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registerspill.thorstenball.com 4mo ago

Disposable Software

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

Why is email so resilient as a technology?

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

If you are selling an AI Software product, read this

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

I was "early" in agentic coding. Here's my story

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www.infoq.com 4mo ago

New Research Reassesses the Value of Agents.md Files for AI Coding

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en.wikipedia.org 4mo ago

Sustainable Space: Why "Bootstraps" Isn't Enough for Multi-Planetary Life

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

Stop Making Models Smarter

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impeccable.style 6mo ago

Impeccable Style

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

The EdTech Chicken and Egg Problem

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quizit.app 1y ago

Show HN: I built an app to generate quizzes on any topic

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quantumlightcapital.com 1y ago

Driving High Performance

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

I Think Subscriptions Are Over

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

On Memorial day, will you thank someone for their service?

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docs.google.com 2y ago

Well-known companies that pivoted and why

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noemititarenco.com 2y ago

Good products have unintended consequences

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www.gregwalsh.com 2y ago

Pedestrian Press-to-cross buttons and elevator close buttons are fake

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Do You Like Agile?

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www.noemi.ro 8y ago

The AI innovations of the last two decades in simple English

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www.noemi.ro 8y ago

What social media users want

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www.noemi.ro 8y ago

Stop doing your job. Start doing you

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www.noemi.ro 9y ago

The dark $ide of silicon startups

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Claude Corps 1 month ago

They've already done this through the 6m Anthropic API "unlimited plan" grants. Claude-only is getting embedded.

i think its more efficient for models to write queries than read large(ish) documents. at some point you have to have a tradeoff - smaller docs, but the model has to find them (thats a query) or larger docs, and the model has to read them.

My take is AI native apps that have longevity will prioritize token-efficiency - and I believe queries do that.

Goodbye to Sora 4 months ago

I assume it was too expensive, because it's really not a bad tool. I used it recently to make my twitter pfp :)

Theres tons of ai apps. They're all general use chatbots or coding agents. Manus, Cursor, ChatGPT. Almost every app that has a robust search uses a reranker llm. AI is everywhere.

As far as totally new products - I built one (Habit.am - wordless journaling for mental health) and new products require new habits, people trying new things, its not that easy to change people's behavior. It would be much easier for me to sell my little app if it was a literal plain old journal.

I ran tests of 100 attempts with different prompt/scenario combinations. Each "attempt"/theory had 3 different system prompts wordings. Most of the prompts did not mention a colon, but it kept appearing. When I added negative instructions against using a colon, the quality went down (most of the tool calls were malformed, one common issue was markdown ticks in front) It was only when my system prompt acted like colons were normal that I kept getting 100/100 perfect expected tool calls. I ranked my system prompts by which returned the most consistent commands.

Dario has stated multiple times he doesn't believe there is any value in open-weight models. Not surprised. This is not the behavior of an innovative company - it is fear-driven. They are seeing a rapidly shrinking moat.

I canceled my family subscription last month. We have Youtube Premium which I use to play music - Spotify was over 20/month and no longer made sense. We mostly used it to play music on our Google speakers for the kids. It's one of those products that used to make sense, but now just doesn't feel so critical. It's easy to replace and patch where I used it.

Progressive Web Apps Exist. You can download any app. And build them too. I build my own apps that send me notifications from my AI Buddy :)

Try saving my side project to your home screen : Habit.am - works really nicely once you're logged in.

A counter example:

I've been wearing an Apple Watch for close to 10 years. I've tracked my weight as well along those years but nothing crazy like OP. The Apple watch tracked plenty.

I had some strange symptoms and two doctors insisted I had a weak heart and potential heart failure. This was shocking! Turns out I do have a really "weak" rhythm, but heart failure is when your heart is progressively getting worse in it's pumping. I don't even remember which metric he looked at in my Apple health - but basically my heart has always been this way. A doctor looking at a single data point might think I have abnormally low blood pressure/heart rate, but if I've had this for 10 years with no change, the medical assessment is very different - it means nothing. Sometimes boring data is exactly what you need. For this reason, I will probably always wear an Apple watch (or equivalent) moving forward.

Data can feel useless for 10 years until one day it becomes critical. The benefit is spiky and uneven.

I have a log of commits and the decisions and changes for each commit. I use it as a source of data/context when building out plans.

I agree with the other commenter who said they don't build anything without a plan. I would double down on that and say that you need to overplan, and regularly toss out plans as you do research/discovery.