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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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ugh. yeah. the tragedy of the commons
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Personally kinda pumped for things like this. I dig good smelling stuff, but I'm allergic to so much of it. The stuff at Henry Rose is hypoallergenic and seems to work better for my skin. But nic…
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I've got a half thought about concept that maybe we need a concept like AMP back. I hated AMP. I'm glad it's dead. But you could use it to define things that you were at least advised t…
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I'm actually surprised how much now I'm reaching for Apple Intelligence as a thing to play and build on top of because of its freeness :) I have it summarizing articles for me, a task I thou…
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This brings back all this nostalgia. I used to be all linux everywhere I could. The CD linux loaders on random machines work would make me use with work. Linux distros you'd get in a book from Bo…
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I've been fooling with the Apple Foundation model for AlliHat, so you can chat with it from a Safari sidebar instead of just Claude. It's passible for some basic things like summarizing a pa…
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This makes me nostalgic for platforms like https://unfuddle.com . That was the old days of other providers with subversion and git.
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"how you can so authoritatively state this" => because that is the exact order of events :) A happened. Then B happened. i didn't say A caused B. just like we're all discussing …
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"I think you'll find that taking care of someone" => I know you were writing this generically. And I'm just replying to this for the sake of all of us who do actually know what …
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We probably all have anecdotal evidence here, but my father is a perfect example of being no longer employed and a ton of stuff declining. Yes, cognitively, but a lot of health. We're talking not…
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"online live reloading apps" => trying to get my head around this workflow. so the disk is shared across these? so do you still have the problem of say running a "main" version …
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I only recently realized how much I like using Cloudflare more than AWS :) R2 (their version of S3) is no exception. Much more pleasant figuring out how to use and configure it in Cloudflare than the …
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Do you guys geek out like me about EDC/multitools? Pretty happy with this new mini flagship. Wish Victorinox would iterate/innovate on their stuff like NextTool does. SAK innovation is "…
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Yeah, it's funny how many times I basically made the same damn thing just fine tuning a half inch wider, or seam allowance. I also can't believe how tedious cutting fabric is. Even for a tin…
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Taught myself to use a sewing machine. Then I made my own EDC wallet thing. Basically a zipper pouch that can fit a lot of things while keep them as spread out in my front pocket. I've got a vers…
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Ah. That makes sense. Is this something where you do it once and you are done? Or is it something you re-finetune based on performance or reviews you get back from the client. i.e. Client doesn't…
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the morning after the launch i just randomly went onto their livestream and one of the astronauts was asking mission control for help on also using the gopros and iPhone cameras. i guess they have som…
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Similarly, I feel like book publishers are about to become a thriving business soon again. With any book being most likely just a bot creation, trusting "Random House" sounds like a thing mo…
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Are you asking about the 3 body problem version of this? Spoiler alert: The folks doing the eradicating aren't spending much time/energy/anything on eradicating. It's one large mis…
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i am absolutely on the fence here. I do like the ai cleanup of my rambling can do. but yes, i'm tempted to just leave it rambly, misspelled, etc. i find myself swearing more in my writing, just t…
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sorry. i didn't mean to say that's the only thing this agent is doing is screenshotting. just that it was a thing my agent is doing which has this neat property. i also have a host of other …
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I'm about to launch an agent I made. Got an A+. One big reason it did so well though, right or wrong, is the agent screenshots sites and uses those to interpret what the hell is going on. So obvi…