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nirushiv

286 karma · joined December 29, 2020

Passionate about building tools to make education more accessible, and work life less stressful.

nirushivlinga at (google’s mail service) .com

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nirushiv··on We indexed the Delve audit leak: 533 reports, 455 companies, 99.8% identical
This has to result in jail time for multiple people… right?
nirushiv··on Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
Sorry but this is so off topic. Does not belong here.
nirushiv··on Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
Can you elaborate please? Very curious to hear non-employee perspective
nirushiv··on This may be the most bonkers tech job listing I've ever seen
Th CEO is an attention seeking moron who used to spam HackerNews with job posts for his previous company (Skio) which got preferential treatment as a YC company. I wouldn’t pay any attention to this company.

Their original schtick was charging $10k to get on their waitlist, which clearly failed as now you can “get started for $0” per their website.

Grifter gonna keep grifting

nirushiv··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Good to know this!
nirushiv··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Wait - this is the same Denise Dresser that led led some uber-high-pressure Salesforce enterprise sales teams in 2010s? Something tells me you aren’t really sorry
nirushiv··on [dead]
I’m sorry but do people upvote things just because they’re Launch HN? The demo is meaningless, I looked through the docs and it doesn’t tell me anything about what kind of use cases or user journeys this product enables. I am so confused
nirushiv··on AI founders will learn the bitter lesson
This is my read as well
nirushiv··on AI founders will learn the bitter lesson
My tinfoil hat theory is that Cursor deploys a lot of “guerilla marketing” with influencers on Twitter/LinkedIn etc. When I tried it, the product was not good (maybe on par with Copilot) but you have people on social media swearing by it. Maybe it just works well for specific types of web development, but I came away thoroughly unimpressed and suspicious that some of the “word of mouth” stuff on them is actually funded by them.
nirushiv··on We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
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nirushiv··on We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
I don’t think we should be encouraging tourism to an apartheid state like SL
nirushiv··on Spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig
I haven’t read through the code in detail but I can tell you “sub-nanosecond overhead” is misleading and marketing fluff. On first look, the measure seems to be some convoluted “time per thing” where the number of threads is far far smaller than the number of “thing”s
nirushiv··on Google search won't autocomplete searches related to Trump assasination attempt
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nirushiv··on Arvind has died
Sorry for the naive question - but what is an example of “send a message to another CPU”? In high level programming languages, isn’t this usually over shared memory as well? Are there constructs to directly “message” a CPU? When might one use it?
nirushiv··on I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
This is just typical replit marketing. They have a long list of shady practices
nirushiv··on Skip the API, ship your database
Can second this. Tried them out at our startup, came away unimpressed. Their good engineering blog is great marketing though, although this particular post is lacklustre. What about permissions, indirections, versioning or otherwise encapsulating breaking changes?
nirushiv··on GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params
You can’t claim it’s a 7-fruit Basket, unless you find a way to fit them in the same basket
nirushiv··on The Contradictions of Sam Altman
Please stop spreading FUD and unsubstantiated rumours all over this thread
nirushiv··on GitHub India's entire Engineering team is fired
Precisely. Especially in India - which is almost as large a time zone offset as you can have. Furthermore, India pays competitively enough that you’re not saving that much money for top talent as compared to e.g Eastern Europe. When I ran engineering teams, the language/dialect barrier between our US mothership and India was much much wider than South American and European devs, even though India is technically the largest English-speaking country in the world.
nirushiv··on OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
Bing’s search product (ignoring the chatbot) is quite good and comparable with Google. I (and I assume, many people like me) would have never tried it if not for the Bing Chat hype. I find myself using Bing Search more than Google or Bing Chat now.
nirushiv··on We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans
I believe the Howey Test is the more general definition that is used : https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/howey-test - so yes, maybe Bitcoin passes the Howey Test when traded on an exchange, but not so much 12 years ago
nirushiv··on We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans
I don’t think the “crypto isn’t a security” argument is going very far. The SEC has a very loose definition of a security - vaguely, something you buy with the expectation to make money from it appreciating - that is meant to capture unforeseen cases exactly like crypto.

A single quote from someone isn’t changing years and millions of pieces of evidence of people using and promoting crypto almost entirely as a security by this definition.

nirushiv··on Tell HN: Azure is having a major outage
- People are at home after work?
nirushiv··on Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
This is neat! Two questions for you: - how does firebase fit into your stack? I’ve looked at them in the past but their pricing potentially changing makes me nervous

- how many concurrent websocket connectione are you able to support per server? Anecdotally, it seems socket.io struggles to scale beyond 10k or so

nirushiv··on Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?
Hey Vignesh! My cofounder and I ran into this problem at our last startup. Mind shooting me an email (email is in profile)? Would love to share some of what [somewhat] worked for us.

For full disclosure: I’m trying to build a better way to validate ideas, and I think I too can learn a tremendous amount from talking to you.

nirushiv··on Writing Consistent Tools (2019)
Not a fan of overloading V for both version and verbose. Since starting to write Go / working in the industry, unabbreviated flag names have really grown on me.
nirushiv··on TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability
It’s possible the TV ads influenced your watching of those videos :)
nirushiv··on Ask HN: How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?
Awesome! Thanks for sharing
nirushiv··on Ask HN: How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?
Little OT, but absolutely love how your landing page looks and feels. I’ve seen a few similar ones - is this built from a template? If so, could you please share it?
nirushiv··on Ask HN: What is your “sales stack”?
What is your business/sector? Blanket statements like this are rarely useful, even if they are true
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