Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — kesavvaranasi

kesavvaranasi

HN member
Joined
Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 5:32 PM UTC
HN karma
6
Public activity
22 items

About kesavvaranasi

Engineer interested in the intersection of tech and bio.

Recent public activity

  1. story
  2. story
  3. story
  4. story
    Ask HN: What tools do you use for computational biology?

    I'm looking to learn about computational tools for computational biology and synthetic biology workflows. I see that many people use Colab notebooks for running protein structure p…

  5. comment
    Comment #40162266

    I've been using ChatGPT to get a crash-course in Next.Js. I'm coming from a backend and data eng. background so ChatGPT is helpful for getting advice for modifying Next.JS componen…

  6. comment
    Comment #40162225

    My taste in games changed...as a kid my favorites were Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty. Today I play games like Crusader Kings 3 and Kerbal Space Program. There aren't any single…

  7. comment
    Comment #39598344

    I subscribed only because I wanted to create a custom GPT.

  8. comment
    Comment #39398421

    My article discussing my learnings in TechBio.

  9. story
  10. comment
    Comment #39347836

    Commenting because I'm curious about what you mentioned about getting your B2B subscribers through your newsletter. Seems like a cool way to get inbound. I started my own newslette…

  11. comment
    Comment #39347584

    My workflow is typical: create a feature branch from main/master, raise a PR when ticket is complete, and maintain a separate release branch for production deployments. I use rebas…

  12. comment
    Comment #39347313

    What helped me when I started 4 years ago was taking some certification exams offered by AWS and Azure. They're a bit pricey in my opinion but I needed a structured curriculum to g…

  13. comment
    Comment #39147144

    Check out replit. They implement a browser-based IDE. I could be mistaken, but I don't think it's really focused on tutorials/teaching. What comes to mind immediately is how to use…

  14. comment
    Comment #39146502

    I like the idea of a course centered around a guided project. For example, learning Swift by developing a simple iOS app. Maybe I'm missing something, but why does the platform nee…

  15. comment
    Comment #39083596

    How I created my own AI assistant to help me prepare my favorite Indian recipes.

  16. story
  17. comment
    Comment #39059054

    For software engineering, I recommend A Philosophy of Software Design. It has principles that I think translate well to other engineering fields. For engineering in general: To Eng…

  18. story
  19. comment
    Comment #39032891

    I find the act of writing down a note to be more useful than the note itself. It helps me commit something to memory. I use mini yellow legal pads for jotting down interesting idea…

  20. comment
    Comment #39031612

    Leonard Susskind's The Theoretical Minimum is a favorite of mine. There's a series of lectures on Youtube that accompanies the books. Check out L.D. Landau's Course of Theoretical …

  21. comment
    Comment #39031542

    I don't understand why Apple is asking for a commission if the developer is implementing their own payment flow. If Apple is still mandating that you offer in-app purchase as an op…

  22. story