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kirubakaran

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About kirubakaran

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/

All comments Copyright © 2007 - 2026 Kirubakaran Athmanathan, All Rights Reserved.

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    For the opposite, "Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward is a fantastic read

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    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/misuse-of-literally

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    R-ally? It s--ms to work fin- for m-.

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    Do mention your app! HN only frowns upon astroturfing. If you disclose that it is your app, then it's fine to link to it.

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    I save them to https://histre.com/ [1] using the browser extension. This can save all tabs in a browser window into a collection, or even multiple windows each into their own colle…

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    > Goldman Sachs analysts had an extreme range, of like $6 Billion to $5T What a weird way for them to say "we don't know"! It's like saying this house has 0 to 100 bathrooms.

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    Hey "nice try" is my family password too!

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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 t…

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    Everything has to start somewhere

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    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

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

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

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

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    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 f…

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    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"

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

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    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 s…

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    "Mark, do you have live quite so relentlessly in the real world?" -- Jeremy, Peep Show