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AI-based medical care in space (Google and NASA partnership)

sachinjain — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:48:25 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/how-google-and-nasa-are-testing-ai-for-medical-care-in-space

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44862800

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sachinjain in "Show HN: Non-intrusive AI agent to automate email driven workflows"

sachinjain — Tue, 27 May 2025 16:03:30 +0000

Gave it a quick try to find the LinkedIn profile for an email. Worked well. Curious to know what are the other use cases from a founder's pov?

New comment by sachinjain in "Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer community"

sachinjain — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:20:54 +0000

Is this a good evaluation criterion anymore? Also, did you allow the candidate to use the internet?

Most of us do not remember the exact syntax for everything despite having coded in that language/framework for years.

New comment by sachinjain in "Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer community"

sachinjain — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:15:28 +0000

This weekend, I tried out Gemini Code Assist and compared it to my usual AI assistant, Cursor IDE. Shared my findings here [0]

[0]: https://sachinjain.substack.com/p/ai-coding-assistant-gemini...

New comment by sachinjain in "Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training"

sachinjain — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:27:04 +0000

Thanks so much! Curious, why didn't HN flag and let the creation of dup thread?

Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer community

sachinjain — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:25:27 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/google-launches-a-free-ai-coding-assistant-with-very-high-usage-caps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43193018

Points: 41

# Comments: 67

Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training

sachinjain — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:09:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/meta-staff-torrented-nearly-82tb-of-pirated-books-for-ai-training-court-records-reveal-copyright-violations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43086851

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Polyfill.io domain and GitHub Account is now owned by a Chinese company

sachinjain — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:05:08 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@wrongsahil/protecting-yourself-from-polyfill-io-malware-as-a-user-7be300ff8b94

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41044725

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

New comment by sachinjain in "My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website"

sachinjain — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 08:32:37 +0000

This looks like a solid first step. I am also teaching my 8yo a bit of coding, starting with HTML but he complains about a lot of typing, he is slow in typing so it becomes painful for him.

Did your daughter face this problem?

New comment by sachinjain in "Why we are remote and How we make it work?"

sachinjain — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:16:52 +0000

This model has some benefits too just that you have to live near the office or perhaps 1 day commute shouldn't feel too bad.

New comment by sachinjain in "Why we are remote and How we make it work?"

sachinjain — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:11:43 +0000

Do you mean a hybrid model where you go to office once a week and rest days are remote?

New comment by sachinjain in "Why we are remote and How we make it work?"

sachinjain — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:53:27 +0000

There's a lot of debate around remote work vs In-office work. Many companies have started opening offices and forcing employees to come back in the name of productivity but I feel people are more productive at home with some discipline and better practices.

Remote work has many challenges. We're a startup (16 employees) so the challenges differ from the challenges faced by big tech companies.

I think there’s no right or wrong answer here. Either option has pros and cons. With In-person office work, it is hard to go into a focussed more, there are many distractions, commute takes away a lot of time & energy, etc.

While remote working requires a lot of self-discipline, it is very easy to get dragged into many work chores, hard to communicate with fellow teammates, and some folks also do moonlighting which is against many company policies.

We follow certain practices to make our remote setup work and it has worked beautifully so far So I think remote work is here to stay and many startups can adopt remote work to be more efficient, and move fast.

Why we are remote and How we make it work?

sachinjain — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:51:02 +0000

Article URL: https://saturnhq.io/blog/how-we-make-remote-work-successful-at-saturnhq/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128221

Points: 2

# Comments: 5

New comment by sachinjain in "Tell HN: The popular Chrome extension ModHeader is injecting ads into searches"

sachinjain — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 04:42:16 +0000

Requestly founder here! If you're still looking for a solution to modify HTTP Headers [0], you can try Requestly - An Open-source[1] Chrome & Firefox extension to intercept & modify network requests.

Although Requestly is a freemium product, the free plan offers unlimited HTTP header modifications. You can get Requestly here[2]

[0]: https://requestly.io/blog/modify-headers-in-https-requests-a...

[1]: https://github.com/requestly/requestly/

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/requestly-redirect...

New comment by sachinjain in "Tell HN: Service Workers === Browser Background Tasks"

sachinjain — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 22:21:08 +0000

Requestly founder here. If this is a third-party site then you don't have control over the behaviour of service worker.

Your bet is to use a browser extension to override the response of that specific API and sort of change the response.

PS - Why do you think this is an overkill solution?

New comment by sachinjain in "What Is Requestly"

sachinjain — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 05:19:11 +0000

This is Sachin - Requestly founder here!

At Requestly, We're trying to build an open-source platform to make frontend devs more productive. Having been a frontend dev myself, I often found inefficiencies like being blocked on backend devs for development & testing. Another problem that I faced very regularly was testing my JS changes directly on production sites.

We're trying to solve this with Requestly being an on-device proxy (Chrome extension as well as standalone app) that helps you capture network requests and reroute and mock responses easily.

Traditionally, people used Charles Proxy or Fiddler for this but many companies have moved to Requestly now for easy use & being present in browser makes it fast to use and without VPN Issues.

New comment by sachinjain in "Ask HN: How do you share cURL requests within your company?"

sachinjain — Fri, 12 May 2023 11:46:36 +0000

Its not always that all the bugs are reproducible on local/staging env. Some Issues only happen on production :-/

Ask HN: How do you share cURL requests within your company?

sachinjain — Fri, 12 May 2023 05:36:37 +0000

cURL request might contain sensitive data like Auth headers, exact request payload. Also sometimes cURL requests are obtained from logs of a user session.

And, devs need to share cURL requests in order to reproduce an issue and communicate context to another dev.

I know of a platform called Zerobin to share secure messages. I am thinking to host an internal server of Zerobin and use that to share cURL & other secrets within the company.

How are you dealing with this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35912310

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by sachinjain in "Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?"

sachinjain — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:25:52 +0000

How do you compare it with superblog? It is run by a Linkedin connection and I keep hearing about it.

New comment by sachinjain in "Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?"

sachinjain — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 01:42:35 +0000

I started building Requestly (https://requestly.io) as a side-project back in 2014 and It took me pretty much every Saturday for 7y to hit ~$2K revenue and to get few companies paying for the product. It was slightly hard to monetize chrome extension due to lack of payments APIs support in chrome ecosystem. I actually went full time in Sep'21 and was fortunate enough to get into YC(W22). Now we are a small team based in India building Requestly.

Requestly is an open-source [1] Chrome & Firefox extension [2] that I started to help me in faster web development by capturing & modifying network requests directly in the browser without using any external tools. It eventually replaced Charles & Fiddler for many companies but now we are building a desktop version[3] too.

On a side note, Side Projects are a long-term game but the good part is you can do multiple along with your job and pick the one getting more traction. For example - I did many other side projects but continued with Requestly for 2 reasons - I was using it myself almost everyday and It was gaining organic traction.

Good luck in finding the project of your calling.

[1]: https://github.com/requestly/requestly

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/requestly-redirect...

[3]: https://requestly.io/desktop