Hacker News: Karupan

New comment by Karupan in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

Karupan — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:49:01 +0000

> When my kids were young. I had dreams of being super financially successful so that I could give them lots of nice things. I just don't want that for them anymore.

That is a decision you had the freedom to make for yourself and your family. In this case, the millions of children didn’t get to make that choice and meta knowingly exploited that. I hope you see our point of view as to why meta doesn’t get the benefit of doubt here.

New comment by Karupan in "Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives"

Karupan — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:38 +0000

Thank you for the incredibly inspiring work! At a time when 99% of the founders and VCs just want to bank on the next big hype cycle and accumulate power and wealth, it’s good to be reminded that actual life changing work with direct impact on people is still possible.

New comment by Karupan in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

Karupan — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 02:44:18 +0000

I’d gladly pay for YouTube or other Google services when they offer an option to not track my activity at all. For me it’s not about seeing ads just on YouTube, but being tracked all through the web and still being served inappropriate or spammy ads.

New comment by Karupan in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

Karupan — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:26:02 +0000

Genuine questions: why are they calling it “reciprocal”? Is the US just matching the tariffs set by the other countries?

Also, this announcement has wiped out any plans of buying tech products this year, plus a holiday to the US and Canada later in the year. Good thing too, as the entire globe is probably staring down the barrel of a recession.

New comment by Karupan in "Making Postgres scale"

Karupan — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:23:59 +0000

Tangentially related: is there a good guide or setup scripts to run self hosted Postgres with backups and secondary standby? Like I just want something I can deploy to a VPS/dedicated box for all my side projects.

If not is supabase the most painless way to get started?

New comment by Karupan in "Bun 1.2 Is Released"

Karupan — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:17:51 +0000

Using bun has been a great experience so far. I used to dread setting up typescript/jest/react/webpack for a new project with breaking changes all over the place. With bun, it’s been self contained and painless and it just works for my use. Can’t comment on the 3rd party libraries they are integrating like s3, sql etc but at least it looks like they are focused on most common/asked for ones.

Thanks for the great work and bringing some much needed sanity in the node.js tooling space!

New comment by Karupan in "The Origins of Wokeness"

Karupan — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:50:54 +0000

The timing on when this essay is being published is interesting. Are all the tech billionaires falling in line before the next administration takes over? Also, let this be a lesson that no matter how “brilliant” and rich someone is, they can have comically bad takes.

New comment by Karupan in "Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy"

Karupan — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:27:59 +0000

Seems like a great way to write self documenting code which can be optionally used by your python runtime.

New comment by Karupan in "Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'"

Karupan — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:06:08 +0000

It's a no brainer for me cause I already own the MacBook and I don't mind waiting a few extra seconds. Also, I didn't buy the mac for this purpose, it's just my daily device. So yes, I'm sure OpenRouter is cheaper, but I just don't have to think about using it as long as the open models are reasonable good for my use. Of course your needs may be quite different.

New comment by Karupan in "Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'"

Karupan — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 06:13:36 +0000

They are perfectly fine for certain people. I can run Qwen-2.5-coder 14B on my M2 Max MacBook Pro with 32gb at ~16 tok/sec. At least in my circle, people are budget conscious and would prefer using existing devices rather than pay for subscriptions where possible.

And we know why they won't ship NVLink anymore on prosumer GPUs: they control almost the entire segment and why give more away for free? Good for the company and investors, bad for us consumers.

New comment by Karupan in "Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'"

Karupan — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 05:51:01 +0000

Yep that's what I'm thinking as well. I was going to buy a 5090 mainly to play around with LLM code generation, but this is a worthy option for roughly the same price as building a new PC with a 5090.

New comment by Karupan in "Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'"

Karupan — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 05:20:06 +0000

I’m not so sure it’s negligible. My anecdotal experience is that since Apple Silicon chips were found to be “ok” enough to run inference with MLX, more non-technical people in my circle have asked me how they can run LLMs on their macs.

Surely a smaller market than gamers or datacenters for sure.

New comment by Karupan in "Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'"

Karupan — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 05:14:36 +0000

Bigger in the sense of the announcements.

New comment by Karupan in "Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'"

Karupan — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 04:41:57 +0000

I feel this is bigger than the 5x series GPUs. Given the craze around AI/LLMs, this can also potentially eat into Apple’s slice of the enthusiast AI dev segment once the M4 Max/Ultra Mac minis are released. I sure wished I held some Nvidia stocks, they seem to be doing everything right in the last few years!

New comment by Karupan in "Crawling More Politely Than Big Tech"

Karupan — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:05:16 +0000

This is timely as I’m just building out a crawler in scrapy. Thanks!

New comment by Karupan in "Tip pressure might work in the moment, but customers are less likely to return"

Karupan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 01:52:18 +0000

I dread the day I have to eat at US restaurants, or even get something delivered. Part of the reason is cultural: I’ve never lived in a country where a tip is mandatory and you’ll be called out if you don’t. The other reason being it involves a degree of social pressure and shame, if one doesn’t tip enough. Both don’t sit well with me.

But I can attest that if I’m forced to tip, I’ll not return to that establishment.

New comment by Karupan in "A Message from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to Employees"

Karupan — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:59:23 +0000

> An engine of financial performance

Cool, new strategy?!

> Through our voluntary early retirement and separation offerings, we are more than halfway to our workforce reduction target of approximately 15,000 by the end of the year. We still have difficult decisions to make and will notify impacted employees in the middle of October.

Oh right.

New comment by Karupan in "Tesla Locks Baby in Car on 109-Degree Day for Seemingly No Reason"

Karupan — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:09:36 +0000

That’s some Minority Report level shit right there!

New comment by Karupan in "Jd – JSON Diff and Patch"

Karupan — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 01:40:21 +0000

Looks neat! Definitely more reliable than my hacky jq script[0] which I had to write for envs with only sh and jq

[0] https://gist.github.com/Checksum/17c84306f563eca40b353f6ed83...

New comment by Karupan in "Gren 0.4: New Foundations"

Karupan — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 03:39:17 +0000

Thanks for the response! Sounds like most of the major issues I’ve had with Elm are being addressed in some way. Will follow your progress and contribute.