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Readme.md Is Obsolete

rpac0 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:26:43 +0000

Article URL: https://prashantbarahi.com.np/blog/your-readme-md-is-obsolete

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501781

Points: 1

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New comment by rpac0 in "14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal"

rpac0 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:10:43 +0000

Every major global news outlet is portraying Nepal’s protest as being against a “social media ban.” That is misleading. Even most large local media houses are pushing the same narrative—which is not surprising, since many of them serve as PRs agents for political parties.

A bit about Nepal—the government here is run by a bunch of old farts. They are deeply corrupt and will do anything, legal or not, to protect their positions and continue embezzling the national budget. They lack accountability because they know they can/and have gotten away with anything. Example of a recent one [1]. Their children live lavishly, flexing their designer bags and watches, while the commoners struggle working tough jobs overseas just to survive.

They know that by controlling social media—as they already did with TikTok—they can censor any news about their corruption (which is a norm here) easily and keep the people in dark and in their favor. Now, they want Meta and Google to comply with their agenda and with the election coming, they need this bad!

This protest was never about a “social media ban.” It was against years and years of corruption, embezzlement and censorship. It was supposed to be peaceful. But politics here is a dirty game, and these veterans are seasoned pros. They hired goons to infiltrate the peaceful crowds, cause chaos and damage public property—a very old tactic here. That is how the demonstration spiraled out of control.

If you want to hear the voices of real people, look at r/Nepal and r/NepalSocial on Reddit.

And ask yourself—do you really think people are ready to risk their lives just for social media?

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/NepalSocial/comments/1n9ra2q/hit_an...

New comment by rpac0 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)"

rpac0 — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:14:59 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Nepal | REMOTE

Technologies: Java, Kotlin, JS, TypeScript, Python, Golang, Ruby

Portfolio: https://prashantbarahi.com.np/

New comment by rpac0 in "Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?"

rpac0 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:32:56 +0000

React + Docusaurus

Netlify & Cloudflare

Python (to generate Markdown files)

New comment by rpac0 in "Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023"

rpac0 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:09:41 +0000

This is collection of all the blogs that I found insightful.

https://prashantbarahi.com.np/read-in-public

New comment by rpac0 in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

rpac0 — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 01:37:50 +0000

https://prashantbarahi.com.np/read-in-public

This is a collection of blogs (not mine) I've read.

Here is mine: https://prashantbarahi.com.np/blogs

Show HN: Read in Public

rpac0 — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:19:31 +0000

Remember the "Knowledge Graph"[1]?

Now, I (once again) bring to you–everything I've ever read and found insightful, except this time, it is organized by month and is presented as a heatmap.

It is updated on the 1st and the 16th of each month so, be sure to check it again on those dates.

[1] https://prashantbarahi.com.np/knowledge-graph

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33834445

Points: 1

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New comment by rpac0 in "Show HN: Every great read I've come across, compiled into a knowledge graph"

rpac0 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 23:51:08 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. I will work on list and FTS soon :).

New comment by rpac0 in "Show HN: Every great read I've come across, compiled into a knowledge graph"

rpac0 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 23:47:29 +0000

Actually, this is more for others than it is for me. I wanted to share my Pocket list with the world, without turning it into a super long

s and wanted to make it easier to visualize the categories/relatedness of articles (hey this one is "web" and "ui" related; this one looks like its "web" and "performance" related).

New comment by rpac0 in "Show HN: Every great read I've come across, compiled into a knowledge graph"

rpac0 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 19:09:50 +0000

> just a (large!) collection of things you've found over time

This one is to the point. So, the collection was exported from my Pocket account. Whenever I find any interesting blogs, I save it there (with tags so that I can find them easily). The oldest entry dates back to 2017 and over time, I have accumulated about 700-ish articles.

Here's the backstory: https://twitter.com/nottherealpac/status/1545803998854205441

Hope this clarifies :)

New comment by rpac0 in "Show HN: Every great read I've come across, compiled into a knowledge graph"

rpac0 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 18:49:57 +0000

Thank you. Honestly, working with GraphDB and SPARQL inspired me to create this. I did consider if I could create a "real" knowledge graph and even went as far as searching for in-memory graphdb that lives in client browser (maybe one that's built on top of IndexDB. I thought, hey if in-mem RDBMS like H2 exists, is there an in-mem GraphDB available? :D) so that I can query it using SPARQL, but couldn't find anything on it. I wanted to do this without any infrastructure while keeping the bundle sizes low but yes, the way you explained is how it should have actually been done.

New comment by rpac0 in "Show HN: Every great read I've come across, compiled into a knowledge graph"

rpac0 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 17:45:04 +0000

I was thinking of making a time series of the bookmarks but yeah hierarchical navigation and FTS sounds infinitely more useful. I'll seek into integrating it into the Algolia index. Appreciate the feedback. Thank you.

New comment by rpac0 in "Show HN: Every great read I've come across, compiled into a knowledge graph"

rpac0 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 17:31:47 +0000

Glad you found it useful :)

> I have an internal library of one-liners and bash scripts but I should publish these

That's a great idea. Bash scripts are sort-of like regex to me (I have to recall them whenever I need them and then I forget them later) and bash scripts samples can really be useful. Looking forward to your Show HN.

Show HN: Every great read I've come across, compiled into a knowledge graph

rpac0 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 16:13:16 +0000

Article URL: https://prashantbarahi.com.np/knowledge-graph

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32036478

Points: 153

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New comment by rpac0 in "Ask HN: Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures"

rpac0 — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:46:17 +0000

in case you want to code along, Ive been through some of the books mentioned here and solved the algorithms. You can check it out at https://github.com/realpacific/algorithms

Solution to data structures and algorithms problem in Kotlin/Java/Python

rpac0 — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:39:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/realpacific/algorithms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28634187

Points: 2

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