Hacker News: chetanahuja

New comment by chetanahuja in "We mourn our craft"

chetanahuja — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:52:34 +0000

Oh good lord. Spare us the beatings of the chest and rending of the garments. "crafting code by hand" like some leftover hipsters from 2010s crafting their own fabric using a handloom. It's fucking code. Were there similar gnashing of the teeth and wails of despair when compilers were first introduced?

New comment by chetanahuja in "Surprising hostility towards LLM based coding in R/programming"

chetanahuja — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 19:00:45 +0000

Yup. Even if you treat the LLMs as just a question answering, brainstorming, code parsing, doc creating bot, it's already a major quality of life improvement for engineers over whatever we were doing before it existed.

New comment by chetanahuja in "Surprising hostility towards LLM based coding in R/programming"

chetanahuja — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:42:17 +0000

My experience on r/programming came as a surprise to me. I know that not everyone in the community is sold on LLM based coding, and I was fully prepared for some pushback. But I was not prepared for the outright hostility and vitriol just for recounting my actual experience with LLM coding as a practitioner. I wrote up the post since it needed to be longer than a reddit comment and I was not feeling the need to engage with that level of negativity in the comments anyway.

Surprising hostility towards LLM based coding in R/programming

chetanahuja — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:42:17 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@chetan_51670/i-got-downvoted-to-hell-telling-programmers-its-ok-to-use-llms-b36eec1ff7a8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335807

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by chetanahuja in "Consumer startups that said no to investor money"

chetanahuja — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 22:20:32 +0000

> If there's one thing all start-ups should conspire to abolish, it's liquidity preferences.

Liquidation preferences are not the norm in the normal seed/A/B rounds etc. right now. At least not in the silicon valley VC ecosystem.

New comment by chetanahuja in "Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac Mini"

chetanahuja — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:24:37 +0000

Still running a 2008 vintage aluminum tower at home. True story.

New comment by chetanahuja in "How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa"

chetanahuja — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 08:45:04 +0000

For users who have reasonably functioning products, yes. For Siri users, looks like not so much.

New comment by chetanahuja in "How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa"

chetanahuja — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 08:14:28 +0000

> "Is there any proof that actual people use and value Google and Amazon assistant more than Siri?"

This is a common confusion among iPhone users. I suspect the reason is that if all you're used to is Siri (and it's myriad disappointments), it's hard to conceive of the the quantum leaps that is Google Assistant in product polish and usefulness.

First and foremost is the near flawless voice recognition. I, with my India accent even, can just say things to my Android device (and now, my new google home) it just ... gets it. It's spooky.

Then, after it recognizes the question/request correctly, it is very likely to take the correct action with a high enough probability that it's now almost a surprise to hear "Sorry I don't now how to do that yet" when it does happen.

Outside of the active queries, there are things it does automatically that are at the level of what a particularly attentive human assistant might do for you.

It'll check your calendar and remind you that you should start driving for your 4pm appointment because the traffic is unusually heavy on 101 today.

Or that your flight tomorrow morning has been cancelled. It knows about your flight because of the confirmation email in your gmail account.

Remember, you have to take no action for this sort of reminders. Just have to opt in when assistant is setting itself up on your new phone.

There are myriad other such examples. It has saved my bacon numerous times. We're truly living in the future.

New comment by chetanahuja in "Discovering Issues in HTTP/2 with Chaos Testing"

chetanahuja — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:23:39 +0000

Packet loss is happening at a lower layer (ethernet, wifi, mobile etc.). It's a property of the physical medium, not whether HTTP1.1 or HTTP2 is running at the higher layer.

The point of this blogpost is that design of HTTP/2 (specifically, multiplexing multiple http transfers over a single TCP connection) behaves badly under packetloss conditions.

New comment by chetanahuja in "A conversation about how public transport really works"

chetanahuja — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:42:43 +0000

> No, it's not bullshit. It is not profitable to have a train route of more than about 5 hours

Most of the discussion in this tread is mostly about mass transit in metro areas.

The iPhone is dead

chetanahuja — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:38:19 +0000

Article URL: https://hackernoon.com/the-iphone-is-dead-766bc536caab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16209693

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

New comment by chetanahuja in "Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers"

chetanahuja — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:39:09 +0000

I'm getting "Sorry, Because of it's privacy settings, this video cannot be played here" for every video.

PacketZoom lands $5M Series A investment to speed up mobile apps

chetanahuja — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:04:26 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/22/packetzoom-lands-5m-series-a-investment-to-speed-up-mobile-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15758925

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Can we “save” your next unplanned Mobile App release?

chetanahuja — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 22:06:04 +0000

Article URL: https://hackernoon.com/can-we-save-your-next-unplanned-mobile-app-release-67bec4dd9dca

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15614733

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by chetanahuja in "Ask HN: Would you recommend someone to learn Emacs now?"

chetanahuja — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:42:40 +0000

Yes. Emacs has the wonderful property of one time investment in time and learning curve that pays off over years to do all sorts of code and non-code editing.

New comment by chetanahuja in "Google’s Airpods competitor do real-time language translation"

chetanahuja — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:29:04 +0000

"allow"? As in, you think Apple has been holding back permission of some kind?

New comment by chetanahuja in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)"

chetanahuja — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 20:50:17 +0000

PacketZoom | Developer Evangelist | San Mateo, CA | REMOTE | NO RECRUITERS/AGENCIES PLEASE.

PacketZoom

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PacketZoom is revolutionizing network connectivity for mobile apps. Our Mobile AMPO (Application Performance Monitoring & Optimization) platform offers an end-to-end solution to analyze, detect and resolve mobile app networking issues in real-time without changing the app code.

Mobile IQ provides insight into mobile app performance issues, while Mobile Expresslane fixes them -- it speeds up mobile apps by up to 3x, rescue up to 90% of connection errors and reduces CDN costs. We're venture funded (from top VC firms) and millions of users are using our tech every day.

Position

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As dev evangelist, your job is to inspire, empower and equip mobile developers to build better apps and boost user engagement utilizing PacketZoom’s in-app SDK.

Duties and skillsets:

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Build and expand relationships in the developer communities. Create engaging written content and present demos/webinars etc. (Video production skills/experience a huge plus.) Enough technical savvy to create sample mobile apps and demos using PacketZoom SDK and engage a highly technical audiences in online and offline forums. Existing presence and credibility in online/offline developer communities a huge plus.

If interested, my contact info is in my profile. CANDIDATES ONLY. NO RECRUITERS/AGENCIES PLEASE.

New comment by chetanahuja in "China Blocks WhatsApp"

chetanahuja — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 01:19:46 +0000

Chinese debt is a ticking time bomb. http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-debt-risk-to-financia...

When (not if) it goes off, it'll not only be a huge shock to the world economy, it'll most likely also result in huge unrest inside China. The only political tool the communist party has known is to suppress dissent. I expect things to get worse in the next few years... not better.

New comment by chetanahuja in "Introducing Network Service Tiers"

chetanahuja — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:45:01 +0000

You want to see some weirdly long ping times... try pinging Israel to Turky. Compare that to say, Israel to Netherlands.

New comment by chetanahuja in "Twilio stock plummets as major client Uber distances itself"

chetanahuja — Wed, 03 May 2017 04:27:24 +0000

The answer to that of course is that the underlying network protocols need to be aware of this dilemma. It's wasteful for every developer to try and solve this problem on their own.

The main culprit here is of course TCP's session based view of the world which was invented for a completely different era. An era when "cable got cut" was a catastrophic event that was almost never going to happen. It's a pity that the native app world is still mostly stuck with TCP/HTTP based networking stack where a UDP/mobile-specific-protocol is what's needed.