Hacker News: mdani

An Open Source SDK and Runtime for Building Agents

mdani — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:03:54 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312842

Points: 2

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New comment by mdani in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

mdani — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:54:22 +0000

I am wondering what the 'sub-processor' means here. Am I right in assuming that the Persona architecture uses Kafka, S3 data lake in AWS and GCP, Elastic Search, MongoDB for configuration or user metadata, and Snowflake for analytics, thus all these end up on sub-processle list as the data physically touches these company's products or infra hosted outside Persona? I hope all these aren't providing their own identity services and all of them aren't seeing my passport for further validation.

New comment by mdani in "The Mongol Khans of Medieval France"

mdani — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:53:18 +0000

There were several great famines during the Mughal reign in India, for example, Peter Mundy, the English merchant and traveller, describes the great famine of Deccan and Gujrat. The Mughal rule was brutal. The European travellers have written about the plight of the farmers who rebelled due to excessive taxation despite the fear of punishment. The Mughals built towers of severed heads outside each village and even they were not able to quell the rebellion, such was the state of affairs. So I'd say the assumption you're making isn't true.

Nvidia's New Voice AI – low latency

mdani — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:03:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_m0fqp8xwQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790540

Points: 4

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New comment by mdani in "Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]"

mdani — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:55:04 +0000

Same here. I'd add that viewing the lava fountain at night was a mesmerizing experience. You get to see the full extent of red, glowing lava lake and the fountain. There were thousands of people and yet they appeared so small in front of the volcano. We did experience some ash and Pele's hair on the way to the park, near the black sand beach. I do recommend carrying a torch though at night, since it is pitch black at night. The lava illuminated the park with the red glow, but there were some parts where you do need a torch esp. if you park far away and walk.

New comment by mdani in "I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years"

mdani — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:44:52 +0000

I write about Indian history as my side project.

https://a.co/d/guvUxgq

https://a.co/d/iSg4jKZ

New comment by mdani in "Secret diplomatic message deciphered after 350 years"

mdani — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:14:40 +0000

I don't, but I can upload a sample tomorrow in case you're interested in taking a look.

New comment by mdani in "Secret diplomatic message deciphered after 350 years"

mdani — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 03:34:37 +0000

The article mentions a code breaking software - any idea what that is? I have a coded letter that is about 250 years old, but it is written in Devanagari script so letter frequency isn't straightforward. Please do suggest any tools that can help in decoding.

New comment by mdani in "Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking"

mdani — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:48:38 +0000

If I can make a guess, I'd say that the reporters engaged with them as a potential customer and demanded a sample of the data so they can indeed verify the accuracy. That's how they obtained the sample records, not via a s3 leak.

New comment by mdani in "NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks?"

mdani — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:27:40 +0000

The MVNOs such as MobileX mentioned above do not have their own towers or the cellular backbone i.e. the core network. They'll merely use the MNO such as Verizon or T-Mobile and have a commercial arrangement in which MVNO just handles the marketing and the customer support. So the MVNOs may not have the right tools or data or incentives to catch these sim farms.

New comment by mdani in "A startup allegedly 'hacked the world', then came censorship, and now backlash"

mdani — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 04:42:04 +0000

I couldn't comprehend the content of the linked article, so I sought out the original piece from Reuters. Here's a concise summary:

- Appin, an Indian firm, is accused by Reuters of functioning as the e-commerce platform for hacking (similar to Amazon but for hacking). Users log in to a covert portal, place orders to hack into target mailboxes, make payments, and receive the delivered data.

- Appin received requests globally, including from RAW, IB, and the Indian military. However, when the Indian government detected financial irregularities, government contracts ceased. In desperation, Appin took on any available work, but it didn't survive.

- Despite Appin's demise, its former employees initiated similar ventures that are still active today.

Considering the involvement of the Indian government, I anticipated Appin and its founders to dispute the allegations, and they did. The article was subsequently removed, raising allegations of censorship.

The linked article discusses the backlash against this alleged censorship.

The timing of this article is intriguing, coinciding with the recent Pannun affair and now presenting another accusation, this time in the cyberspace. Reuters mentions that "The National Security Agency (NSA), which spies on foreigners for the U.S. government, began surveilling the company after watching it hack “high value” Pakistani officials around 2009, one of the sources said. An NSA spokesperson declined to comment." This may lead Indians to question: if the NSA can hack, why can't we?

Song of the Clouds – Air Travel in 1956

mdani — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:42:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG-4bjOF4OY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38984333

Points: 1

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New comment by mdani in "How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python"

mdani — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 06:22:59 +0000

Does anyone know what languages Apple supports? The docs don't have a list. Tesseract might be "meh" but it is probably the best open source option available for devnagari scripts or Persian, for example.

We Can't Land the Story of Air India 101 [video]

mdani — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wScVSo0EpE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407556

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mdani in "The Miracle of Pakistani Tekken (2022) [video]"

mdani — Tue, 16 May 2023 04:18:48 +0000

The name of the province - it's pronounced pun-jab, not poon-jab. (pun intended)

New comment by mdani in "Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing"

mdani — Thu, 11 May 2023 14:31:55 +0000

The article seems to suggest that the SG cell is also getting regenerated. See

> The new cells contained transduction channels that relay sound signals and the ability to form connections with auditory neurons — processes essential to hearing.

New comment by mdani in "The long, slow death of global development"

mdani — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:24:32 +0000

The previous RBI governor is entering politics and joining the opposition, so his current opinions should be taken as political rather than purely academic.

New comment by mdani in "The Diversity of Arabic Scripts"

mdani — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 02:10:24 +0000

Not a native reader, using my acquired reading knolwdge. It takes a lot of processing for me, no idea where to start, had to look for each letter and still couldn't find a few. So great as a design, quite poor for readability.

New comment by mdani in "FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages"

mdani — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 03:16:57 +0000

I hope someone builds a chatGPT equivalent that would answer the spam calls. That would be a neat use case with lot of potential.

New comment by mdani in "Evidence that Adani Group has engaged in stock manipulation and accounting fraud"

mdani — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 04:34:41 +0000

I started reading but couldn't get my sleepy brain around how Adani manipulated the stocks. Sure, the valuations are astronomical but doesn't indicate that Adanis themselves are behind the rise? Can someone please post a TLDR?