of roles (full time, c2c, w2, remote/hybrid/onsite) and can start by March 1st 2025.

New comment by atif089 in "Ask HN: Show your non-AI project"

atif089 — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:57:47 +0000

Sorry, I never got a notification of your response but, Bingo! It's the same idea! We actually do restaurants as well! I'm using OSM at the moment, so you can technically rate and review any feature that exists on OSM.

New comment by atif089 in "Ask HN: Show your non-AI project"

atif089 — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:40:17 +0000

https://www.voyago.io/

We're a social travel discovery app that matches your interests with your friends for perfect recommendations.

Although there is still a little bit of AI in one portion of the app because that's how we started, our recent pivot has been focused on social mapping and review features.

Ask HN: Navigating AI Tooling Choices

atif089 — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 21:21:20 +0000

I'm currently using ChatGPT Plus and developing with GPT-4o-mini (Continue for VS Code), which costs me around $25 a month. However, I'm considering switching to Claude, as I'm aware that AI tools can evolve rapidly, and ChatGPT might improve again in the future.

I'm also frustrated with the cumulative costs of AI tools — $20 for Cursor, $20 for the GPT API, and $20 for ChatGPT.

Are there any recommendations for managing these costs while still accessing high-quality AI tools? Is it worth switching to Claude now, or should I stick with ChatGPT for the time being? Any insights or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42036180

Points: 7

# Comments: 6

New comment by atif089 in "Nearly 90% of our AI crawler traffic is from ByteDance"

atif089 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:14:42 +0000

Did you implement this in your web server or within your application? I'd love to see the code if you're willing to share

New comment by atif089 in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

atif089 — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:46:11 +0000

https://www.voyago.io/ is a social travel discovery platform that matches your interests with your friends for perfect recommendations

New comment by atif089 in "Ask HN: How IO Works?"

atif089 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:16:09 +0000

Thanks. What sparked my curiosity is while I'm writing code even a small mistake in the most simple programs can cost me tens or hundreds of milliseconds whereas behind a simple flushing to disk command there is so much happening at so many layers all in sub-millisecond or at most in a couple of seconds.

Ask HN: How IO Works?

atif089 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:03:51 +0000

I want to learn how I/O works in a reasonable detail.

For instance, when I want to do something with a disk, IIRC, things that get involved are

- Kernel / OS calls (maybe we can skip this) - File System - MBR / GPT - Random v/ Sequential calls

I want to understand what happens in each level. Is there anything I can read to gain understanding of all of these areas?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41304565

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by atif089 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)"

atif089 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 23:23:48 +0000

>The ideal person would have strong technical skills, strong collaboration skills, and strong people skills

Hi there! I think I would make a suitable fit. I just submitted my resume. I have a US work authorization (green card). Thank you for consideration!

New comment by atif089 in "Google is force canceling gsuite because I used unlimited storage as unlimited"

atif089 — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:37:02 +0000

OP was storing 400TB of data. I think Google charges like $100 / 2 TB so that's $20,000 /yr. Wondering if that would go outside small claims since small claims is up to €5000

New comment by atif089 in "DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate"

atif089 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:35:47 +0000

Lol, as a European, thank god that people like you don't make our laws here

New comment by atif089 in "Make timelapses easily using FFmpeg"

atif089 — Sun, 19 May 2024 17:19:49 +0000

wsl --cd=%cd% ffmpeg -framerate 30 -pattern_type glob -i '*.JPG' -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p timelapse.mp4

Ask HN: Has anyone found a nice cross platform alternative to Authy?

atif089 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:13:56 +0000

With Authy's desktop app sunsetting, I'm on the hunt for a reliable cross-platform alternative that allows me to manage my 2FA codes on both my Android device and PC.

I know some of you security enthusiasts might suggest otherwise, but I still prefer having my 2FA software on my PC and willing to trade security for convenience

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161090

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

New comment by atif089 in "I accidentally built a meme search engine"

atif089 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:04:22 +0000

For anyone in the same boat as my self, I later found out that this is actually very easy to achieve (thanks to ChatGPT). Theoretically, this is how it is done

1. Encode faces, there is a library called face_recognition, that can grab faces from pictures and encode them 2. Group the faces data using `pairwise_distances(encodings, metric='euclidean')`, you only need sklearn library for this

New comment by atif089 in "The man who killed Google Search?"

atif089 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:00:12 +0000

I wholeheatedly agree with you. The GMaps experience is vastly superior. Additionally, when I'm referring to Gmaps, I think one of the critical features that I would love to replace with Open Source is Places. With due respect, I find both Google and Yelp a*holes in this area. While OpenStreetMap is really good for mapping, I'm still looking to find(or create) somethign that can supplement OSM with Places/Business data.