Hacker News: rashidujang

New comment by rashidujang in "Smartphone without a battery (2022)"

rashidujang — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:17:26 +0000

Tangentially related, I have recently been using my S10+ as a makeshift media server running Jellyfin in Termux. The main problem I had was that it is unsafe to keep a device perpetually charging and my first thought was to create a Routine to turn on the charger when the battery is above a certain threshold and off when it is below. This post gives me an alternative idea to try.

New comment by rashidujang in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"

rashidujang — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:32:31 +0000

This was my impression after reading the article too. I have no doubt that the team at Filevine attempted to secure their systems and have probably thwarted other attackers, but got their foot stuck in what is an unsophisticated attack. It only takes one chain vulnerability to bring down the site.

Security reminds me of the Anna Karenina principle: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

New comment by rashidujang in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

rashidujang — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:21:54 +0000

> There will be a daily call for those tasked with improving the chatbot, the memo said, and Altman encouraged temporary team transfers to speed up development.

It's incredible how 50 year-old advice from The Mythical Man-Month are still not being heed. Throw in a knee-jerk solution of "daily call" (sound familiar?) for those involved while they are wading knee-deep through work and you have a perfect storm of terrible working conditions. My money is Google, who in my opinion have not only caught up, but surpassed OpenAI with their latest iteration of their AI offerings.

New comment by rashidujang in "Everyone knows all the apps on your phone"

rashidujang — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:11:43 +0000

From the context, what I gather was meant by the idea of "multiple Indias" was the socioeconomic status of different demographics in India and their app usage. The presence of specific apps gives a tell to which demographic they belong to.

In other words, the richest demographic used certain apps and was equated to folks in Mexico, followed by the less rich equated to folks in Indonesia and the poor to Sub-Saharan Africa.

New comment by rashidujang in "DawVert – a DAW project file converter"

rashidujang — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:30:41 +0000

This is so cool and actually was something I was thinking of building for a while! Would love a write-up of how the file formats was reverse engineered.

New comment by rashidujang in "The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)"

rashidujang — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 02:52:05 +0000

Love it, this seems very similar to https://www.actsofgord.com/

New comment by rashidujang in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

rashidujang — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:31:37 +0000

I've been struggling to find a workflow that can easily extract knowledge and insights from audio content on the web and sync it with note-taking systems such as Notion, Readwise or Obsidian, so I decided to create a system that transcribes the audio, summarizes it and shares it with other applications.

Right now we are only targetting podcasts to Notion as the vertical slice for the MVP, but in the future we're looking to support "connectors" that can take in other forms of content such as audiobooks, videos, etc. and share it to other popular note-taking forms.

It's been an exciting journey so far and we're looking to launch soon!

Ask HN: What is currently the best way to host AI models?

rashidujang — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:08:47 +0000

AI infrastructure moves really quickly and best practices are constantly evolving so I was wondering what is HN's opinion on the best way to host custom AI models for inference in Q1 2024?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39511368

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by rashidujang in "A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks"

rashidujang — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 16:25:12 +0000

Amazing article! In case the author sees this, it'd be great if the author can deep dive into how he "found the right place" in finding the correct breakpoint to produce the decrypted message. It seems to me that if you're able to do this there's a lot of interesting things one could do.

New comment by rashidujang in "Guide to running Llama 2 locally"

rashidujang — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:05:07 +0000

Hey there, I was confused at this exact question too. This link might help, written by a contributor to llama.cpp: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1684

TLDR: Lower quantization means higher perplexity (i.e. how 'confused' the model is when seeing new information). It's a matter of testing it out and choosing a model that fits your available memory. The higher the quantization number, the better (generally).

New comment by rashidujang in "PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model"

rashidujang — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:28:24 +0000

Cool! He seems like a powerhouse in this space - thank you for the answer

New comment by rashidujang in "PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model"

rashidujang — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 04:23:10 +0000

Hey I'm fairly new to the who's who in the PostgreSQL world, would you mind telling why Heikki might be able to pull this off?

New comment by rashidujang in "Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers"

rashidujang — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 02:10:46 +0000

Congrats to the Infisical Team! I was a first-time open source contributor thanks to this project and definitely could not have done that without the patience and guidance from the team.

Keep up the great work!

New comment by rashidujang in "In praise of MIDI"

rashidujang — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:03:10 +0000

WOW this site takes me back, hours upon hours of reading Computer Stupidities. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by rashidujang in "Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?"

rashidujang — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 17:00:59 +0000

Developer Tea has been my go to wind down podcast after a long day. Thank you!

New comment by rashidujang in "Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?"

rashidujang — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 16:59:00 +0000

I really enjoy listening to Coding Blocks, especially when they're discussing popular software engineering books (DDD, Devops Handbook, etc.) which give a great overview of what the core concepts of the book are along with practical applications. They don't take themselves too seriously what with having dad joke sections but still manage to keep things informational and current. They can be pretty long so I recommend breaking listening sessions following their survey sections.

New comment by rashidujang in "The joy of building a ray tracer, for fun, in Rust"

rashidujang — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 12:00:28 +0000

Was pleasantly surprised to learn that the author of this blog post was none other than the CTO of Stripe! Glad to see a CTO who's still hands-on and even willingly blogs about making so-called 'beginner' mistakes with the float/integer behaviour in Rust. Big props.

New comment by rashidujang in "A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp (2017)"

rashidujang — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:46:52 +0000

Would love to see this too!

New comment by rashidujang in "Launch HN: Suplias (YC S21) – B2B inventory for mom and pop stores in Africa"

rashidujang — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 03:49:40 +0000

Love this idea. I hail from a South East Asian country and can definitely see something similar being popular in my country.

A question I have on the logistics, how do you govern the delivery associates and do you partner with any local logistic companies to provide delivery associates?

Again, this is a great idea and good luck to you and your team!

New comment by rashidujang in "Building Products at Stripe"

rashidujang — Wed, 19 May 2021 03:24:06 +0000

Do you mind sharing some examples of these Google Docs and what their contents are? My current workplace seems to be running on the mantra of "do first, document later... make that never" and I'm trying to change it by stressting high-quality documentations and clearly documented requirements.