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by plibither8 4y ago
This is brilliant and I've been looking for something like this for a LONG time, thank you! Quick request: the experience would be even better if we could search for words/phrases within the screenplays of a particular episode&#
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by plibither8 4y ago
What a coincidence, just mentioned the comment you're refering to on a separate comment on this post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33187258
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by plibither8 4y ago
Hah, these dismissals remind me of the comment on Dropbox's initial Hacker News post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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Show HN: Simple API to fetch job listings from popular job boards(github.com)
3 points by plibither8 4y ago|0 comments
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by plibither8 4y ago
Previously discussed (914 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21647038
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by plibither8 4y ago
Huh, interesting. Didn't know there would be such cut-throat competition in this thread that downvoting my comment would be required xD.
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by plibither8 4y ago
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://
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by plibither8 4y ago
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/
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by plibither8 4y ago
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 a
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by plibither8 4y ago
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 unnec
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by plibither8 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/launches Like this?
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by plibither8 4y ago
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/plib
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by plibither8 4y ago
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 t
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Of course it has memory leaks, but it's a freaking missile(twitter.com)
3 points by plibither8 4y ago|0 comments
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by plibither8 4y ago
Wondering when "talent acquisition" will be the new "human resources" and what fancy term takes its place.
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by plibither8 4y ago
One article advocating against unnecessary abstractions that I really appreciate and highly recommend is Dan Abramov's: https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/
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by plibither8 4y ago
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
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by plibither8 4y ago
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/
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Ask HN: WhatsApp and Chat Export Options
3 points by plibither8 5y ago|0 comments
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by plibither8 5y ago
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%3
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by plibither8 5y ago
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.
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by plibither8 5y ago
> 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.
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Azul's New Way to Board Its Flights: A Moving “Carpet”(simpleflying.com)
15 points by plibither8 5y ago|2 comments
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by plibither8 5y ago
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!
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by plibither8 5y ago
> 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 f
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Not Verbs: Saving the world one not-a-verb at a time(notaverb.com)
2 points by plibither8 5y ago|0 comments
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by plibither8 5y ago
> 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 choic
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by plibither8 5y ago
> 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
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by plibither8 5y ago
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" i
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by plibither8 5y ago
In what way is it not meant for puzzles, as opposed to English?

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