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ashvon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

I built chernoffOT for fun - https://github.com/ashinvinod/chernoffOT

It basically pulls OpenTelemetry data from your infra and renders chernoff faces, so you can spot anomalies at a glance.

ashvon Show HN: ChernoffOT – Infrastructure Telemetry as Chernoff Faces

Hey folks!

I recently came across a book (Rodriguez, Julie, and Kaczmarek, Piotr. Visualizing Financial Data) where it describes an interesting tool used in finance. Known as Chernoff faces, it help you quickly identify anomalies within a bunch of multivariate data.

It got me thinking, this would be fun way to monitor/compare infra telemetry in real time. So I built chernoffOT, which pulls OpenTelemetry data from your infra, and renders a wall of Chernoff faces. Happy faces tells you everything's healthy, and an angry face means somethings broken. Basically, the idea is that you can monitor stuff in a quick glance without digging through graphs.

Would love to know what you think!

ashvon Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

Why would another email address be useless?

ashvon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

I had just launched Zunorm, an AI CSV editor where you can plug in any model from OpenRouter, or connect a locally running Ollama model. Check it out for free - https://zunorm.com

ashvon The kind of company I want to be a part of

There's an npm package for that! https://www.npmjs.com/package/pluralize