Hacker News: sourabhv

New comment by sourabhv in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"

sourabhv — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:07:03 +0000

It's still included here

New comment by sourabhv in "ML Code Exercises"

sourabhv — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:30:34 +0000

While this might be helpful to gain a deeper understanding, but adding a time constraint and making it something that can be asked in an interview sounds painful. Please make this a github repo instead like python_koans

New comment by sourabhv in "ML Code Exercises"

sourabhv — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:28:47 +0000

lol

New comment by sourabhv in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

sourabhv — Fri, 10 May 2024 09:55:20 +0000

Yeah the add shows off iPad as something more than it probably is. I don't like the destruction part but meh... to me the ad speaks nothing special or wow except the exploding paint buckets, which was fun. But there is nothing to apologize for. Its an ad, they are not coming into your home and breaking your piano and guitars, chill. Don't like it? Don't buy it.

New comment by sourabhv in "Ask HN: What Are You Learning?"

sourabhv — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 14:05:55 +0000

Learning AI, well started off with coursera deep learning specialization taught by Andrew Ng.

New comment by sourabhv in "Latency numbers every programmer should know"

sourabhv — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 10:33:33 +0000

The original is honestly better: https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...

New comment by sourabhv in "Ask HN: How to go from a good engineer to a great one?"

sourabhv — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 15:58:15 +0000

Thank you for the answer and all the resources. I've tried starting rust a couple of times but somehow something else came up always, I'll give it another go.

I've been trying to focus my time on moving towards machine learning and its a paradigm shift for me because I've never been a fan of mathematics. I've started with Deep Learning Specialization on coursera but I don't know if that's a good resource. So if you have a better resource or a learning path you can suggest for this, that'd be great.

Ask HN: How to go from a good engineer to a great one?

sourabhv — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 11:58:22 +0000

After about 8 years as a software engineer, I've noticed significant growth in my skills, from grappling with messy code to crafting cleaner solutions, and from struggling with documentation to confidently delving into library source code. I've broadened my expertise across application, frontend, and backend development. However, over the past 2-3 years, I've encountered a roadblock. I find myself unable to progress further or delve into advanced topics. This stagnation has led me to undervalue my accomplishments and feel demotivated about further learning. I often admire individuals who can independently create remarkable tools, scale products from a few users to millions, and rapidly develop and deploy software within a week.

Has anyone else experienced a similar feeling of being stuck? Any advice on how to overcome this hurdle and continue progressing?

PS: And yes I asked GPT to format my question. So that's the reason it sounds robotic, its not bot spam.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39580295

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by sourabhv in "Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max"

sourabhv — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:55:42 +0000

Seems like apple's software is lagging far behind their hardware. To this day I can't reliably use Facetime for a call. Often times its ringing on my mac but the other use gets nothing. Maybe take some time to fix your software as well, apple?

New comment by sourabhv in "A new modern look for the Android brand"

sourabhv — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 21:17:50 +0000

Last 3 android releases have seriously been in terms of new features, especially when you compare it with iOS. It used to be a completely opposite case 7-8 years ago. Is android team working on something big, running out of ideas or just under-staffed? I don't know who cares about a new android logo. I switched to iOS this year because I gave up on android adding anything new that's worth looking forward to.

New comment by sourabhv in "macOS Containers v0.0.1"

sourabhv — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:49:40 +0000

This uses macfuse, a closed source software

New comment by sourabhv in "Run Llama 2 on your own Mac using LLM and Homebrew"

sourabhv — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 04:33:17 +0000

The 13B link seems to be incorrect. Correct one would be

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-GGML/resolve/mai...

New comment by sourabhv in "When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option"

sourabhv — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:20:10 +0000

I thought of this years ago and even tried implementing this but my knowledge that time was very limited. So eventually I gave up.

I think before android implemented their permission system, os like Xiaomi’d implemented their permissions by feeding fake data to the app in case user reject a permission.

New comment by sourabhv in "Google CEO Salary"

sourabhv — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 05:59:35 +0000

I doubt any CEO can pass software engineering interview questions. That's a pointless interview. No CEO is writing their own app. What he lacks is vision to convert random sparkly ideas into actual practical products and to control his company to focus on one variant of one product.

Google often has 2 of same ideas competing internally, which might sound like it encourages a healthy competition but most of their competitions have failed. Gmail can use dozens of new features which would be useful but they launched Inbox instead, an app with a confusion interface and nothing more. Duo has great video compression but that's it. They never used that in Meet or Hangouts.

Seems like they have gold but would rather use bronze.

New comment by sourabhv in "Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo"

sourabhv — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 08:49:21 +0000

You can use other payment methods in android apps without any issues.

Python Ellipsis Literal is cute

sourabhv — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:00:07 +0000

Article URL: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-January/011793.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33707150

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by sourabhv in "AutoRegex"

sourabhv — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 12:09:27 +0000

Switch from "regex to english" and write "email".

Instead of saying it will match the string "email", it says the opposite, english -> regex conversion

> regex = /\A([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})\Z/i

> This regular expression is used to match an email address. It starts by matching any character that is not a space or the "@" symbol, followed by the "@" symbol, then any characters that are not a space or the "." symbol, followed by a "." character, and finally any characters that are not a space.

New comment by sourabhv in "Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust"

sourabhv — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:31:30 +0000

I would honestly prefer flutter instead of relying on system web view and all of its inconsistencies

New comment by sourabhv in "Stop Interviewing with Leet Code"

sourabhv — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:07:14 +0000

If you think it’s about flexibility or brilliance or intuition or experience, you couldn’t be more wrong. Leetcode and others and purely about practice and that too recent practice, all questions follow similar patterns and if you have it fresh in memory you can write it in 5 mins. But writing it from brainstorming can take more time tha allotted.

So are top leet coders better programmers? Not really, a lot of them are colleges students who have time to practice and they are in similar competitive circle. I’ve interviewed many and couldn’t hire even one

New comment by sourabhv in "I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones"

sourabhv — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 21:11:08 +0000

These companies boast so much about their prowess in AI, but can't differentiate between a transactional and promotional message?