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Kailash Nadh
Personal blog · nadh.in/blog · on HN as knadhaiprogrammingculture
Kailash Nadh's personal blog at nadh.in covers ai, programming and culture. Since 2013, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “FOMO? YAMO”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Kailash Nadh's blog and open-source projects, from the CTO of Zerodha, are linked for their hobbyist coding and posts on JavaScript ecosystems, AI hype, and Postgres.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Developer, Tinkerer, Absurdist
Most-linked posts?
- FOMO? YAMO8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-03-04
- Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID)5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-10-02
- The JavaScript ecosystem is a hot mess and so is software development4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-16
- Software as an "In-Discipline"3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-31
- MCP Seems Viral3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-19
- DeepSeek, AI Sovereignty, and India2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-29
- The Triangle of Fulfilment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-21
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-06
- This time, it feels different2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-13
- On “Powered by AI / ML” Marketing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-26
What Hacker News says?
Pretty much exactly what I have been thinking lately. Write about it recently here: https://nadh.in/blog/decentralised-open-indexes/
Comment linking /blog/decentralised-open-indexes/
on “Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google”Submitted “Open source” is not broken as a story · 262 points
HN discussionI'm a fan of Kailash Nadh's projects[1] and blog[2]. The CTO of such a large company takes his time to make little projects for fun and OSS, says a lot about how good the company's dev culture is. I also find it amusingly wholesome that his GitHub about says "Hobbyist Developer" before "CTO @Zerodha". He also volunteers at 2 Indian non-profits. What an amazing person! 1: https://github.com/knadh 2: https://nadh.in
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on “India's largest stock broker has 30 devs (2020)”Submitted But, aren't you folks web2? as a story · 143 points
HN discussion> I hope Kagi succeeds. But personally, I think the web is dead. And no search engine can save it. I concur. Maybe now is the time to seriously think about alternate visions for "search". I have been toying with an idea[1] along those lines myself out of sheer annoyance at the state of WWW and web "search" in general. [1] https://nadh.in/blog/decentralised-open-indexes/
Comment linking /blog/decentralised-open-indexes/
on “Why pay for a search engine”Submitted The JavaScript ecosystem is a hot mess and so is software development as a story · 102 points
HN discussionMetaphone [1] addresses a lot of issues Soundex has. While Soundex is aimed specifically at names, Metaphone works for all English words. PS: Inspired by Metaphone, I wrote MLphone [2] a phonetic lib for the Malayalam (South India) language. The phonetic keys the algorithm produces are Roman characters though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone [2] https://nadh.in/code/mlphone/
Comment linking /code/mlphone/
on “Soundex”Submitted FOMO? YAMO as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI wrote about something tangential a few months ago; the need to have curation-based alternate forms of discovery on the WWW. https://nadh.in/blog/decentralised-open-indexes/
Comment linking /blog/decentralised-open-indexes/
on “AI means the end of internet search as we've known it”Submitted On “Powered by AI / ML” Marketing as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThe motivating blog post[1] linked from the front page is probably going to generate a more interesting discussion than the framework itself. As someone who has to deal with both angular and nextjs for different (but overlapping) stacks at work, I find myself increasingly sympathetic to this viewpoint. [1]: https://nadh.in/blog/javascript-ecosystem-software-developme...
Comment linking /blog/javascript-ecosystem-software-development-are-a-hot-mess/
on “Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library”Submitted Software as an "In-Discipline" as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://nadh.in
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted The JavaScript “ecosystem” is a hot mess and so is software development as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://nadh.in/blog/this-time-it-feels-different/ No shade on the author. It just seems like an apt metaphor for how we get blinded by LLMs.
Comment linking /blog/this-time-it-feels-different/
on “Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?”Submitted LocalStorageDB - a simple, tiny database layer for localStorage as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYoutube talk from Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha: largest retail stock broker in India) Talk slides here: https://nadh.in/files/indiafoss-2024-dungbeetle.pdf
Comment linking /files/indiafoss-2024-dungbeetle.pdf
on “7M Postgres tables (not rows) [video]”Submitted Code is cheap. Show me the talk as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://nadh.in/blog Techno-philosophical ramblings.
Comment linking /blog
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fear of missing out on software? You ain't missing out as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOMO? YAMO as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The JavaScript ecosystem is a hot mess and so is software development in general as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MCP Seems Viral as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MCP Seems Viral as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DeepSeek, AI Sovereignty, and India as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software as an In-Discipline as a story · 2 points
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