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New comment by ppipada in "Ask HN: Why Do You Blog?"

ppipada — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:06:47 +0000

In short: For myself.

The question can be broken down as:

1. Why do you write?

> To collect my thoughts into a organized stream. So that I can forget the stream of thoughts and still have a place to recollect if needed.

2. Why write publically?

> Openness helps clean and calm the head further.

Better outside than inside...

Show HN: Mapstore-go files-backed store with pluggable serialization/encrypt/fts

ppipada — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:24:43 +0000

- MapStore is a local, filesystem‑backed map database with pluggable codecs (JSON or custom), optional per‑key encryption via the OS keyring, and optional full‑text search via SQLite FTS5.

- It has convenience wrappers for managing files in directories with partitioning.

- I had developed this for managing client side state in my wails app. Key store, config store, or any other state can be handled.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46201524

Points: 1

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New comment by ppipada in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

ppipada — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:55:24 +0000

An older post about a md + git based task management system:

https://pankajpipada.com/posts/2024-08-13-taskmgmt-2/

New comment by ppipada in "The Nature of Lisp, Code Generation and Wieldable Programming Power"

ppipada — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:30:35 +0000

Thoughts on The Nature of List article from defmacro (2006), code generation systems, their power and pitfalls.

The Nature of Lisp, Code Generation and Wieldable Programming Power

ppipada — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:30:35 +0000

Article URL: https://pankajpipada.com/posts/2025-06-25-generation-systems/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44375666

Points: 2

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New comment by ppipada in "The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything"

ppipada — Wed, 07 May 2025 04:44:53 +0000

Wow, this post hit just too close to me. I came to same conclusion quite a while back (the author also mentions that we most probably always know this); BUT never able to get out of that mindset. I think fixing boundary issues is a hard problem, but still solvable. Dealing with Your Things (or atleast the ones you think are yours), i.e stuff that you have marked as your boundary, seems much much harder to deal with.

My mind has argued, and won to some extent, the opposite, but within a boundary: if you are responsible, why not do it better, if you are not doing it better, what is the point of it all?

Coffee Beans of India, Varieties and Taste Profiles

ppipada — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 13:07:27 +0000

Article URL: https://pankajpipada.com/posts/2025-02-01-indian-coffee-beans/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898008

Points: 2

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Ask HN: What is the state of art for doing RAG in Enterprise LLM agents?

ppipada — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:30:51 +0000

I am trying to understand and build RAG in few of the LLM Agents I am working on.

I have noted a small collection of things that are currently being done in the field at: https://pankajpipada.com/posts/2024-12-17-rag-resources/

From all the reading and experimenting it looks like Graph + vectors + optional pagerank for certain usecases gives best results.

Question:

For enterprise unstructured data (docs/logs/scripts/etc), what is the current state of art technology wrt establishing a knowledge base to be used in either search or context population for some code generation usecases?

Thanks in advance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42440842

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by ppipada in "A Streamlined Markdown/Git-Based Task Management System for Solo Developers"

ppipada — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:33:48 +0000

This post explores a markdown-based task management system designed for solo developers, balancing simplicity with effective project management.

A Streamlined Markdown/Git-Based Task Management System for Solo Developers

ppipada — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:33:48 +0000

Article URL: https://pankajpipada.com/posts/2024-08-13-taskmgmt-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41235298

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ppipada in "Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]"

ppipada — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 05:24:07 +0000

A conversation with ChatGPT to understand the papers perspective further: https://chatgpt.com/share/7f5449d3-3411-4462-acd1-ca9baa5351...

The references of interest:

Piaget, J. (1926). The language and thought of the child.

Monti, M. M., Parsons, L. M., & Osherson, D. N. (2007). Functional Neuroanatomy of Deductive Inference: A Language-Independent Distributed Network

Show HN: Animations for Simple Breathing Exercises

ppipada — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 14:52:16 +0000

Article URL: https://pankajpipada.com/breathing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40598107

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Upliance – AI Cooking Assistant

ppipada — Fri, 24 May 2024 13:54:53 +0000

This was showcased in Indias Shark Tank as well, with 1% equity offered for 125K USD approx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466303

Points: 1

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Great Resources for Learning Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)

ppipada — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:03:01 +0000

Article URL: https://pankajpipada.com/posts/2024-04-15-genai-resources/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40038528

Points: 1

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New comment by ppipada in "Why Socialism? (1949)"

ppipada — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:46:52 +0000

Maybe one of the fundamental differences between a socialist and a capitalist lies in their degree of optimism about human altruism.

Socialists tend to be optimistic and believe that humans have the capacity to care for one another and collectively contribute to societal well-being.

Capitalists may be more skeptical of human nature, leaning on the idea that self-interest drives societal progress. They often argue that individuals are most motivated to contribute when they stand to personally benefit.

The article does shed a good light on humans relationship to the society it leans on and is hopeful of the possibility of a human system that can rely on a army of collective-good workers.

May be some day we will see such a system that doesnt discount the inherent competitiveness and survival bias of a individual.

Finding My Balance: An Evolved and Simplified Task Management System

ppipada — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:43:50 +0000

Article URL: https://pankajpipada.com/posts/2023-07-30-taskmgmt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36931077

Points: 1

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New comment by ppipada in "Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot"

ppipada — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:47:14 +0000

Self ref: One more that is highly extensible and fully open source (MIT): https://github.com/ppipada/vscode-flexigpt

With multiple ai providers, customizable prompts, select to ask, comment to ask, history saving, SO search, command line exec, etc.

New comment by ppipada in "Blunt/Direct Communicators, Online Communication and How to Overcome Challenges"

ppipada — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:20:26 +0000

Rookie mistake of not knowing that post summary text will actually come as a comment

New comment by ppipada in "Blunt/Direct Communicators, Online Communication and How to Overcome Challenges"

ppipada — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:19:03 +0000

Thanks Will definitely give it a try

New comment by ppipada in "Blunt/Direct Communicators, Online Communication and How to Overcome Challenges"

ppipada — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:39:51 +0000

Above is just my experience on how to navigate this mostly. This is definitly not about how to do F2F better. That is whole other topic, but I myself find that as not that difficult. Online is 10x worse than F2F for me generally.