Hacker News: pdsouza

New comment by pdsouza in "The Llama 4 herd"

pdsouza — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:54:20 +0000

Blog post: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/

New comment by pdsouza in "Show HN: An online 2D MMO game, written in Rust and JavaScript"

pdsouza — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 03:41:59 +0000

fun!

New comment by pdsouza in "Show HN: Simulating 20M Particles in JavaScript"

pdsouza — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:39:09 +0000

Love this. Enjoyed riding your train of thought from challenge conception through each performance pass to the final form. Surprisingly fun to play around with this sim too. Looking forward to more posts!

New comment by pdsouza in "How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client"

pdsouza — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:04:06 +0000

Keep fighting brother

New comment by pdsouza in "Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?"

pdsouza — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 20:37:22 +0000

Choosing relaxation/sleep/etc. as character stats is a great way to re-frame them as features, not bugs.

New comment by pdsouza in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2020)"

pdsouza — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:17:38 +0000

Hello! I'm a full-stack software engineer specializing in mobile apps.

Location: Northern VA / Washington D.C.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React Native, React/Redux, Android, HTML/CSS, Vue.js, Node.js, JavaScript, Clojure, Go, Java, C, Bash scripting, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Embedded Linux, Web scraping, Git, OSS licensing and maintainership

Résumé/CV: https://preetam.io/papers/resume_pdsouza.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjdsouza/

GitHub: https://github.com/pdsouza

Email: preetamjdsouza AT gmail DOT com

New comment by pdsouza in "Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models"

pdsouza — Sun, 10 May 2020 14:47:25 +0000

There was a recent technical write-up about something similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22823070

New comment by pdsouza in "Show HN: Covid-19 Alert – Explore coronavirus cases around the world"

pdsouza — Sat, 09 May 2020 15:27:39 +0000

Hi HN,

I built (yet another) app to explore coronavirus cases.

Last March, when the virus craziness was exploding, I had built mobile apps with the same functionality, but both Apple and Google refused to accept my app unless it was backed by an official medical or government org. (Google even gave my developer account a strike...jeez). So I turned around and converted it into a web app.

If you're interested, the API that powers the app is available publicly [0]. Time series data is also available, which I plan to add to the app soon.

If you get a chance to check it out I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks for stopping by!

[0]: https://github.com/mirailabs/covid-19

Show HN: Covid-19 Alert – Explore coronavirus cases around the world

pdsouza — Sat, 09 May 2020 15:12:06 +0000

Article URL: https://covid19.mirailabs.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23125312

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by pdsouza in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)"

pdsouza — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:44:49 +0000

Hello! I'm a full-stack software engineer specializing in mobile apps.

Location: Northern VA / Washington D.C.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Résumé/CV: https://preetam.io/papers/resume_pdsouza.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjdsouza/

GitHub: https://github.com/pdsouza

Email: preetamjdsouza AT gmail DOT com

New comment by pdsouza in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?"

pdsouza — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 20:19:42 +0000

Hello! I'm a full-stack software engineer specializing in mobile apps.

Location: Northern VA / Washington D.C.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Résumé/CV: https://preetam.io/papers/resume_pdsouza.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjdsouza/

GitHub: https://github.com/pdsouza

Email: preetamjdsouza AT gmail DOT com

New comment by pdsouza in "Using multi-arch Docker images to support apps on any architecture"

pdsouza — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 22:55:24 +0000

Great, thanks!

New comment by pdsouza in "Using multi-arch Docker images to support apps on any architecture"

pdsouza — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:12:21 +0000

Neat! I'd like to get some automated multi-arch image builds going too. I'll give GitHub Actions a go using your repo as reference.

Using multi-arch Docker images to support apps on any architecture

pdsouza — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 17:53:13 +0000

Article URL: https://mirailabs.io/blog/multiarch-docker-with-buildx/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21553923

Points: 105

# Comments: 39

Building a Microcloud with a Few Raspberry Pis and Kubernetes

pdsouza — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:50:56 +0000

Article URL: https://mirailabs.io/blog/building-a-microcloud/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21464318

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by pdsouza in "Samsung's 'Linux on DeX' project shuts down after just 11 months"

pdsouza — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:13:48 +0000

Thank you man!

Yes, it's crazy how fast things change in this space. I still use a Nexus 5X (running Maru of course) as my daily driver, but by today's standards it is ancient. It is a challenge to keep up with the new hardware when you are not a fan of the "let's just buy a new phone every 2 years" mentality. But that's just the way the market rolls right now and we've got to cope with it.

I must say that being at the mercy of so many moving targets makes me nervous sometimes because you never know when Google or some phone manufacturer is going to pull the rug under you. It is already a challenge to keep porting Maru to the latest Android version since the internal APIs can change a lot. To combat this, we are stringent about keeping our modifications to the bare minimum; of course we want to provide a good experience though, and we have to think hard about whether the maintenance burden of a feature is worth it. If we owned more of the stack, we could likely do a lot more without fear of future breakage nightmares. But the truth is, it was only because we could piggyback off of Android and commodity phones that we were able to get Maru built with minimal investment.

That being said, we are continuing to improve our process so we can support the latest and greatest phones since our current velocity is frankly way too slow. We've been investing in automation a lot (continuous builds, documentation, etc.) to free up cycles. Another thing is, we are open-source, and I think the critical factor to boost Maru's velocity is making sure our developer community has the knowledge, support, and tooling to pitch in without fear. Crowdsourcing the development effort is the only way we can keep up in the long run!

New comment by pdsouza in "Samsung's 'Linux on DeX' project shuts down after just 11 months"

pdsouza — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:07:33 +0000

Sad to hear this. I was excited that an established company like Samsung was pursuing the idea of using your phone as a PC, but looks like the ROI wasn't there for them.

Fortunately, you can always come check out Maru OS [0] if you want to turn your phone into a PC. We launched in early 2016 as one of the very first projects to ride the "convergence" wave created by Ubuntu's (failed) Edge project. After this news, I guess we are the only serious project still in active development. Anyways, we're open-source and have an enthusiastic user and developer community that is always happy to welcome new members! (I am the creator)

[0]: https://maruos.com

New comment by pdsouza in "Man and man's best friend have both been experiencing declines in sperm quality"

pdsouza — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:45:50 +0000

How do we even detect these bloody endocrine disruptors? I have no idea which things in my environment are leaking this stuff. Perhaps pie in the sky, but it would be awesome to have something like a geiger counter for endocrine disruptors.

New comment by pdsouza in "Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)"

pdsouza — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:52:56 +0000

I think we can all agree that we want to maximize the quality of our work, where quality is defined as how well our work satisfies our goal. Typically, the discussion is around speed vs. quality, but I think quality itself encompasses speed (time_to_market below):

quality = w_0 * time_to_market + w_1 * correctness + w_2 * performance + ...

The weights w_n vary across domains. As with most things, it's about finding the right balance.

New comment by pdsouza in "Productivity brought by Clojure [slides]"

pdsouza — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 02:37:36 +0000

Came across this talk a few weeks ago and I have to say this is one of the best pragmatic talks comparing non-FP vs. FP paradigms I've ever seen. I really like your example problem, how you explore state and mutation in the different paradigms, and how you refactor step-by-step towards a functional design. Thank you!