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shivaodin

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    Show HN: Add a knowledge chat widget to your static site with one script tag

    I built a tool for static websites — blogs, docs, marketing pages — that lets visitors ask questions and get answers from your actual content. You paste your URL, it crawls the pag…

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    Show HN: A segmentation model client-side via WASM – free background removal

    Built a background removal tool that loads a ~40MB segmentation model into the browser via WASM/WebGPU and runs inference client-side. No upload step, no API call, no queue. Drop a…

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    Would you pay for audit of your LLM responses

    My company is trying to purchase a subscription that audits LLM responses for compliance. How do I talk them out of it.

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    Ask HN: What devices or apps do you use to track your health?

    I am curious what devices people use to track their health. I am also interested in how these devices/apps sync their data with Apple Health.

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    Comment #23906612

    As far as the equality argument, People just play to the galleries. It is a sham.

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    Comment #23906597

    TW alumni here. I would say don't bother. It is a cult-ish company without any regard for software development practices not developed inhouse. Everyone is following agile now. It …

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    Comment #22801625

    I blog at http://www.ssushant.in I blog infrequently. I blog about using Julia programming language in OR and web development.

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    Comment #15466408

    This is painfully accurate. With the recent barrage of sexual molestation cases against employees at Uber, Akamai and the ilk, it is all the more important to develop a transparent…

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    Ask HN: How do you deal with incompetent Tech Architects

    I was employed in a firm where the Architect would design the whole system and ask the developers to just do the so-called "grunt work" of writing code. The problem was that there …

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    Comment #14495142

    Um, wrong. Mauryan Empire was bigger than present-day India. Even Mughal Empire under Akbar was bigger. So, no. Also, the forms of control of British were different than those of p…

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    Comment #14182877

    I couldn't agree more. I will not go as far as saying that India is the last place which values meritocracy, but it would be a wrong assessment that the general populace values mer…

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    Comment #14179877

    You are spot on. As an Indian who's been working in IT for over a decade now, I concur. I am a software engineer and many people are surprised to see that I have not moved to a man…

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    Comment #14048559

    Akamai is firing people from all of its locations.

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    Comment #13809174

    Akamai is firing a decent batch of people.

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    Comment #13797236

    Akamai is firing a decent batch of people.

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    Comment #13614000

    Akamai is laying off a decent chunk of people.

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    Comment #13404236

    The Ascent of Man: A Personal View, by Jacob Bronowski should be on any list about Human Progress, especially technological progress. The book is about the progress, pitfalls and m…

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    Comment #13303803

    Are you in India? From your credentials, it appears that you in the heart of US tech.

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    Comment #13258396

    Which job market are you targeting? Indian Tech/IT Job market is vastly different from Western World. Despite the chest thumping by startups and cool kids in khakis telling you tha…

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    Comment #13086718

    Appdynamics in US and India is firing people.

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    Comment #12910063

    Please give examples of how this is working well in other countries with case studies. It does not appear to be a technically innovative product, just bundling of some open-source …