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vinitagron Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://www.vinitagrawal.com/

Recently started, not a lot of stuff here. Planning to add my personal blog here and the apps/tools/games that I build for fun and profit.

vinitagron Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

I have been working on some useful tools that I am adding to my personal website repo here: https://github.com/volumetric/vinit-website/tree/main/app

Till now, I have made the following tools: 1. Image Generator 2. Emoji Maker 3. OpenAPI Explorer (Explore 4000+ OpenAPI Spec Files in a nice GUI) 4. WIP - Cyber Sign - Digitally Document Signing Tool 5. WIP - Meme Generator - Make a Meme Image, GIF, Video, etc. with a text prompt

All the code is public and open source.

If you want to use the tools directly, you can check them on my website: https://www.vinitagrawal.com/

vinitagron Slack Search with LangChain's Self-Querying AI

In this video I have demonstrated and shown how to convert a search-related question asked to a @Slackhq Chatbot into a search with a pre-filter applied to make the search results more relevant.

I have used @LangChain 's Self-Querying feature that can convert a question like this:

"Can you find me that thread where Vinit Agrawal talked about AI Safety on the General channel?"

"from: @VinitAgrawal88 in:#general AI Safety"

This will reduce the search space significantly and improve the quality and relevance of search results.

Read more about LangChain's Self-Querying Retriever here: https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/data_connection/re...

vinitagron Tell HN: Thank You Dang

Nice Deep Fake

vinitagron Ask HN: What are you working on?

How do you build that. I mean, what goes into building an A/B Testing system. Does it involve a bunch of statistics and maths?

vinitagron Ask HN: What are you working on?

This is really cool. Not bad for your first game :)

vinitagron Ask HN: What are you working on?

This looks like a really useful tool. I would use it. How are you planning to market it?

vinitagron Ask HN: What are you working on?

Working on my company TARS. We have built a non-AI non-NLP Chatbot Builder product for last 3.5 Years.

https://hellotars.com/

I also wish I had time for some Side Projects.

vinitagron Mailchimp changes are far worse (and shadier) than expected

I feel the pricing structure of MailChimp has become very complex. It reminds me of the pricing structure of intercom. Very difficult to clearly understand what am I being charged for. I don't know why they are doing this. They should work on making new features and charge more for that.

vinitagron Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week

Loved the Gameplay, haven't see anything like this. :)

vinitagron Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?

Editor & Code Management: Sublime Text 3, Atom Editor, Bitbucket, Git

Backend: MongoDB, Node.js, Express, RESTFul APIs, EJS Templates, AWS S3, AWS SQS, AWS EC2

Frontend: jQuery, Backbone.js, Vanila CSS, SPA Application.

vinitagron The Technology (2014)

What an amazing piece of text to read. Almost teared up. I am so excited about the future of humanity.

vinitagron Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?

https://github.com/matthewmueller/x-ray

vinitagron Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

Make the technology for flying cars. Like the one in the movie Blade Runner.

vinitagron Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno

This is some real breakthrough. I don't remember i have heard of anything like this before. Any amount of success with this solution will have a lot of consequences on other problems.

vinitagron Seeing AI for iOS

This is quite an amazing technology. With new products like HoloLens and this, i think Microsoft is finally coming around.

vinitagron Intro to graph compression techniques for in-memory graph computation (2015) [pdf]

Thanks

vinitagron Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?

ChatBots: One big opportunity that i can see is the rise of chatbots on popular messaging platforms. It is going to bring the tech advances to a lot more people in a much easier way.

vinitagron Ask HN: How do you decide what to learn next?

I decide based on what i need to build next, and that came from what i want to build, at some point in the past.

Also i have "This is interesting" moments, from time to time.

vinitagron Kite – Programming Copilot

Looks like an amazing tool. Have to use it before i can tell more. Showing the documentation and example is cool and all, a very useful feature would be the search and analysis of the error messages upon program compilation/run. Most likely from stackOverflow.

This will make things so much easier. Reminds me of how2 https://github.com/santinic/how2

vinitagron SlimFAQ – Simple FAQ's for your app or website

We also thought about the problem of explaining our product/service, but instead of a static FAQ page, we decided to use our own "Automated Chat" product. check it out: https://hellotars.com/convBot/demos/tars/

vinitagron Ask HN: What's your favorite CLI or ncurses program?

I like it

vinitagron Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

Have you seen luka.ai they have been doing it for quite a while. Doing something very similar.