Hacker News: vjshah

New comment by vjshah in "Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser"

vjshah — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:58:02 +0000

Squoosh appears to support more modern formats (webp/avif) than imageoptim, so it should produce much smaller files

New comment by vjshah in "Bonding twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records"

vjshah — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:00:25 +0000

I used to work at a DoorDash-type company in the early 2000s. Back then, we passed the orders onto the restaurant by faxing them. We had a machine with I believe 16 modems (might have been 20?) attached to do the faxing. I would have loved to try something like this with that setup.

New comment by vjshah in "Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)"

vjshah — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:19:50 +0000

> I’ve created 5-channel mixes of all the backing tracks so we can fade out specific instruments if somebody wants to play them live

How was this done? This seems like an even more difficult task to do well than what’s described in the article

New comment by vjshah in "Show HN: I built an API for Google autocomplete"

vjshah — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:05:14 +0000

if i were evaluating serpapi, my concern wouldn't be my own legal liability. i'd be worried about serpapi getting blocked one day and my own application suffering as a result

New comment by vjshah in "Show HN: I built an API for Google autocomplete"

vjshah — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:32:03 +0000

i had the same reaction, but i looked to see what google's tos was for things like this and i found https://serpapi.com/ , which apparently has been around for 5 years and also offers paid services for scraping google search. if their homepage is to be believed, there are large companies using their service. i'm very surprised that google hasn't taken steps to block them.

New comment by vjshah in "SAT score distributions in Michigan"

vjshah — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:01:45 +0000

Sat scoring was “recentered” in 1996, causing a significant jump in average score.

New comment by vjshah in "Booting from a vinyl record"

vjshah — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 20:31:59 +0000

The author makes a very brief mention of creating his own record using a lathe.