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New comment by prakashn27 in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

prakashn27 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:26:00 +0000

Meta has something similar to this using mercurial. It was awesome.

Tell HN: No more emoji in my LinkedIn name

prakashn27 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:24:34 +0000

I have an emoji in my name, to basically see who is using the LinkedIn sales manager to contact me vs who genuinely contact me. With latest LinkedIn updates you cannot have emoji in the name,

Guess now I don’t know who wants to contact me for real after looking my profile.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908220

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New comment by prakashn27 in "US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private"

prakashn27 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:37:42 +0000

Ex-WhatsApp engineer here. WhatsApp team makes so much effort to make this end to end encrypted messages possible. From the time I worked I know for sure it is not possible to read the encrypted messages.

From business standpoint they don’t have to read these messages, since WhatsApp business API provide the necessary funding for the org as a whole.

New comment by prakashn27 in "To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI"

prakashn27 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:44:15 +0000

I have not fired a technical writer, but writing documentation that understands and maintains users focus is hard even with llm. I am trying to write documentation for my start up and it is harder than I expected even with llm.

Kudos to all technical writer who made my job as software engineer easier.

New comment by prakashn27 in "Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?"

prakashn27 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:36:56 +0000

I feel local rag system , slows down my computer (I got M1 Pro 32 GB)

So I use hosted one to prevent this. My business use vector db, so created a new db to vectorize and host my knowledge base. 1. All my knowledge base is markdown files. So I split that by header tags. 2. The split is hashed and hash value is stored in SQLite 3. The hashed version is vectorized and pushed to cloud db. 4. When ever I make changes , I run a script which splits and checks hash, if it is changed the. I upsert the document. If not I don’t do anything. This helps me keep the store up to date

For search I have a cli query which searches and fetches from vector store.

New comment by prakashn27 in "Interview Coder Just Leaked Full Names and Companies of All SWEs Who Cheated [video]"

prakashn27 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:22:05 +0000

The extent people go with cheating interviews. What happens after you pass by cheating? The reason they have rigorous interview is because the company moves at a different phase. You can not survive there if you cheat.

New comment by prakashn27 in "CSS Grid Lanes"

prakashn27 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:31:49 +0000

That makes sense. Safari is so smooth now in iOS. Moved from Firefox.

New comment by prakashn27 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

prakashn27 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:40:13 +0000

Working on Ai agent (not chatbot) for customer support with automatic human handoff to Slack( in future for Zendesk, Teams, Jira)

New comment by prakashn27 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

prakashn27 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 03:46:22 +0000

Focusing on creating a omnichannel ai-powered support platform on Slack.

New comment by prakashn27 in "PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases"

prakashn27 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:13:13 +0000

i onboarded on planetscale when it was in free tier. Then they charged 40$.

Last year they increase the pricing again.

they attract users and increase the pricing. that is the game here.

New comment by prakashn27 in "Doing Rails Wrong"

prakashn27 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:48:05 +0000

And you forgot the js library that lets you check if the number is odd https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd

Funny enough there is another library which checks if it is even https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

New comment by prakashn27 in "Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?"

prakashn27 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:51:39 +0000

I feel it is hyped product oversold to people who cannot told. When we developers tell them that it cannot do as much as you expect, they think that we are afraid of loosing our job and downplaying the AI.

Like everyone said, my productivity boost is in 1-4% range and not more than that.

New comment by prakashn27 in "Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf"

prakashn27 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:53:24 +0000

I writing this just after the night end llm cannot even replace to using Trans i18n react component if it is not in context of the file. We are still far from agi

New comment by prakashn27 in "Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?"

prakashn27 — Tue, 27 May 2025 01:48:15 +0000

100% true.

New comment by prakashn27 in "Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?"

prakashn27 — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:24:27 +0000

How does this work? Does all files that I upload are in context or do you use rag?

New comment by prakashn27 in "Just use HTML"

prakashn27 — Mon, 12 May 2025 15:36:36 +0000

Too much swearing and I lost the context midway

New comment by prakashn27 in "Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run"

prakashn27 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:41:24 +0000

This is not an official API, this is from third party. stop promoting appfire products as official api.

New comment by prakashn27 in "Busy Bar"

prakashn27 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:16:32 +0000

What happened to the good old timer. 250$ is steep for a timer.

New comment by prakashn27 in "Gumroad’s source is available"

prakashn27 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:56:44 +0000

What is the use of this opensurce when you have a strict license ?

New comment by prakashn27 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

prakashn27 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:48:44 +0000

Working on “AI automations for Jira” to help Jira admins create automation scripts using AI.

- secure and complaint as it runs on Atlassian

- easy to create automation as AI does the heavy lifting of creating the automation scripts for Jira

- unlimited which was a major limitation in native Atlassian offering.

https://ai-automation.123x.dev/