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kirubakaranon Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

Since you're an Obsidian user, can I please get your feedback on https://hyperclast.com/ which I'm building?

(I'm not quite ready to do a Show HN yet, so please don't post it, but I'm ready for some early feedback if you'll indulge me)

kirubakaranon Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

So is this the Bezos play of depressing the acquisition price? iirc Bezos froze the Amazon referral program of GoodReads.com to force them to take a lower price. If so, shame on them!

kirubakaranon James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies

The signage is for cars, not boats.

kirubakaranon FTX whistleblower Caroline Ellison set for early release next month

> No one is going to trust her to ...

I wish I had your optimism:

> Adam Neumann’s Flow raises over $100M at $2.5B valuation Backed by a16z, the ex-WeWork CEO's real estate platform targets global expansion. (2025)

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1uevrw1xe

kirubakaranon Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

Looks great! If you don't mind sharing, what is the revenue and profit?

kirubakaranon Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

Here's my list: https://kirubakaran.com/bookshelf/

I especially enjoyed "Seeing Like a State"

kirubakaranon Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence

That proof only applies to fixed architecture feed forward multilayer perceptrons with no recurrence, iirc. Transformers are not that.

kirubakaranon Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

Ha I finally got it once I realized it's not about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk

kirubakaranon BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive

Only if you baby it

kirubakaranon OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

I'm not trying to defend Google (shudder!), just trying to be helpful:

- Enabling 2fa in my accounts has solved this problem for me

- I hear that hardware security tokens are even better to get Google to not worry that you're an imposter, but I haven't done that myself

kirubakaranon In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All

Winning arguments with analogies is like painting still life with a broad brush

kirubakaranon Ford can't find mechanics for $120K: It takes math to learn a trade

Sure, some do that, not everyone. So I wouldn't call it a "failed world". I agree with your general point though.

kirubakaranon Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive

Dip said ties in liquid nitrogen and hit them with a hammer

kirubakaranon Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive

> The billionaires aren't differentiable

Probably because they're not continuous?

kirubakaranon Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix

To the extent that it's rational, it's more about acceleration than velocity

kirubakaranon How I am deeply integrating Emacs

You can configure Emacs to open each buffer in a new frame — ie “window” and manage them with your window manager

kirubakaranon Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?

Thanks. There are also these:

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toxcancel/

- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xcancelcom-redirect...

kirubakaranon Who invented deep residual learning?

And even that's not constant sometimes.

kirubakaranon I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

> (how to make strikethrough...)

Unfortunately(?) you can't: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

kirubakaranon Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

How did you go bankrupt?

Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

kirubakaranon Ask HN: What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases?

IME the dreaded out of memory error. This is all they have to say on the matter: https://neo4j.com/developer/kb/recommendations-for-recovery-...

kirubakaranon Notion 3.0

A question for people who interact with non-trivial Notion documents: Have they fixed the sluggishness? Some people I've talked to say that Notion has made massive improvements in that direction, and that slowness is no longer an issue. I also hear a lot of complaints online. Perhaps their native apps are fast and webapp is slow?

I'd love to hear your informed take on this.

If it really is slow, how is it so successful?

kirubakaranon Bourbaki – A Secret Society of Mathematicians

We had our own: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

kirubakaranon Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City

It's only unfair if the innocent are punished. Lot of murders go unsolved. Does that mean the murderers that do get caught are treated unfairly?

kirubakaranon Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy

If Travis Kalanick can do vibe research at the bleeding edge of quantum physics[1], I don't see why one can't do vibe brain surgery. It isn't really rocket science, is it? [2]

[1] https://futurism.com/former-ceo-uber-ai

[2] If you need /s here to be sure, perhaps it's time for some introspection

kirubakaranon I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

When I was traveling in Mexico, it drove me nuts that even though I was signed in, Google Flights switched my currency from dollars to pesos every single time I opened a new tab! I think they really don't care.

kirubakaranon Learning Is Slower Than You Think

You're conveniently replying to the weakest point of the parent comment. They listed a several more reasons, and when taken together, the article reeks of LLM generated content.

kirubakaranon Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”

Whenever some decision doesn't make sense, you can count on corruption (self-dealing, nepotism, kick-backs, or plain old embezzlement).

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by grift.

kirubakaranon Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

I of course use https://histre.com/ (I made it)

kirubakaranon Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

(Setting the current example aside...)

When proposing a model for evaluating startup investments -- or any decision-making framework -- it’s useful to run a kind of regression test.

Would Shark Tank have funded the most successful startups of the past decade? In many cases, no. They famously passed on companies like Airbnb, Uber, and Dropbox early on (sometimes indirectly via pitch decks or missed introductions), and even directly rejected DoorDash and Cameo, both of which went on to become unicorns. In other cases, they offered terms that, if accepted, would likely have made follow-on funding difficult.

That doesn't mean every GenAI deal today is wise. But pointing to Shark Tank as a benchmark for rational investing is a very selective filter. Historically, it’s missed more home runs than it’s hit.