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New comment by zameermfm in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

zameermfm — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:48:11 +0000

Stop the qtip when there's resistance

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?"

zameermfm — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:38:02 +0000

True, they fill a beautiful gap

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?"

zameermfm — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:02:08 +0000

True, Machine to machine is interesting to think about

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?"

zameermfm — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:01:10 +0000

Yeah, Reading it clearly in the editor - Probably MD to HTML happens in the editor anyway. So what we are dealing with here are a battle between ease of writing, readability and various cost dimensions.

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?"

zameermfm — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:59:04 +0000

May be they should coexist for utilities they provide

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?"

zameermfm — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:57:58 +0000

Agent to human?

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?"

zameermfm — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:57:22 +0000

If cost of showing HTML and MD are same in the CPU level for UI, but generation of them costs uneven at AI level (as it should be mathematically), shouldn't the equation be what is the lowest cost to represent something considering the token usage

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?"

zameermfm — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:22:06 +0000

A) Enterprises for one, e.g Rendering of an HTML page vs MD in an AI IDE or even tokens (compounding costs for a communication doc may be billions in a year) B) True, its a subset, nobody is arguing against it. HTML has overheads in terms of stylings. MD in essence is just a straight arrow.

If there is a communication between two points with ultimate low latency way with readability and threshold just enough to have the idea, MD passes that mark. As tokens needs to conserved

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?"

zameermfm — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:04:28 +0000

Thats a complete reductive idea of MDs. MD was long spawn before LLMs as a need for light weight formatting and easy conversion to different formats. No one used at that scale doesnt mean the absence of the utility for it, as the primary adopters were tech community and that was a layer below the consumer market. Utility obviously stands, the question is, can HTML supersede on that utility side of it in all developer work components.

Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?

zameermfm — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:45:22 +0000

Isn't Markdown's hallmark its versatility while performant? I see there is an increasing call from tech community towards HTML to be adopted instead of Markdown due to its richness in the agentic communication layer. But is it versatile across any kind of interfaces? versatile with different format conversions? and performant (as the md is lightweight)?

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New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

zameermfm — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:04:36 +0000

Great idea you got, what would be a classic use case? We have a data source and we can define the API structure to get them?

Sure! thanks! thats good idea, to have it clickable and true that needs needs to be easily understandable.

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

zameermfm — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:21:06 +0000

With AI IDEs, Personally I had to generate a tons of md files for planning a task, analysis on the code for something or other, a task doc for a feature - a summary to paste into the clickup ... and I saw many devs keeps on generating them, and all tucked away into folders. Good, okay.

For the company I'm currently working I had made a VSCode extension where I can sync the task doc with clickup via frontmatter.

I decided to take it to next level as a side project. I built a CI integrated, git-native, agent template transformable syncing pipeline with git MD files to any project management tools. That means, either you can save your md files vanilla in your wiki (thus using the clickup AI search to dig up later, get insights etc) or you can use a AI agent template transformer to turn it into a task template (Background, acceptance criteria, functional requirements etc.) and update or create a task on a board.

I've been working on it now. I don't know how it will fare, but I feel like product is coming up nice.

https://mdspec.dev

New comment by zameermfm in "The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs"

zameermfm — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:30:46 +0000

Ah its a reader, okay, great tool!

New comment by zameermfm in "The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs"

zameermfm — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:06:34 +0000

There was a plug of smalldocs intro in that post, regarding that, Dont we need the md files on the wikis and documentations in the central project management tools, instead of client side anything?

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: Is "agentic" coding working for everyone except me?"

zameermfm — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:04:12 +0000

Yes, In my experience with it, AI agentic syntaxes were few notches above what human would do, where in humans quality can fluctuate, and as creatures of habit we all tend to develop some patterns that can be read by our reviewers intuitively when our name is on it. AI can consistently get the right patterns if we can keep a tight rule/skill/checks on them, but thats mean they would conform to one pattern.

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: Is "agentic" coding working for everyone except me?"

zameermfm — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:22:36 +0000

imo, unless you can quickly read off the approach the AI has taken, If you haven't got the experience for it, it can be a minefield. Because by agentic coding, we have moved beyond syntaxes into the ideas and approaches. Agent gives an approach, we should know if its the efficient one. But if you got that reading hook, its really fast and I dont see why it should not be production code.

Show HN: Mdspec – auto sync your md files from GitHub repos with wikis

zameermfm — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:37:52 +0000

We do generate a lots of md files along with our agent based development. Skills, Agent.md, Docs etc. Enterprise or Startups, we come to see the utility of markdown files as a human layer in an accelerated agentic development. What if we could make most use of it by syncing them to project management wikis, thereby using their AI layers to search and get insights easily. They do and invest in a lot of advanced AI inference systems to make documentations useful for us. Or simply we take a backup to S3 and delete them from repos.

What if that happens automatically as we do development. visit https://mdspec.dev

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New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: We dont need a programming language now?"

zameermfm — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:07:02 +0000

true, yeah thats right, But my larger point is we are operating many levels above than we can with JS. Like C, C++/Rust is the closest as LLMs would be trained on that.

I just threw the extreme point on the curve, to see where we can land on.

New comment by zameermfm in "Ask HN: We dont need a programming language now?"

zameermfm — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:04:40 +0000

Great points and thats true, may be the line is somewhere between readability and most efficiency.

Ask HN: We dont need a programming language now?

zameermfm — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:33:36 +0000

I've seen agentic IDEs now Cursor or Antigravity and main trends seems to be development with just ideas, where although the changed lines are shown, its becoming less and less visible.

If we are becoming language agnostic, shouldn't we opt in for the most efficient way to program? may be a level below rust? no interpreters or may be no compilers even? and nobody will ever understand it and whole world will run on ideas?

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