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chirag64on I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

Yep, there is an app called AutoNotification that can help filter notifications similar to how one would in a Gmail filter.

chirag64on HN was down

I noticed the same behavior in Firefox as well. I wouldn't consider this as a bug though

chirag64on How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

> 1 person who will protest against Rust and will write it in PHP.

1 person who will protest against PHP and will write it in Node.js, bringing a hundred miles of wire along with it

chirag64on I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency

No one seems to talk about the pricing aspect of this. Developers would want these us-fail-1 regions to be cheap or free since they wouldn't be using this for production purposes. And before you know it, a lot of hobbyist developers will start using these as their production setup since they wouldn't mind a 1% downtime if they could pay less for it.

chirag64on How Zoom works [slides]

That's not entirely true. Zoom does have tabs called 'Chat' and 'Contacts' where you can find all your contacts & initiate a 'Call' with them without ever having to share a URL / ID

chirag64on Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

I loved the idea of Wikipedia's random page but I realized I needed something like this for the topics that I was interested in (instead of everything in the world because it ended up being too random for my interest). I ended up creating a Twitter bot that tweets random articles from a custom list of topics I was interested in at regular intervals

Twitter bot: http://twitter.com/randomwikibotch/ Source code if anyone is interested at creating their own: https://github.com/chirag64/Random-Wiki-Page-Twitter-Bot

chirag64on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

Looks really cool. Looking forward to trying it out on Firefox :)

chirag64on Selfie 2 Waifu

It gave me scary results when I uploaded a few selfies that were black & white (grayscale)

chirag64on Show HN: Building websites from Sketch using deep learning – public launch

You should care as a customer because if the page needs fixes that the converter did not code properly (and probably cannot fix by itself), the code should be simple enough so that a single developer (or a small team) can change & fix it quickly

chirag64on Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

There's also Quizlet which is similar but I find it better because you can preview entire pre-built card decks on it which makes it searchable on google

https://quizlet.com

chirag64on New Social Media Question on DS-160 and DS-260 Visa Applications

https://twitter.com/gsiskind/status/1134459671706832896?s=12

chirag64on PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

Shoot, I was just planning to use this for generating PDFs out of a URL on nodejs. Does anyone know of any other library / module out there that is good at this?