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Abishek_Muthian

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About Abishek_Muthian

I like building products out of my problems.

Personal blog: abishekmuthian.com

Mastodon: https://gotosocial.abishekmuthian.com/@abishek_muthian

email: abishek.muthian[]protonmail[] | Key: https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/2B9F1D7615164C467A8C2D5FFD6A34056CAA9044

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Building solutions to solve some health problems,

Bone Health Tracking - bonehealthtracker.com

Memory, lack of thereof - memoryhammer.com

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Building solutions to help create sustainable income for the indies - https://openpaymenthost.com

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Built a problem validation forum - needgap.com

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Built a tool-chain for startups - startuptoolchain.com

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Blog about indie business : hitstartup.com

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Before that founded Timebender Technologies Ind. Pvt. Ltd. and ran that for 5 years.

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I read HN on my Kindle, You can too: https://github.com/abishekmuthian/hntoebook

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Some need-gaps, which is related to discussions on HN:

(If you're interested in building a solution, know a solution or would like to have a solution please visit the respective problem thread)

Meta | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644616#26662755

#30 'Getting things done at individual level' https://needgap.com/problems/30 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28447499#28454477

#263 'Plan Second-Order, Third-Order consequences' https://needgap.com/problems/263 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28490755#28499423, 28106641

#234 'What has been removed due to chip shortage' https://needgap.com/problems/234 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28314072#28325194

#188 'Proving computer hack' https://needgap.com/problems/188 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29371088#29376646

#157 'Weekly review of high profile startup lawsuits' https://needgap.com/problems/157 | Related HN comment id -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28338830#28370668

#241 'Search and organize saved reddit posts/comments' https://needgap.com/problems/241 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217485#29225716

#57 'I forget my web bookmarks quite often.' https://needgap.com/problems/57 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217485#29223442

#41 'Human memory, lack of thereof' https://needgap.com/problems/41 | Related HN commentid - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217485#29223442

#20 'Deep Fake video generating SW for ethical usage' https://needgap.com/problems/20 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28450783#28459765

#277 'What will be my AWS bill after free 12 months' https://needgap.com/problems/277 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29004934#29010606

#259 'Suggest unique pronounceable baby names' | https://needgap.com/problems/259 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29118785#29119840

#80 'Monetizing open-source projects' https://needgap.com/problems/80 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692417#28715596

#251 'Eye strain due to lockdown' https://needgap.com/problems/251 | Related HN comment id - 28005144

#201 'Show meaning of words in a video' https://needgap.com/problems/201 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29085092#29092326

#274 'Single referral system for all services' https://needgap.com/problems/274 | Related HN comment id - 28004032

#141 'YouTube like public chat for ecommerce websites' https://needgap.com/problems/141 | Related HN comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29823303#29848668

#49 'Password less authentication' https://needgap.com/problems/49 | Related HN comment id - 28071036

#12 'Identifying letter O from 0 and vice versa' https://needgap.com/problems/12 | Related HN comment id - 27984547

#279 'Better way to read twitter threads' https://needgap.com/problems/279-better-way-to-read-twitter-threads-twitter-reading | Related HN comment id - 28076504

#94 'Identifying gender from a name for marketing' https://needgap.com/problems/94 | Related HN comment id - 27958455

#284 'Online marketplace for hardware-tools in India' https://needgap.com/problems/284 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28194608#28198123

#149 'Remote education for underprivileged' https://needgap.com/problems/149 | Related HN comment id - 27911090

#269 'Keeping the things I like with me' https://needgap.com/problems/269 | Related HN comment id - 27874446

#42 'Identifying fake reviews in Amazon, other sites' https://needgap.com/problems/42 | Related HN comment id - 27864648

#156 'Get me the news I need, Not the news I want' https://needgap.com/problems/156 | Related HN comment id - 27673188

#102 'External storage with hardware compression' https://needgap.com/problems/102 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28395169#28407512

#59 'Notification Pollution' https://needgap.com/problems/59 | Related HN comment id - 27430593

#229 'Paywall avoidance for submission sites' https://needgap.com/problems/229 | Related HN comment id - 27247337

#6 'Safe, affordable and efficient mosquito control' https://needgap.com/problems/6 | Related HN comment id - 26921969

#207 'Search Engine Wall of Shame' https://needgap.com/problems/207 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224730#28237342, 26859261, 26550907

#200 'Human voice summary of news' https://needgap.com/problems/200 | Related HN commend id - 26815657

#218 'Distributing computing loads across all devices' https://needgap.com/problems/218 | Related HN comment id - 26802803

#209 'Monitoring Interweb for leaked data' https://needgap.com/problems/209 | Related HN comment id - 26694613

#179 'Upload local music and sync playlist' https://needgap.com/problems/179 | Related HN comment id - 26682948

#198 'Hand wash liquid which doesn't make the skin dry' https://needgap.com/problems/198 | Related HN comment id - 26651051

#169 'Teach me vocabulary without spending extra time' https://needgap.com/problems/169 | Related HN comment id - 26607549, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29085092#29092326

#144 'On-demand Hacker News notification' https://needgap.com/problems/144 | Related HN comment id - 26595123

#43 'Affordable E-Ink large external displays' https://needgap.com/problems/43 | Related HN comment id - 26532242

#51 'Non cellular network mobile Internet' https://needgap.com/problems/51 | Related HN comment id - 26378465

#196 'Reduce document file size to specific size' - https://needgap.com/problems/196 | Related HN comment id - 26325269

#64 "Make TV dumb again" - https://needgap.com/problems/64 | Related HN comment id - 26290660

#22 "Enabling hearing aid features on TWS earphones" - https://needgap.com/problems/22 | Related HN comment id -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391780#28401698, 26240299

#70 "Identifying myself from random Internet videos" - https://needgap.com/problems/70 | Related HN comment id - 26122623

#102 "External storage with hardware compression" - https://needgap.com/problems/102 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28395169#28407512

#229 'Paywall avoidance for submission sites' - https://needgap.com/problems/229 | Related HN comment id - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28311728#28325367

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    > In one example, the model chained together multiple attack vectors, including using stolen credentials and zero-day vulnerabilities to find a remote code execution path on the Hu…

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    Comment #48964790

    This is a great suggestion, use complex hard stuff for doing fun stuff.

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    Comment #48958708

    I agree, sounds like it will be just a vanity and won't solve any real problem. I appreciate the comment.

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    Comment #48958452

    I appreciate the comment. It's like jobseekers want OkCupid for jobs but the employers are not really interested in such a thing.

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    Comment #48956530

    Can you tell us what why "OkCupid for jobs" failed? I run a problem validation platform and 'OkCupid for jobs'[1] is consistently the most visited need-gap in the platform. Congrat…

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    Thanks, I will give it a shot.

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    For me none of the models have managed to accurately replicate any given .png/.jpg image in SVG. I guess that requires both vision encoders and coding layers to work perfectly.

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    Comment #48923778

    AFAIK Hyperscript doesn't require `unsafe-eval`, when the optional features of htmx like `hx-on:*`, `hx-vals js:`, `hx-confirm js:` is used it required the `unsafe-eval` but now th…

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    Comment #48921421

    Actually even with a strict CSP i.e. without unsafe-inline, hyperscript will work as it's declared as html attributes. But as the other commenters have pointed out, with proper ser…

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    I'm bit sad that hyperscript[1] doesn't get the love it deserves when discussing HTMX. Hyperscript fits perfectly in the Go + HTMX stack to do DOM manipulation without having to ma…

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    True, I've been telling that coding LLMs have been detrimental to local AI scene. What happened to those nifty ML projects which can run on raspberry pi zero.

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    Comment #48887806

    Personal curriculum is a positive trend[1] IMO. When you're forced to use AI instead of the skills you've put decades learning; it's time to learn new skills to keep the brain from…

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    I'm more interested in running distributed inference for purpose built small language models than these coding LLMs. Say a distributed inference for image processing, SDR, local we…

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    Even though LLM benchmarks are very opinionated, I would really like to see some numbers for the setup parent suggested. From what I read elsewhere, anything below $40K in HW costs…

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    Which CPU gen are you suggesting, is there any writeup on such setup where In my experience with rig half that cost, entire exercise of running coding models locally has been a hug…

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    His video style is just fine, him and his cats. I don't mind the expletives as the people/companies he uses it against deserves them but I had instances where I couldn't show his v…

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    Comment #48818828

    pertinent question, I'm forcing the bot to be careful with such answers. I should have been clearer in my original comment. I guess, I'm not being faithful to the original material…

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    This is great, I'm working on a project called AccessPath for detailed accessibility review of a place. Currently the prototype[1] is using Google Maps but I will be moving on to O…

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    Comment #48815025

    Very interesting. Can the Street Complete be used to improve accessibility of a region, say to mark the availability of a ramp?

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    Comment #48815002

    OpenWrt is a great piece of software(firmware) to prevent ISPs selling your browsing data to the advertisers. Although by now most ISPs are probably doing packet inspection. It's e…

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    Comment #48814854

    After reading such news I started fine tuning a model based on the works on stoic philosophers so that the kids will have the comfort of Chatbot but completely offline and private …

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    Comment #48800417

    With hardware/computers becoming locked, thin clients and unaffordable we're already forced to customize our devices cyber punk style. You're lucky if you're in a region where thes…

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    Absolutely true. All this craze about running coding LLMs locally has been detrimental to local AI where purpose built SLMs could actually be beneficial. Little tools for NLP, TTS,…

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    This is great, like many others I've been thinking of something like hister but only for bookmarked web pages. I presume it should be straightforward with hister to do that? All th…