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Pravendra Singh
Personal blog · hackpravj.com/blog · on HN as pravjprogrammingcareerstartups
Pravendra Singh's personal blog at hackpravj.com covers programming, career and startups. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Using GitHub to build a missing GitHub feature”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Occasional thoughts about problem-solving, working at startup or in general, random (sidenote: maybe not (or so I tell myself)) observations, or anything I find worth revisiting. Mostly for myself, sometimes useful for others. Have you seen this page where I ramble about myself?
Most-linked posts?
- Using GitHub to build a missing GitHub feature2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-03
- How Not to Use AI? (At Work)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-16
What Hacker News says?
Happens to me every time. My last side project was a data-driven sport (Cricket) analytics blog ( https://hackpravj.com/blog/inside-cricket ). Worked on it for 8 months (every Sunday), now when it's done I don't like the way I wrapped it up. People appreciated it, I learned multiple new things but it didn't go as per the dream (the initial motivation that helped me start it).
Comment linking /blog/inside-cricket
on “Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?”Submitted Setting up personal OKR (objectives and key-results) as a story · 161 points
HN discussionI'm working on restoring my website/blog. I stopped writing right after college when I moved to full-time work, but I want to change that now. Just as I started, I realized the website was hosted on Forestry CMS, which has been discontinued, so I will have to figure out how to maintain the URL structure, etc. (this is important since there are a few popular/top-10 pages for certain queries/searches [1]). [1]: https:…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)”Submitted Using GitHub to build a missing GitHub feature as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWebsite: https://hackpravj.com Blog: https://hackpravj.com/blog I write about explorable explanations from a software engineering perspective, going after a particular problem and explaining it using either data or a solution. For example, my recent article was about solving Google AI's game Semantris using Computer Vision. https://hackpravj.com/blog/solving-semantris-opencv-word2vec... This year I've decided to wri…
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on “Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?”Submitted Hacking Semantris: The Google AI Experiment as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've been working on two projects. ## Tab Highway: Browser extension focusing on the UX/process of decluttering It turns tab cleanup into a game. When you pile up too many open tabs or whenever you want, it opens a night drive where each tab is a road sign you drive through or send to the trash. [GitHub]( https://github.com/pravj/TAB-HIGHWAY ) This is still a work in progress. It works on my machine, but not fully d…
Comment linking /blog/woodworking-has-been-achieved-internally/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)”Submitted Show HN: My experience contributing to the Go programming language as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://hackpravj.com Using this to maintain my writings, projects, readings, and curated photo collections.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted How Not to Use AI? (At Work) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Not to Use AI? (At Work) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to read Paul Graham's essays? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub information dynamics: How GitHub's social network works (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using GitHub to build a missing GitHub feature as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving Google Semantris Using OpenCV and Word2Vec as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inside Cricket: A fifth umpire' view of your favorite sport as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Year I Started Writing Code, Again as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Opportunities in Indian Railway Commute: Next Billion Users Perspective as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using GitHub to build a missing GitHub feature as a story · 1 points
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