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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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ha. speaking of the devil. for the "curse of knowledge" mention i made above i had a link that google served me up to a post that was totally rotten now. so i went back in to include the wik…
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A couple other versions of this that have always stood out to me: 1) There's always a new cohort of people that don't know the things you know. You assume since you know it, everyone does. B…
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yeah. exactly. they have these "self-hosted sandboxes" which seems to be the unlock we'd need. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/self-hos…
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Is this still using Claude Web sessions? Also, has anyone used Claude Web environments to do anything besides stuff with repo access? Like running real environments? SSHing into anything more super po…
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ah. techcrunch must have alluded to you not having milkbones https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/apple-plans-to-change-its-... …
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I guess I'll go back to mailinator. That thing has 100s of aliases by the way for some that don't use that yet. Great service. Not guaranteed private really so don't depend on it for th…
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Not sure I follow. I wasn't talking about local LLMs. I'm trying to identify how folks are managing their employees using essentially Claude Code local vs Claude Code web. The web seems to b…
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Ugh. It really is. I have allihat.com which is the only safari extension (i think still) that talks to claude. And it's well sought for. But you as a user have to enter a friggin claude api key. …
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Coincidentally and somewhat relatedly... I just saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe4nUZqX9Ec Roald Dahl predicted AI slop. and even coined "slop" in 1954!?…
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Stuart Smalley (snl) must have written it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMRX-Wj2WOk
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I feel like this is just the start. There's going to be more and more legislation on the major LLMs to do this in their surface areas.
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That's why I reached for Apples own local LLM to fool with similar ideas like this: https://pageforth.com . Apple is better than I expected at this. Right now it filters through things…
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It's funny the convos I now have with Sonnet that I wasn't having with Opus. I feel like most of us here are starting to be told to draw down some of our 1M Opus xtrahigh thinking tokens :) …
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The small stuff has their place. I have this safari extension and needed a way to quickly title people's chat histories. Haiku is the fast cheap thing to come up with decent titles of blocks of t…
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This makes me wonder if the LLM labs/Perplexities can figure out with CNN a proper revenue share model. I keep writing about this but it feels like we need something like AMP back (i hated AMP). …
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I just had a maddening convo with Amazon's AI https://share.zight.com/o0udw54W (i had mentioned before that in 5 minutes it would be time to get my refund according to some other…
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this is why I feel like we need some kind of "consortium" or government effort to be like "yo, llms, you need to honor some kind of source markup to give us people you mention more sign…