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Built a couple companies. Built even more things for the web. Now I improve workforce housing.

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Show HN: Codemode-x – Compress any API into 2 MCP tools for Claude Code

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www.codelitt.com 9y ago

Intro to WebAssembly

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www.codelitt.com 9y ago

Getting started with PDF development

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www.codelitt.com 9y ago

A DOOM flavored primer to reinforcement learning

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www.codelitt.com 9y ago

Building a deep learning DOOM bot

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blog.disqus.com 9y ago

Disqus removes their free with opt-out advertising plan

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Is anyone using GraphQL in production with a small team?

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motherboard.vice.com 9y ago

The Simple, Elegant Algorithm That Makes Google Maps Possible

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www.codelitt.com 10y ago

My First 10 Minutes on a Server

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webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu 10y ago

Online tracking: A 1M-site measurement and analysis – Princeton

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codylittlewood.com 10y ago

What It's (Really) Like to Be a CEO of a Startup

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github.com 10y ago

Show HN: Slacked – Super simple Slack notifications for ruby

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www.codelitt.com 10y ago

Skills, Theories, and Methodologies Every Software Engineer Should Know

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www.codelitt.com 10y ago

Foundations of a good UI

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github.com 11y ago

Show HN: Open source alternative to LaunchRock

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www.codelitt.com 11y ago

The problem with corporate innovation

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www.codelitt.com 11y ago

How to handle a client comparing your hourly rate to cheap overseas development

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www.codelitt.com 11y ago

How we bootstrapped a product incubator – Part 1

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keepupdated.co 11y ago

Show HN: KeepUpdated – Automatically track and monitor your competitors

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www.codelitt.com 11y ago

How will we ever get back our casual web browsing experience?

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www.incoin.io 11y ago

Show HN: Incoin.io – Bitcoin and Distributed Payroll

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Show HN: Dead simple Bitcoin payroll

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Show HN: Warranty Genius

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codylittlewood.com 13y ago

Hey Twitter, why are you spoofing your own users' accounts?

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i.imgur.com 13y ago

Worst app update ever. Seriously Twitch?

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codylittlewood.com 13y ago

Quick tutorial to setup you Raspberry Pi via SSH (no monitor/keyboard solution)

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codylittlewood.com 14y ago

Show HN: Ruby on Rails Launch Page for Multiple User Types

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codylittlewood.com 14y ago

The Art of Giving Life Everything You Have

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I took inspiration from Cloudflares codemode where they took 2500 endpoints and turned them into consumable ~1000 token MCPs for agents to consume.

This basically takes your APIs, databases, and docs and compresses them into 2 MCP tools (~1,000 tokens) instead of N tools (100K+ tokens). Claude was burning tokens (and a lot of them for me) on just tool definitions. This compresses that considerably.

It's a typed SDK layer and not just a RAG for APIs. The search index holds function signatures instead of data.

We dogfood the Express, OpenAPI, and Database adapters daily. But the other adapters are implemented with tests but less mileage -- LAMBDAs is just an idea.

Would love to get feedback -- or even see if it's helpful for other people or if the recent expansion of context windows makes this irrelevant.

God help us all if our central bank starts taking cues from the Bank of Japan or the ECB and their zombie economies.

Our inability to suffer short-term consequences for long-term prosperity is a real issue that we as a country need to figure out how to solve. (Can you solve for human nature?) The fed shouldn't have made cuts in 2019 at the height of the market, we should have let failing banks fail, we need to start spending responsibly if we want to remain a reserve currency, and we need to learn that forest fires clear out the undergrowth for new growth.

MuseNet 7 years ago

While this may not be perfect composition, this is a surreal (and almost sad) moment in my life to hear music that is passable created by a computer under it's own volition. I work at a company that works with a lot of machine learning so I generally understand its limitations and haven't ever been an alarmist. That being said, I generally always thought of it being applied to automate work. For some reason I had always considered that which we normally attribute to human creativity to be off-limits. Sure now it's not great, but in 10 years will it be able to compose better music than Chopin? In 10 years, will music created by a computer surprise and delight me more than music composed by humans?

Pilot here - they used the example of a hurricane, however, I think it would have a daily impact on thousands of flights (general aviation and commercial) which all rely on on accurate weather forecasting. Weather is no joke in aviation; even if you're flying a 747.

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You should negotiate with the hospital. You can normally get it down to 10% of the original amount and put on a payment plan. Their first bill is never what they think they'll receive. Its just their opening offer.

There are even services that will help you negotiate it down. (Half the reason for insurance isn't even their coverage - it's the negotiated rates.) Hope this helps you.

Capital controls make that pretty difficult. There are government set controls on whether you can purchase foreign currency and even then to how much you are allowed to buy.

I remember back in like 2011 Kirchner did this in Argentina while I was living there. There was out of control inflation and capital controls. The government also covered their ear and said "lalalalala I don't care what the world markets say, our currency is worth $x.)

If you were traveling, you could get foreign currency, but you had to apply for it, prove you were traveling, and then accept that the government would allot how much they thought you needed on your trip. I had a friend get $75 per day for their trip to the states. This creates the black market (or in Argentina, the "dolar blue") where the government said that the exchange was 5:1, but economics and the black market said 15:1 (at one point).

Moral of the story - you can not just ignore basic economic principles and dictate the value of your currency. Focus on building a strong and diverse economy and promoting a free market.

From what I can see, they're doing everything that they can to eliminate sending anything to servers. They recently launched private contact discovery which is really interesting.

https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

Moxie has said repeatedly that they're working to do better on this front, but it's not without its technological challenges. He's written repeatedly about this and has also called for anyone willing to try to make it happen and offered to help them. Just one example springs to mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12883410

And federation is possible over XMPP with Signal:

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

I don't believe this would even be an issue if they offered the option to not log sensitive data. I had requested that they provide something like this and someone quite senior reached out to me. He was very polite and professional. He explained that they had to keep this data for operational and compliance reasons and that all email providers are required to. However, that didn't resolve my security concern.

We ended up going with Mandrill which does offer the option to not log sensitive data ^1. Whether they log it somewhere else for the compliance reasons that Mailgun mentioned isn't mentioned anywhere in their docs or privacy policy, but doesn't seem to be accessible from everything I could find. You should never log or allow others to log password reset urls or other sensitive details.

1: See documentation here: https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/messages.JSON.html#method-s... and search view_content_link

Magic Leap One 9 years ago

I live here too. We unfortunately have built a reputation of our value only being skin deep and superficial – from our real estate to our transit to our restaurants and nightlife to our startup community. This reputation is not entirely without merit; we need to do better.

Knowing all that – I want this to be amazing, but I am keeping my expectations in check. To me, this all seems too familiar. Lots of flash and shine, but I don't see anything concrete.

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We are a corporate product incubator and skunkworks/R&D lab. We develop scalable technology solutions on platforms such as Web + Mobile, Machine Learning, AR/VR, and AI/Robotics. You'll have the opportunity to stretch your design disciplines, learn from peers, and educate peers. You'll work with the latest and greatest of bleeding edge tech, have a diverse team, and we allow a lot of autonomy. We also offer 20% time to work on whatever you're passionate about (open source, pet project, etc).

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We’re looking for a unique mix of a UX/UI designer and product manager to join our team. We need someone who has design skills, but also can lead design process and make product decisions.

We are a corporate product incubator and skunkworks/R&D lab. We develop scalable technology solutions on platforms such as Web + Mobile, Machine Learning, AR/VR, and AI/Robotics. You'll have the opportunity to stretch your design disciplines, learn from peers, and educate peers. You'll work with the latest and greatest of bleeding edge tech, have a diverse team, and we allow a lot of autonomy. We also offer 20% time to work on whatever you're passionate about (open source, pet project, etc).

We allow remote, but the must be authorized to work in the United States. (Please no agencies/recruiters)

Shoot us your CV and portfolio to vincent [at] codelitt.com and cody [at] codelitt.com

The downturn cycle is every ten years it seems. Is there a similar recession cycle? I can only think of 3 instances where the recession was substantial in both unemployment above 10%, big drop in GDP, and length of time it lasted:

- The Great Depression (1930)

- The 1980s recession (1980)

- The Great Recession (2008)

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We are a product incubator and corporate skunkworks/R&D lab. We develop scalable technology solutions on platforms such as Web + Mobile, Machine Learning, AR/VR, and AI/Robotics. You'll have the opportunity to stretch your design disciplines, learn from peers, and educate peers. You'll work with the latest and greatest of bleeding edge tech, have a diverse team, and we allow a lot of autonomy. We also offer 20% time to work on whatever you're passionate about (open source, pet project, etc).

We allow remote, but the Americas (north & south) or Europe working hours are required. (Please no agencies/recruiters)

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That's fair feedback. There will be a part 2 where we will dig in more. As I mentioned in another comment, it's eating an elephant. 1 bite at a time.

I used this (in it's beta) to get started with Go. I learn best by doing. The course provided a solid base for me to understand the larger concepts and then diving into the language documentation as I progress. For me it was quite handy.

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We are a product incubator and corporate skunkworks/R&D lab. We develop scalable technology solutions on platforms such as Web + Mobile, Machine Learning, AR/VR, and AI/Robotics. You'll work with the latest and greatest of bleeding edge tech, have a diverse team, score excellent on the Joel test, and allow a lot of autonomy. We also offer 20% time to work on whatever you're passionate about (open source, pet project, etc).

We allow remote, but the Americas (north & south) or Europe working hours are required.

(Please no agencies/recruiters)

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We allow remote, but the Americas (north & south) or Europe working hours are required.

(Please no agencies/recruiters)

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Excellent effort. I do wonder though, what is to prevent authorities from forcing you to just turn off travel mode? Is there a timer that you set? Deadman's switch? Geolocating? (The last 2 are not good solutions, but you get the idea)

Edit: I missed this bit below:

even if you’re asked to unlock 1Password by someone at the border, there’s no way for them to tell that Travel Mode is even enabled.

However, it won't take very long for authorities to wise up, know that 1password has a travel mode, and tell you to turn off Travel Mode, eh? Or am I missing something?

Normally I would agree, except this particular issue is quite different. Startups and small companies are who net neutrality benefits the most. It is in their own self-interest. Whether they do it because it's good business or whether it's a good cause, there is enough reason.

I haven't had the chance to see it on desktop yet. But on mobile it's much better than Reddit's new mobile interface. Loading time alone is much better for me.

Anyways, I was commenting on the UX on mobile was. The UI wasn't what I was particularly focused on, but on mobile I found it much better as well.

I know a lot of people are rather pessimistic about a Reddit competitor gaining traction, but on a technology and UX note they've done a great job. I signed up on mobile and browsed around. The user experience is miles ahead of Reddit's new mobile web client. Pages load instantly, everything is smooth, scaled well, and no tiny text to click. Well executed IMHO.

Regarding being a Reddit competitor, if they can get the content well seeded and manage to allow unpopular opinions that are substantial then I would gladly switch. HN has done a fairly good job of not allowing downvotes into oblivion because someone disagrees with a popular opinion on the forum. It is not perfect, but better than Reddit. Unfortunately HN is more or less a single topic forum. I can't come here reliably for fishing discussions for example. Likewise, it would be great if Voten can figure out a way to disincentivize comments that are unconstructive or personal attacks but go along with the narrative (another problem I see on Reddit).

So in short, my hope for the founders is that they can attract good users, properly seed content until it takes off, and promote substantial and quality comments regardless of viewpoint. I think they could be a good alternative at a time when Reddit is becoming a victim of its own success.

If Levie or Altman end up reading this thread, I have some constructive criticism: I really think the first 30 minutes of Levie's talk were too much of a pitch for Box. I don't need to be sold on the company or technology when I'm learning. Simply stating what it is and how successful it has been grabs my attention and validates it's worth listening to. I found myself skipping forward over and over to get to the meat.

I enjoyed the latter half more. I think cutting the pitch down to 5 minutes and diving deeper into the lessons learned along the way could bring that talk up a level.