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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 macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time
Good example of stream processing
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
Everyone with a browser will use https://histre.com/ :-p
kirubakaran··on Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
Welcome! btw this is how it looked: https://i.imgur.com/qg8gNJF.png

I understand if the window were taller, I'd have seen the actual price cards. I think it's just that when you click "Pricing", you expect the next obvious number you see to be the price.

kirubakaran··on Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles
Sure. I extracted tags from here https://lobste.rs/tags and expanded on that just from having spent a lot of time on HN. Then the app uses GPT3.5 to choose the appropriate tags for each story from the master list of tags.

More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904988

kirubakaran··on Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
Some unsolicited feedback (please feel free to ignore):

When I click on "Pricing" in the nav bar, it scrolls down, and the first thing that catches my eye is "$2100 / month". I happened to see this time that this is the benefit you're projecting and it is actually $2.50/hour. On the previous times I've visited your website based on your HN comments, I've always thought $2100/month was what you were going to charge me and closed the tab.

I've been frustrated myself that people don't read what's right there on the page when they come to my startup app's landing page. Turns out I do the same. Hope this helps you improve the layout / font sizes and such "information hierarchy" so the correct information is conveyed at a glance.

IMHO $2.50/hour is great value, and stands on its own. I know how much my time is worth, so perhaps the page doesn't really have to shout that to convince me.

Again, please feel free to ignore this as it is quite possible that it is just me with the attention span of a goldfish with CTE while clicking around new websites.

kirubakaran··on "Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"
You can use "remote hands" service to some extent. For example: http://www.he.net/tour/Fremont_2_220_Remote_Hands_Service.ht...

You could leave a stack of HDDs and other consumables in your server cabinet for them.

kirubakaran··on Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees
You haven't made an argument for that point at all
kirubakaran··on Every V4 UUID
If you're an Everettian, roll https://www.jrussellhuffman.com/quantumdice/ and read it only if the die is odd. You can have your cake and eat it too.
kirubakaran··on Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles
You might like this: https://histre.com/hn/

(Disclosure: I made it)

kirubakaran··on Web Highlighter Userscript
Nice! I built something similar for https://histre.com/ and made it even robust that the highlight will stay on even if the rest of the page changes. For example, if you highlight a sentence in Hacker News comments, the position of the comment changes all the time and histre highlights the correct sentence even with that change.

I open sourced it here, if that's helpful: https://gitlab.com/histre/browser-extension/-/blob/master/hi...

kirubakaran··on Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control
SFO doesn't use TSA

https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/safety-secur...

kirubakaran··on Argentinian Farmer Finds Family of 20k-Year-Old Car-Sized Armadillos
20k years ago the flash floods were less evolved and hence were much slower than the modern newfangled flash floods you're talking about.
kirubakaran··on ChatGPT Search
Predicate logic
kirubakaran··on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
kirubakaran··on Exploring 120 years of timezones (2021)
Easily solved by everyone in the world going to bed at 10pm UTC /s
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: What is happening in tech unrelated to AI?
Hacker News minus AI: https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai
kirubakaran··on Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
So statistical test won't work, and we need something else
kirubakaran··on The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
I prefer #666
kirubakaran··on Oura Ring 4
You could get a suppository device
kirubakaran··on Newton's financial misadventures in the South Sea Bubble (2018)
Much better chart someone posted in an older thread: https://i.imgur.com/AEzxuLy.jpg
kirubakaran··on Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board
I too can add that my in-person interactions with DHH were incredibly pleasant. What an amazing person!
kirubakaran··on Serverless-registry: A Docker registry backed by Workers and R2
Discussion with 473 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808
kirubakaran··on OAuth from First Principles
You could use something like https://docs.allauth.org/en/latest/

auth0 is too expensive for new SaaS imho

kirubakaran··on Faster CRDTs (2021)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28017204 (3 years ago, 151 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33903563 (2 years ago, 22 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41372833 (this post)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41373288 (this comment)

kirubakaran··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
Improved the search feature of https://histre.com/ which is a knowledge management tool
kirubakaran··on Is an All-in-One Database the Future?
The Rule 34 of system design
kirubakaran··on Elephants use namelike calls
Here's Jazz for Cows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXKDu6cdXLI

kirubakaran··on Oystercatchers are waging war on NYC's beach drones
> are not, in fact, seagulls

Journalists are known to be gullible

kirubakaran··on Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
Yeah that's 100% my problem. I'll work on it. I really appreciate the feedback.
kirubakaran··on Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
Thanks, I need to fix that.

It is primarily a knowledge management tool with a ton of integrations to get data in, and also get it out easily, has powerful search etc.

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