Hacker News: karunamurti

New comment by karunamurti in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

karunamurti — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:50:33 +0000

China already produced their first graphic card that got Microsoft WHQL certification.

Is it competitive enough? Probably no. Is there a software ecosystem for Chinese hardware yet? Probably no. But you know it will come soon.

New comment by karunamurti in "Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence"

karunamurti — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:57:38 +0000

With Chinese robotics capabilities and silicone doll capabilities they can be the forefront in the humanoid robotics if everything converge.

New comment by karunamurti in "Claude Fable 5"

karunamurti — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:00:42 +0000

ugghh, benchmarks?

New comment by karunamurti in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

karunamurti — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:52:52 +0000

Another case of brain efficiency : jumping spiders. They have less than half of ant's neurons, but instead of bruteforcing computing power they have a different specialized wirings.

New comment by karunamurti in "Snuffleupagus, a newly described species, is an adorable little predator"

karunamurti — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:37:33 +0000

Chat, give me information about using copyrighted material in taxonomy.

New comment by karunamurti in "Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine"

karunamurti — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:43:28 +0000

And the implication is they can modify tomato's DNA to produce nicotine, just like Tomacco from The Simpsons. The Simpsons always predict everything.

New comment by karunamurti in "Google API keys can remain usable for up to 23 minutes after deletion"

karunamurti — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:00:53 +0000

So, Google Zanzibar propagation is up to 23 minutes?

New comment by karunamurti in "Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world"

karunamurti — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:25:02 +0000

Even nitrocellulose for ammunition is produced in Xinjiang. So still depends on China.

New comment by karunamurti in "L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility"

karunamurti — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:58:54 +0000

I took Lotus 1-2-3 course along with Wordstar and dBase when I was in elementary school. Good times.

New comment by karunamurti in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

karunamurti — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:01:31 +0000

The fact that someone can access production database without approved privilege escalation is totally the organization's fault. Not a Cursor failure, nor a Railway failure, nor a backup-architecture failure. Unless the organization identify the root cause, the problem can happen again.

New comment by karunamurti in "Goodbye to Sora"

karunamurti — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:27:51 +0000

Seedance just launched, but they nerfed it. I guess so it can't generate things with preexisting IP.

New comment by karunamurti in "Show HN: Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image"

karunamurti — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:48:19 +0000

Are the commands fully compatible with Redis? We use a lot of commands like TTL PTTL EXPIRE PEXPIRE to create various rate limiters.

New comment by karunamurti in "China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built"

karunamurti — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:06:36 +0000

Eh, China's route is around 15 times more expansive and longer, similar punctuality, and way cheaper ticket per km, about 10-15 times cheaper. The only thing annoying for China's HSR is security check on the terminals.

New comment by karunamurti in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

karunamurti — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:30:24 +0000

All rendering without real photo is off-putting.

New comment by karunamurti in "Digg.com relaunch public beta is live"

karunamurti — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:08:02 +0000

Will binky79 makes a comeback?

New comment by karunamurti in "PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage"

karunamurti — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 07:54:19 +0000

They just debuted in house DDR5 2 days ago: https://wccftech.com/cxmt-debuts-domestically-produced-ddr5-...

New comment by karunamurti in "Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2"

karunamurti — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:18:13 +0000

So Christmas is near the corner then.

New comment by karunamurti in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

karunamurti — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:46:50 +0000

I just memorized curl like a lunatic.

New comment by karunamurti in "America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom"

karunamurti — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:46:44 +0000

You can if you're local. Either IC card or credit card or payment app. I helped developed Merpay, one of the local payment app. These days I almost never use cash.

In China it's even better, even street vendor use QR payment.

New comment by karunamurti in "Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ"

karunamurti — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:19:31 +0000

Newer DJI drones can see cable down to 4mm using LIDAR and other methods. So yeah, Amazon has some catching up to do.