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vachanmn123on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

A platform to automate generation, distribution and management of verifiable E-Certificates for event organizers.

vachanmn123on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

Location: Bengaluru (Bangalore), India | Remote: Yes | Willing to relocate: Negotiable

Technologies: > Programming Languages: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go > Frontend Development: React.JS, Next.JS, Vue.JS, Astro > Backend Development: Node.JS, Express.JS, Django, Flask, Gin > Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL > Tools and Platforms: Git, GitHub Actions, Docker, AWS, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare

Résumé/CV: https://linkinseconds.com/p/vachan-mn | Email: contact@vachanmn.tech

I am a Full-Stack Engineer with experience designing, building, and deploying web applications from scratch. On the frontend, I specialize in React, Next.js, and Astro. On the backend, I build performant APIs and microservices using Node.js (Express/Hono), Go (Gin), and Python (Django/Flask). I have practical experience managing relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and automate deployments using Git, Docker, GitHub Actions, and AWS/Cloudflare. Seeking full-time roles in full-stack, frontend, or backend engineering.

vachanmn123on macOS Container Machines

Could this allow us to use proton on mac maybe?

vachanmn123on All the bugs they found

> Trying to work around Anthropic blocking security-related prompts does get pretty tiring though.

Didn't know this is a thing... interesting for a company that's marketing their Mythos so hard not allowing security prompts.

I am also curious how the cheaper Chinese models do, I have an Opencode Go plan, so I'll let 'em rip over the weekend, hopefully I get to see a few bugs!

vachanmn123on Arena AI Model ELO History

Isn't code that you fail to understand literally a sign that its worse?

vachanmn123on Less human AI agents, please

I've seen this way too many times as well. I wrote about this recently: https://medium.com/@vachanmn123/my-thoughts-on-vibe-coding-a...

vachanmn123on A Python Interpreter Written in Python

Very well written! Everyone used to tell me during Uni that stacks are used for running programs, never ACTUALLY understood where or how.

vachanmn123on I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

Recently I was ranting about this very thing, my work machine running win 11 has 16gb ram and Windows just sits at 8Gb on idle. My first laptop had 1 gig of ram... until I got my mac (16GB M1 Air) I used to manage with 4GB RAM while serving clients... Optimization seems to have been forgotten these days

vachanmn123on Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than $300 (well almost)

Check out using maybe some kind of monocular depth estimation models, like Apple's Depth Pro (https://github.com/apple/ml-depth-pro) and use the depth map to predict a path?

Very cool project though!

vachanmn123on Protect your shed

Everytime I go back and look at some of my older projects, I am in awe of how much I had done in the short while when I was working on it. Side Projects are kind of the only real way I think one can learn software engineering. Great read

vachanmn123on I Stopped Writing Prompts and Started Writing Systems

Is it just me or does the entire article just seem like slop?

vachanmn123on I Need a Partner

What are you doing? If you need someone for tech - https://vachanmn.tech

vachanmn123on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

Kind of funny how the notepad is faster than opening notepad installed on my machine lmao