kirubakaran

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by kirubakaran 5d ago
My life goal that I can't work on yet is to run vet clinics as a non-profit in locations where private equity has a monopoly and are in extraction mode. With operational excellence, I think they can be out-competed by running a cost ef
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by kirubakaran 6d ago
Anyone beaten by the chess program they themselves wrote has experienced this
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by kirubakaran 12d ago
imho it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo Initials match too ;)
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by kirubakaran 1mo ago
Let's call it Grand Jury Nullification
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by kirubakaran 1mo ago
>> unless you want that line to be the only thing in your AGENTS.md
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US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference(theguardian.com)
52 points by kirubakaran 2mo ago|30 comments
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by kirubakaran 2mo ago
For the opposite, "Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward is a fantastic read
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by kirubakaran 2mo ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/misuse-of-literally
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by kirubakaran 2mo ago
R-ally? It s--ms to work fin- for m-.
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by kirubakaran 2mo ago
Do mention your app! HN only frowns upon astroturfing. If you disclose that it is your app, then it's fine to link to it.
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by kirubakaran 2mo ago
I save them to https://histre.com/ [1] using the browser extension. This can save all tabs in a browser window into a collection, or even multiple windows each into their own collection. This also makes everything searchabl
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by kirubakaran 2mo ago
> Goldman Sachs analysts had an extreme range, of like $6 Billion to $5T What a weird way for them to say "we don't know"! It's like saying this house has 0 to 100 bathrooms.
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by kirubakaran 2mo ago
Hey "nice try" is my family password too!
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by kirubakaran 3mo ago
I needed to get customers for Hyperclast [1], but I kept procrastinating on the go-to-market tasks. I'd rather be building, you know! So I created https://tractionbeast.com/ as a tool for myself. It gives me bite-sized
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by kirubakaran 3mo ago
Everything has to start somewhere
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by kirubakaran 3mo ago
But if 5.6 is better than Opus, Claude Code Max plan users will switch to OpenAI Codex en masse. Using Fable at API pricing is expensive
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by kirubakaran 3mo ago
This is why I don't think Fable will be taken away. Not for long anyway.
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by kirubakaran 3mo ago
But that's not a secret, and therefore already priced in, right?
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by kirubakaran 3mo ago
Fantasy FAANGball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZt9YPAPZo
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Fable 5 pushed Gemma 4 to 255 tok/s on WebGPU(xcancel.com)
48 points by kirubakaran 3mo ago|22 comments
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by kirubakaran 3mo ago
I needed to get customers for Hyperclast [1], but I keep putting off GTM (go to market) tasks. I'd rather be building, you know. So I created https://tractionbeast.com/ as a tool for myself. It gives me bite-sized GTM
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by kirubakaran 3mo ago
Reminds me of when you hear that an asshole in your extended social circle is dating another asshole and you think "Fantastic! They're not hurting good people anymore"
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by kirubakaran 4mo ago
Pardon my nit but it was stylized `Apple //c` fwiw, not `][c`. That was just `Apple ][` and `Apple ][+`.
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by kirubakaran 4mo ago
When I was 5 or so, I was convinced that if I dropped a bowl of hot water into a bucket of cold water, I'd get big explosion. That experiment yielding lukewarm water ended my mad scientist career.
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by kirubakaran 4mo ago
"Mark, do you have live quite so relentlessly in the real world?" -- Jeremy, Peep Show
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by kirubakaran 4mo ago
Ah yes British, the famously direct people who say things like "Maybe I haven’t explained this very well", "I’ll bear it in mind", or "How interesting!" which anyone unfamiliar with the culture would interpret
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by kirubakaran 4mo ago
I started reading Paul Graham's essays after listening to his talk: https://web.archive.org/web/20130729231533id_/http://itc.con...
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by kirubakaran 4mo ago
Looks like I created my account a week before dang! I was lurking for a few months before I actually created the account.
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by kirubakaran 4mo ago
"observation about certain common tendencies" is literally what generalization is. Racist remarks against your own people is worse, because not only does it perpetuate discrimination against a group by advancing a narrative about
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by kirubakaran 4mo ago
Hence the popular expression "It's good to be punctual, but you don't have to be a Kant about it"

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