Hacker News: bprasanna

New comment by bprasanna in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

bprasanna — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:06:59 +0000

Thanking the author for "13. The work that makes other work possible is priceless - and invisible."

Oracle: Let It Fall, Let It Fall, Let It Fall

bprasanna — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:19:55 +0000

Article URL: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4853440-oracle-let-it-fall-let-it-fall-let-it-fall

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284729

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

FreeSQL – Try Oracle Database SQL Without Login

bprasanna — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:44:13 +0000

Article URL: https://freesql.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45995369

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Open Agent Specification (Agent Spec)

bprasanna — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:23:13 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.oracle.com/ai-and-datascience/post/introducing-open-agent-specification

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45515901

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bprasanna in "QueryHub"

bprasanna — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:48:20 +0000

Oracle's plug and play kind of approach with Select AI looks more flexible as it allows bringing in the choice to choose LLMs (https://www.oracle.com/autonomous-database/select-ai/)

New comment by bprasanna in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

bprasanna — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:13:27 +0000

Please make this an Amazon Fire TV Stick App! Would love to simply switch on and keep doing my work.

New comment by bprasanna in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

bprasanna — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:12:08 +0000

Littlerbooks is so nice. Thank you for this.

New comment by bprasanna in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

bprasanna — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:35:01 +0000

Created an extension, for browser/email client, to quickly open web pages with selected text as input to save lots of time in copying and pasting. Initially intended to save my time in work, after making it generic now I'm happy to see others also finding it useful. https://quickowl.app

New comment by bprasanna in "Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?"

bprasanna — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 12:42:17 +0000

I too feel overwhelmed by this sudden rush towards *GPT. The content generated by AI is slowly erasing the line between the creative content and computer generated content. I remember last year when so many people earning or trying to earn by creating art forms to sell as NFT. Once Dall-E landed, then the originality quotient of any creative content is lost. Likewise, ChatGPT is going to erase the originality in text content. Once internet is mixed with AI generated content, then there is no going back. We can't find what's real work, what's AI generated.

New comment by bprasanna in "Simulate Asteroid Impacts on Earth"

bprasanna — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 12:44:55 +0000

Interesting to see the usage of Apple Maps! Any specific reason?

Patagonia – Earth is now our only shareholder

bprasanna — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:53:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.patagonia.com/ownership/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32855883

Points: 20

# Comments: 4

New comment by bprasanna in "Zoho became a $1B company without external investment"

bprasanna — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 03:53:30 +0000

As an Indian I'm proud of what Zoho has achieved. Mainly the founder Sridhar Vembu is down to earth & thinks for the well being of employees and society along with keeping customers in prime seat. Breaking conventional wisdom Zoho opened offices in tier 2 & tier 3 cities of India. Which made it possible for smaller cities to see growth induced by high earning employees of Zoho.

New comment by bprasanna in "Defending Privacy in Crypto"

bprasanna — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 06:38:47 +0000

First coinbase should provide basic features to users before stepping up the Privacy. There is no way for a user to delete coinbase account. Looking around the web I realised its a dark pattern in their design.

New comment by bprasanna in "Monocraft: A programming font based on the typeface used in Minecraft"

bprasanna — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 04:34:57 +0000

Thank to IdreesInc for this font. Its really good to see.

New comment by bprasanna in "Launch HN: Lion Pose (YC W21) – Safe and effective skin care for people of color"

bprasanna — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 03:52:23 +0000

I don't have any ideas about skin care products. My comment is mainly to appreciate the sincere and open response from the founders for each and every question. Wishing Lion Pose a great success.

New comment by bprasanna in "Testers Must Know the Crucial Types of Errors"

bprasanna — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:07:50 +0000

Are you asking this as a question?

New comment by bprasanna in "Thunderbird 102"

bprasanna — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:25:15 +0000

I really appreciate the Thunderbird development team for proactively going through the list of add-ons and reaching out to the add-on developers if there is any concern to be addressed before moving the add-ons to 102. I can feel the commitment to keep Thunderbird a great email client.

New comment by bprasanna in "Show HN: QuickOWL – Quickly open favourite URLs with selected text as input"

bprasanna — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 04:08:36 +0000

Thank you for the comment. Bookmarklet is a quick solution, but competes for area in bookmarks bar. This extension/add-on helps those on both the sides of web technologies. Even if one know or doesn't know bookmarklets, the experience of opening a URL through a contextmenu is an unique experience to explore.

Show HN: QuickOWL – Quickly open favourite URLs with selected text as input

bprasanna — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:14:02 +0000

QuickOWL (https://quickowl.app) is a custom contextmenu extension/add-on, for browsers & Thunderbird Email client, to quickly open user defined web links (URLs) with selected text from a browser/email as input.

Inspiration: The inspiration behind developing this extension was: work related bugs or tickets which come in plain text format in emails or internal work portal reports. In order to open the bugs/tickets which are plain text, the usual steps followed are:

1) copy the bug/ticket number

2) open the respective internal bugs/tickets portal

3) paste the copied bug/ticket number and hit a button to do the search or to open it directly

Above scenario is only for bugs/tickets, if our work or day-to-day life demands such copying and pasting of text across websites we will be wasting significant amount of time on this process. The QuickOWL extension/add-on aims to remove the steps 1 & 2, and directly sends the selected text (bug/ticket number) to respective bug/tickets portal as input.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31767005

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by bprasanna in "Ask HN: Why aren't you building browser extension?"

bprasanna — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 04:01:57 +0000

With respect to barriers, the change in APIs used to achieve the same task. For example Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave support the extension APIs from Chrome. Whereas Firefox & Safari support the extension APIs from Mozilla. Also there is an ongoing push from Chrome to move to manifest v3 which brings in new features & security (service workers, extended scope), but that leads to rework for extensions developed in manifest v2. So, there is always a catchup to be done, if browsers introduce new APIs or change the way the APIs should be used then there is a constant effort required to keep the extensions working.