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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 Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day
The Starlink ones look like Santa's sleigh https://i.imgur.com/4S0vbfY.gif
kirubakaran··on Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
> probably mostly pretty hardened

Quite possibly perhaps that might be true-ish to some extent, I think, but take that with a grain of salt, I'm not an expert, that's just my wild guess :-p

kirubakaran··on How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background
It probably means nothing coming from a stranger, but I want to say it anyway: I'm so sorry you went through that. Hugs!
kirubakaran··on Google TPU v5p beats Nvidia H100
I think they mean TCO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_cost_of_ownership
kirubakaran··on Why are Alaska's rivers turning orange?
I don't think there are elephants in Alaska, let alone indoors, in rooms or otherwise.
kirubakaran··on Controversial California bill would physically stop new cars from speeding
We make tradeoffs like this all the time. Who knows how many amazing adventurous frontier literature we're missing out on, as we've moved on from gun slingers regularly robbing banks and having duels with bounty hunters at high noon.

(I'm not arguing for / against the auto-enforced speed limit)

kirubakaran··on Controversial California bill would physically stop new cars from speeding
Some good anecdotes here: https://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-been-pulled-over-for-goi...
kirubakaran··on Controversial California bill would physically stop new cars from speeding
> what's the rationale for letting people go 10 over the limit

One reason among many: for passing, especially semis, without spending forever in their blind-spot

kirubakaran··on Tell HN: Browser domain name should be a bigger font
You can use a browser extension like Stylus and make it any size you want: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpee...
kirubakaran··on A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)
Taylor Swift is a psyop meme is the psyop. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you :-p
kirubakaran··on A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)
I don't listen to Taylor Swift at all, but even I've heard of "Shake it off". Is your comment about your memory or about her mindshare among non-fans?
kirubakaran··on Shiyu discovery reveals East Asia's advanced materials dating to 45,000 BCE
Probably a typo for BCE (Before Common Era)?
kirubakaran··on Relearning math as an adult
You need an AI art of your anniversary date in the form of a goatse
kirubakaran··on I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy
I think he reads every single comment
kirubakaran··on IRS to begin trial of its own free tax-filing system
This should shed some light:

Bill Gurley: "2,851 Miles" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM

kirubakaran··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
When you observe Santa, you get entangled with that Santa, and others get gifts in the rest of the multiverse. So don't worry, and have a Merry Everettian Christmas!
kirubakaran··on Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
Even if the data is signed by a key in the secure enclave of the source?
kirubakaran··on Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)
I'm doing something like this with https://histre.com/ I'd love to try your tool, and it would also be fun to chat about this if you like (k@histre.com)
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Wikipedia articles that made you say "wow "?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Terrified I wont find another job
I understand, though I doubt you could possibly be worse than me at interviewing :) I remember once when I absolutely blanked out and didn’t answer a single question, when it was just simple questions in subjects that I knew very well. It was super embarrassing. Yet somehow I survived, and here I am doing just fine.

If I were you, I wouldn’t put off interviewing just to get better at leetcode. There are all kinds of interviewing styles, and I bet you’d get hired sooner than you think if you were to do the interviews parallel to practicing.

Wishing you the very best!

kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Terrified I wont find another job
Whenever you need just one of something (job, relationship etc), it's going to look hopeless, right up to the moment that you get that one thing, and then you'd wonder why you ever worried.

You have the experience. There is demand for your experience. You're going to be fine. Just keep applying. Try not to waste your energy on worrying, and redirect it towards sending out applications etc. Easier said than done, I know.

kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Have you ever had a "middle-out epiphany"?
Awesome! Can you please link to your expired patent or related articles?
kirubakaran··on The Sheep Incident (2008)
Summary: "In 1968, thousands of sheep died mysteriously in Skull Valley, Utah. The cause was traced back to a nerve agent test conducted by the US Army at the Dugway Proving Grounds. The test involved an airplane spraying a potent nerve agent called VX over a remote section of the Utah desert. However, due to a malfunction, the chemical continued to leak from the plane as it climbed to a higher altitude. Strong winds carried the nerve agent to Skull Valley, causing the death of the sheep. Despite evidence pointing to the nerve agent as the cause of the deaths, the Army has not officially taken responsibility for the incident."
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Do you user finger or other "old" protocols?
I telnet some GET / HTTP/1.1 to some old servers once in a while for old times sake
kirubakaran··on Lobsters
Sure, here is the Show HN for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904988 Thanks for checking it out. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: How to admit that you don't want to be on the manager track anymore?
I hope you feel better soon! If you ever feel any doubts, please know that you absolutely did the right thing.
kirubakaran··on Lobsters
If you want Lobsters style tags and filtering on Hacker News stories: https://histre.com/hn/

(d: mine)

kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Have you made IRL friends from HN usage?
Yes I have! Several, in fact. If anyone is interested, I'd love to chat. My email is in my profile :-)
kirubakaran··on Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US govt has begun
Could the weights be FOIA'd?
kirubakaran··on Ask HN: Are there tech-focused life coaches who can help rebuild my career?
I'm not a life coach, but I'm happy to talk (for free), if it helps. My email is in my profile.
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