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kinnth

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I am a mobile games designer and producer. I work in iOS and have helped to create some of the most exciting games on the platform.

I love fun and games. Twitter @kinnth

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ecstatic.events 3mo ago

Show HN: Ecstatic Dance Aggregator for worldwide wellness events

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: An Android build/skin specifically created for Almost Blind People?

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mkorostoff.github.io 2y ago

Wealth shown to a pixel scale (2021)

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gendal.me 4y ago

Why All the Web3 Hate?

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braveneweurope.com 4y ago

What the Oligarchs have learnt from billion dollar asset seizures

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www.dyson.co.uk 4y ago

The Dyson Zone – Headphones and Air Purifier

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Have solar arrays reached a tipping point for residential?

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www.tbstat.com 4y ago

Blockchain Gaming and NFT report 2021/10 [pdf]

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www.engadget.com 4y ago

Bitcoin City in El Salvador

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bankunderground.co.uk 4y ago

Monetary Policy: Lessons from Medieval Europe

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cbeci.org 4y ago

When someone mentions the BTC energy problem, point them here

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Updating to Big Sur on an Intel Mac, do you now get Kernel Panic issues

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www.sciencealert.com 6y ago

Scientists observe light acting like a river

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neal.fun 6y ago

Where Does the Day Go?

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appleinsider.com 6y ago

Apple Glass details leaked – $499

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: What’s a good Christmas present for a 13yr old who wants to learn code?

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mobilefreetoplay.com 7y ago

Idle, Incremental or Tap Games. Why does the game mechanic work so well?

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mobilefreetoplay.com 7y ago

Fortnite rejects the Google Play Store, should Google be scared?

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mobilefreetoplay.com 8y ago

Voodoo – The mobile publisher taking 24.7% of all US Free game downloads in June

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www.cnbc.com 8y ago

Trump slaps 25% Tarifs on Chinese goods

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mobilefreetoplay.com 8y ago

Deconstructing Fornite's Business Model That's Changing F2P Games

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mobilefreetoplay.com 8y ago

$126M and counting: How Fortnite dominated the app store with battle pass

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mobilefreetoplay.com 8y ago

Why obsessing about metrics might kill your prototype

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Managed Hosting providers in 2018?

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mobilefreetoplay.com 8y ago

The Free to Play Bible

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What rates do you charge (or expect to pay) a top tier consultant?

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mobilefreetoplay.com 9y ago

How Dragon Ball Z app shot to number 1 top grossing

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www.theguardian.com 10y ago

The Biggest Leak in History for Tax Avoidance of the Super Rich

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what3words.com 10y ago

What3Words – Give Precise coordinates anywhere in the world in 3 words

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Finding Office Space in London

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GPT-5.6 13 days ago

Does anyone else feel each model is like watching your kids grow up. They we're bubbly and fun and weird, you needed to tell them to sit down and be quiet.

Now if you tell them too much they go mute or stop telling you important information. Oh intelligence!

I think we're also ignoring a potential innovative move in how models work.

If someone could splinter or fragment the models into more specific tasks i.e "spellchecker AI" and get these working as well as Sonnet 4.6-4.8 on those tasks on a personal laptop. You then question the $100 a month fee.

Bear in mind these laptops are likely to be $5000 or so because of the memory, HDD and M7 chip they likely need.

It feels to me like the beginning of the inflection point but software updates not hardware updates will be the accelerant.

It feels like a dedicated orchestration/planning agent needs to be much clearer on costs now as part of the tast plan. Multiple models used at different stages depending on the task.

Wow I just spotted that the new price does NOT include the 96w power adapter! That's a new cheeky cost at £79 over in the UK.

I really hate how they price things and hide their profit in sneaky ways now.

That was one of the most helpful walkthroughs i've read. Thanks for explaining so well with all of the steps.

I wasn't a coder but with AI I am actually writing code. The more i familiarise myself with everything the easier it becomes to learn. I find AI fascinating. By making it so simple and clear it helps when i think what i need to feed it.

Facebook is cooked 5 months ago

Why wont they actually allow users to control their own algorithms? Why can't we switch off "thirst" or "cat videos"?

I don't social media much but to not be on it, is FOMO for your social life. Someone out there needs to open up the algo to your own CHOSEN bias' not the ones they know get clicks.

I hate the whole damn thing!

Yeah I need to mirror a few other comments. I would definitely give this a go, but I need plugins that connect automatically to my Broker. In my case IBKR, but the top brokers you would need Schwab, Fidelity, Trading212, Hood.

Without that onboarding the tool becomes a headache and what I already have is good enough. YNAB is also a very good reference of where to go next in the budgeting sense. That has a real use case and also opportunity for solving many users needs.

Good luck I can see it's a great piece of software, but as trading is my fulltime job I have far too many trades and without an auto-importer it wont work for me.

Apple M5 chip 9 months ago

yup I'm an M1 max laptop, i actually went upto an m4 pro and went back the m1 max, it could handle more trading screens!

I really love reading the wisdom of older people. Society really dismisses everyone over 80, but I find myself having deep interesting connections with a few people much older than myself (38).

Something society always neglects is that everyone goes through the same thoughts time and time again. We all make mistakes and we learn our own way, but when someone's 90, they really have done a lot of it all before. Even if we think everything is different, human's really are very similar. We all have emotions, we all have desires and we are all deep down social creatures. So I would only encourage more people to step out and try to make an honest, deep, friendship with someone a lot older than you. It can really help give you guidance and perspective.

His small data, big task approach is interesting. Much more based in our own learning and growth as humans. If you master the ability to learn you'll be able in more novel situations to continue to learn. I do get a sense from current AI that huge data leads to knowledge without wisdom.

It also seems that perfecting the learning with nothing would scale much better with knowledge.

Fingerjigger 11 months ago

I think this is a nice challenge. Touch typing was something i was never taught. I definitely have incorrect finger placement for instance.

However I know my overall typing speed is good from the 20 years i've spent behind a keyboard! I actually think the UI is good, with some interesting elements that are not so distracting.

Buffet reminded me a lot of Angela Merkel.

They stood clearly and simply for good moral judgment, fair systems and looked at the bigger picture to carry most people forward. They also based all their decision in facts, truth and science. They learn't their trades (economics & politics) over time and weren't afraid to adapt as times changed.

Their slow and steady presence did more for equality and fairness than many others. We will need to find these values again after the current times have played out.

Mistral OCR 1 year ago

This looks like a massive win if you were the NHS and had to scan and process old case notes.

Same is true if you were a solicitors/lawyers.

I appreciate this isn't about Japanese pencils, but if anyone is ever visting the LAke District in the UK, I highly recommend going to the Derwent Pencil Museum. It's absolutely fascinating how pencils came to be, the number of steps to make them etc.

I really appreciate old school manufacturing and pencils were the top tech around the turn of the century!

Lovely little game.

It wasn't immediately obvious what the coins were for, as in i would make it so that you spend them on upgrades it ties much more clearly into why i want them.

Easy to add more special blocks i.e double ball, multipliers etc. level design could become more interesting / think about multiple level stacking, so i feel progress.

XP system is an easy add to unlock some core features maybe a backpack/weapons, things that add simple bulk to the game.

In general a great prototype, watch people play the game and correct peoples first time user experience. You might also need to add a few words to the very first round to help people understand the goals!

It's largely a measure of risk & reward for your time in 20s-30s. What would you rather as a bright, intelligent, driven person? Put your heart and soul into a high risk but genuinely interesting problem or get paid well to work on someone else's reasonably interesting problem.

I personally had a startup, it was a consultancy business, we got to 5 employees and I learnt a lot. It was very low risk, $0 in VC and bootstrapped from an employee stock benefit of $20k. I focussed on me working just like my employees. I had fun doing it, paid myself well, learnt a lot. I am now financially stable, no debt and own a house outright. That was always enough for my dreams.

I think before jumping in two feet first, lower your life risk. Aim for your 40s to be your own, where you can travel and live free.

This would be useful in all retail sectors. Things like DIY tools or raw materials along with components or chemicals. Most components or parts such as Graphics Cards already have strong price competition as you can buy it and get it shipped from anywhere.

It is usually the local, raw materials where collusion is strongest.

It's a broken argument to assume you need inflation for a reasonable money system. If a money system becomes popular then the price of goods becomes cheaper in that money as it is more scarce.

Goods would be less sats over time.

Inflation is bad for everyone apart for the people who print the money, hence the mess we're in.

Nice idea! I am your target audience, i TV+IBKR+Day Trade. I know this is your first launch but i definitely needed a video to see what it was you had created, with only a single screenshot i wasn't clear on all your functionality.

I am based in the uk so i don't think its available in my webstore. I also use the TV app most of the time but happy to use the browser to get this to work.

The biggest thing for me preventing me from using it, is security and privacy. As this is my financial institution I am highly cautious about installing or using any data mining or services with access to my API. How can you alleviate or make it clear what you do with data and also what your app has access too?

AI has now evolved beyond just the science and it's biggest issue is in the productization. Finding use cases for what's already available ALONG with new models will be where success lies.

ChatGPT is the number 1 brand in AI and as such needs to learn what it's selling, not how its technology works. It always sucks when mission and vision don't align with the nerds ideas, but I think it's probably the best move for both parties.