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• 'What Does a Scanner See?' – Keanu monologue in a Scanner Darkly vs. PKD Book

  by firasd on 10/7/2025, 4:39 PM with 1 comments

• Delhi Metro Text Map, Context-Engineered for LLMs

  by firasd on 10/5/2025, 4:27 AM with 2 comments

• Delhi Metro Text Map (For AI/ChatGPT Assistance)

  by firasd on 10/4/2025, 3:28 AM with 0 comments

• The Ghost of ChatGPT 4o

  by firasd on 9/26/2025, 8:43 AM with 0 comments

• I still use GPT 4o

  by firasd on 9/9/2025, 1:40 PM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 9/9/2025, 1:39 PM with comments

• The Ghost of ChatGPT 4o: I told the retired AI model 'people missed you'

  by firasd on 9/5/2025, 3:42 PM with 1 comments

• Qoder Quest Mode: Task Delegation to AI Agents

  by firasd on 8/22/2025, 3:00 PM with 5 comments

• Against the UUID

  by firasd on 8/7/2025, 5:36 PM with 16 comments

• by firasd on 8/7/2025, 5:24 PM with comments

• AlphaDec: A human-readable alternative to ULID/Snowflake IDs

  by firasd on 7/24/2025, 10:14 PM with 18 comments

• AlphaDec: A readable, lexically sortable time format for humans and AI

  by firasd on 7/21/2025, 8:28 PM with 1 comments

• Show HN: AlphaDec, a readable, lexically sortable time format for humans and AI

  by firasd on 7/19/2025, 6:57 PM with 0 comments

• ChatGPT output 'loop' when prompted to translate the conversation

  by firasd on 6/20/2024, 5:00 PM with 0 comments

• Clean Together: vision-based custom GPT to reduce mental load in tidying up

  by firasd on 3/11/2024, 4:23 PM with 0 comments

• Twitter glitch shows 18 quintillion bookmarks

  by firasd on 2/12/2024, 12:02 AM with 2 comments

• “I trained an AI chatbot on my childhood journal entries”

  by firasd on 11/28/2022, 12:44 PM with 0 comments

• No-Token apps: an alternate vision for the blockchain

  by firasd on 7/7/2022, 12:10 PM with 30 comments

• The term 'Bucket List' was coined by a 2007 movie

  by firasd on 5/13/2022, 7:52 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: How does audience growth happen on Instagram?

  by firasd on 1/25/2021, 6:35 PM with 0 comments

• Workers at re-opened Tesla plant test positive for coronavirus

  by firasd on 6/9/2020, 3:39 PM with 5 comments

• by firasd on 3/29/2020, 10:07 PM with comments

• Show HN: Coronavirus updates based on tweets from experts

  by firasd on 3/22/2020, 1:40 AM with 1 comments

• 'Everybody Is Freaking Out': CA law aimed at Uber might harm freelance writers

  by firasd on 10/21/2019, 2:17 PM with 0 comments

• 'Everybody Is Freaking Out': CA law aimed at Uber might harm freelance writers

  by firasd on 10/20/2019, 2:48 PM with 0 comments

• Manmohan Singh on the economy: “India cannot afford to continue down this path.”

  by firasd on 9/2/2019, 10:15 AM with 5 comments

• Indian child dies of rabies; denied vaccine due of lack of biometric Aadhaar ID

  by firasd on 8/30/2019, 3:59 PM with 3 comments

• Regrets of the Creator of the Retweet

  by firasd on 7/24/2019, 3:10 AM with 0 comments

• In-depth look at 'Release the Snyder Cut' movement (including $20k crowdfunding)

  by firasd on 6/13/2019, 4:58 PM with 0 comments

• Hong Kong protesters using cash instead of cards to preserve anonymity

  by firasd on 6/13/2019, 3:59 AM with 0 comments

• Visually removing cars off the road with neural nets [video demo]

  by firasd on 5/7/2019, 5:32 PM with 4 comments

• From Literature to Web Development: My First 6 Weeks at Lambda School

  by firasd on 2/18/2019, 8:03 PM with 0 comments

• Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the Invention of the Future

  by firasd on 1/1/2019, 12:58 PM with 0 comments

• The Ever So Lovely Bézier Curve

  by firasd on 11/18/2018, 2:44 PM with 0 comments

• Interesting failure case of Portrait mode background detection

  by firasd on 11/16/2018, 1:59 AM with 0 comments

• JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works

  by firasd on 10/30/2018, 11:14 PM with 132 comments

• Enhance.Computer, “a cyberpunk game you play by yelling at your computer.”

  by firasd on 8/16/2018, 7:11 PM with 0 comments

• Browsable Database of Russian Agency-Bought Facebook Ads

  by firasd on 8/6/2018, 1:37 PM with 4 comments

• Story behind Digg v4's 'catastrophic launch'

  by firasd on 7/5/2018, 12:32 PM with 0 comments

• Sorting function that only works when you're looking at it

  by firasd on 6/10/2018, 11:54 PM with 0 comments

• Behind the Slate.com redesign

  by firasd on 1/16/2018, 6:11 PM with 0 comments

• Don’t forget ‘loading’ indicators

  by firasd on 11/6/2017, 4:26 PM with 0 comments

• What Exactly Is Vegan-Mayonnaise Company Hampton Creek Selling?

  by firasd on 10/4/2017, 2:15 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Newsfeed for Twitter

  by firasd on 9/23/2017, 12:00 AM with 2 comments

• The Anatomy of a Kickstarter

  by firasd on 9/17/2017, 3:27 PM with 0 comments

• On React and WordPress

  by firasd on 9/15/2017, 1:01 AM with 201 comments

• The Original 1851 Reviews of Moby Dick

  by firasd on 9/9/2017, 11:51 PM with 29 comments

• In Defense of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ (2017)

  by firasd on 6/22/2017, 1:41 PM with 4 comments

• In Defense of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ (2017)

  by firasd on 6/18/2017, 3:58 PM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 6/12/2017, 12:17 PM with comments

• Images: 30 shots Ghost in the Shell recreated from the anime

  by firasd on 5/29/2017, 1:19 PM with 0 comments

• Images: 30 shots Ghost in the Shell 2017 recreated from the anime

  by firasd on 5/22/2017, 4:59 PM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 5/21/2017, 12:44 PM with comments

• 30 shots in Ghost in the Shell 2017 recreated from the anime

  by firasd on 5/20/2017, 9:35 AM with 0 comments

• IndiaStack proponents organized a trolling campaign against biometric ID critics

  by firasd on 5/19/2017, 4:57 AM with 0 comments

• Ghost in the Shell Original Soundtrack mystery

  by firasd on 5/12/2017, 12:28 PM with 36 comments

• Biggest Hollywood mystery of 2017 (Ghost in the Shell OST) is questioned online

  by firasd on 5/11/2017, 10:26 PM with 2 comments

• Petition: Release the Ghost in the Shell OST by Clint Mansell and Lorne Balfe

  by firasd on 5/11/2017, 1:28 AM with 1 comments

• My Heroku Values, by Adam Wiggins

  by firasd on 4/28/2017, 4:20 PM with 1 comments

• Something happened to Ghost in the Shell soundtrack; 100s of fans want answers

  by firasd on 4/25/2017, 1:17 PM with 17 comments

• by firasd on 1/23/2017, 7:34 PM with comments

• Technocratic Despotism: when startups become crony capitalists

  by firasd on 1/2/2017, 3:25 AM with 0 comments

• When Startups Become Crony Capitalists

  by firasd on 12/27/2016, 11:17 PM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 12/27/2016, 12:00 AM with comments

• I Boycott Paytm

  by firasd on 12/26/2016, 8:29 AM with 0 comments

• India’s Botched War on Cash

  by firasd on 12/15/2016, 3:02 PM with 7 comments

• Wrecking the system: India's liquidity crisis

  by firasd on 11/24/2016, 4:16 AM with 0 comments

• Don’t Brake for Fonts

  by firasd on 11/3/2016, 9:10 PM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 10/20/2016, 6:33 PM with comments

• Show Your Work: UX Tips from James Bond Villains

  by firasd on 10/20/2016, 12:52 PM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 10/15/2016, 3:02 PM with comments

• Don’t Brake for Fonts

  by firasd on 10/14/2016, 12:35 PM with 0 comments

• Show Your Work: Don’t forget ‘loading’ indicators

  by firasd on 9/27/2016, 2:12 PM with 1 comments

• Show Your Work: Don’t forget ‘loading’ indicators

  by firasd on 9/26/2016, 10:46 PM with 0 comments

• Don’t Brake for Fonts

  by firasd on 9/25/2016, 4:16 PM with 0 comments

• Disagreeing with Jason Calacanis about Platforms

  by firasd on 9/24/2016, 2:45 PM with 0 comments

• Disagreeing with Jason Calacanis about Platforms

  by firasd on 9/24/2016, 5:35 AM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 9/24/2016, 2:06 AM with comments

• Don’t Brake for Fonts: 3 web performance techniques to show content quickly

  by firasd on 9/23/2016, 2:20 PM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 9/21/2016, 3:05 AM with comments

• iTunes will never work well

  by firasd on 9/18/2016, 8:33 PM with 363 comments

• by firasd on 7/25/2016, 9:24 PM with comments

• Why You Can’t Keep Secrets (1996)

  by firasd on 7/24/2016, 9:23 PM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 6/24/2016, 10:34 PM with comments

• Hypernova by Airbnb: JavaScript Server Rendering (React in Ruby on Rails)

  by firasd on 6/13/2016, 9:28 PM with 0 comments

• The Prescient Joel on Software

  by firasd on 6/9/2016, 4:12 PM with 1 comments

• React Sync Demo

  by firasd on 5/29/2016, 6:38 PM with 0 comments

• React Sync Demo

  by firasd on 5/24/2016, 2:52 PM with 0 comments

• Interface from Data: using React to sync UI and offline activity across devices

  by firasd on 4/29/2016, 4:38 PM with 1 comments

• Interface from Data: using React to sync updates and offline edits across devices

  by firasd on 4/29/2016, 8:12 AM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 4/25/2016, 4:42 PM with comments

• Rendering React without browser JavaScript

  by firasd on 4/9/2016, 1:38 PM with 55 comments

• Quick Start Tutorial: Universal React, with Server Side Rendering

  by firasd on 4/9/2016, 12:06 AM with 0 comments

• Quick Start Tutorial: React Redux without ES6 or Webpack

  by firasd on 3/9/2016, 11:36 AM with 0 comments

• Using Redux in React Apps

  by firasd on 3/8/2016, 3:59 PM with 0 comments

• React.js Conf 2016 [videos]

  by firasd on 2/26/2016, 4:57 PM with 8 comments

• “Computing machinery and intelligence”, by Alan Turing

  by firasd on 2/6/2016, 11:43 PM with 0 comments

• Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken

  by firasd on 2/2/2016, 4:18 PM with 0 comments

• Mobile Wallets in India: Growth Opportunities [Slide Deck]

  by firasd on 12/18/2015, 5:46 PM with 0 comments

• Mobile banking: don’t assume M-Pesa is the model

  by firasd on 12/8/2015, 8:56 PM with 0 comments

• Why You Need Cohorts to Improve Your Retention

  by firasd on 12/1/2015, 4:10 PM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 11/25/2015, 6:20 PM with comments

• Facebook’s Internet.org: Zuckerberg elides the facts

  by firasd on 11/25/2015, 3:59 AM with 0 comments

• The Prescient Joel on Software: ideas I read that came true in my career

  by firasd on 11/2/2015, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• The Prescient Joel on Software: ideas I read that came true in my career

  by firasd on 10/29/2015, 1:30 PM with 0 comments

• by firasd on 10/29/2015, 3:16 AM with comments