Hacker News: nikaspran

New comment by nikaspran in "Cloudflare Flagship"

nikaspran — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:44:29 +0000

Percentage rollouts, RBAC, audit history, A/B testing, multivariate - it gets complex quick. That boolean turns into a whole system you have to maintain and operate.

New comment by nikaspran in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

nikaspran — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:54:43 +0000

A ceasefire without security guarantees is just a temporary pause for russia to rearm and continue on. None of the justifications for russia's invasion have changed, and this would mean the US will roll over for anything.

Ask HN: Any tips getting Google OAuth Consent Screen verified?

nikaspran — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 08:13:33 +0000

We've been stuck waiting in "Verification in progress" for a few weeks now, with no contact.

Same with the Google Ads API basic access, have requested for it more than a month ago, sent the follow up form - nothing. Really frustrated :(

Does anyone have any tips for getting verified for Google OAuth Consent Screen and the Google Ads API Basic Access?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37621519

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nikaspran in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

nikaspran — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 20:08:06 +0000

According to the quotes by Reddit themselves, the 20M a year is opportunity cost, not actual cost.

New comment by nikaspran in "Show HN: Efficient Data Formats for GPT"

nikaspran — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:11:07 +0000

I think it doesn't need to be specifically text based, but given that LLMs are usually trained on primarily text (at least currently), I'm not sure they'd be meaningfully able to generate binary directly.

As for using DBs, that's certainly an option (i.e. langchain and such), but at some point you do still need to bring in the data inside the context, so I'd say it's still interesting to consider what would be an efficient way to represent that data via text.

New comment by nikaspran in "Show HN: Efficient Data Formats for GPT"

nikaspran — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:36:22 +0000

I ran a small test comparing different data serialization formats for use with GPT models (and possibly other LLMs). This is obviously very limited but it was striking how much of a difference switching from JSON to something like YAML could be.

I wonder if we might also see LLM specific data serialisation formats in the future, to make use of tokenization in the most efficient manner and enhance the generative capability of the models.

Show HN: Efficient Data Formats for GPT

nikaspran — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:36:22 +0000

Article URL: https://nikas.praninskas.com/ai/2023/04/05/efficient-gpt-data-formats/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35460693

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

New comment by nikaspran in "Launch HN: CodeComplete (YC W23) – Copilot for Enterprise"

nikaspran — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:15:33 +0000

How does this compare with https://www.tabnine.com/enterprise, which is also self-hosted, trained on permissively licensed repositories and supports training on private repos?

New comment by nikaspran in "Mikhail Gorbachev has died"

nikaspran — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:11:09 +0000

This is completely false.

New comment by nikaspran in "Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche"

nikaspran — Wed, 26 May 2021 18:48:43 +0000

On a related note, let me shill my side-project: https://nikas.praninskas.com/suggest-subreddit/

It suggests subreddits based on what you're already subscribed to.

New comment by nikaspran in "Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says"

nikaspran — Mon, 24 May 2021 06:31:29 +0000

It is not even close to the same thing. Please stop lying.

Denying entry into airspace is not the same as forcing a plane to land and kidnapping a political opponent.

New comment by nikaspran in "FreeCAD 0.19"

nikaspran — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:43:04 +0000

I use it for 3D printing mainly. It's pretty good, but 0.18.x had some annoying bugs (i.e. it would occasionally just crash, wiping everything since the last time you saved). Nothing show-stopper if you save often and don't do anything too crazy.

I personally prefer Fusion 360 (it feels sleeker and is way more usable with a touchpad), but it's definitely a viable choice.

New comment by nikaspran in "Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the Belarus nuclear plant"

nikaspran — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:42:16 +0000

Iodine pills have been distributed already. This is most likely for subsequent doses.

Show HN: Subreddit suggestions based on your subscriptions

nikaspran — Mon, 25 May 2020 06:11:36 +0000

Article URL: https://nikas.praninskas.com/suggest-subreddit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23298439

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nikaspran in "Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?"

nikaspran — Thu, 14 May 2020 09:01:30 +0000

I've built a small VSCode extension to query TypeScript and JavaScript abstract syntax tree via esquery: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nikaspra...

It's been an awesome exercise and I've been quite impressed by the API available to extensions.

New comment by nikaspran in "ESLint 7.0"

nikaspran — Mon, 11 May 2020 19:17:33 +0000

Have exclusively used ESLint for TypeScript over the past year. It works great, no issues. The only slight problem is some rules conflict, but that only comes into play if using a comprehensive preset like airbnb.

New comment by nikaspran in "Show HN: An experimental code search engine"

nikaspran — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 07:50:07 +0000

It would be great to have a few pre-selected example queries immediately clickable, to see some examples. That would help showcase why this is cool and what you can do with it. And maybe why it's better than other search tools (i.e. built-in github one).

New comment by nikaspran in "Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it"

nikaspran — Wed, 13 May 2015 06:53:50 +0000

Google seems to be running JavaScript for a while now:

I.e.: http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascri...

Show HN: Introductory Slides on Web Components

nikaspran — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:47:59 +0000

Article URL: http://nikas.praninskas.com/web/2015/01/20/talk-web-components/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8926325

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nikaspran in "Design for programmers"

nikaspran — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:27:02 +0000

While this is a pretty fun idea, it's pretty much dead:

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Hi <...>,

I'm glad that you find it amazing but we have Method on hold for now. We are focusing on other projects we think will work better.

Thanks for your kind words,

Maria.

mariamunuera.com

=================

I got this response after I sent an email asking for any status updates sometime in April. Unfortunate.