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New comment by krishadi in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

krishadi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:13:06 +0000

I use a Logitech MX Ergo that has a trackball, and it's helped me a lot with wrist pain. Using a trackball felt a bit weird initially.

New comment by krishadi in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

krishadi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:10:37 +0000

I commute by bike daily, and I got some ergonomic handlebar ends and they've drastically improved by experience.

New comment by krishadi in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

krishadi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:07:37 +0000

Some of my best purchases were outdoor clothing I bought some 7 years ago on a whim. I constantly regret not getting some 10 of them, and sadly they don't make these anymore.

- Thermal inner pants from Berghaus - Knitted thermal jacket from Salewa

Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?

krishadi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:01:24 +0000

Curious what items under $100 have made your life better or any meaningful impact.

Revival of this [thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363396) from 6 years ago. Thought it would be fun to have new answers to this :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638331

Points: 91

# Comments: 249

Visualize Embeddings Using DuckDB

krishadi — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:35:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/apple/embedding-atlas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878681

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by krishadi in "Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning"

krishadi — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:42:16 +0000

How do I point it to follow up or zoom into a particular part of the answer?

New comment by krishadi in "Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning"

krishadi — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:50:15 +0000

The UI is brilliant !

1. I like the way sources are listed on the right panel, that makes them easily visible as i scroll through the answer. 2. The rendering of the answers using rich visual components is nice to look at. I personally hate information dense reports that ChatGPT spews, which isn't easy to consume quickly.

What I miss though is iterations on the answer, as in, how do I specifically zoom into one aspect of the answer, and then easily zoom out and continue.

New comment by krishadi in "I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)"

krishadi — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:41:23 +0000

It was mainly for SEO, and to some extent protecting against website scrapers and crawlers.

New comment by krishadi in "I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)"

krishadi — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:37:26 +0000

It is exactly what I am talking about. Rendering the component on the server, takes up resources, as opposed to just sending that data to the client, and the client rendering it.

In Nextjs, "use client" is used to force the rendering to take place in the client, because many components cannot me rendered in the server. For example maps. In this case, it's unnecessary to use an SSR framework.

New comment by krishadi in "Ask HN: How do software devs spend time across a product's life cycle?"

krishadi — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:31:37 +0000

I could imagine that the cash cow part of a product gets all the attention in the beginning. Does that stay the same through the life cycle? Or do you see that it takes a back seat while feature development on top of that takes the center stage at alter stages of the product?

[edited to add this] I also see that it's sometimes easier to build something new, than to go on maintaining something.

New comment by krishadi in "Ask HN: How do software devs spend time across a product's life cycle?"

krishadi — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:27:58 +0000

Just curious to know if you see the following trend:

As a codebase matures, the amount of time spent of code maintenance increases and with bug fixes, it gets harder to spot them and the amount of code that is required to solve them is little.

Ask HN: How do software devs spend time across a product's life cycle?

krishadi — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:09:20 +0000

I'm curious about how a software developer's time is distributed across different phases of a product's lifecycle, how much time is spent writing code, reading code, writing design docs during each of these phases.

And, for 'each of these phases' I mean during ideation, prototyping, and after gaining users shifting towards maintenance, refactoring, and scaling.

At what point does feature development slow down in favor of bug fixes, tech debt reduction, and performance improvements?

Also, how does time allocation change in different environments—startups vs. big companies, SaaS vs. consumer apps, open-source vs. enterprise software?

Any patterns you've noticed?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024528

Points: 5

# Comments: 12

New comment by krishadi in "I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)"

krishadi — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:41:27 +0000

> But I was equally surprised by how little this was being discussed, or (as far as I could tell) practiced in the real world. While there seemed to be endless threads on Twitter about server-side React (to get the UI generation closer to the data), no-one was talking about the opposite: moving the data to be closer to the UI, and onto the client!

This, I've wondered for a while. There is plenty of talk about server side rendering, which I don't think is useful for many apps out there. SSR is quite wasteful of the resources on the client side that can be made useful. And, I've seen many apps being developed with "use cliënt" littered all over, and that begs to wonder why do you even want SSR in your app.

New comment by krishadi in "We're bringing Pebble back"

krishadi — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:37:11 +0000

This is exciting news!

There aren't many smart watches out there. I've loved what Garmin has done. I had always hoped something which would open up an ecosystem to build on. This looks promising on that front.

DocumentDB: BSON data type CRUD in PostgreSQL

krishadi — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 06:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/documentdb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42810927

Points: 31

# Comments: 5

New comment by krishadi in "GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta"

krishadi — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:51:26 +0000

The biggest outcome here is that now the app has memory.

New comment by krishadi in "GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta"

krishadi — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:37:07 +0000

For those unable to find this, you can find it as a new model in the model drop-down menu.

New comment by krishadi in "Show HN: Atlas of Space"

krishadi — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:36:35 +0000

Initial positions and velocities are interesting. How did you get about that info?

I would love to read about how the orbital trajectories are calculated, and how is it done for co orbitals. Do you plan to write a blog on this?

New comment by krishadi in "Show HN: Atlas of Space"

krishadi — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:30:58 +0000

This is crazy good! Thanks for building it...

Incredible to see the speed at which some of the bodies are moving ... Especially Bennu...

Ask HN: Do you use WhatsApp to make notes?

krishadi — Tue, 07 May 2024 20:53:15 +0000

WhatsApp, Slack, and many of the messaging apps introduced a send a message to yourself feature a while back. Essentially to a place to put in rough notes.

Do you use this feature? For what and why?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40291341

Points: 1

# Comments: 2