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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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Discussed here (2 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177785
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Pete Koomen wrote about this phenomenon (“horseless carriages” instead of “steam horses”) here: https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/ …
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I think this is one of the key takes right now. I too have similar experience. Which way is it going to go? i) “Seniors” also get superseded by even more capable models that can do all of the things w…
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I guess that argument can go on forever though -- how do we know if _anyone_ is doing the right thing they're "supposed" to be doing / disrupting?
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It is a pity that you can't make an experimental commit on an experimental branch without igniting a fire of delirium through some people who -- if they were able to put their emotional response …
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I've been working on an adjacent problem (extracting website branding data from a URL) for the past year, and previously had to rely on procedural techniques such as these -- props to the author!…
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The bakery example is interesting, because it's presented as "both sides have been working on this thing and think they should get 50%"... and then the _solution_ is "A path back t…
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> This looks bad for Microsoft. Maybe(?) from a product catalogue perspective... But from a strategic perspective less so because they own ~27% of OpenAI.[0] [0] - https://openai.com…
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The irony.
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I am fed up of getting gaslit by coding assistants. "Your AI agent says it's done." really is a problem! Nice packaging here. I built something similar[0] a few months ago but haven…
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“Health conscious” !== vegan, vegetarian
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You did such a good job of listing out reasons why niche demographics would skip a meat-free burger, without listing the actual core demographic who consumes them: Vegans and vegetarians, i.e. people …
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When I saw this comment before loading the article, I thought “this is probably the New Yorker”. I think they produce the best visuals across all the online publications.
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> They were rare, and special, and you'd have a few photos per YEAR to look back on. Um yeah I don't know. I fully resonate with the _emotional_ appeal here, but realistically I remember …
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It's reasonably clear from the second sentence in the post that the uptick in submissions can be largely attributed to AI-assisted projects. > The post quickly disappeared from Show HN's …
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Those attempting to discredit the value of OpenClaw by virtue of it being easily replicable or simple are missing the point. This was, like most successful entrepreneurial endeavours, a distribution p…
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We are slowly (re-)discovering the various bits and pieces that make up our system prompt.
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Surely it's a typo and they meant "sustainable"? Otherwise IMO such an odd word choice. Definition: >> providing physical or mental strength or support
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I recall comments about this last week on the BBC website where people made the points that: 1. Surely the long term plan is to not keep these relics in a gargantuan warehouse but instead to put them …
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How would you prove that?
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I really don't think this should be a registry-level issue. As in, the friction shouldn't be introduced into _publishing_ workflows, it should be introduced into _subscription_ workflows whe…
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We’re heading to sleep as we’re on London time! Thanks to everyone who commented & for providing feedback. It’s been immensely useful to hear everyone’s perspectives. Please reach out to us if you…
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You shouldn't be(!) We have a very high bar set up to be met to be considered bot traffic. Sometimes we are at the behest of the model providers and there's way more latency + even timeouts …
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We get asked this a fair amount and the way we’re strategising on it is to build more opportunities for the site owners to define context as part of the broad site research that goes into creating the…
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If you would be willing to give us another chance please email product@kenobi.ai with the site you used and we can get the research context that it generated fixed! (This has been a bit of an issue fo…
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