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sarreph
4,026karma·903submissions·July 21, 2013
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I make software, images (sometimes moving), and music.
Today, my focus is on personalizing the internet at Kenobi.ai (YC W22)
Reach me at my name (Rory) and my company’s domain.
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I have to say: Yes, there is a lot of velocity from Cloudflare pushing out AI-adjacent features as of late. But also: What they've doing with Workers et al. has made them a platform for fully-fle…
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As someone who doesn't write Zig (but is hoping to soon!), I'm struck when reading this that the new interface seems much more verbose than the old interface... i.e. 6 LoC vs the previous im…
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> people who are extremely vulnerable to manipulation I think this is a gross over-exaggeration, otherwise dark patterns wouldn't work at the magnitude (majority of the buying population) they…
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What the author is getting at here: > Climbing Mount Everest and getting a PhD are both hard. I wouldn’t say that doing one means you can do the other “no problem.” and here: > Surgeons and elec…
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One of my favourite things to do with AI video pitch creator products is to put a paragraph of text into the first_name / company_name form fields on their "request a demo" function…
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It's interesting to see how — even in the 1880s — people were making the same mistakes as companies today: over-engineering to the point of unmanageable complexity ("complexity bad"[0])…
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https://dozenal.game A daily puzzle game called Dozenal where you solve each puzzle board by creating chains totalling the number 12. My friend and I came up with the idea over a decade …
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Hah :) In my opinion / experience, AI copy is a generally more cumbersome to read and process. So I would assume a company at Series B stage would have a human (with marketing guidelines) go over…
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I'm always hesitant to assert something is definitely AI copy because everyone's tone of voice is different. I'm also starting to wonder how much real, human-made copy is mimicking AI…
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A lot of the copy on this page feels like the kind of copy an AI would produce. But I’m assuming, surely, Zed writes their own copy so I don’t want to accuse them of doing that. Marketing aside, this …
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What are you supposed to do if you get stuck in a lift and you don't have your laptop (or zero cell signal for example)?
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I wanted a scalable, reliable way to run website capture (capturing full MHTML archives) for design research and component research at Kenobi[0]. So I made Breamer , a way to automate this and host e…
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Great to hear, thank you for sharing! Am considering getting one, but holding out until September because they haven't refreshed that particular device in a couple of years... I wasn't inten…
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When I was learning to code at college, by myself (I did a Business degree), I bought a book on iOS development[0]. This book mandated that you type all the examples out line-by-line. I thought the id…
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I've been thinking about getting a Remarkable... Really tough to choose between the Pro, the Pro Move, and the Pure. I would quite like colour (for doodling), and the price point of the Move is s…
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Thank you, jullls -- onboarding is something we're working on making more integrated like that!
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Have you tried Work at a Startup? https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs You can apply for internship roles there (by configuring it in your profile).…
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I'm working on a daily puzzle game called Dozenal with my friend. https://dozenal.game We did a Show HN here in case you'd like to learn more: https://news.ycombinator…
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Thank you!
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Thanks for the suggestion! Chris (who makes the game with me) really wants audio too so perhaps this will be the impetus we needed :)
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Neat! I think we'll be seeing more and more use-cases for creating tools (with AI and powered by AI) to visualise codebases now that we're spending less time "in" them. I made a pr…
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As per sibling comment, I think my "old school" wording is getting misconstrued here. I did mean 20th-century "old school", i.e. typewriters... Is the Late Middle Ages considered &…
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Sure... But overstriking takes more time and effort, which is why "--" was the convention.