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friendzone.games 6mo ago

Show HN: The Friend Zone, a curated list of web games to play with friends

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

Ask HN: What is the best Christmas movie?

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news.ysimulator.run 8mo ago

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

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replicate.com 8mo ago

How to Prompt Nano Banana Pro

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substack.com 8mo ago

Persona Collapse: LLMs All Like the Same Things

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en.wikipedia.org 8mo ago

List of List of Lists

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en.wikipedia.org 8mo ago

Spherical Cow

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twitter.com 8mo ago

Compare Video Models

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johnsillings.com 9mo ago

Thoughts on the current (un)profitability of the AI ecosystem

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replicate.com 10mo ago

Introducing Replicate's new search API to find the best models

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johnsillings.com 10mo ago

Thoughts on Using a Computer Efficiently

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johnsillings.com 10mo ago

Thoughts on How to Disagree

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www.micdrop.gg 11mo ago

Mic Drop, a multiplayer karaoke game that tests your lyrical knowledge

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www.micdrop.gg 1y ago

Mic Drop: a karaoke party game that tests lyrical knowledge

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docs.google.com 2y ago

Statistical Claims about Startups

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johnsillings.com 2y ago

How far away is an AI-run business?

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blog.kapstan.io 2y ago

Karpenter vs. Cluster Autoscaler

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johnsillings.com 2y ago

Validate with Cold Email

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johnsillings.com 2y ago

40 weeks of bootstrapper-friendly cooking projects

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www.ruf.rice.edu 3y ago

Facts from feces revisited (1997) [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What are your favorite mobile games?

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johnsillings.com 3y ago

I'm already nostalgic for AI-generated Seinfeld

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johnsillings.com 3y ago

What makes Michael Seibel special? (2021)

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www.philosophybro.com 3y ago

Philosophy Bro

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johnsillings.com 4y ago

Breaking the Behavioral Seal

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johnsillings.com 4y ago

Mistakes you're probably making in the Y Combinator interview

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johnsillings.com 4y ago

Who gives the best feedback?

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johnsillings.com 4y ago

Our Y Combinator Interview Prep Questions (Art in Res W20)

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johnsillings.com 4y ago

Perfectionism and Pragmatism

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johnsillings.com 4y ago

What makes Michael Seibel special?

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it's not fixed for me:

disregard /ˌdisrəˈɡärd/ Understood. Let me know what you would like to work on instead!

amusingly, it does provide the pronunciation and the dictionary-definition h2-ish formatting... and then no definition

this is cool – congrats on the launch.

generally when i give someone my calendar link, i'm pretty happy for them to just choose whatever time within those constraints. i like the future where everyone opts in ("i will meet as long as my preferences are considered") & there doesn't need to be any manual clicking/coordination whatsoever.

as a tidbit of feedback: are you explicitly targeting b2b? i would like to just sign up, but i'll book a demo if that's the only option :)

Hey all, John here. I just wanted to say a big thanks for all the support on this project.

Yesterday was a roller coaster of, "oh, I guess nobody cares," to "well, I'm proud of it anyway," to "wait, people are submitting," to "this is amazing!" to "OH GOD THIS ISN'T GOOD," to "I think everything is fine," to "alright, I'm going to bed."

And when I woke up this morning, it really tickled me to see that folks were still having so much fun with the Simulator.

To say this exceeded my expectations would be an understatement. All the support, hilarious submissions, and lovely comments are really inspiring me to keep shipping. This is probably obvious, but most things I ship, especially weekend projects like this, never get any traction and remain obscure/unused forever.

(Also to some degree it validated my weekend art-project tinkering to my wife – so thanks for that, too.)

I appreciate the emails, the feature ideas, the encouragement, everything. Big hug to the HN community – thank you.

It was a pretty iterative process to get to something that felt 'real' – I was going for 90% accuracy, with a little extra abrasiveness since I thought it would be funny.

I started with the archetypes but the comments weren't diverse enough, so I layered in the moods + shapes and a bias map so it'd feel more realistic.