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kirubakaran

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I am Kirubakaran : https://kirubakaran.com/about/

I'm building https://hyperclast.com/ : Fast, open, and extensible team workspace (Like Notion, but better)

I live in the beautiful Mission District of San Francisco CA.

You can write to me at hn@kirubakaran.com My pgp key is here: https://kirubakaran.com/txt/pgp.txt

~~~ My .emacs: https://github.com/kirubakaran/emacs-kiru/blob/master/dot-emacs.el ~~~

I use Doom Emacs now, so I'm leaving the above link just for fun. I don't use that anymore.

You can follow my HN Upvotes here: https://histre.com/collections/o34gelgt/kirubakarans-hacker-news-upvotes/

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kirubakaran··on Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
Looks like I created my account a week before dang! I was lurking for a few months before I actually created the account.
kirubakaran··on Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
"observation about certain common tendencies" is literally what generalization is.

Racist remarks against your own people is worse, because not only does it perpetuate discrimination against a group by advancing a narrative about the group ("should we hire from this subgroup prone to x?"), it gives the bigots yet another vector ("even they themselves say it about their subgroup, so it must be true!")

We're on an international forum. Making "observations" like what the original commenter did can only decrease employment opportunities for an already geographically disadvantaged talent. Why do that?

kirubakaran··on Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
Hence the popular expression "It's good to be punctual, but you don't have to be a Kant about it"
kirubakaran··on Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
Let's not generalize, even if you feel like you can say that because you're a member of a group you're generalizing. It's unfair to most of the people in any group being generalized.
kirubakaran··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
epsilon
kirubakaran··on Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
The child is the father of the man, as Wordsworth said.
kirubakaran··on Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
I like rtm's corollary: "... including Common Lisp"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

kirubakaran··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
https://hyperclast.com/

Smart documents for teams. Fast, Open, and Self-Hostable.

Basically a much faster Notion.

kirubakaran··on Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
Thanks for checking it out. Pricing for self-hosted option is the same as hosted. But I'm happy to offer a discount on top of that for larger teams.
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
https://hyperclast.com/

I built it because Notion is way too slow. I loved Obsidian, but I wanted it to be multi-player so my whole team could use it. It is fast, open, and self-hostable.

It meets all the criteria you listed except the mobile app. Mobile app will be out next week. I'd happy to build any other features you need. Just let me know at k@hyperclast.com :-)

kirubakaran··on Time to add option in Hacker News "AI excluded Show HN"
https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai (dis: my project)
kirubakaran··on A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/54481-far-out-in-the-unchar...

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

kirubakaran··on Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him
"Bank of America, Los Angeles, was founded in California in 1923. In 1928, this entity was acquired by the Bank of Italy of San Francisco, which took the Bank of America name two years later"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America

kirubakaran··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
> Nadella had OpenAI by the short and curlies early on

Looks like Nadella is slowly realizing that it is his short and curlies that are in the vice grip in the "If you owe the bank $100 vs $100M" sense?

kirubakaran··on Canada's first sovereign wealth fund
Is setting expectations based on track record considered pessimism?
kirubakaran··on Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft
Well, if a divorce and drinking could make him go broke, he wasn't that wealthy, was he?
kirubakaran··on Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft
Even the original gold rush pickaxe guy Sam Brannan went broke, and he practically had a monopoly on pickaxes by buying up the entire supply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Brannan
kirubakaran··on GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
That's worrying. My search-fu is failing me. Link please.
kirubakaran··on What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role
We just need one more layer of abstraction to fix that, and everything will be fine
kirubakaran··on Bodega cats of New York
By that logic, we shouldn't be fighting malaria in Africa either.

Are there any benefits to toxoplasmosis besides some people finding the vector cute? The alternative isn't living in a sterile bubble.

kirubakaran··on Bodega cats of New York
Well you wrote "Hyperbole and toxoplasmosis go well together". It's not "hyperbole" to care about others, however few they are, even though you yourself might not be at risk, right?

But I don't mean to be confrontational. I understand that it is probably annoying to hear toxoplasmosis talked about like it is black death.

kirubakaran··on Bodega cats of New York
> Most humans (and other beings) aren't pregnant or immunocompromised

Just because pregnant and immuno-compromised people are in the minority, it's not a big deal?

kirubakaran··on Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
My trick is to go to Emacs meetups. Nobody is using Emacs for money.
kirubakaran··on AI Resistance Is Growing
Citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0XOz78yVmg
kirubakaran··on OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
I'd use a towel for such purposes :)
kirubakaran··on Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
You could try https://hyperclast.com/ (my project). Here's the comparison vs Notion, Obsidian etc https://hyperclast.com/vs/
kirubakaran··on Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
"but who knows what's going on at anthropic"

People at Anthropic, of course

kirubakaran··on Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin
When I visited Troy, the museum's trojan horse replica said "Under Construction". Apparently it had been that way for months and months, which was pretty funny considering the original took only 3 days.
kirubakaran··on YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes
Very cool, thanks! I've been using SponsorBlock for a long time. This is the first time I'm hearing about DeArrow and I paid for it. That guy is doing incredible work.
kirubakaran··on Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson
I didn't mean it as such, but I can see why it would seem so. I've edited the link out now. Thanks for the feedback.
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