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nirushiv

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Th CEO is an attention seeking moron who used to spam HackerNews with job posts for his previous company (Skio) which got preferential treatment as a YC company. I wouldn’t pay any attention to this company.

Their original schtick was charging $10k to get on their waitlist, which clearly failed as now you can “get started for $0” per their website.

Grifter gonna keep grifting

[dead] 2 years ago

I’m sorry but do people upvote things just because they’re Launch HN? The demo is meaningless, I looked through the docs and it doesn’t tell me anything about what kind of use cases or user journeys this product enables. I am so confused

My tinfoil hat theory is that Cursor deploys a lot of “guerilla marketing” with influencers on Twitter/LinkedIn etc. When I tried it, the product was not good (maybe on par with Copilot) but you have people on social media swearing by it. Maybe it just works well for specific types of web development, but I came away thoroughly unimpressed and suspicious that some of the “word of mouth” stuff on them is actually funded by them.

Arvind has died 2 years ago

Sorry for the naive question - but what is an example of “send a message to another CPU”? In high level programming languages, isn’t this usually over shared memory as well? Are there constructs to directly “message” a CPU? When might one use it?

Can second this. Tried them out at our startup, came away unimpressed. Their good engineering blog is great marketing though, although this particular post is lacklustre. What about permissions, indirections, versioning or otherwise encapsulating breaking changes?

Precisely. Especially in India - which is almost as large a time zone offset as you can have. Furthermore, India pays competitively enough that you’re not saving that much money for top talent as compared to e.g Eastern Europe. When I ran engineering teams, the language/dialect barrier between our US mothership and India was much much wider than South American and European devs, even though India is technically the largest English-speaking country in the world.

I don’t think the “crypto isn’t a security” argument is going very far. The SEC has a very loose definition of a security - vaguely, something you buy with the expectation to make money from it appreciating - that is meant to capture unforeseen cases exactly like crypto.

A single quote from someone isn’t changing years and millions of pieces of evidence of people using and promoting crypto almost entirely as a security by this definition.

This is neat! Two questions for you: - how does firebase fit into your stack? I’ve looked at them in the past but their pricing potentially changing makes me nervous

- how many concurrent websocket connectione are you able to support per server? Anecdotally, it seems socket.io struggles to scale beyond 10k or so

Hey Vignesh! My cofounder and I ran into this problem at our last startup. Mind shooting me an email (email is in profile)? Would love to share some of what [somewhat] worked for us.

For full disclosure: I’m trying to build a better way to validate ideas, and I think I too can learn a tremendous amount from talking to you.

Not a fan of overloading V for both version and verbose. Since starting to write Go / working in the industry, unabbreviated flag names have really grown on me.