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kirubakaran

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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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xcancel.com 1mo ago

Fable 5 pushed Gemma 4 to 255 tok/s on WebGPU

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www.thegamer.com 2mo ago

81yo Grandma Streaming Minecraft to Pay for Grandson's Cancer Swatted

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www.wired.com 1y ago

OpenAI Hires 4 High-Ranking Engineers from Competitors

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www.weizmann.ca 1y ago

Ants vs. Humans: Putting Group Smarts to the Test

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github.com 1y ago

Deploy Your Software Anywhere

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github.com 1y ago

Cursor.com-Like Features for Emacs

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www.colino.net 2y ago

Mastodon for Apple II

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histre.com 3y ago

Show HN: Hacker News with Tags

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saulcosta.com 3y ago

AI Will Replace Outsourced Software Development

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www.theverge.com 3y ago

Elon Musk’s new permanent ban policy on Twitter

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scosta.medium.com 3y ago

Goodbye, Elon

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www.pnas.org 4y ago

Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75k/year

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

Twitter Sues Musk After He Tries Backing Out of $44B Deal

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www.uber.com 4y ago

Uber Eats Nationwide Shipping

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www.interdb.jp 4y ago

Internals of PostgreSQL Streaming Replication

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cryptoadventure.com 4y ago

Twitter Rolls Out Verified NFT Profile Pictures

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news.mit.edu 5y ago

New system cleans messy data tables automatically

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web.archive.org 6y ago

Lisp Resources

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

The Disproportionate Joy of Getting Paid Users [video]

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www.complex.com 6y ago

Akon: $6B to build a cryptocurrency city in Senegal

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baremetrics.com 6y ago

How fast SaaS companies hit ARR milestones

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www.aljazeera.com 6y ago

Mexico may consider border-crossing limits for USA

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crushentropy.com 6y ago

Show HN: High-Res Day Planner + Visualizer in Plain Text

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www.bbc.com 6y ago

Airbnb bans 'party houses' after five die in Halloween shooting

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

Giant Military Contract Has a Hitch: A Little-Known Entrepreneur

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

$1T Apple compared to other companies : Visualization

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www.washingtonpost.com 8y ago

Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India

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www.grubstreet.com 8y ago

One Person Already Accidentally Shoplifted at Amazon’s Cashierless Grocery Store

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kirubakaran.com 8y ago

How to Write a Statement of Work for Consulting Success

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www.planetaryresources.com 10y ago

Obama Signs Bill Recognizing Asteroid Resource Property Rights into Law

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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 tasks every day. I just review and do them. This completely removes the inertia for me. My other founder-friends like it too so I turned it into a product.

If you're an early stage b2b founder, I'd love to hear your feedback about TractionBeast.

[1] https://hyperclast.com/ - fast, self-organizing, self-hostable replacement for Notion

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 tasks every day. I just review and do them. This completely removes the inertia for me! My other founder-friends like it too so I turned it into a product.

[1] https://hyperclast.com/ - open, fast, self-hostable replacement for Notion

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"

Apple WWDC 2026 1 month 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 to be the opposite of what was actually meant.

"I may be wrong", but perhaps 'Americans rarely sound authentic' to you simply because you're just more familiar with your own culture's idiosyncrasies?

Anyway, I love the Brits; no flame intended. I come in peace! :-)

"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 the group ("should we hire from this subgroup prone to x?"), it gives the bigots yet another vector ("even they themselves say it about their subgroup, so it must be true!")

We're on an international forum. Making "observations" like what the original commenter did can only decrease employment opportunities for an already geographically disadvantaged talent. Why do that?

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/54481-far-out-in-the-unchar...

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy