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New comment by siddheshgunjal in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

siddheshgunjal — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:48:52 +0000

Nope, they have exact same data collecyion policy. Just represented in a different way on app store. That's the illusion they create

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

siddheshgunjal — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:45:43 +0000

So many amazing open-source developers just don't want to publish their app to app store because of the fees. On android, this is way way easier. If google keeps making this difficult, then i'll just have to switch to linux phone

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python"

siddheshgunjal — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:31:50 +0000

I was thinking of trying ModernBERT for one of my projects. But I can only conclude after seeing the performance for my usecase. Do you think ModernBERT will be capable of expanding abbreviated sentences?

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python"

siddheshgunjal — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:03:51 +0000

At my work, we still prefer to use distilbert for text classification. It almost always does well with a little bit of fine tuning. In very rare cases, we use LLMs/Agentic setup when the task involves refering both images and text and the same time.

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "[dead]"

siddheshgunjal — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 06:04:21 +0000

Did people really forget about the awesome WebXR API that lets you do spatial computing for AR/XR directly from browser?

I have a simple webapp here that utilizes WebXR API. I have also added some controls using gestures. Please try it out and do let me know...

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader"

siddheshgunjal — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:41:14 +0000

I also realised the same thing yesterday. I tried using a specific tag quality, for a playlist and many of the videos failed to download. So, I just set it to download the best available quality for video and audio.

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader"

siddheshgunjal — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:35:00 +0000

This is a very neat implementation! Exactly what I was thinking. I'm gonna try it out. Thanks for the suggestion!

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader"

siddheshgunjal — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:34:03 +0000

This looks like a good implementation. But I have to go to my desktop to explore more

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader"

siddheshgunjal — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:40:11 +0000

I don't understand one thing...why do you need to host it on a server? It can be just a standalone app on windows/Linux/mac. I recently just started using yt-dlp and have thought of making a simple app. Should I though? Are there any alternatives in existence of this kind?

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

siddheshgunjal — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:34:10 +0000

Have you tried DaVinci Resolve? It works great.

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

siddheshgunjal — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:31:43 +0000

I switched to Linux when I got frustrated because of windows just updating and restarting itself over night when I left my unfinished project for the next day to continue. That was a trigger for me

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?"

siddheshgunjal — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 08:02:58 +0000

slackker for monitoring your ML model training status in real-time on Slack & Telegram.

https://github.com/siddheshgunjal/slackker

I have also been planning to add discord support soon.

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site"

siddheshgunjal — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 05:40:27 +0000

Why not go for GitHub hosting then?

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site"

siddheshgunjal — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 05:32:02 +0000

That's why for my static site, I always prefer to use GitHub. Simple, deploy changes in push and can connect to a custom domain if needed.

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "Ask HN: Am I insane if I use only Sublime+Terminal combo for development?"

siddheshgunjal — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:37:39 +0000

A long time ago, I tried PyCharm/phpStorm for my projects. I tried really hard, but kept switching back to the terminal myself

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "Ask HN: Am I insane if I use only Sublime+Terminal combo for development?"

siddheshgunjal — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:35:04 +0000

Yup, for most of my work, which is mostly python, js, php Sublime works well with autocomplete. For flutter I use LSP for some refactoring suggestions and other tasks like wrapping a widget, etc.

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "Ask HN: Am I insane if I use only Sublime+Terminal combo for development?"

siddheshgunjal — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:31:51 +0000

I was a PyCharm user myself, but later I found out that for most of my projects, Sublime works well with auto complete (Except Java). For flutter code refactor (like wrap widget, etc.) and suggestions, LSP works very well.

Ask HN: Am I insane if I use only Sublime+Terminal combo for development?

siddheshgunjal — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:57:58 +0000

I'm an ML engineer with almost 6 years of experience in the field and I use only Sublime+Terminal for all my development (ML, Web, Flutter, etc.) Yes, even for flutter I do not use VS code or Android Studio, only Sublime (with LSP)+Terminal.

- The reason is, when I was a newbie in the world of ML, I had a laptop worst than a potato laptop. So, I had to preserve as much resources as I can for actually ML tasks. That forced me to keep things simple & lightweight.

- At that time I tried to use PyCharm, VS Code, etc. but all of them resulted in consuming a lot of resources and very little left for actual model to run.

- Fast forward to today, I now have a decent laptop for coding & a good workstation for my ML related workflows, but I still chose to use only Sublime+Terminal for all my tasks

- To be honest, setting up Conda to work with PyCharm & VS code is sometimes pain in the a*. Some of my students still come to me with problems of conda and other env management tools not working properly with VS code & PyCharm.

- The thing is I like to keep things simple and lightweight. In my experience, Sublime is an excellent code editor with excellent package support. I find running scripts, managing envs, docker, DBs, etc, simpler and quicker directly from Terminal...

- I do not understand why people use VS code or PyCharm if they have to take additional steps to make their tools work with it, let's say Conda (environment management tool). Whereas same task can be done with just Vanilla terminal without any hassle.

So Am I insane for using only Sublime+Terminal in my dev environment while entire world is using various(God knows how many) tools for development. Or is it just a developer inside who got used to keeping everything so optimised at each level, that anything that consumes resources unnecessarily makes my wanna avoid using it...

- I am really curious to know what tools you guys are using in your dev environment? And what's your reason for that setup?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39194868

Points: 4

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New comment by siddheshgunjal in "Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling"

siddheshgunjal — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:08:54 +0000

This is so interesting and the fact that it works anywhere in the world is awesome buddy! And kudos for finishing your side project

New comment by siddheshgunjal in "WebP is so great except it's not (2021)"

siddheshgunjal — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 01:30:24 +0000

Author might be right about the gradient shifts in images after conversion, but at the same time, most of the websites are not using such color accurate images everywhere. Some are logos and some are with alpha channel. It is a fact that WebPs are lightweight assets to load on the user side which reduces bandwidth consumption for the user and your server. So use WebP where it's needed to save some loading time and bandwidth and use your preferred format where you want to show images as is.

If you're planning to convert your images to WebP in bulk, I wrote a shell script: here's the link:

https://medium.com/@siddheshgunjal82/bulk-convert-images-to-...