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ticktockten

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https://www.dipankar.name

Email: me@dipankar.name

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ticktockten··on [dead]
Looks cool :).

What does BJH stand for though?

ticktockten··on Show HN: Optimizing LiteLLM with Rust – When Expectations Meet Reality
Well several times faster, but not interesting enough to say that use this. For me it personally was an exploratory project to review litellm and its internals.

The LLM docgen in this case Claude has been over enthusiastic due to my incessant prodding :D.

ticktockten··on Show HN: Optimizing LiteLLM with Rust – When Expectations Meet Reality
Well i would counter that by saying most code has been autocompleted for a while. At this point in software development history, discussing the size of commits is a null discussion :).
ticktockten··on Show HN: Optimizing LiteLLM with Rust – When Expectations Meet Reality
The core is real, the rest of the narrative nudging LLMs to behave :). If you remove the noise and just run the benchmark that's proof enough.

The interesting bit was that the bindings overheads dominate, and makes this shim not that much of a performance bump.

ticktockten··on Show HN: Zyler – AI agent for marketing data that doesn't hallucinate
Yes! We are looking to add Meta, Linkedin and titok. There is a lot of demand for cross channel analytics.
ticktockten··on Show HN: Zyler – AI agent for marketing data that doesn't hallucinate
Thanks for checking us out!

We are looking to integrate more data connectors.

Do you have any suggestions? We are focused on the google ecosystem to begin with.

ticktockten··on Show HN: Unzoi – Research tool that minimizes information misrepresentation
Hey, can you try again?

Thanks!

ticktockten··on Show HN: Unlob – A search engine that reads websites and gives you direct answer
That makes sense, specifically for technical guides.

It not well designed for those cases for sure.

Would you be up for a chat if i drop you an email? More than happy to learn your general views :)

ticktockten··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
I have been working towards building and understanding the shift in search / information retrieval.

To that end, I just did a show HN on a couple of my projects

What if google did not focus on hyper commercialisation? 10 Blue links, but sorted by how they answer your query- https://www.unlob.com

Can we answer questions with lesser hallucinations? A snippet cited answer engine which only picks links that focus on answering your query - https://www.unzoi.com

ticktockten··on Show HN: Unlob – A search engine that reads websites and gives you direct answer
Here is a followup from the other tool i am working on

https://www.unzoi.com/query/set-up-model-context-protocol-se...

ticktockten··on Show HN: Unlob – A search engine that reads websites and gives you direct answer
Well the goal is not to take anyone's job. Ideally, we make our present tools a lot better and trustworthy.

Thanks for trying it out!

ticktockten··on Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life
This should be standard issue for cabs!
ticktockten··on Instagram’s Explore Recommender System
Yeah, i have come to a similar conclusion. It is also very clear that academic papers are unless simple enough to be understood (like word2vec) they rarely make it to production.
ticktockten··on Instagram’s Explore Recommender System
Interesting, and looks like the present choices have evolved over time.

Seems like they are moving towards a structured RL implementation. There are elements of it, a follow-up post on some components would be interesting.

ticktockten··on Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool
Look forward to using this in linux! Definitely a tool I would use.
ticktockten··on Cthulhu Ventures
I had no idea! Thanks for sharing.

Having spent so much time with flask, it's a joke that I took seriously enough :)

ticktockten··on SinGAN: Learning a Generative Model from a Single Natural Image
Having spent some time in trying to do style transfers, this looks very promising.

The harmonization aspect of the paper actually makes it very useful. There certainly are cases where you want to introduce an image component as an overlay and want the style to integrate.

Really cool stuff, and with code!

ticktockten··on Vikrum Nijjar: Engineer #1 at Firebase and Founder of Gold Fig Labs (YC S19)
Will copy the office hours on Friday! I love the focus on fixing tooling and enabling others.

Checking out Gold Fig Labs now :).

ticktockten··on The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components
Cool, I actually used XULRunner for a cross-platform application!

The tooling was great, and it did set the precedent for what we expect today.

ticktockten··on Ask HN: Self-hosted Alternatives to Dropbox?
Nextcloud works really well, I use that on scaleway for a really cheap setup!
ticktockten··on Prolific Engineers Take Small Bites
This is misleading, however I would like to point out that if Small Bites == Kaizen. Then, Prolific Engineers like any other prolific professionals may be Kizening the crap out of their codebases. No data here either to back the smart ones up though.
ticktockten··on Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
Am I the only one getting a 404 on this URL?
ticktockten··on Reboot – conference for failed startup founders
Appreciate the support sir!

No offence taken here. We all have our pet peeves :).

ticktockten··on Reboot – conference for failed startup founders
LOL, as will most startups ;).

Thanks for having a look!

ticktockten··on Reboot – conference for failed startup founders
Thanks for the fix! Will update copy.
ticktockten··on Reboot – conference for failed startup founders
Thanks! Your kind words would inspire others to have a look and make them think.

Our intention is to celebrate the attempts, without them the winners cannot exist!

Please do help share the idea with others.

ticktockten··on Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
Thanks! Really enjoyed the tutorial
ticktockten··on Faster and better browsing – Welcome Opera 41
Just installed it! Visibly faster for me, they seem to have done good work in this release.
ticktockten··on Show HN: Octo.ai, Open source analytics hypervisor
Feel free to reach out directly to me, if you need any help!
ticktockten··on Show HN: Octo.ai, Open source analytics hypervisor
Actually, this is a really great question! It is quite a bit of data to bother saving yourself till you actually get to a scale to make use of it. Now that the internet business is fairly mature, the specific use cases for high quality data has exploded.

I would like to argue that its usually a lack of frameworks (and lack of dev resources) to enable this, due to which people do not store all this data. AWS and others are cheap enough machine abstractions which with the right framework (like us) may let you store this data without (too much) work.

Thanks for having a look at us!

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