Hacker News: bprasanna

New comment by bprasanna in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

bprasanna — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:18:21 +0000

Like Fold@home but for profit!

New comment by bprasanna in "Ask HN: How to be happy in a corporate environment?"

bprasanna — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:07:17 +0000

My few cents:

1. Visibility over actual completion of work (presentations, sessions, etc.,)

2. Communication (mainly over email! because email is used as a golden truth when there is a conflict between individuals or teams)

3. Getting to know other members/teams (you don't know when you will end up collaborating with them)

4. Being thorough with reviews (be it code or ideas)

5. Proactively participate in meetings (1. to grab the opportunity 2. refuse to take up the work which is not actually yours)

6. 1x1s - if the manager/management doesn't see your name often you end up in the list (you know what list)

7. Before asking questions in the Slack channel or meetings or an email (do the groundwork, a basic question from a senior will cost a lot)

8. OOO - religiously setting out-of-office saves you lot of troubles

9. Collaboration is only on paper, actually you should put a border around your team and work to guard what's rightfully yours, otherwise the other team will showcase it as theirs!

10. Don't respond on weekends, even if it will break the company. Once you set the bar, you will be expected to live within that bar.

11. There is nothing like "this is critical", what's critical will always have some buffer, tell the truth and ask for extension.

12. Don't go harsh on anyone in a corporate environment, because you will end up working with that person.

13. Attend org wide presentations, you get to know something new or you get to know whom to reach out for what or you get to know what shouldn't be presented

Tell HN: Facebook's reasons to disable an account is a blackbox

bprasanna — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:04 +0000

Recently i tried creating a whatsapp developer account, which essentially means i have to create a Facebook account to login.

As i was trying to register for the first time Facebook showed a message "We've reviewed your account and found that it still doesn't follow our Community Standards on account integrity. You cannot request another review of this decision. To learn more about the reasons why we disable accounts, visit the Community Standards."

When i clicked on link "Read more about account integrity" it took me to a page, where it showed error "This page isn't available at the moment".

In overall it blocked me for a reason which i will never know!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751816

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

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.