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Is PowerBuilder Legacy Technology in 2026?(medium.com)
2 points by rajkumarsekar 4mo ago|1 comments
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
ChatGPT often presents wrong information with complete confidence. This creates a dangerous false sense of reliability. Users waste time fact-checking basic claims that should be correct.
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How to Modernize Legacy Apps: Key Steps and Considerations(forbes.com)
1 points by rajkumarsekar 1y ago|0 comments
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
For your use case, I’d recommend looking at Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 6 or Dell XPS 15/17 with an Intel i9 or Ryzen 9, 32–64GB RAM, and NVIDIA RTX 4070 or higher. If you’re open to desktops, a custom build with a Ryzen 9 7950X, 128GB RAM,
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Great, thanks for sharing. However, adding 'nsfw' returns different and unrelated content. '-noai' works well.
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Well said. Feels like search is now just the wrapper around the ad engine, not the core mission anymore.
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Use a desktop client like Thunderbird or Mailbird that downloads your emails locally and lets you run more reliable full-text search. Some people also use IMAP + grep by syncing to a local folder. It’s frustrating that the world’s top searc
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Not boring at all. These are the real “daily drivers” that keep things moving.
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Smart move with pgrep -fl—so much cleaner than piping through ps | grep. And keeping a personal cheat sheet of one-liners is underrated.
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
No need to be fancy. These are super practical! ctrl+r is a lifesaver once it clicks, and cd - is such a small thing that makes moving around so much smoother.
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
That’s an impressive collection. Definitely not basic! Love how practical these are for real-world ops work, especially the MySQL .ibd optimizer loop and swap memory check.
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Some great power tips here, especially love the pv + grep combo for big files.
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
That’s clever and oddly reassuring.
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Ask HN: What are your favorite one-liner shell commands you use?
23 points by rajkumarsekar 1y ago|42 comments
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Totally get where you’re coming from. I had a similar first impression, it felt slow, and the output wasn’t great unless I hand-held it through every step. What helped me was shifting how I use it. I don’t treat it like a junior dev anymore
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Funny enough, I’ve had the opposite experience. Using LLMs made me enjoy programming more. I spend less time on boilerplate and chasing down syntax quirks, and more time thinking about the bigger picture, what the system should do, how it s
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
That’s a powerful reminder that technical skill isn’t everything. Thanks for sharing.
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
That’s such a smart approach. Thanks for sharing
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
That’s a really insightful take.
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Ask HN: What's the last non-obvious skill that made you better at your job?
4 points by rajkumarsekar 1y ago|8 comments
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
One big reason AI isn’t doing much beta testing yet is that it doesn’t use apps the way humans do. It doesn’t get confused, frustrated, or delighted by a clever UI. Most bugs that matter, like a button that’s in the wrong place, a flow that
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
I think the hardest skills for AI to replace will be those that require human trust, emotional intelligence, and real-time physical adaptability. For example, Conflict resolution, therapy, and coaching depend on nuance, empathy, and trust.
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
- DNS Made Easy / Constellix - Amazon Route 53 - Google Cloud DNS - Bunny DNS - NS1 - Namecheap / Porkbun - NextDNS, Control D
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Thanks for sharing those links, I hadn’t seen all of them. I posted because I found the scale of the 16B figure surprising and thought it might be useful for others who hadn’t dug into it yet. Not trying to push hype, just genuinely curious
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Ask HN: How are you responding to the 16B credential leak?
3 points by rajkumarsekar 1y ago|4 comments
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Nice! I haven’t tried one yet, but you’re making me curious, might be time to test if AI can finally tackle real-world dust :)
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
That’s an awesome use case, feels like having a multilingual travel buddy in your pocket.
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Granola sounds super handy for recall and meeting notes.
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
Fair point. AI is everywhere now, even when we don’t notice. I was aiming more at tools people actively choose for real output. Love the rubber duck method, by the way!
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by rajkumarsekar 1y ago
How’s your experience been with Cursor compared to GitHub Copilot?

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