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New comment by sarupbanskota in "Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors"

sarupbanskota — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:23:20 +0000

Why do you think LLMs don't do a good job at generating good selectors by default?

The first repo with 500k+ stars

sarupbanskota — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:57:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057164

Points: 2

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Build your own Claude Code

sarupbanskota — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:17:09 +0000

Article URL: https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/claude-code/overview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940013

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sarupbanskota in "Show HN — [YC S22] – Rust for Impatient Developers (RFID)"

sarupbanskota — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 02:42:40 +0000

Thank you! I _think_ we learnt that from CodeCademy who was among the first to introduce the pattern.

New comment by sarupbanskota in "Show HN — [YC S22] – Rust for Impatient Developers (RFID)"

sarupbanskota — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 01:31:13 +0000

Eventually, we would love to. In the near/mid-term, it's unlikely.

The reason we specifically chose Rust is because:

* It's rarely someone's first language, so we'll get targeted feedback from users with the right experience level

* It's a somewhat non-intuitive language and has "new/unique" ideas (e.g borrows), so the pain point is particularly strong

* It lacks learning resources (my guess is because the number of Rust developers is relatively small and there's higher barrier to producing content)

New comment by sarupbanskota in "Show HN — [YC S22] – Rust for Impatient Developers (RFID)"

sarupbanskota — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:54:26 +0000

It's a change we'd love to see taking place.

We are aware of tech teams that use our challenges instead of LeetCode style questions for interviewing. We run our interviews using this system. Candidates seem to enjoy the experience, and it's much harder to "fake".

There are two main challenges today:

* Interviewers themselves are used to the standard format — they have answers for, a way to benchmark, tools they're familiar with over years, etc.

* While much harder to "cheat" on these challenges (since there are so many touch-points), offering these as take-homes might be lengthy for some engineers.

If you were in our place, what would you try to do for increasing adoption (whether for hiring or learning)?

Show HN — [YC S22] – Rust for Impatient Developers (RFID)

sarupbanskota — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:31:12 +0000

Hey everybody, it’s Sarup and Paul.

"Rust for Impatient Developers" (RFID) is an interactive intro to Rust that skips programming 101, history, other fluff.

Key features:

* Tells you "how to write a function in Rust". Doesn't tell you "what is a function"

* Distraction-free. Introduces exactly one simple idea at a time, no more

* Includes simple interactive questions to verify you understood correctly

* 100% free. Mobile friendly. Tracks and saves your progress.

Try out the first 10 modules "Rust Basics" here: https://app.codecrafters.io/tracks/rust

Why we built this:

We're the makers of CodeCrafters, which offers advanced programming challenges for developers. e.g Build your own BitTorrent in Rust.

Our users repeatedly kept asking for a Rust intro resource that offered "just enough Rust knowledge to get started on a reasonably complex first Rust project".

Initially, we wanted to recommend an external resource.

* But books were too long & too intense

* Tutorials weren't interactive or saving progress

* Jumping right into a Rust project is also too daunting

So we built RFID :)

Please try it out, we'd love any feedback, it's early days. https://app.codecrafters.io/tracks/rust

Questions:

* What could we improve in our current user experience?

* What Rust related topics would you like to see covered?

* What else is difficult about learning Rust? (besides syntax/concepts)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43189985

Points: 4

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Guillermo Rauch – Vercel, the Front End Cloud

sarupbanskota — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:50:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.devtools.fm/episode/91?view=TRANSCRIPT

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813960

Points: 2

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When You Accidentally Compromise Every CPU on Earth

sarupbanskota — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:08:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRohz9VO1YY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813758

Points: 2

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DHH: Ruby on Rails, 37signals, and the future of web development

sarupbanskota — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:29:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.devtools.fm/episode/90?view=TRANSCRIPT

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39757460

Points: 4

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Ask HN: Is FSL open source?

sarupbanskota — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 03:23:44 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/shanecurcuru/status/1757426506714808362

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39366042

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

The Story of Elixir

sarupbanskota — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 05:01:00 +0000

Article URL: https://osshistory.org/p/elixir

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38997603

Points: 5

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Ask HN: Best Hackathon Prizes?

sarupbanskota — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 05:52:19 +0000

What are some of the most interesting hackathon prizes? Interesting = unique, useful, quirky, silly, expensive, great developer utility, anything counts.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38705861

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sarupbanskota in "Show HN: Pivots and millions later, I built a lambda to start WhatsApp chats"

sarupbanskota — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:23:55 +0000

Why do you call it "a lambda"? Perhaps clearer as "WhatsApp router for your sales team"

New comment by sarupbanskota in "Ask HN: Interactive tutorials for learning basics of terminal?"

sarupbanskota — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:19:03 +0000

The first link is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

Ask HN: Interactive tutorials for learning basics of terminal?

sarupbanskota — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:00:59 +0000

I want to recommend an interactive resource to someone new to programming.

Something like https://try.ruby-lang.org/, but for the terminal.

Most of the top hits on Google either seem to also dive into unnecessary history, scripting/Git, or are not interactive.

Ideas?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38446444

Points: 8

# Comments: 6

New comment by sarupbanskota in "Get started with technical writing"

sarupbanskota — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:11:47 +0000

So cool. Looks like the proselint site is down. For anyone else who wanted to read the approach - https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/b5b7536bec5fd461e...

New comment by sarupbanskota in "Get started with technical writing"

sarupbanskota — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:16:45 +0000

I was hoping to discover tools, free or paid, that specifically help with editing copy aimed at a technical audience.

There's clearly a fact-based, no BS writing style that resonates well with HN for example.

Are there tools that help detect such BS in writing?

Hemingway Editor comes to mind, what else?

New comment by sarupbanskota in "Show HN: I built a guided Build your own DNS Server challenge"

sarupbanskota — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:39:33 +0000

Makes sense. Reception has been healthy so far :)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342334

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941075

On average I'd say we get a 50/50 split between folks who like the doing/challenge aspect of it, vs those who wished there was more "consuming" type of content, e.g vidoes/text

New comment by sarupbanskota in "Show HN: I built a guided Build your own DNS Server challenge"

sarupbanskota — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:06:16 +0000

We do have a supplementary screencasts feature (this challenge doesn’t have one yet since its new).

Here’s what it looks like on the Redis challenge: https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/redis/stages/2/screencas...