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kirubakaran

13,679 karma · joined August 10, 2007

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 Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
You might want to try https://crushentropy.com/

It is mine, but it is completely free. Many programmers with ADHD have sent me fan mails about it, and that makes me very happy.

kirubakaran··on Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their time
> I don't work for Americans who seem to be much more into hierarchy in the workplace and not asking questions.

In my experience, this is not true at all. But, as you say you don't have direct experience to come to this conclusion, may I ask what makes you think this?

kirubakaran··on Ask HN: What purchase under $1000 has changed your life the most?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%27er_tea#Research

> There is no evidence that consuming pu'er tea promotes loss of body weight in humans.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31729510/

kirubakaran··on The Humiliating Cross-Examination of SBF
Poor boy? More like poster boy
kirubakaran··on OpenAI closes big lease deal at Uber's San Francisco headquarters
HN uses rel="noreferrer" on all links so perhaps this is no longer an issue?

Let's see: https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html

kirubakaran··on California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment
Ah yes, that's why California has very little innovation compared to other "business friendly" states /s
kirubakaran··on Children of married parents do better, but America is moving the other way
Or the gender neutral, invariant noun: “widowen”

BTW, shouldn’t “widower” be the person who died and the survivor be called “widowee”?

kirubakaran··on Mysterious rock depicted in 15th century painting is likely a Stone Age tool
Perhaps it was the artist, not the subject, that was the virgin
kirubakaran··on Visualizing American inflation across eight categories
But you understood what they meant, right?

Plus it's shorter than saying "skyrocketed to an irrational extent, similar to what happened in the crypto market craze" and hence more expressive. Now, you might not agree that it quite did that to the same level as dogecoin, but that's a different matter than whether or not "mooned" is a good choice of words here. Personally I think hyperbole is useful and fun sometimes.

kirubakaran··on Florida men scammed more than $1M out of Uber Eats
It’s probably on some dashboard somewhere that nobody looks at
kirubakaran··on Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
Long press brings up tooltips in iOS. Perhaps in Android too.
kirubakaran··on The midwit home
Just change the code?
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Conflicted about my FAANG work place
(not the parent, but) You might want to try CBT / ACT, but to be frank, any therapy would help (as long as the therapist is good)
kirubakaran··on Atlassian Acquires Loom
Also, to be extra pedantic (why not), it should be Flavor Aid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown

kirubakaran··on Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest
If they manage to screw up so bad as to get delisted, the stock will no longer go to the right
kirubakaran··on What Happens When Nurses Are Hired Like Ubers
> - Lyft: Uber for car rides

Don’t forget:

- Uber: Uber for car rides

kirubakaran··on OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1B from SoftBank for AI device venture
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681663
kirubakaran··on Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022
Parent comment is talking about their brain
kirubakaran··on I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
I just want to let you know that the pun in the last line didn't go unappreciated.
kirubakaran··on State of DevOps Survey if you're interested in participating
It does the same if you say you’re from Afghanistan
kirubakaran··on Modern genetic data suggests pre-humans were a group of only 1,280 individuals
That explains why cheetahs never prosper
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Post Your Startup
https://histre.com/ - Automatic productivity-focused knowledge tool
kirubakaran··on MastApple//C, a Mastodon client for the Apple II (//C and ][e)
You could buy one on eBay. When I moved to the US, I had to leave my beloved Apple //c behind, but I was able to just buy one here for less than $100
kirubakaran··on Japan’s 72 Microseasons (2015)
Not to mention the deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_reveal_party#Incidents_...
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
"Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" is the last book I read and it is very good https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25670869

It changed the way I think about progress.

kirubakaran··on Nobody ever paid me for code
Common mistake. It's Omega Star that doesn't support ISO timestamps even though they said they would, and Galactus (which supports ISO timestamps) is getting deprecated by the end of the month.
kirubakaran··on Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife (2021)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pule_cheese
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Who's Seeking New Friends?
I’m interested. I don’t want to pigeon hole myself into a list of interests, but at a broad level it is knowledge management, computation, and cognition right now. My email is in my profile.
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: What apps do you use to focus?
https://crushentropy.com/
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: How could I safely contact drug cartels?
As a fan of KenM, Nathan Fielder, and Sasha Baron Cohen, I say well done! HOW did you come up with this? Genius! The bit about getting the cartel to sign your EULA [1] was ::chefs kiss::

(Posting this only as you seem to have decided to low-key reveal the ruse)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36738007

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