Skand Hurkat
@skandhurkat.bsky.social
I talk about tech, politics, and whatever else catches my fancy. Do I really need a disclaimer that I work for Nvidia and that I don't speak for the company?
Science, as practised in its best form, is that you ought to present your evidence or shut the fuck up.
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Science, as practised in its best form, is that you ought to present your evidence or shut the fuck up.
Speak, friend, and enter
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Speak, friend, and enter
Everyone knows you need to put bananas in the tailpipe, not potatoes.
November 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Everyone knows you need to put bananas in the tailpipe, not potatoes.
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"A barely articulated sense of dread follows you wherever you go. Others cannot see it, and it may exist only as a curse, but it often manifests as the presence of an old white person."
Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?
1. You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledg...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"A barely articulated sense of dread follows you wherever you go. Others cannot see it, and it may exist only as a curse, but it often manifests as the presence of an old white person."
Related, I am looking for alternatives to Adobe Lightroom if anyone has good recommendations. I want something that can process colour well while keeping the vibrance, which open source software like Darktable and RawTherapee fail at.
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Related, I am looking for alternatives to Adobe Lightroom if anyone has good recommendations. I want something that can process colour well while keeping the vibrance, which open source software like Darktable and RawTherapee fail at.
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
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Spotify killed the video star.
A little shook MTV is ending as a broadcast network, and even more shook it was announced a few weeks ago and I had no idea!
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Spotify killed the video star.
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Every scene is better than the previous one 💀
MOM: You can’t spend all day moping. Not on Lottery’s Eve!
TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery.
MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.
TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery.
MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.
The Hallmark Channel Presents: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”
INT. BIG CITY HEDGE FUND Tessie Jacobs (30-something, blonde) stares at a bar graph with two columns: “money” and “not money.” Her boss (you know h...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Every scene is better than the previous one 💀
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"I wasn’t sold on reading, but I did like feeling smart, and 'Don Quixote' is like the Louis Vuitton bag of people with depth."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...
I Started Reading Performatively, and Turns Out Books Are Pretty Good
It all started when Instagram introduced the twenty-slide photo dumps. Trying to post the correct ratio of photos to memes to appear both off-the-g...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"I wasn’t sold on reading, but I did like feeling smart, and 'Don Quixote' is like the Louis Vuitton bag of people with depth."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...
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Of all the stupid reasons to get fired, “expense fraud” is arguably the dumbest.
Employees are increasingly using AI to create ultra-realistic fake expense receipts; AppZen and others attribute the rise to advances in image generation models (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
October 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Of all the stupid reasons to get fired, “expense fraud” is arguably the dumbest.
I couldn't watch Overtime with Bill Maher because of how much they get wrong about LLMs and conflating LLMs with intelligence. AI Snake Oil exists as a book, but what would be a good list of things people should know about LLMs?
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I couldn't watch Overtime with Bill Maher because of how much they get wrong about LLMs and conflating LLMs with intelligence. AI Snake Oil exists as a book, but what would be a good list of things people should know about LLMs?
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The New York Times is now truly suffering from brain rot.
Strip malls are perhaps hard to love, but they are quirky, outcast spaces that can define a community's unique character, Ismail Muhammad writes. nyti.ms/48DfBzy
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The New York Times is now truly suffering from brain rot.
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The bleakest thing about this video is that all the things this guy loves about the UK are relatively cheap and easy to build. Alabama could have a better train system than England inside of 10 years if we decided that was a priority. We are a rich country that chooses to live like a poor one.
October 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The bleakest thing about this video is that all the things this guy loves about the UK are relatively cheap and easy to build. Alabama could have a better train system than England inside of 10 years if we decided that was a priority. We are a rich country that chooses to live like a poor one.
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What have they been making crisps with, if not farm grown potatoes?
Lay’s is America’s top-selling brand of potato chips. Its maker doesn’t think it has been clear enough to consumers the chips are made with farm-grown potatoes.
PepsiCo’s Plan to Boost Lay’s Sales: ‘Real Potatoes’
The soda and snacks giant is giving products a MAHA-era makeover with natural ingredients.
on.wsj.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
What have they been making crisps with, if not farm grown potatoes?
Hey, Google! Show me someone who has just discovered Cash and wants to make excuses for why it took them so long...
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.
Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.
on.wsj.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Hey, Google! Show me someone who has just discovered Cash and wants to make excuses for why it took them so long...
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Samuel Beckett is *cackling* in his grave. 😈
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
October 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Samuel Beckett is *cackling* in his grave. 😈
People advocating for flying cars think they'll be the only ones with access to flying cars, and therefore be able to fly over all the plebs who are stuck in traffic, instead of traffic in the sky. Get a helicopter and your rotorcraft licence. It is a flying "car".
Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).
But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.
But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.
which then begs the question of why you want flying cars instead of whatever mass transportation equivalent you imagine
October 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
People advocating for flying cars think they'll be the only ones with access to flying cars, and therefore be able to fly over all the plebs who are stuck in traffic, instead of traffic in the sky. Get a helicopter and your rotorcraft licence. It is a flying "car".
Duh! Yet it's crazy how many people keep recommending mixing an acid and a base
That big, bubbly chemical reaction isn’t the powerful cleaning agent you may think it is. Combining these two compounds neutralizes the effectiveness of both, making a much less powerful cleaner than if you were to use them separately. nyti.ms/46qX5Je
October 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Duh! Yet it's crazy how many people keep recommending mixing an acid and a base
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imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
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Midnight Light Rail Test Last Time It Will Ever Run That Late: tinyurl.com/45xm34js
September 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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It's called Queen Anne Sedan Snow Slam but maybe this year we'll also get the Waymo Winter WhamBam.
September 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It's called Queen Anne Sedan Snow Slam but maybe this year we'll also get the Waymo Winter WhamBam.
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Tech startup idea: instead of starting your car with your key, you get in, turn on the display panel, enter your password, get your phone out, open the authenticator app, enter your pin, enter the timed passcode, then open the start menu, then helpdesk, then "request engine start", then submit a tic
September 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Tech startup idea: instead of starting your car with your key, you get in, turn on the display panel, enter your password, get your phone out, open the authenticator app, enter your pin, enter the timed passcode, then open the start menu, then helpdesk, then "request engine start", then submit a tic