Hacker News: lappet

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

lappet — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:31:34 +0000

oh like Pokemon go but for temples? that is a pretty cool idea!

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

lappet — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:30:44 +0000

yes I already have that at https://www.whichtemple.in/map

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

lappet — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:51:48 +0000

Thank you, that is a good suggestion

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

lappet — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:35:37 +0000

Nice. Is it vibe coded? I am looking for a good resource for learning kannada if you know Tamil, but with a focus on spoken language.

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

lappet — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:06:46 +0000

Yeah tbh I don't know if it is easy to do that. Any suggestions?

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

lappet — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:04:25 +0000

Yes, definitely on my list. For now you can try the map view and zoom into your state. Thanks for the feedback!

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

lappet — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:23:56 +0000

I have been working on and off on https://www.whichtemple.in

- it is a collection of ~ 2700 temples across India, with images sourced from wikipedia

- it shows you a random temple each time you visit

- it has a map view of temples across India

So this is just the tip of the iceberg. I am trying to build a catalogue of all temples, starting with India, and expanding on to the rest of the world. The focus is on temples originating from Indic religions like Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.

I have personally discovered many cool temples that I have never heard of, but I am struggling on how to gamify this. Feedback welcome!

New comment by lappet in "How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)"

lappet — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:35:01 +0000

Yeah I believe modern trigonometry and the terms sine and cos also trace their origins to Sanskrit through Arabic. It's a shame that ancient/medieval India contributed so much to science and math but hasn't been able to innovate in centuries past :(

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

lappet — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:17:26 +0000

hey there, I spent some time working on something very similar, but I am based in the US! I was able to import receipts from Safeway & Costco here, using private APIs. But since stores here don't really support OAuth, and using a private API may not be the best long term approach, I paused my effort. I would love to chat if you are interested. I used react to build a prototype.

New comment by lappet in "US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired"

lappet — Mon, 12 May 2025 16:17:15 +0000

Highways

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: Are there any apps to track grocery prices in local stores?"

lappet — Sun, 04 May 2025 21:28:24 +0000

Some of the big chains in my area provide online receipts: safeway, costco, target, etc.

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: Are there any apps to track grocery prices in local stores?"

lappet — Sat, 03 May 2025 21:50:39 +0000

I am working on an app to track grocery purchases from online receipts. My goal is to track the effects of inflation on prices, and build something like Mint, but with itemized transactions from receipts.

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?"

lappet — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:42:07 +0000

Hugo, s3 and CloudFront. I use GitHub actions to push to s3, that is my deployment pipeline.

New comment by lappet in "AI killed the tech interview. Now what?"

lappet — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:40:11 +0000

Do you have network access? I would pick ssh.

New comment by lappet in "Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world"

lappet — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:46:18 +0000

I know Bengali and Assamese use a Tibetan script, anyone know how similar is it to the one Tibetans use for their language?

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps?"

lappet — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 15:31:07 +0000

This is not for a business, but I am working on a side project that uses node.js + sqlite and the entire stack will run on a single Lightsail instance ($5 per month)

New comment by lappet in "Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24"

lappet — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:34:01 +0000

holy moly, if you setup a kickstarter for this, a bajillion desis would support it. curious though, are they going to be frozen samosas?

New comment by lappet in "Show HN: I made an interactive math crossword puzzle with infinite levels"

lappet — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 05:57:11 +0000

Pretty cool. I really like your website! How does the sonification of space sounds work?

New comment by lappet in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?"

lappet — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 21:35:23 +0000

I loved Teixcalaan #1, and I really need to read the second one. Thanks for the reminder!

New comment by lappet in "Portuguese Orange, Persian Portugal"

lappet — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 22:28:22 +0000

Right, but the root of "orange" is apparently Proto-Dravidian, as mentioned in the article