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plibither8on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022)

Huh, interesting. Didn't know there would be such cut-throat competition in this thread that downvoting my comment would be required xD.

plibither8on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022)

Location: UTC+0 to UTC+7 (India)

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: Yes (depending on location)

Technologies: Fullstack web development, Node.js, TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS/JS, Golang

Résumé/CV: https://resume.mihir.ch

Email: hn-username at gmail

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Hey, Mihir here! Currently I'm a final year undergrad at IIIT Delhi, and set to graduate in May '23. I'm looking for full-time opportunities.

I'm primarily a fullstack engineer (Node and Go), with a focus on frontend. I've previously interned at Devfolio[0], Pabio (YC S21)[1], and Sourcegraph[2]. Apart from that, I've been an author, maintainer and contributor to various popular opensource repos[3] (such as the browser extension Refined Hacker News ;)).

I go by 'plibither8' on most networks. Visit my website[4], and connect with me on LinkedIn[5].

[0] https://devfolio.co

[1] https://pabio.com

[2] https://sourcegraph.com

[3] https://github.com/plibither8

[4] https://mihir.ch

[5] https://linkedin.com/in/plibither8

plibither8on Turnstile: privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA by Cloudflare

For Cloudflare employees going through this thread, the linked "Turnstile Developer Documentation" link [1] in the Turnstile dashboard is returning a 404.

[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/

plibither8on Tell HN: My Hacker News app (HACK) is sort of broken this afternoon

Hey, author of Refined Hacker News. I've since fixed the bug and pushed updated versions to the Chrome Webstore and Mozilla Add-ons. The Chrome Webstore version should roll-out in a couple of days depending on how quickly they review and approve the extension. Thanks for the patience! :)

plibither8on Open Props: Tailwind Alternative from Chrome Dev Team

True, but also interesting. I'm sure dang and the mod team would have a special filter for comments mentioning "@dang" or something alike. Seems imperative and useful.

Edit: ...and if they do, I think I just tagged them unnecessarily. xD

plibither8on The YC Summer 2022 Batch

https://news.ycombinator.com/launches

Like this?

plibither8on Hacker News Official API

Similar to this, I created "HN Faves API", which is an API to fetch a user's favorited posts and comments on HN. Interestingly, HN doesn't have an official API for this.

On GitHub: https://github.com/plibither8/hn-faves-api

You can try it out here: https://hn-faves.mihir.ch

plibither8on FedNow FAQ

The Indian Reserve Bank (RBI) and NPCI introduced UPI (Unified Payment Interface) back in 2016, similar to FedNow. This potentially disrupted the business and product that Paytm (similar to Venmo) offered.

Interestingly, NPCI also allowed third-party apps to integrate UPI payments directly into their app. Users could use both the Paytm wallet and UPI for transactions. These apps that integrated UPI saw a huge rise in daily usage and volume of transactions, which was ultimately beneficial for them (they could channel promotional coupons/offers through the apps). UPI was generally preferred over online wallets as the medium of payment because of direct bank-to-bank transactions.

So if the Fed does something similar, might just be a win-win.

plibither8on Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team

Wondering when "talent acquisition" will be the new "human resources" and what fancy term takes its place.

plibither8on DRY is an over-rated programming principle?

One article advocating against unnecessary abstractions that I really appreciate and highly recommend is Dan Abramov's: https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/

plibither8on Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?

Redux is absolutely not a requirement for "simple" front-end dev. There are many simpler, less boilerplate-y, and more modern ways to manage state in a React application. See https://blog.logrocket.com/modern-guide-react-state-patterns...

plibither8on Impressions from a first-time Mac user

I've been using Raycast [0] as an alternative to Spotlight and Alfred. Super fast file search, good looking and very extensible with its large community. Plus, it's a YC company :).

[0]: https://raycast.com/

plibither8on Show HN: Codestat.dev – Stats from 2M open-source repositories

Checked the network logs - it seems to perform an API query [0] which returns a stream of data, that's then computed upon on-the-fly in the browser.

[0]: https://sourcegraph.com/.api/compute/stream?q=context%3A%40r...

plibither8on Jd

763 (and counting) votes, no. 1 on the frontpage, ...and only 83 comments? This is one of the most skewed ratios I've seen on HN.

plibither8on Poll: How Old Are You?

> de-anonymizing one's HN account over time

Is this the case though? Pretty sure the votes are private, and probably only visible to the the few mods of HN.

plibither8on Ask HN: Anyone use GitHub Issues at their company?

I'd suggest you also take a look at Linear (https://linear.app). I've been using it at my current and previous company, and for personal project management - it's simply flawless!

plibither8on Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

> It is easier to have your own way as an Indian middle-class student in India than as second generation Indians in the US.

Being an Indian middle-class student in India myself, I'm not sure you understand the level of privilege from which you're making that statement.

plibither8on Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters

> Sorry, but I would still use gas.

Of course, but this is very privileged stance, and you're not the target customer base either. The overall cost of those three batteries is significantly lesser than gas so as to merit their choice for batteries.

plibither8on Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi

> Written word-games aren’t a thing in Hindi but we do have a lot of stuff rhyme based games

Interesting observation, and I can't help but wonder if this is loosely correlated to literacy. Since most of these games were developed to pass time by the masses, it only makes sense that they be verbal rather than written.

plibither8on Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi

Welp, don't get me started on the "hai"->"h" contractions! The one that irks me the most is अच्छा (good, pronounced "uh-ch-aah" with a hard and emphasized "ch") is written as "axa" in chats (more popularly written as "achha").

plibither8on Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi

In what way is it not meant for puzzles, as opposed to English?

plibither8on Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi

I agree with this suggestion! However, I wonder if it's only because we don't read and write Hindi on a daily basis (as compared to English).

Also, I'd just like to say that this take of Hindi Wordle is the best so far - fill in the व्यंजन (consonants) with the स्वर (vowels) supplied as hints.

plibither8on Vanced Discontinuation

Welp. Makes me wonder whether Hacker News or @dang will send a C&D for naming my browser extension "Refined Hacker News" :P. /s

plibither8on Ask HN: Is Public WiFi Dangerous?

Algo is interesting! First time hearing about it, thanks :).

plibither8on Ask HN: Is Public WiFi Dangerous?

I'm trying to reason why you suggest "if the VPN is free". If the VPN is free, I'm confident that I'm paying the VPN provider using my browsing data rather than money. A paid VPN service (somewhat) instills that small amount of trust that my browsing data is not stored/tracked/sold.

plibither8on [dead]

Hmm, doesn't seem to work properly. Spits out a "Syntax error" for

  for (let i = 0; i < N*N; i++) {}

plibither8on How to use undocumented web APIs

You can definitely see the incoming/outgoing messages in the DevTools! Since it's a WebSocket connection, you must have the DevTools open and reload the page. Filter for the WebSocket network activity (you can quickly do this by selecting "WS"), and you'll find the WebSocket connection. Clicking on it and selecting the "Messages" sub-tab will let you see the live list of binary messages sent and received by the connection. Not too meaningful though, unfortunately.

plibither8on Words that seem related but aren't (2015)

The comment is still available [0], just "dead", so it doesn't show up on unless the user has enabled "show dead comments" on their profile page.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30584622

plibither8on Show HN: I made a web game using emojis and no JS framework

Fast Flood No.4

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⌛ → 45 seconds

▶ → 16 moves

→ 3 tries

plibither8on Tell HN: You can see your vouched and flagged items

I had created a list of endpoints on Hacker News to help with my extension Refined Hacker News (https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/maste...). Thanks for telling me about this! Will add these paths too :)