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salil999

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About salil999

Software Engineer @ MongoDB

https://shashanksaxena.me/

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    Comment #47403796

    Hi HN, I created a small app that acts as an AI tool organizer across a few popular providers: Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and OpenCode. It has support for: - MCP Servers - Skills…

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    Comment #47137744

    Reminds me of WarpStream: https://www.warpstream.com Similar idea but you have the power of S3 scale (if you really need it). For context, I do not work at WS. My company switched …

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    Comment #47137599

    Can't say it's a perfect solution but one way I've tried to prevent this is by wrapping secrets in a class (Java backend) where we override the toString() method to just print "***…

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    Comment #45846718

    I hear this on almost every bad post about Meta. No they are not cooked. They still generate tons of profit and their user base is one of the biggest in the world. They're not goin…

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    Comment #41282579

    I got around this by just editing the HTML. Worked like a charm

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    Comment #41069552

    I think you can already do some of this in iOS with the Shortcuts app

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    Comment #40927050

    I'm confused as to why this needs to be standardized? OTel makes sense because multiple applications can consume metrics and logs. Feature flags are typically contained within a co…

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    Comment #40689736

    I would also take a look at exa: https://the.exa.website/ It's been my ls replacement for a while now and it's very customizable!

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    Comment #40307619

    The claim I've heard is that you're essentially feeding your own knowledge for free into a proprietary system that can be used to generate cash for whatever corporation owns that s…

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    Comment #40143011

    > If Meta starts being all open and generous about their core assets I think they are pretty open about it? - https://www.meta.ai/ requires no log in (for now at least) - PyTorch i…

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    Comment #40142961

    In the example they have > const urlstring = "this is not a URL"; > const not_a_url = URL.canParse(urlstring) && new URL(urlstring); Why would you need the latter part of the condi…

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    Comment #40077876

    I do see on the bottom left: Log in to save your conversation history, sync with Messenger, generate images and more.

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    Comment #39032388

    It's specifically advised NOT to use ObjectId for distribution. This data type has a notion of time embedded in it which results in monotonically increasing ObjectIds. Use UUID or …

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    Comment #38928393

    Why is this a reason to stop using Google?

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    Comment #38916051

    Yeah but what about something that won't make my wallet cry?

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    Comment #38794389

    Most browsers use a SQL database for storing data like this.

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    Comment #38794375

    If you're in the Apple ecosystem then Safari has had this for a while.

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    Comment #38668413

    I see this Jepsen link posted all the time. People: PLEASE don't use outdated software. MongoDB has made mistakes and they are public about their data issues on https://www.mongodb…

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    Comment #38668358

    For my own knowledge, if the options were between using SMS for 2FA or not having 2FA at all then what is better? I've heard mixed things about this.

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    Comment #38668306

    It's pretty easy to start with. MQL is also pretty easy to understand + MongoDB kinda makes it fun. Note: I work at MongoDB

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    Comment #38558786

    But WhatsApp has had it for a while, no? Or at least I think it's a solved problem looking at both WhatsApp and iMessage