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granto

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Currently run M&A for the software division of a large tech company. Previously, started and sold a b2b procurement company.

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github.com 3mo ago

Design.md

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github.com 3mo ago

Self-Improving AI Agent

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www.nature.com 5mo ago

Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome

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www.theverge.com 10mo ago

Qualcomm teams up with BMW for hands-free driving

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fortune.com 1y ago

Exclusivity on OpenAI's $3B acquisition for Windsfurf has expired

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www.practicetalking.net 3y ago

Show HN: Practice Conversations with AI Personas

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therecord.media 4y ago

White House wants nation to prepare for cryptography-breaking quantum computers

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techcrunch.com 6y ago

Andreessen Horowitz launches free crypto startup school

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spectrum.ieee.org 6y ago

Facebook Neural Activity Decoding

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ss2.climatecentral.org 7y ago

Visualization of Sea Level Rise on San Francisco

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www.ewg.org 7y ago

Study finds Cheerios and other breakfast cereals contain weed killer Roundup

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kerbalspaceprogram.com 8y ago

Kerbal Space Program Extension Now Available

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www.engadget.com 8y ago

Intel releases new depth cameras

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www.huffingtonpost.com 10y ago

Autonomous Security Robot Runs into Child

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www.eventbrite.com 10y ago

San Diego Hacker News Meetup 67 This Friday 10/30

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www.eventbrite.com 10y ago

San Diego Hacker News Meetup 66 Next Friday 9/25

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San Diego Hacker News Meetup 65 Tickets, San Diego – Eventbrite

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www.eventbrite.com 11y ago

San Diego Hacker News Meetup 64 Next Friday (7/31)

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www.amazon.com 11y ago

Inside Stories from Interviews with Shark Tank Entrepreneurs

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itunes.apple.com 13y ago

VLC for iOS Now Available (itunes link)

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m.bizjournals.com 13y ago

Angels of the apocalypse

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gdgt.com 13y ago

Actual Size Apple iPhone 5

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Congrats on shipping! Looks quite polished. May be helpful to show how it differ from JustWatch or other streaming service aggregators.

Fun game. Works well on iPhone 13, but doesn’t work on iPhone SE (screen doesn’t fit and there is no way to scroll). Another thought, would be great to see how score compares to others or the average, best score, fastest, etc).

Roblox S-1 6 years ago

A large part of this appears to be non cash expense associated with stock compensation that was recognized due to an investment round where they let employees and investors sell shares at above “market value”. Can helpful to look at cash flow.

Some unsolicited advice for any Uber employees here on HN: You may want to seriously consider selling all vested shares. The price not be what you are expecting, but, from my own personal experience, and "most expert advice", it can be better to sell and diversify. Many one-time high-fliers, such as Zynga (where I previously worked), never got back to their IPO or lockup expiry price.

Great visualizations and simple clean presentation. I tried to use a number of these simple tools to evaluate investment properties but they were usually too high level. I ended up building my own very detailed spreadsheet where the inputs can be tailored very specifically. I know it's not "software" in the HN since, but I made the Google Sheet available online [0] here if any one wants to use it. Note that this is a shared demo so your data will be overwritten by other users.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i6xNZiNVn53_bnibfEvK...

Workflow for iOS 12 years ago

Great functionality goes way beyond IFTTT. Question: why doesn't the list of apps in Open App action include all my apps? Really wanted to include my Harmony Logitech app.

Yes, I was wondering about sales objections, thanks. Those are good ones. What about resource constraints to integrate? This is one of the most common I've run into. Even if integration is as simple as a copy/paste of some code, it still requires moving ahead of their pipeline. To help here, focus on making it as easy as possible to integrate and also help the customer see why it helps them to make it a priority by showing the benefit of adding now vs. later (ROI data). Have you heard similar objections or are you only pursuing customers that have already reached out to you and have thus, presumably, already determined file upload is highest priority?

Nice summary. That's what makes enterprise sales challenging and time consuming and why Steve Blank spends a lot of time in his book explaining how to navigate it. What are some other common objections/challenges you've run into and how have you overcome them?

Would it be helpful to be able to display certain buttons or other elements at a set physical dimension as opposed to pixel dimensions? For example, always show a button big enough for a finger (e.g., 1.5 cm). I ask because we recently launched a web app (www.lifesizer.com) that allows sites to display images in actual life size and think it could be great for designing mobile web sites, but comes with other implications for design, such as modifying layouts for devices with different screen sizes even if they have the same pixel dimensions.

We are currently focused on ecommerce and product review sites, but would love to hear if people think it would be helpful for a new take on responsive design.

The 10X Hustler 14 years ago

I like the way you use that post as a way to recruit the person you just described. But I agree with PaulHoule that the 10x isn't meant just for developers.