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Probably not as much effort as writing books and creating art the models were trained on.

Grok 4.5 is $2/$6 there's no model anywhere close to that cheap

The em dash gave it away

People are very scared of messing up authentication and getting hacked. They would rather offload that responsibility to a third party and not think about it.

Why isn't production scaling to meet demand? Shouldn't the market address this.

I've been working on webtool because I got tired of battling captchas in Playwright and cloud browsers. For most tasks, it's a lot better to just let the agent work in a real, live Chrome browser that is not detected as a bot at all.

Plus it's fun to watch the agent click around and figure out how to do things.

I like the agent-first signup via API. Is this meant to be distributed as an agent skill?

Tool search pretty much completely negates the MCP context window argument.

This is largely symbolic, but it does send a clear message.

Like it or hate it, there is a sea change happening in how governments treat cryptocurrency.

I think even for those who do not subscribe to any election fraud conspiracies, this will seriously shake confidence in the election. If a mistake like this went by unnoticed until the results were posted, what other monkeying about with the database goes on?

This is old (Jun 16). Facebook has already revealed the details.

The main value of token compensation is liquidity. People frequently underestimate how long it will take until exit and their equity becoming cash.

Tokens for a good project are liquid immediately on numerous exchanges, and likely will be worth at least something. Don't neglect the time value of money.

The canonical example of funding!=success.

The solution is simple: always treat each round of funding like it's the last money you'll ever get.

A corollary is that your SaaS product needs to be priced in a way that enables sales (typically >$5K ACV).

Most people on HN exist in a very different world from the unbanked population. Credit scores mean nothing to these people. Many can't even get approved for a checking account and rely primarily on cash equivalents and prepaid products.

Founders owning the majority of the business is not a uniquely Silicon Valley phenomenon.

The following may or may not apply to your specific situation, but this is what I would be thinking in your case. You have two options: A. Accept failure, fold the company now, return remaining investor funds and get a job.

B. Do whatever it takes to get profitable in the next 60 days.

This is a possible game plan for option B.

1. If you're doing enterprise sales, your problem is likely as much about cash flow as it is revenue. Collect as much cash as you can now. Get customers paying monthly/quarterly to pay annually. Make big prospects an offer they can't refuse to prepay in advance.

2. Get revenue any way you can. Become a consulting company. Do things that don't scale. Sublet your office. Hold events at your office and sell tickets. Sell some Aeron chairs. Just get some more cash coming in.

3. Cut costs ruthlessly. With 2-3 months left, there is no way you should have 10-15 employees. Assume you have 3 months left to live. Do you really need all of them that badly? It will be tough and heartbreaking to let people go, but it's better to let half go with warning than to have everyone find out they're not getting paid a couple months down the line. Cut benefits immediately. Yes it will be tough and unfair, yes it will hurt morale, but you're at the end of the line. Do it. 3 months of runway with 15 people could become a year of runway with 3 people.

4. Mine your CRM and personal network for leads. Strip mine it for whatever value it has left. From now on, everyone on the team is spending at least 30% of their time on the phone with customers. Either you get some sales, or you get some great feedback about customer pain points and problems you can use for your next effort. Stop coding. This is one problem you won't be able to code your way out of.

5. Unless you have amazing revenue traction, forget about raising more money. The one thing VCs hate most is a rock that is rolling downhill. Fundraising will be a fatal distraction. Instead, go back to your bootstrapping roots and do whatever it takes to get profitable now. Exception: Your current investors may have some capital in reserve to support you. Ask them for it. If they don't re-up, your fundraising prospects are good as dead.

Feel free to shoot me an email with more specifics, happy to give other advice if you think it's useful: ilya [at] mixrank.com.

It's more likely CPV(cost per view) traffic, which can be bought as low as $5 CPM.

I've found that the key to success in this is context and setting.

Rather than going somewhere because there are women there, go somewhere you would like to go regardless and don't worry about approaching anyone, just relax and have a good time. Everything is dependent on mindset and setting. You, the same exact person might be anxious and uncomfortable in a loud club, and at the same time you might be the most confident guy in the room at a cocktail party after a business conference...or vice versa. So go to places that play to your strengths.

i.e coffee shops are a terrible place to meet people. There's absolutely zero sexual energy and everyone there is just trying to get some work done.

If you're in the bay area, email me(email in my profile) and I'll show you exactly what I mean.

We will see the explosion of native and more tightly integrated ad formats that are harder to block. Example: Job posts on HN.

Retiring on a half a million dollars doesn't seem impossible. Presumably he is drawing down the principal as well as collecting interest. His house is likely paid off, and he has no young dependents to pay for. He will also be receiving Social Security payments for the rest of his life. He may have to make some lifestyle compromises, but it's certainly possible to live a decent retirement on that much money.

Note this is likely due to a Supreme Court decision rather than any particular goodwill from MasterCard.

Sarah Harrison, the Wikileaks advisor accompanying Snowden, is a UK citizen. It's likely she had a hand in drafting this statement.

So what you're saying is that if you take all of the successful companies out of an investor's portfolio, that portfolio will have a lower value.

So have we identified all of the intelligence tools helpfully listed in his profile? I wonder what WEBCANDID means.

If I am parsing your comment correctly, is it accurate to say that there are 5 justices who agree that surveillance of cell phone location data violates the 4th Amendment based solely on the level of information collected, regardless of how it was physically obtained?

You don't need funding to get to product-market fit. The optimal strategy is to bootstrap to fit and raise money to scale and build the business.

Some carders used e-gold, but because most of the major fraud gangs operated out of Eastern Europe/Russia, the dominant carder currency was generally WebMoney.

e-gold was actually incredibly popular for online gambling and participating in HYIP(short term Ponzi schemes). Not exactly the most squeaky clean activities, but not exactly terrorism or whatever else the feds used to shut down e-gold.

As the anarchists and idealists on HN will soon learn, the decentralized nature of Bitcoin won't make a difference if anyone transmitting it is in violation of federal law.