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arberavdullahu··on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500
me > pick a number between 1 to 10000

chatgpt > 7429

me > another one

chatgpt > 1863

arberavdullahu··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Building https://canonicalschema.com/, I started with a simple CSV viewer because none of the existing online tools supported large files or provided flexible column statistics and filtering to easily understand the data. My plan is to grow it into a full application where users can more easily manipulate and analyze CSV or spreadsheet data.
arberavdullahu··on Cursor 1.0
I can’t try Background Agents yet because they aren’t available in Privacy Mode. I’m curious if—and how—they’ll roll this out to others, given their guarantee that no code is stored on their servers. According to their security page [1], about 50% of users have Privacy Mode enabled.

I’m also curious how this compares to OpenAI’s Codex. In my experience, running agents locally has worked better for large or complex codebases, especially since setting up the environment correctly can be tricky in those setups.

[1] https://www.cursor.com/security#privacy-mode-guarantee

arberavdullahu··on Show HN: GPT image editing, but for 3D models
Very cool! This reminds me of a use case I explored a few years ago—customizing furniture with different fabrics, wood finishes, and design options. In physical showrooms, furniture stores can usually only display a single version of each piece, but customers often want to visualize how the same item would look in various configurations. That’s where a digital tool could really shine.

One concept I explored was creating an interactive app where users can experiment with different material options—essentially a real-time configurator. There’s a great example here [1], where if you model an object as a .obj file (possibly similar to Adam’s parametric models), you can tweak its materials and colors dynamically. IKEA seems to have something similar in production for some of their products [2].

I experimented with Adam as well, and it did a surprisingly good job. The only catch: if you try to iterate too much, it tends to alter the form of the object. My ideal version of this would involve a professional photographer capturing high-resolution images of, say, a couch. Then I’d upload them into Adam, generate realistic renders with different fabrics or finishes, and download the final variants as high-quality images to use in catalogs or ecommerce.

[1] https://angon.me/experiments/6/

[2] https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/ektorp-2-seat-sofa-hakebo-grey-...

[3] https://app.adamcad.com/share/2f1e68ad-2cdd-4613-8fdc-fc33f2...

arberavdullahu··on Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
You don’t need to spend time learning standard data science tools. These tasks are well-defined, thoroughly documented in different blogs, and with today’s AI-driven code generation, basic programming knowledge is sufficient. Attempting to manipulate CSV data and generate visualizations in Go would be a waste of time, delivering subpar results.
arberavdullahu··on Ask HN: What's the best Redis learning resource?
In case you are interested in internals, I found code crafter to be very useful for learning.

https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/redis/overview

arberavdullahu··on Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
I think Notion has nailed it with the new design of their table of contents [1]. The problem with the current general approach is that if a blog post is very long and you are in the middle of it, you might forget what the content was. However, having a very small item on the right that you can quickly peek at is awesome.

[1] Example https://www.notion.so/notion/Table-of-contents-50de58f824bf4...

arberavdullahu··on Ask HN: What is a good website/app for math practice?
I have always enjoyed using https://brilliant.org/ because it's interactive and very informative. Although it's not as interactive, https://artofproblemsolving.com/community offers a great community and valuable resources.
arberavdullahu··on Advent of Code 2023 is nigh
You can check the subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/

Usually each day there is a mega thread with people sharing their solutions

arberavdullahu··on Square is down
Also the Incident history(https://www.issquareup.com/history) is wild in my opinion. During August there were 31 incidents, some of them lasted for hours
arberavdullahu··on Ask HN: What is the best book for understanding how computers work today?
Not a book, but a very good free course on computer science https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9u...
arberavdullahu··on Ask HN: Public and free-to-use APIs to play with?
A collective list of free APIs: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
arberavdullahu··on Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design?
https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-...
arberavdullahu··on True random number generation (TRNG)
I am fond of your work, good job :).

1. In-browser try it out of the API would be great, take the example of swagger [1].

2. The sign-in/sing-up is a bit complicated in my opinion. Why do I have to follow the link in the email to sign-in, why not a email/password login procedure? Also nit but the link the email is given with the text “Sign-in to the wheelhorse”, which may seem suspicious, I would rather prefer the original long link(like most other apps).

3. I cannot find the price plan, I don’t want to start using it without knowing the plans. In my opinion this deserves its own page on the menu.

4. How does your service compare to others?

5. Not sure if this is important, but I can’t find the authors or who is behind it.

[1] https://petstore.swagger.io/#/pet/getPetById

arberavdullahu··on Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
I am wondering if the hackers had access to the private messages of these accounts?
arberavdullahu··on Ask HN: What tool does professional software engineers use to draw UML diagrams?
Lucidchart is a great option
arberavdullahu··on How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)
Combining two algorithms is very hard and when it does it can become insecure(new attacks can be found). Even if you can combine and its secure then it becomes infeasible to use it often as the length of keys, IV, etc. increases
arberavdullahu··on Hash: A free, online platform for modeling
Maybe it is because I'm a non-native speaker but I find the name of the company very confusing. Why is it named HASH?
arberavdullahu··on Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
I was expecting some hidden message from his website headers too, but there was none :(
arberavdullahu··on A King Who Became a Pirate
Is there any link where I can find more about the tax system he invented?
arberavdullahu··on On Surviving Screens and Social Media in Isolation
Did anyone read Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World? If so, do you recommend it?
arberavdullahu··on The field of “useful reals” between rational and real numbers (2019)
The author claims that this set is countable but not sure if that is true. My argument is based on Cantor's theorem [1], which states that the power set has cardinality strictly greater than the set.

In order for the set of symbols to be finite field it must grow therefore since rational is infinitely countable from Cantor it must hold that "useful reals" is uncountable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_theorem

arberavdullahu··on The field of “useful reals” between rational and real numbers (2019)
You are wrong! The algebraic field extension ℚ[π] contains π.
arberavdullahu··on How toilet paper is made (2014) [video]
How are toilet paper companies affected as the world is going more and more to a paperless world if the first product is mostly recycled paper?
arberavdullahu··on Cryptocurrency Now Fully Legal in South Korea
Yes, here is also the hn discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22481649
arberavdullahu··on The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business)
I'm not sure how they got the data. I was able to find one company older than the one mentioned in the article which is still running. I'm referring to Birra e Pejes (Beer Peja) which was founded in 1968 [0].

There might be some discrepancies in this article because the information could have been obtained from English written sources, whereas, more accurate information is available in sources written in the native languages of each country.

[0] https://gjirafa.biz/birra-e-pejs-1

arberavdullahu··on Ask HN: Would you ever pay for a browser?
What is your opinion on Brave browser?
arberavdullahu··on Ask HN: What is your passive income in 2020?
Just checked your website, amazing product. Good luck!
arberavdullahu··on Fork Bomb
Did not find go in the examples, so here is how you do it:

for {

  go main()

}
arberavdullahu··on Ask HN: What are some good resources about zk-SNARKS
Awesome zero knowledge proofs https://github.com/matter-labs/awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs
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