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

varworld — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:28:33 +0000

Current working on two new products:

* https://sprout.vision/ - AI generated Go-To-Market Strategy for launching your next venture. I have a Tech background with limited GTM experience, so I experimented with AI to learn about different strategies and decided to turn it into a simple product that will generate a comprehensive plan (500+ pages) to help you launch your next venture. Try it out, would love to hear your feedback, use the HN50 promo code for 50% off your order.

* https://pubdb.com/ - Reviving a 10 year old project, it’s meant to make research publications more accessible to mere mortals with the help of AI. I have lots of ideas I want to try out here but haven’t gotten around to it yet. Currently focused on nailing down the basics with an OCR indexing pipeline and generating AI summaries.

Open Sourcing TensorFlowOnSpark: Distributed Deep Learning on Big-Data Clusters

varworld — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:54:57 +0000

Article URL: http://yahoohadoop.tumblr.com/post/157196317141/open-sourcing-tensorflowonspark-distributed-deep

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13639138

Points: 5

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New comment by varworld in "Hyperloop"

varworld — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:11:50 +0000

"Btw, this is not the very latest version. Will post an updated version with several late arriving corrections in a few hours." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/367028946426019840

New comment by varworld in "Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago"

varworld — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:52:19 +0000

Riak is cool and what you have described is correct however under failure conditions[1] you may not get this desired behavior.

[1]http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/references/appendices/conc...

New comment by varworld in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012)"

varworld — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:09:44 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Boston, MA or Remote

* Extensive experience building RESTful APIs

* Built complex systems like recommendation engine, ad targeting systems (big data)

Languages: C++, Erlang, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Pig.

Databases: Cassandra, MySQL, Riak.

Frameworks: Hadoop, Jersey, jQuery, Mahout, OTP, Webmachine, YUI.

Web/Proxy Server: Apache httpd, Traffic Server, Jetty, Mochiweb, Nginx, Squid, Varnish.

Other: Ejabberd, Elastic Search, Kafka, Memcached, Solr, Puppet.

email in profile.

New comment by varworld in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2012)"

varworld — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:16:53 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Boston, MA or Remote

* Extensive experience building RESTful APIs

* Built complex systems like recommendation engine, ad targeting systems (big data)

Languages: C++, Erlang, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Pig.

Databases: Cassandra, MySQL, Riak.

Frameworks: Hadoop, Jersey, jQuery, Mahout, OTP, Webmachine, YUI.

Web/Proxy Server: Apache httpd, Traffic Server, Jetty, Mochiweb, Nginx, Squid, Varnish.

Other: Ejabberd, Elastic Search, Kafka, Memcached, Solr, Puppet.

email in profile, prefer 3 or 6 months contract.

Flickr: Introducing Photo Session

varworld — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:52:36 +0000

Article URL: http://www.flickr.com/photosession

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3049856

Points: 1

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New comment by varworld in "Riak 1.0"

varworld — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:56:20 +0000

Secondary indexes are currently only supported on levelDB.

Yahoo Publications

varworld — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:56:01 +0000

Article URL: http://research.yahoo.com/publication

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3014980

Points: 2

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New comment by varworld in "Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source"

varworld — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:21:46 +0000

How does Storm compare to Kafka?

New comment by varworld in "Yahoo approaches Hulu about possible acquisition"

varworld — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:44:43 +0000

It seems like Yahoo has decided to bet on their Connected TV brand, with this bid for hulu and recent acquisition of IntoNow makes it pretty clear. This may be a better direction for their display ad business instead of generic internet services.

Yahoo approaches Hulu about possible acquisition

varworld — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:10:51 +0000

Article URL: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/06/hulu-receives-unsolicited-acquisition-offer.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2681177

Points: 22

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Yahoo News Beta Unveiled

varworld — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:15:39 +0000

Article URL: http://beta.news.yahoo.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620961

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Introducing Search Direct – A Simpler Way to Find Answers Fast

varworld — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:15:34 +0000

Article URL: http://ycorpblog.com/2011/03/23/searchdirect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2360866

Points: 1

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New comment by varworld in "What’s Next for Delicious?"

varworld — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:58:56 +0000

"While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive."

I don't get how notepad, address book, calendar etc are part of yahoo's strategy and bookmarks aren't.

New comment by varworld in "What’s Next for Delicious?"

varworld — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:54:42 +0000

Original Text (since blog was down):

What’s Next for Delicious?

Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We’re genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can’t answer each of your questions individually, we wanted to address what we can at this stage and we promise to keep you posted as future plans get finalized.

Is Delicious being shut down? And should I be worried about my data?

- No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive.

What is Yahoo! going to do with Delicious?

- We’re actively thinking about the future of Delicious and we believe there is a home outside the company that would make more sense for the service and our users. We’re in the process of exploring a variety of options and talking to companies right now. And we’ll share our plans with you as soon as we can.

What if I want to get my bookmarks out of Delicious right away?

- As noted above, there’s no reason to panic. We are maintaining Delicious and encourage you to keep using it. That said, we have export options if you so choose. Additionally, many services provide the ability to import Delicious links and tags. We can only imagine how upsetting the news coverage over the past 24 hours has been to many of you. Speaking for our team, we were very disappointed by the way that this appeared in the press. We’ll let you know more as things develop.

New comment by varworld in "Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us"

varworld — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:29:12 +0000

Technology has never been yahoo's problem, they might have more technology than facebook and twitter combined. They had morons running the company for the last 10 years like Terry Semel, Jerry Yang and now Carol Bartz.

I understand turn arounds take time but such decisions are going to lead to nowhere.

New comment by varworld in "Yahoo Open Sources S4 Real-Time MapReduce Framework"

varworld — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:09:20 +0000

http://wiki.s4.io/