Hacker News: waqasx

New comment by waqasx in "Zed DeltaDB"

waqasx — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:44:58 +0000

This specific issue drove me mad for a couple of hours, I thought my LLM wasn't creating files and lying about it

New comment by waqasx in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

waqasx — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:29:45 +0000

Subscribing to RSS creates a p2p web over http. It cuts out the middleman. Who is the biggest middleman of the internet?

New comment by waqasx in "Ask HN: Why is there no native SSH hook to run a local command before connecting"

waqasx — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:46:39 +0000

You can write a script and put it in PATH

List of 100k websites Meta scrapes data from to train its AI models

waqasx — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:59:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816942

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by waqasx in "2024 Election: The State Presidential Approval/State Economy Model"

waqasx — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:13:38 +0000

This paper accurately predicted each state as well as popular vote for 2024 US Presidential elections.

2024 Election: The State Presidential Approval/State Economy Model

waqasx — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:11:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/understanding-bidens-exit-and-the-2024-election-the-state-presidential-approvalstate-economy-model/90DA5291682CEA6BDA943208C0E7E649

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42083731

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by waqasx in "Show HN: Generate product descriptions from just photos using AI"

waqasx — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:43:21 +0000

it takes descriptions of other similar products into account. it uses a database of product descriptions layered on top of GTP-3 and some interesting prompt engineering.

New comment by waqasx in "Show HN: Generate product descriptions from just photos using AI"

waqasx — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:32:02 +0000

There are different services currently available that generate product descriptions using text prompts. This aims to automate it further by removing the requirements for text prompt, and use only images. The use cases would be for large stores that have a lot of SKUs, helping them save time and money writing quick product descriptions using images they already have. The overpromises part can be fixed by setting the “tone” options. If you try “hard sell”, it will go hard. You can set it to neutral for a softer tone. However, as with all AI generated content, there should be some minimal editing/proofreading before making the content available to the public.

Show HN: Generate product descriptions from just photos using AI

waqasx — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:05:04 +0000

Article URL: https://producks.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34883556

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by waqasx in "A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate chief says"

waqasx — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 16:17:24 +0000

even when after decades people muster courage and strength to throw them out, old colonial powers prop them up again thru colonial structures like the military. this has happened again and again in Pakistan. Another fact is Pakistan is paying the price not just for carbon emissions that happened last year, but for the emissions that have been happening since the industrial revolution. The very same industrial revolution that caused colonialism in the first place. It is double whammy for countries like Pakistan, all this is traced directly to colonialism - the floods, and the inability to cope with them.

New comment by waqasx in "They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care"

waqasx — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 19:08:02 +0000

thank you so much! your support means a lot.

New comment by waqasx in "They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care"

waqasx — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 19:05:21 +0000

i am not. i find this accusation disgusting. i do not have a problem, legally, in staying here. my problem is exactly because i WANT to go back and not face any violence.

New comment by waqasx in "They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care"

waqasx — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:50:35 +0000

there is clear defamation. they are claiming that i work for intel agencies of foreign countries, which is not true.

New comment by waqasx in "They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care"

waqasx — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:48:44 +0000

it becomes far easier for the government to kidnap someone after these allegations are circulated. we have seen this countless times, to pave the path of illegal kidnappings detention and torture, they spread this negative propaganda and fake news first.

New comment by waqasx in "They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care"

waqasx — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:47:00 +0000

yes, i would lose my audience too that i have built over ten years.

New comment by waqasx in "They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care"

waqasx — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:46:23 +0000

I dont want political asylum because of many reasons, i have my parents and my family back home. I am not asking Twitter to side with me, you have read my post, you can clearly see that misinfo is being spread about me. These are verifiable lies. They are verifiably dangerous after basic scrutiny, i am asking Twitter to do their job that they already claim that they do. That is provide a space that is safer from harassment and targeted attacks like this one.

New comment by waqasx in "They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care"

waqasx — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:27:53 +0000

least Twitter can do is sensitize their moderators, or at least a subset of them, about local issues, maybe not to the level of making them regional experts, but enough so that they can tell a truth from a lie, a dangerous maligning campaign vs a fair critique. I dont think that is a hard problem.

They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care

waqasx — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 09:41:20 +0000

Article URL: https://waqas.xyz/post/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32627017

Points: 311

# Comments: 242

New comment by waqasx in "The AI startup erasing call center worker accents"

waqasx — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 23:30:58 +0000

> They hate on accents because of previous bad experiences talking to agents with accents.

That is a racist thing to say.

New comment by waqasx in "YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech"

waqasx — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:33:07 +0000

he is massively popular, which is the reason the govt isnt going towards elections. This WSJ articles sums it up pretty well: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ousted-pakistan-prime-minister-...