Barathkanna

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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
I agree with you on SSDs, that was the last upgrade that felt like flipping the “modern computer” switch overnight. Everything since has been incremental unless you’re doing ML or high-end gaming.
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
When RAM gets so expensive that even Samsung won’t buy Samsung from Samsung, you know the market has officially entered comic mode. At this rate their next quarterly report is just going to be one division sending the other an IOU.
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
A lot of the time it’s less “nobody checked the security inbox” and more “the one person who understands that part of the system is juggling twelve other fires.” Security fixes are often a one-hour patch wrapped in two weeks of internal rou
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
I get the frustration, but I think the npm option actually makes sense here. A lot of users who’d benefit from a fast Rust tool aren’t Rust developers and won’t have Cargo installed. Shipping it through npm lowers the barrier while still gi
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
I learned a lot from this article. The breakdown of the different LiDAR types and how they fit into real automotive sensor stacks was especially helpful. Nice to see a clear explanation without the usual hype or ideology around cameras vs.
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
Looks interesting. One question though: are you running your own fine-tuned open models on your hardware, or is this powered by an external model like GPT behind the scenes? Curious how independent the stack really is.
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
This is a real problem for me as an early founder. Patents move too slowly, but ignoring IP can backfire later. Curious to see what others share on how they handle it.
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
This is true. As a startup founder I’ve invested heavily in mentoring juniors, and all of my current developers actually started as interns. They’ve grown fast and delivered real results because we gave them trust, support, and room to lear
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
At this point “full self-driving is almost here” feels like one of those software deadlines that keeps getting pushed because someone forgot about the edge cases. Except the edge cases here are things like rain, squirrels, pedestrians, cons
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
Exactly. People forget that “SQLite can’t do X” often really means “SQLite doesn’t ship with X built in.” If you wrap it with a lightweight request handler or a queue, you essentially recreate the same pattern every other DB uses. The fact
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
I’m not sure scheduling recurring calls is the answer. If a friendship only works when it’s treated like a calendar task, maybe the dynamic has already changed. Sometimes adding structure makes it feel like a chore instead of a real connect
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
Interesting take. His argument is basically that LLMs have hit their architectural ceiling and the industry is running on hype and unsustainable economics. I’m not fully convinced, but the points about rising costs and diminishing returns a
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
It’s impressive how quickly the UAE has turned space from a symbolic ambition into something tied directly to economic and security strategy. They’ve built an ecosystem that moves fast, invests seriously, and actually delivers missions rath
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
This looks really useful. I’ve had the same issue with LLMs dumping text too quickly, so it’s nice to see someone actually solving it. Great work. Do you have any plans for a desktop version too? I use the ChatGPT desktop app a lot, so havi
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
Cool to see how much engineering relied on intuition and improvisation before modern tools existed. These methods look primitive now, but they worked because people understood materials so well. Makes me wonder how much of that hands-on kno
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
Okay looks cool, but what can this robot actually do? I get the concept and the mechanics, but it’s not obvious what the practical capabilities are. Is it meant as a research platform for soft robotics, a demo of compliant movement, or does
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
TLDR Self-hosting isn’t dying because people stopped caring. It’s dying because the complexity has gotten out of hand. This post highlights how something that used to be a fun, lightweight hobby has turned into a full-time maintenance burde
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
I didn’t know “eccentric engineering” was even a term before reading this. It’s fascinating how much creativity went into solving problems before large models existed. There’s something refreshing about seeing humans brute force the weird e
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
This is honestly alarming. Student surveillance has crossed far beyond safety and is starting to look like constant monitoring of children’s private lives. The idea that schools can track off-campus behavior should worry everyone.
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
As someone building AI infrastructure, this deflation idea shows up very differently for us. Application founders can afford to say they will wait for the next model, but infrastructure founders cannot. The value we create is not in shippin
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
This is really clever. Dotprompt as a thin, pipe-friendly layer around LLMs feels way more ergonomic than spinning up a whole agent stack. The single-file + stdlib approach is a nice touch too. How robust is the JSON schema enforcement when
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
With AI taking jobs and scientists giving us web shooters, I guess we’re all becoming freelancer Spider-Men now.
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by Barathkanna 11mo ago
The site is obviously satire, but the interesting part is the growth tactic behind it. oilwell.app is using a meme page as a distribution engine instead of a standard marketing site. In a crowded AI tooling market, this kind of contrast jok