Hacker News: swaraj

New comment by swaraj in "I made a programming language with M&Ms"

swaraj — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:43:01 +0000

This is what HN is all about

New comment by swaraj in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

swaraj — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:41:52 +0000

V cool, this is a perfect llm use case

New comment by swaraj in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

swaraj — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:39:55 +0000

So many things these days I just love being an engineer rn - ai scheduling assistant - polymarket trading bots - ai assisted form filler - games my 6 y/o dreams up - openclaw workflows - and countless hackathon-y projects at work that never would have seen the light of day without my best friend Claude

New comment by swaraj in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

swaraj — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:57:54 +0000

This is spot on

New comment by swaraj in "Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes"

swaraj — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:38:21 +0000

Looked into this for my clawdbot, but ended up just using himalaya CLI connected to a new Gmail. Been working great so far - curious about what agentmail is better for

New comment by swaraj in "Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation"

swaraj — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:53:32 +0000

Tried the voice clone with a 30s trump clip (with reference text), and it didn't sound like him at all.

New comment by swaraj in "Charles Proxy"

swaraj — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:44:38 +0000

I once used Charles Proxy to change all the game configs for Candy Crush Saga on my phone back in 2013 by intercepting and replacing the API requests - I made all the puzzles have 1-2 colors and infinite powerups. I guess they didn't care much about the security because I ended up spending way more time in the game

New comment by swaraj in "New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely"

swaraj — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:52:37 +0000

Exactly

New comment by swaraj in "Uchū – Color scheme for internet lovers"

swaraj — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:07:00 +0000

Gotta love HN, only popular site in world where a list of hex codes on a nicely formatted website gets to top ranking

New comment by swaraj in "We are destroying software"

swaraj — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:28:54 +0000

They are when the only reason they are flagged as security updates is because some a single group deems a very rare, obscure edge case as a HIGH severity vuln when in practice it rarely is => this leads to having to upgrade a minor version of a library that ends up causing breaking changes.

This is the recent thread I'm down. Pandas 2.2 broke SQLalchemy backwards compatibility: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38332787/pandas-to-sql-t... + https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/57049#issuecomme...

New comment by swaraj in "The LLMentalist Effect"

swaraj — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 18:54:29 +0000

You should try the arc agi puzzles yourself, and then tell me you think these things aren't intelligent

https://arcprize.org/blog/openai-o1-results-arc-prize

I wouldn't say it's full agi or anything yet, but these things can definitely think in a very broad sense of the word

New comment by swaraj in "We are destroying software"

swaraj — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 18:52:02 +0000

I spent 10 hrs this week upgrading our pandas/snowflake libs to latest bc there was apparently a critical vulnerability in the version we used (which we need to fix bc a security cert we need requires us to fix these). The latest versions are not major upgrades, but completely changed the types of params accepted. Enormous waste of time delivering 0 value to our business

New comment by swaraj in "Exercise may be the 'most potent medical intervention ever known'"

swaraj — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 06:26:28 +0000

Nailed it

New comment by swaraj in "The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) [video]"

swaraj — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:57:20 +0000

Like top comment, my first exposure to programming was basic on a ti-86 (better than 83, but quickly outdone by 84 shortly after)

My first program was doubly cheating, not only did I have a program for solving quadratic equation, but I copied the basic off the internet in true open src fashion

When I told my dad I copied code from internet, he was so disappointed and thought I had 0 skills. Now, we pip/npm/etc install anything and are heroes for choosing to "buy" not "build"

New comment by swaraj in "Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers"

swaraj — Thu, 16 May 2024 05:33:03 +0000

We're all on on https://www.sigmacomputing.com/ bc we don't like hosting/managing/provisioning essential tools like this + this seems more complicated to configured.

I would recommend a simpler setup like Metabase Docker (which I re-evaluated recently): https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/installation-and-operat...

New comment by swaraj in "Polars"

swaraj — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 07:30:03 +0000

Always happy to see new stuff on the block, but hard to leave pandas and python ecosystem for this

Not sure where this fits in to any workflow tbh, with sufficiently large datasets, you will inevitably need spark (which has same API as pandas)

New comment by swaraj in "Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive"

swaraj — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:20:20 +0000

Love Signal over Telegram, Wickr, etc.

New comment by swaraj in "Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated"

swaraj — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 05:25:45 +0000

This looks amazing, we have written a similar script for both our local dev dbs as well as our staging env. Would love MySQL support

New comment by swaraj in "Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated"

swaraj — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 05:42:20 +0000

I haven't used Codespaces, but how does this work with databases? A common problem we have during onboarding is getting your local database (MySQL) setup properly: run all the migrations => load some sample, de-identified, production-like data => update certain rows to allow for personal development (e.g. for our texting service, make sure you text your own phone number, instead of someone else's).

What's the workflow for this?

A related issue for us is being able to test another developer's pull request with database migrations without wiping out your current database state. Is there a Devpods workflow for this?

New comment by swaraj in "Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated"

swaraj — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 05:37:40 +0000

Client-only is the prime selling point for me. A common project for our engineers is building/updating data ETLs & reports off of sensitive healthcare data. Since our engineer's laptops are already fully configured and registered to handle this sort of data, we wouldn't have to worry about the security/tracking of each developer potentially sending this data to more places than it needs to be.