Hacker News: kirubakaran

New comment by kirubakaran in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

kirubakaran — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:30:28 +0000

Everything has to start somewhere

New comment by kirubakaran in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

kirubakaran — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:32:36 +0000

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

New comment by kirubakaran in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

kirubakaran — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:28:41 +0000

This is why I don't think Fable will be taken away. Not for long anyway.

New comment by kirubakaran in "OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO"

kirubakaran — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:01:32 +0000

But that's not a secret, and therefore already priced in, right?

New comment by kirubakaran in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

kirubakaran — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:00:51 +0000

Fantasy FAANGball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZt9YPAPZo

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

kirubakaran — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:14:58 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/xenovacom/status/2067289897111638484

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585719

Points: 48

# Comments: 22

New comment by kirubakaran in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

kirubakaran — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:39:52 +0000

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

New comment by kirubakaran in "Meta’s chaotic AI strategy"

kirubakaran — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:24:31 +0000

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"

New comment by kirubakaran in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

kirubakaran — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:51:43 +0000

Pardon my nit but it was stylized `Apple //c` fwiw, not `][c`. That was just `Apple ][` and `Apple ][+`.

New comment by kirubakaran in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

kirubakaran — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:35:04 +0000

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.

New comment by kirubakaran in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

kirubakaran — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:56:13 +0000

"Mark, do you have live quite so relentlessly in the real world?"

-- Jeremy, Peep Show

New comment by kirubakaran in "Apple WWDC 2026"

kirubakaran — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:05:06 +0000

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! :-)

New comment by kirubakaran in "Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?"

kirubakaran — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:08:23 +0000

I started reading Paul Graham's essays after listening to his talk: https://web.archive.org/web/20130729231533id_/http://itc.con...

New comment by kirubakaran in "Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?"

kirubakaran — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:06:39 +0000

Looks like I created my account a week before dang! I was lurking for a few months before I actually created the account.

New comment by kirubakaran in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

kirubakaran — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:28:00 +0000

"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?

New comment by kirubakaran in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

kirubakaran — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:19:40 +0000

Hence the popular expression "It's good to be punctual, but you don't have to be a Kant about it"

New comment by kirubakaran in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

kirubakaran — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:01:42 +0000

Let's not generalize, even if you feel like you can say that because you're a member of a group you're generalizing. It's unfair to most of the people in any group being generalized.

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

kirubakaran — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:17:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thegamer.com/grammacrackers-81-year-old-minecraft-youtuber-swatted/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216582

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

New comment by kirubakaran in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

kirubakaran — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:52:32 +0000

epsilon

New comment by kirubakaran in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

kirubakaran — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:22:23 +0000

The child is the father of the man, as Wordsworth said.