skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building upon your thoughtful insights here (and acknowledging my bias as your co-founder at Airheart), early-stage startups indeed follow a trajectory remarkably similar to the algorithms you’ve outlined. Pre-seed founders, as you emphasized, must behave like a greedy algorithm—making quick, impactful decisions—not simply because it’s convenient, but because they face severe constraints: limited resources, limited runway, and incomplete knowledge of the real-world problem space. Your experience at Airheart illustrates this clearly. Rather than exhaustively mapping out every nuance of travel-planning complexities at the start, you chose to quickly address the most immediate and obvious pain point—COVID-related travel restrictions—allowing us to rapidly build audience trust and initial momentum despite uncertainty.

However, precisely because of these resource and knowledge constraints, it’s equally vital at this stage to develop solutions that are inherently flexible. The irony of the greedy approach is that while it prioritizes immediate returns, success depends on consciously avoiding rigid designs that would prematurely lock in assumptions about the problem space. By intentionally structuring early solutions for extensibility, startups create pathways for future growth and pivots, efficiently leveraging scarce resources while continuously deepening their understanding of customer needs. While decisions made early on won’t guarantee graceful scaling—especially as experimentation and complexity inevitably continue—thoughtful flexibility at the outset can greatly support the transition into later stages.
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This comes so often in HN it is wild. Risking WW3 and killing millions just because Samsung is 2 years behind TSMC. To save a year we would set world decades or centuries back.
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Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Node.js, Nest.js, Postgres, AWS, n8n
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17IjjSJnmfhx-a_e77M0NNKce9x4iefH7/view?usp=drive_link
Email: athreyac4@gmail.com

Worked on 3 client projects https://hexmos.com/liveapi (FS), https://lioncharge.tech (BE lead), https://blive.co.in (BE), and many toy projects :)
> Now, not so much. It would be a huge undertaking for my wife and me to uproot our lives and move to someplace exotic and different, but even if we were to do so, we couldn't move to everywhere exotic and different. And anyway, we wouldn't be "starting a new life" there in the same way that a young person would.

At your age, I left Philadelphia and ended up living in a tiny village in rural New Mexico. I had lived almost entirely in large cities since I was 10 years old. Since that move, I became a (volunteer) firefighter, and joined the boards of 3 village organizations. I learned how to shop for a week rather than a day. I've had to reassess my own landscape aesthetics, now that green is no longer the signifier of beauty (at least, not below 9000'). My construction skills have had to expand to encompass a house built of dried mud.

I would say that this has been as much "a new life" as any that I started when I was younger.
I keep a stable of inked pens. The set is half Japanese, half German all the time. I find Lamy superior for leak resistance and ruggedness, and they're repairable if you manage to damage them also, their tipping is one of the best and fastest polishing/adapting ones if not the best. Japanese ones tend to stay at my desk at home, since they're more delicate writing instruments (except Pilot Metropolitan.That's a tank), but I enjoy them all the same, regardless of their price points and materials.

BTW, if you have not tried Montblanc's Royal Blue give it a chance. That one is "different". Also Scrikss's blue black ink is nice.

The notebook using this paper is called Meteksan Prestige [0]. I don't know if they're exported or not.

[0]: https://www.sarikalem.com/en/meteksan-prestij-bloknot-17x24-...
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"America has no friends or enemies, only interests"
-Henry Kissinger
Impressive. A wobbler would be doing the valve on easy mode.
> Neutron stars present other challenges besides a humongous density. Their small size makes them impossible to study visually with telescopes, as they appear no more than a point. (The nearest neutron star to Earth is 400 light-years away.)

Do we have an idea of what they would look like to the naked human eye?
> Because some people just don't care where their code ends up.

Yes, take me for example.

> Many people release code to the "public domain" (or under very liberal licenses).

In my case, the MIT license, because I saw it was popular, and I was afraid that in some places, "public domain" might cause unexpected legal issues to whoever wants to "play by the book" and use my code.

> if LLM chews on it and regurgitates it out

As work coming from a machine does not have copyright protection, whoever gets a LLM to spit out my code back can then claim it as their own, under whatever term they like.

If this person wants to contribute to a free software project and release the code under the GPL v2 or v3, good: it may help create a new feature that users will enjoy!

If this person wants to contribute to their company private software that's only available on a subscription basis (and let's say the subscription is sold at an eye-watering price), good: it means whoever pay this subscription will get more from their money, and whoever use the software may get a new feature they will enjoy!

Software has nearly 0 marginal costs. LLM is the closest thing to a Star-Trek level "replicator", getting everyone everything they want.

On which moral grounds would you object to a Star-Trek level replicator for physical good? (please make them good, as offering any food anyone may want would fix world hunger once and for all)

Then why object to that for virtual goods?

Maybe I'm reading too much into your reply, but I don't see it as trolling or negative faith.

I see variants of it in many places, and they all look to me very close to luddism: rejecting a new technology, because you fear for your own work, while ignoring what this technology will enable in the greater picture: for the orignal case of luddism, reducing the price of clothing for everyone by increasing production and decreasing labor, therefore allowing workers to get in other fields where they may try to satisfy other human wants - some that would be inconcievable to the original luddites like videogames

We should feel graceful we get more technology, as it removes constraints and make more people happy.
US economic policy is not very favorable to co-ops.

Cooperatives face complex tax structures that can be less advantageous compared to traditional corporations. Unlike C-corporations, which have clear tax advantages and deductions, cooperatives must navigate unique tax rules, such as Subchapter T of the IRS code, which governs patronage refunds.

The tax code heavily favors investor-owned firms through incentives such as lower capital gains taxes and deductions for stock-based compensation, which cooperatives do not benefit from in the same way.

Beyond that, banks and financial institutions are often hesitant to lend to cooperatives, as their ownership structure does not provide the same level of collateral or control as investor-owned firms. Government-backed loans and grants that support small businesses often don't adequately accommodate cooperatives. For instance, SBA loan programs historically have been difficult for cooperatives to access.

And because co-ops are a niche business structure, many federal and state laws are designed with traditional corporate structures in mind, making it difficult for cooperatives to navigate compliance requirements. Cooperative incorporation laws vary by state, leading to inconsistent legal protections and administrative burdens.
Location: India
Remote: Yes (UK < IN > JP overlap), otherwise 100% async
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Clojure, Bash, AWS
Résumé/CV: https://www.evalapply.org/hire.html
Email: at the linked page

I love to help small B2B SaaS product teams be mighty ("Grow product, not headcount. Burn thru roadmap, not people. Get sleep, not stress.").

Currently I am open to these three categories of work (described at my hire page linked above).

- "Write to Scale"
- Build You a "Micro SaaS"
- Clojure SaaS Upkeep
... but by being allowed to be bad at their job at 21, they are more likely to find success later.
In your opinion, does Typst male better pdfs than LaTex and if so, why?
It's a short story and not a novel, but there's the short story August Heat[0]; it's available at [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Heat_(short_story)

[1] https://www.scaryforkids.com/august-heat/
I asked that in the post but nobody answered still, let's try here.

Why are CSRF tokens rotated? OWASP says it's somehow more secure but I don't really see why.
Your writing is very reminiscent of Aldo Leopold's in 'A Sand County Almanac' (which is an equal delight to read)
Updated the list now with few more including Jits, check it out
Announce your company is worker-owned in a blog posted by a guy whose profile pic shows him in a banana suit. Not the best way to build confidence in the new ownership...
the phrase you're looking for to describe "mediocre success" is "sustainable business".

expand or die is a bullshit concept employed by those more concerned with a quick buck than creating something lasting
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I suggest expressing your support on their forum!

https://orionfeedback.org/d/9535-extension-privacy-badger-br...
So interning is really just normalization/dictionarying your strings.
How about chewing gum? Especially chewing Xylitol chewing gum.

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-996/xylitol
Based on the title, I was hoping for something optimistic about AI slop reduction, for example major search engines detecting AI output and removing it from search results. Won't this be super cool?

Sadly, that post is not about this. It's a post from someone with "content marketing background", and it claims that new reasoning models are supposed to better at writing, so "the era of AI slop is ending; the age of AI insight is just beginning".
Polars' Rgonomic Patterns
Hmmm, whoever makes this should also infuse it with carbs so they can also make CHO mouth rinsing claims. Helps to have more than one gimmick in a product.
Lol... fully aware it's a kooky project, but I've had a lot of fun working on it.

either way glad you got a laugh ;)
Rethinking Focus in the Age of Agentic AI
Traffic patterns have basically been solved by maps/waze/whatever. And you really don't want to be watching that screen even in a slow moving traffic. Recording video... maybe, but is that ever an in-the-moment thing? I never had an "I'd like to film my car going at city speeds" thought.
Exactly - it's like the startup vs "lifestyle business" (we have to keep making terms for what just used to be "business") discussion.

The sad part is when something on the startup track fails as a startup but is a perfectly workable "lifestyle" business; but it can't switch tracks and instead plows along until destroyed.
> Why anyone opens any software anymore is a mystery to me.

Because i open my software to be useful to others, including others that may benefit from my code indirectly via LLM being trained on it. If anything, just recently i was thinking of how to make a documentation generator system to generate documents in a format that'd be easier for LLMs to "grok" so that people can feed it to an LLM and ask questions about it.

I'd advocate for using a local LLM instead though, they may not be technically as good as the cloud stuff you rent, but they are good enough, can run on most mid-to-high-end PCs and you are in control.
I own dbPoweramp which I believe uses EAC, but iTunes is just easier (I rip to ALAC) and is good enough. Apple will probably drop support soon, but until then I'll stick with it.
Those were direct results of "We just invented a hammer that is great at causing the apocalypse and are desperately looking for nails that don't cause the apocalypse."

Other options include but are not limited to: Digging massive rivers/canals. Digging a massive harbor. Digging a large hole. Digging through some mountains. Digging holes to store toxic waste.

Truly a revolutionary pair of projects.
Seems to be a navigational flaw here - you can't get to any of the intermediate "sections" without manually going back one by one (other than "Home" to get to the absolute top)

Otherwise, this is pretty cool and would be great for one-way traversing (maybe a quiz/test would do well here)
You can google the book "Jaws: A hidden epidemic" if you'd like to get started in the rabbit hole without delay!
Naval warfare is more about hardware than manpower. American casualties in the Pacific Theater of WW2 were only ~100k dead and ~200k wounded.

The US alone would lose in that as well, because its shipbuilding capacity is minimal. But together with South Korea and Japan, it could compete against China on a level ground.
> Nothing to do with it? You certainly don’t mean that. The software running an LLM is causally involved.

Not in the way that would apply problem of non-computability of Turing machine.

> Perhaps you can explain your point in a different way?

LLM is not a logic program finding perfect solution to a problem, it's a statistical model to find next possible word. The model code does not solve a (let's say) NP problem to find solution to a puzzle, the only thing is doing is finding next best possible word through statistical models built on top of neural networks.

This is why I think Gödel's theorem doesn't apply here, as the LLM does not encode strict and correct logical or mathematical theorem, that would be incomplete.

> Related: would you claim that the physics of neurons has nothing to do with human intelligence? Certainly not.

I agree with you, though I had different angle in mind.

> You might be hinting at something else: perhaps different levels of explanation and/or prediction. These topics are covered extensively by many thinkers.
> Such levels of explanation are constructs used by agents to make sense of phenomena. These explanations are not causal; they are interpretative.

Thank you, that's food for thought.
I tried the example site. The way this notion is implemented right now, I don't see a benefit. One can barely see anything in the nodes other than the main one; nor can one distinguish them. TBH, even a tree of notes with titles, with collapse/expand controls, would probably have been more useful in emphasizing what FlakeUI offers.

Verdict: thumb down.

But - perhaps the example is only partial and perhaps this will develop into something more meaningful.
If you just copy the 'savings' table to a spreadsheet and add up the savings, you get to less than 10% of the claimed number.

It's incredibly brazen to proclaim "receipts!" when your own data shows you're being dishonest.
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11x engineer (being 10x is not enough by modern standards).
Ironically, for some roles (more on the people and marketing side), a candidate that managed to convincingly act out a fabricated employment history would be demonstrating the very skills required for the job they're interviewing for.
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In general, many facilities have policies that mean they will not provide references for former employees.

However, lying to people is generally a bad idea, as it can get you in a lot of trouble later in some places. Verification is often still done via employment records, school credit/diploma stamped copies, contract investigators, and psychological profiling.

Some jobs have very invasive screening processes, and will dig into your personal life beyond what most feel is justified. Some places do credit checks, court record searches, family interviews, mental health history checks, and drug tests.

Some people do glean resumes off social media to spoof credentials, but are often ejected from the building in less than a day. On rare occasion, the truly incompetent ended up in court for contract breach.

Crazy people try unethical things all the time... and statistically one will meet a few eventually. Generally, people that shoulder a lot of responsibility do not like getting conned, and get very good at spotting sociopaths. =3
Agree, I've actually seen it done after the offer most frequently - I'm guilty of this too as a hiring manager - the offer always has a mention of background checks being a contingency. It's like buying a house, no point in doing inspections until you have an executed offer that both parties agree to.
"Nuclear Orthodoxy is focused on ensuring that the Holy Spirit is received by Russians, that demons are exorcised from Russia, and that Russia is prepared to maintain the Holy Rus' in preparation of the Second Coming, and that nuclear weapons will defend Russia from the forces of Satan"

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Many compression algorithms are effectively string interning that works on general-purpose binary data and adaptively pick the common substrings that are most repeated and assign them the smallest bit representations. That's why formats like XML and JSON compress so well: all those repeated string keys get stored once and then become sub-byte entries in a lookup table.
In the author's defense - this is probably a prototype, hacked together without trying to optimize performance. You should not judge the idea by its realization's performance at this point in time.
Which PWAs do you use?
Look up teething sticks for toddlers?