<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ganeshkrishnan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ganeshkrishnan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:55:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ganeshkrishnan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Big Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not. You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical.<p>There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show the travelling whales/dolphins.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:55:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332004</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "The first ever all-drone assault by Ukraine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Absolutely not. I dont want to be unbanned. I gave up my media job protesting the Iraq war and I will give up all my social media accounts protesting this rabid propaganda  russian ukrainian war.<p>Thank you for being polite enough to explain though. I really appreciate it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:44:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030059</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "Ask HN: Finding interesting work if disenchanted with "big tech" & "VC-backed""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can follow some indie people on twitter. meetup is almost dead so best bet is to get into this indie groups and then network out or even go to coworking group events</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 01:51:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987819</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "Ask HN: Finding interesting work if disenchanted with "big tech" & "VC-backed""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An absolute majority of startups are not vc funded. Only the ones you hear about are.<p>You either need to join the right group or talk to some founders.<p>We are bootstrapped genai company working on reducing hallucinations in LLMs and similarly we know tons of other AI companies that are bootstrapped</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 21:56:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986527</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986527</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "JPMorgan's $4B delivery of gold adds to fear tariffs will reshape global trade"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>and "moving gold" just means changing paperwork on who "owns"<p>Usually yes, but in this case and ALMOST all cases recently its physically shifting gold around. Argentina moved it from Argentina to London, most global south countries are physically moving their gold to their own country (India: <a href="https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/india-gold-flying-england-home-significance-rbi-13830614.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/india-gold-flying-engla...</a>, China: <a href="https://internationalbanker.com/banking/whats-behind-chinas-gold-buying-spree/" rel="nofollow">https://internationalbanker.com/banking/whats-behind-chinas-...</a>)<p>The sanctions on Russia has triggered a flight of capital and gold across countries. I am just surprised why US is buying so much gold given that its mostly developing countries to buffer up their own reserves so that they can trade in their own currencies.<p>US has USD so why is it stocking up on Gold. Someone somewhere knows the answers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 04:29:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905825</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "JPMorgan's $4B delivery of gold adds to fear tariffs will reshape global trade"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>its all delivered in secret flights and routes. Last year, an insider in Canadian airport got tipped off about impending arrival of gold and got along with his friends for the "largest heist in canadian history" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Pearson_International_Airport_heist" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Pearson_International_...</a></p>
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<p>It doesn't work like this. The stock might fall around $10-$20 every month in the worst case scenario. In which case the premium of $180 will keep rising every week, 90% of which will expire worthless.<p>You have to buy really farther out or really far off strike both of which have nearly zero probability ( delta is nearly zero and less than 1)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:58:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42721828</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42721828</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42721828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "Ask HN:Am I another idiot on the web or this make sense?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>there is an extra </div> tag and escape clause should end with semicolon for html. so its "&lt;" not "&lt"<p>;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 20:22:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42668649</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42668649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42668649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Much of South India and Eastern India was already British ruled by the early 1800s.<p>No they were not. They were run by private East India Company. With the revolt of 1857 and quashing of the rebellion, the official Raj by the British Royals began<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857</a><p>You are still bickering over pedantic stuff. Britain profited from slave trade. They just didn't want to use the term "slave" and used "colony" instead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:58:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42561774</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42561774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42561774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The British Empire was actually one of the most benevolent ones.<p>Whoopsie daisy. What stage of civilization have we reached?</p>
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<p>The "abolish slave trade" was done in 1833. India was colonized in 1857 officially. Apartheid didn't end until the 90's<p>Britain ended slavery and started colonization. But yeah "they ended slave trade"<p>No amount of info will convince people that colonization was evil and abhorrent because they were party to it, they benefited from it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:36:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42560268</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42560268</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42560268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "KAG – Knowledge Graph RAG Framework"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>uses OpenAI for LLM inference and embedding<p>This becomes a cyclical hallucination problem. The LLM hallucinates and create incorrect graph which in turn creates even more incorrect knowledge.<p>We are working on this issue of reducing hallucination in knowledge graphs and using LLM is not at all the right way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:51:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42555303</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42555303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42555303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbaijan E190tragedy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's one of the reason Russia was very hesitant to shoot them down initially. Some of the planes were cessna and similar single engine prop planes that were loaded with explosives and remote controller:<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/04/02/ukraine-packed-a-cessna-style-plane-with-explosives-added-remote-controls-and-kamikazed-it-into-a-russian-drone-factory-600-miles-away/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/04/02/ukraine-pac...</a></p>
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<p>LLMs dont have the same usecase as encoder only models. Lets assume you have around million keywords and you want to find the most similar to a keyword that the user input.<p>In pre-processing you would have calculated the vector encoding of all the million keywords before hand and now with the keyword the user input, you calculate the vector and then find the most similar vectors<p>LLM is used by end user, encoders are used by devs in app to search/retrieve text.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:47:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42473159</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42473159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42473159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "Updates to H-1B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>I’m sure this is no consolation, but as a born-and-raised citizen who has paid into social security for 15 years now, I have serious doubts about seeing a positive return on those taxes myself.<p>Look at the bright side though: You get a chance to get conscripted for a war against Iran/Russia/China and also get to blow up windowless mudhouses in the desert to protect democracy and freedom back in the states.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:36:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453409</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "Updates to H-1B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It takes around 20+ years to go from H1b to permanent visa/green card. In the meantime your kids born in US have grown up, graduated, you have a house and everything could be yanked at the border when you are travelling.<p>Meanwhile vast majority of them pay into taxes and social security and leave the US and never see a dime of that money.<p>Immigrants are the easiest group to exploit by everyone because they have no voice and are vilified by vast majority of the people include the so called intellectuals in here.</p>
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<p>here it is <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-announces-strengthened-integrity-measures-for-h-1b-program" rel="nofollow">https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-announces...</a><p>I read through it and even asked chatgpt for summary and it looks like "passport is now required" and "one beneficiary one draw" that is if you put in multiple petitions it will only consider you once.<p>I thought Elon was talking nonsense when he mentions frivolous government rules but reading these h1b changes makes me question my own sanity about the government "rules" which they aptly named it as "Final rule" (wtf?).</p>
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<p>The rabid chants went from: we need to stop illegal immigration and make sure everyone enters legally<p>To:<p>We need to make sure we only allow valuable immigrants that add to the economy<p>To:<p>Cancel this program. They are gaming the system.<p>You can choose the game to play but you can't choose the rules of the game.</p>
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<p>50 million is chump change for Facebook. In a fair world, we would have competition against facebook and there would be choices for consumers. In this real world we are stuck with the bottom feeders like facebook which just works with impunity.<p>Not only did facebook lose all the data, it disabled customer support chat in Australia for all services including advertising.<p>Our company fb account (for travelers) was disabled due to "Suspicious activity" and then permanently deleted. But they conveniently left the ad account on which we can neither login nor disable. If we do a charge back, Facebook will instaban the instagram account as well and in process we could lose our 16 year account.<p>There is a huge group of such people here <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/</a><p>Both reddit and facebook belong to trash of history (for different reasons)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:49:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42437860</link><dc:creator>ganeshkrishnan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42437860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42437860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ganeshkrishnan in "Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> but the nuance is Elon only wants what benefits him most at the time.<p>Isn't that almost everyone? The people who left OpenAi could have joined forces but everyone went ahead and created their own company "for AGI"<p>It's like the wild west where everyone dreams of digging up gold.</p>
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