I Built a Startup Map for Hyderabad. Here's What It Does.A few weeks ago I was trying to find out which startups are actually building in Hyderabad. I thought it would be easy. It wasn't. I ended up digging through tweets, event pages and old listicles, andOct 12 · 2 min readnikhilsaiankilla.hashnode.dev
LLM Token Counting, Pricing, and Context Windows ExplainedTokens are the unit every LLM API bills and budgets on. A prompt that "looks short" in the editor can still burn thousands of tokens once the system message, tool schemas, and conversation history areAug 9 · 3 min readnikhilsaiankilla.hashnode.dev
PEM vs DER and How to Read an X.509 CertificateCertificates fail loudly in browsers and quietly in mutual-TLS services. The file on disk might be PEM, DER, or "a .crt that is secretly one or the other," and the error message is usually unable to lAug 9 · 3 min readnikhilsaiankilla.hashnode.dev
