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Kyle Maxwell

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Previously @twittereng, websolr.com, bonsai.io, Houseparty, etc

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www.axios.com 1y ago

9-figure packages for AI Researchers at Meta

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www.theinformation.com 2y ago

Shopify Employees Go Head to Head for Raises in New Ranking System

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What's the best personal ML setup these days?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Has someone automated best practices for AWS?

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github.com 12y ago

Show HN: I wrote a realtime search and/or pubsub (in memory, C)

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github.com 13y ago

Show HN: Dendrite, a golang log parser

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online.wsj.com 13y ago

Startups Adopt Their Hangouts

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magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com 13y ago

Twitter adds filters -- commentary by an early Twitter engineer

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www.foundationdb.com 13y ago

Flow: actor-based concurrency with C++

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github.com 13y ago

Gold digger

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websolr.com 15y ago

Websolr releases public pricing plans

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Domain name giveaway

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Should I build this?

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www.scientificamerican.com 16y ago

Under Threat, Women Bond, Men Withdraw

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github.com 16y ago

The Jison grammar for CoffeeScript is surprisingly sexy

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exogen.github.com 16y ago

Unit testing achievements

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image-swirl.googlelabs.com 16y ago

Google Image Swirl

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www.sitepoint.com 16y ago

Google Closure: How not to write Javascript

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github.com 16y ago

KISSUnit: Really simple Javascript tests

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onemorecloud.wordpress.com 16y ago

Productivity boosts with Growl

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: iPhone copy/paste library for web?

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www.msnbc.msn.com 16y ago

Texas begins paying wrongly convicted

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parselets.com 16y ago

My project: Parselets.com -- a pastebin/wiki/editor for web scrapers

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github.com 16y ago

My project: CSVGet -- Get structured data from sites as CSV

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nanochess.110mb.com 16y ago

A chess engine in 1326 bytes

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ww2.samhart.com 17y ago

Cram your test driven development up your ass

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kylemaxwell.wordpress.com 17y ago

CSV Export Hack for Google Squared

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

A good statistics for machine learning textbook?

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Anyone want to meetup at SXSW?

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use.perl.org 17y ago

What language community tests the most?

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A2A solves the problem of independently developed agents talking to each other. The bigger problem is "how do i trust your agent works?", which would be solved by having a believable system of Agent Evals, so I could test that your Agent actually does what it says on the box. Otherwise an Agent Directory and automatic dispatch of agents is close to useless.

Plenty of everyone doing it wrong, but the most WTF of all the WTFs is the backup storage.

Put your backups in S3 *versioned* storage on a different AWS account from your primary, and set some reasonable JSON lifecycle rule:

     "NoncurrentVersionExpiration": {
        "NoncurrentDays": 30,
        "NewerNoncurrentVersions": 3
     }
That way when someone screws up and your AWS account gets owned, or your databases get deleted by an agent, it doesn't have enough access to delete your backups, and by default, even if you have backups that you want to intentionally delete, you have 30 days to change your mind.

Sure, but you then can't access the computronium, because communication is so bad.

Also, I wonder if good old-fashioned computing is interesting at all to a civilization that's had access to advanced AI and quantum computing for a while.

Like we haven't really figured out how to get an ML model to run on a quantum computer, or how to build a quantum-native computer (i.e. surface of a black hole, or some other way that doesn't rely on our current sense of quantum error correction), but I don't know of any physical laws that preclude it.

I'd bet if aliens invaded our galaxy, they'd go for the super black holes in the center, or some other resource beyond our use and understanding, not this random water planet on the edge.

I mean you can use sqlite as an index and then rebuild all of Lucene on top of it. It's non-trivial to build search quality on top of actual search libraries too.

O'Reilly's "Relevant Search" isn't the worst here, but you'll be porting/writing a bit yourself.

Does anyone know how much the cost-per-token is trending down year-over-year for models of similar quality? Seems like whether this idea works really depends on that curve.

How wealth dies 8 months ago

The goal of post-modern society is to create wealth without additional energy costs.

If I write software that schedules health care more efficiently, I've created value and therefore wealth. If I make a video game that's more fun than the previous generation of games, likewise.

I tend to look at consciousness as a spectrum. And when we reduce it to a binary (is it conscious?), we're actually asking whether it meets some minimum threshold of whatever the smallest creature you have empathy for is.

So yeah, Claude Code is more conscious than raw GPT. And both probably less than my dog.

I read the article, and I'm struggling to see what ideas it brings beyond CodeAct (tool use is python) or the "task" tool in Claude code (spinning off sub-agents to preserve context).

I don't see how this very contrived example pipelines:

    client.getAll({userIds}).map((user) => user.updatedAt == new Date().toLocaleString() ? client.photosFor(user.id) : {})
or without the conditional,
    client.getAll({userIds}).map((user) => client.photos({userId: user.id, since: new Date(user.updatedAt).toLocaleString()})
Like it has to call toLocaleString on the server, no?

The "time dialation" is real. I mostly manage these days, yet my fun projects progress faster than they ever have, because I can prompt in the 2 minutes between meetings, and come back to significant progress.

I miss SF in the early 2010s.

- gorgeous 3-seat wine bar inside my laundromat

- hidden sushi restaurant in friends garage

- hole-in-the wall coffee shop with only cushion seats on the floor and $1.50 breakfast sandos, frequented almost exclusively by writing clubs

- corner store with half-stocked shelves, still using a cash register that printed receipts with a mechanical typewriter