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ankitg12

1,739 karma · joined September 4, 2013

https://ankitg12.github.io/
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ankitg12··on Voice Dictation for Linux that learns as you speak
Nice - was looking for something like this after Whisper medium.en on Voxtype has repeatedly been making same mistakes for me. Would try to try it out :). In the meantime, do you have any writeup on how it does fine tuning? Does it happen locally on machine - needs CPU or GPU etc?
ankitg12··on LLMs reward expertise
Mind sharing the skill?
ankitg12··on Bstansell/conserver: Logged, multi-user access to device consoles
`install-sh Imported from conserver-7.0.2.tar.gz 25 years ago` Any more such old-ish projects on GH?
ankitg12··on Blogging can just be stating the obvious
“Why does the bird sing?” said the Master.

Not because he has a statement, but because he has a song.

https://www.wisdom2be.com/gems-poetry-wisdomstories/the-song...

ankitg12··on What is the best coding harness as of June 2026?
I am having good experience with https://omp.sh/
ankitg12··on Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?
The Power of Now

Atomic Habits

ankitg12··on MemPalace, the highest-scoring AI memory system ever benchmarked
Would love to learn more about Lodestar
ankitg12··on First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)
Thanks for sharing the link. It was as scientific as philosophical.
ankitg12··on GPT-5 Prompting Guide
This is quite comprehensive. I wonder if GPT-5/AI Tools handle the guidances given separately (in a separate context) or is it processed as regular text and is lost when data exceeds it's context window.
ankitg12··on Google Sans Code
Seems like posted 6 days back as well - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754457.

I don't see any font images itself in the repo but some glyph files which seem to be defining the fonts- https://github.com/googlefonts/googlesans-code/blob/main/sou... . Any one has more references to how this works? How can you define a font with code - do you give which pixel would be filled in a box or something else. And this has tests as well.

Fonts-As-Code !!

ankitg12··on A one-click link saver for HN to deal with Tab-pocalypse
Liked the idea. Few suggestions:

1. Would be great to have some facility to save the links across browsers/devices so that this is not lost on reinstalling browser or switching device. May be by upload to user's own Google Drive or iCloud account - so that doesn't cost you storage cost.

2. Right now, I see it's working only for the homepage links, and not for other discovery pages such as https://news.ycombinator.com/newest or https://news.ycombinator.com/ask or even https://news.ycombinator.com/front. You can find the official lists here : https://news.ycombinator.com/lists . Would be great to support these.

3. Would be good to have the source code available - to give more confidence on the plugin as well as others can improve on it.

4. Checkbox at the start is distracting - can it be put at the end of item line or having option to customize would be good.

More power to hacker news developers.

ankitg12··on Ask HN: What are your eye fatigue symptoms? What has worked to heal your eyes?
Well :) - was looking for something more automated and on schedule. Not subjected to human forgetfulness !!.
ankitg12··on 303Gen – 303 acid loops generator
I was randomly going over my past HN activity and bumped over this gem from here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38624968 and posted :)
ankitg12··on Ask HN: What are your eye fatigue symptoms? What has worked to heal your eyes?
Any such app/util for iPhone / Android?
ankitg12··on Ask HN: If this was your last project, what would you build?
Yes, I want to have something similar for non screen time as well. To start off, having something similar for mobile device would be good - I have not been able to find any app which can go full screen and block the screen for 15 sec, after each 10 mins or so on mobile.
ankitg12··on Ask HN: Oreilly Courses Recommendations
These are some of the courses I have liked and learnt well from:

Python Programming Language - https://learning.oreilly.com/course/python-programming-langu...

Effective Python - https://learning.oreilly.com/course/effective-python/9780134...

Designing Data Structures in Python - https://learning.oreilly.com/course/designing-data-structure...

ankitg12··on Renaming this file changes what it does [video]
Guy was super persistent in what he wanted to accomplish !!
ankitg12··on Ask HN: What are some resources to learn about building infra for AI workloads?
I have found blogposts by Toni Pasanen to be quite good in explaining networking requirements of the AI Infra. Ex. https://nwktimes.blogspot.com/2025/04/ai-fabric-backend-netw... There are more posts on the same blog.

Articles by Sharada Yeluri on APNIC blog are also good: ex. https://blog.apnic.net/2025/06/03/scale-up-fabrics/

More articles here: https://blog.apnic.net/author/sharada-yeluri/

ankitg12··on Ask HN: If this was your last project, what would you build?
Something which would help me be "aware" in real life of finite ness of life. Like the computer break utils (TimeOut on Mac/ Stretchly etc) which can help disconnect from the screen in front of you, even for a bit of time, and force you outside of whatever you are currently engaged on in the screen.
ankitg12··on New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials
Anyone knows if there are examples of such states, which were discovered in very specific conditions in lab, to be found outside? Does creation/discovery of such states help in explaining any hitherto unexplainable observations?
ankitg12··on Epic Battle Between Lions, Black Mamba and Eagle [video]
What an escape!! "जाको राखे साइयां, मार सके न कोय, बाल न बांका कर सके जो जग बैरी होय"
ankitg12··on Intel: A Bug and a Pro
Related discussion sometime back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535071
ankitg12··on New black hole visualization takes viewers beyond the brink
Beyond the brink is another universe !!
ankitg12··on XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
Blame it on outside party.
ankitg12··on White House urges developers to dump C and C++
Dup - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39529845
ankitg12··on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
Quite cool !!
ankitg12··on How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Need?
Quite nice and well justified tradeoff.
ankitg12··on The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines
This does sound quite scary and impact of such a even would cross the impact what COVID-19 had on all of us.
ankitg12··on The Carrot Problem
Hits the bulls eyes. That's why it's important to keep your mind always open and question everything. But how much you can question is also limited by cognitive limits we have as humans. SO the only thing you can actually trust is your own direct experience. I have found many books to be useless just because of this reason.
ankitg12··on 10 Easter Eggs in macOS [video]
Nice ones !!
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