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kunalguptaon The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

everyone in tech saw this coming?

kunalguptaon Ghost artists on Spotify

delightful mental pain, like a cold plunge

kunalguptaon AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson

This is one of my favorite reads in a while

kunalguptaon First chip-based 3D printer is smaller than a coin with no moving parts

perfect thank you

kunalguptaon First chip-based 3D printer is smaller than a coin with no moving parts

can’t read article without constantly clicking ads, blocked toms hardware

kunalguptaon Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep

yeah i have this. didnt officially verify but i noticed that theres a direct correlation between hours i am in bed and how rested i feel, even if i feel like i spent the time awake. So i stopped specifically worrying about whether i’m asleep or awake and instead focus on enjoying the break

kunalguptaon I want flexible queries, not RAG

this person just wants perplexity

kunalguptaon Llama3 implemented from scratch

this is a proper post

kunalguptaon Descent: A classic 3-D first-person shooter (2012)

hexen was a weird one

kunalguptaon Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster

same exp

kunalguptaon Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters

this is the correct order of operations for sure

kunalguptaon Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?

I’m not in the same place, but I do find it still surprising at age 40 you can flail around randomly in a city and discover entirely new areas of life that fully captivate your interest. The other day someone invited me to join a math club and now it’s my favorite part of my week. I hadn’t thought about math since I was 15. but that’s example one of dozens. not that anyone’s asking, but I think if anyone isn’t feeling satisfied they can easily try very random things and find some satisfaction and that’s what I would recommend

kunalguptaon B-trees in Factorio

lol nice

kunalguptaon We have decided to pause driverless operations across all of our fleets

Cheaper rides, very obviously

kunalguptaon How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

hell yeah demonslayer irl

kunalguptaon Robotaxis 'do not belong in the city of Los Angeles,' lawmaker says

The AI vs human wars begin

kunalguptaon Sober-curious movement: Non-alcoholic drink options grow

These are really good and have become my only vice. Somehow they’re much better than the real drinks

kunalguptaon Carbon capture pipeline nixed after widespread opposition

It seems to be South Dakota and Iowa that killed this

kunalguptaon Google cuts dozens of jobs in news division

Compare to Twitter which has reduced the differentiation between a long form article and an unsourced image and you’ll find that Google News is nevertheless much superior to any other way to get information (though twitter was superior last year!)

kunalguptaon Google cuts dozens of jobs in news division

Hah, I actually finally started using Google News after 10 years because it looks like Twitter 2023 is effectively completely broken for news. I was grateful that at least we could revert to 10 years ago, now our current best mechanism of finding truth

kunalguptaon Mastodon Is the Good One

I changed my mind - mastodon.social was easy to use

kunalguptaon Mastodon Is the Good One

Mastodon is hard to use. Just compare it to Threads, it’s not subjective that way. I think that’s the whole answer.

kunalguptaon Show HN: Chatbot Doctor for Long Covid

I helped create this using https://www.epsilla.com/ which is an incredibly good vector search tool. Our long covid guidance got 10x better when we switched to it!

Got a web version here, check it out and let us know if it’s helpful to you: https://wellnessxyz.com

kunalguptaon Atlassian Acquires Loom

It is not a very well done feature. It is among the most deterministic pieces of software I have ever used. Tella.tv and Screen Studio are well done pieces of software, but not Loom

kunalguptaon Can't be fucked: Underrated cause of tech debt

energy is finite

kunalguptaon Asks HN: Solo founders-How to respond when customers ask how big is your company

create a team of AIs with cute names

kunalguptaon Making Hard Things Easy

Warp.dev solves this

kunalguptaon Show HN: Whiz – A copilot for your terminal

i love warp.

kunalguptaon The “Do Something About It” Club

Grass is greener. I don’t read very much because I prefer learning through trial and error when doing because I’m certain most ideas on the internet are wrong anyway (especially regarding programming). This is a limitation, and a middle ground approach is probably actually optimal. Which maybe I do because I still read extremely highly recommended things referred by people I know

kunalguptaon We built the fastest CI and it failed

Swapping single words in my pitches has taught me a lot about what people want