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sixhobbits

7,545karma·1,281submissions·January 21, 2016
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https://dwyer.co.za | https://twitter.com/sixhobbits | github.com/sixhobbits

Building https://ritza.co. Technical publishing for your company. gareth@ritza.co

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Afaik, Nasdaq removed the seasoning rules to include it from the start, S&P would usually be only a year after IPO but they are also discussing changes
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"genuinely" is an AI tell now as well as doing things in physical world that don't make sense like walking to the car wash to wash your car if it's close, or maybe not using USB po…
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This means that third-party tools built on the Agent SDK like Conductor and OpenClaw work with your Claude plan, but will draw from your credit the same way your own scripts do. Monthly credit amounts…
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fwiw I've had my site on front page hn a couple of times. It is a completely unoptimized hetzner server running nginx and serving HTML. computers are _fast_ these days, you're more likely to…
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Not really, even "legit" marketing providers have massive automation rigs to warm email addresses, make them behave naturally and email each other in rings for a bit before using them for co…
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This kinda thing makes me sad that keybase sold out to zoom and wonder if it can be resurrected. It was such a simple web of trust that went viral enough that I still occasionally see it on HN or Twit…
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I guess we finally know now https://halupedia.com/vim-is-better-than-emacs
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I've been to several European Network cinemas and always gotten reserved seats
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I've had completely the opposite experience at Ritza, my dev rel agency, for the last 5 years. My favourite is to work directly with owners, cofounders, etc. They know what they want, and they ha…
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From my non objective, not looking but I try to stay as informed as possible across South Africa, Europe, US perspective and regularly talk to people on both sides and ask them directly - it's no…
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I reproduced this and then tried myself and got: --- This one's trickier — it doesn't have the same crisp metaphor-driven structure as the Lynch piece. The voice here is more conversational,…
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Interestingly probably also soon true of reddit where this is posted, in the last few days they've been showing a "get the app to continue browsing" on the mobile site. It's possib…
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Looks nice, but also the website is really nicely done. How did you make the animations?
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ah I see it needs a space. I tried ```[ENTER] and ```python[ENTER] and I also assumed there was no code highlighting but I see after I add a code block I can select the language through the UI ```[SPA…
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Try pi coding agent!
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I know people don't like Twitter links here but the main link just goes to their main docs site generic 'getting started' page. The website now has a link to the announcement on Twitter…
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I tried it and it looks really nice but like most of these it has too many small editing thorns for me to use. Two I noticed right away - ctrl-a works to go to start of line but for some reason ctrl-e…
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The bad ones seem like this, the scary part is not knowing if there are good ones
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Investment is done by relationships, belief in a future vision and team, and growth metrics like number of paying customers. The technology itself in its current form is not valuable
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Seems like pro-openclaw arguments dressed up as anti ones. Author remembers MS DOS for a reason. I have similar concerns and somehow think openclaw will not be remembered in 30 years time so the compa…
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I (my agents) have been playing with the kalshi and poly market APIsv and whatever your opinion on the markets themselves it does feel like there's a bunch of interesting things to do with such a…
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I tried it out with my normal mixed-up wolf, goat, cabbage problem and it couldn't solve it. Sonnet 4.6 also can't, but Opus 4.7 has no problems. Details here [0] [0] https://tech…
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I'm not a microsoft fan at all but European governments have tried to get away from it a few times and I don't think it's ever been very successful. People are familiar with Microsoft, …
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Personalized medical treatment looks like the most promising candidate so far, would that do it for you?
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