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53 from 17 Jun 2017 to 2 Sep 2026
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2026 9

  1. GTM hack: steal engagement with Claude
  2. fuck your AI slop: 5 rules of writing cold messages that actually get sales
  3. To raise VC, think like a VC first
  4. Linkedin-maxxing: An early-stage GTM guide to sell your product
  5. Priceless everyday experiences in SF that are impossible in India
  6. I wrote 300k+ lines of code this month thanks to AI
  7. Meditations on How I Got Into Y Combinator
  8. AI Means the Death of Open Source
  9. AI is Killing B2B SaaS

2025 36

  1. Vibe Coding Is Creating Braindead Coders
  2. SF vs NYC as a AI Founder
  3. I learnt the Infinite Sum Game on moving to SF from India & I can't stop playing
  4. Vibe Coding for Product Managers: Stop Writing, Start Building
  5. Lessons from my journey to become the founder I wish I’d met earlier
  6. There’s a Better Way to Code with AI
  7. Don’t Repeat Mistakes, Teach AI to Remember Every Code Review Instead
  8. Cursor AI Best Practices: Using the Gold Standard Files Workflow for Precise Results
  9. Cursor AI Workflow for Complex Projects (That Actually Works)
  10. AI Can’t Even Fix a Simple Bug — But Sure, Let’s Fire Engineers
  11. Why Good Programmers Use Bad AI
  12. MCP Getting Started: Model Context Protocol on Windows
  13. My AI Prompt Engineering Playbook for Developers
  14. Infantilization at Big Tech
  15. Vibe Coding for Beginners: Build your First App with AI
  16. The day I taught AI to understand code like a Senior Developer
  17. Context, Structure, Organization: The AI Development Trifecta
  18. Making an emoji terminal game in an hour
  19. Karpathy’s ‘Vibe Coding’ Movement Considered Harmful
  20. Security Checklist and Prompt For Vibe Coders
  21. Cursor workflows for building SaaS products in 2025
  22. I cut my browser debugging time in half using AI & MCP
  23. Vibe Coding is a Dangerous Fantasy
  24. My Cursor AI Workflow That Actually Works in Production
  25. Endgame of a post-AGI world
  26. New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code
  27. AI is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers
  28. I built an AI Trend Analyzer to stop myself from doomscrolling
  29. Is AI ready to be a mid-level engineer?
  30. Giga: An AI that actually understands your codebase
  31. Giga: An AI that actually understands your codebase
  32. Stop Using Just One AI Model in Production
  33. LLM “Structured Outputs” are Missing the Point
  34. What 6 hours at HN #1 actually does to your traffic
  35. The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer
  36. When perfect code isn’t enough: My journey with AI IDEs

2024 2

  1. Hacked WordPress, Lost Rankings: My Jekyll Redemption Story
  2. Resumable Tests Save & Load State for Jest and NodeJS

2018 2

  1. Simple “Search” with LIKE in MySQL Sequelize
  2. Better Vue SEO with Prerender SPA Plugin and vue-cli

2017 4

  1. Bye Ghost, hello again WordPress!
  2. Instant, real-time, RSS to email
  3. How to do X using Sequelize
  4. Why is Gift Card Rebel everywhere on YouTube?