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swyx
24,260karma·6,031submissions·December 9, 2015
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Writer/Angel in devtools and smol AI enjoyer.
ai engineer pod/news: https://latent.space/
conference: https://ai.engineer
devrel/devtools: https://dx.tips/
personal blog: https://swyx.io/ideas
book: https://learninpublic.org/
but you can also email username [at] ai dot engineer
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then you dont deal in high enough email volume
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very nice and well executed product for what i assume is a small team! (of one?) i guess the obvious question is... if its FOSS and local only, whats the business game plan? you've impressed me t…
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what i'm hearing is i need to watch this show, it might be the new Silicon Valley
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google stock is $376 a share rn. berkshire got a favorable discount here. is this... normal? they didnt have an obligation to offer it to the market to find the best price?
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i like how Dave2D came from a nobody to the top cited reviewer here
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i dislike your dismissal, i thought it was well written and researched, and did not equivocate but still gave higgsfield a quote in their own words. if you cant get past superficial writing pattern ma…
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also colah was invited by the literal pope to his encyclical https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclica... …
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also useful to have a "chinese wall" between research that knows what went into the models vs marketing/eval models as a third party would
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hey drew! fwiw it was actually NOT criticism of dropbox specifically - ive worked at and also run a company where this is the case - but for our smaller scale it is because we have support overwhelm a…
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> Sadly, that zero-hop setup requires a sophisticated client execution engine, which it doesn’t appear Cloudflare has implemented here. Makes sense for their memory constrained workers, less sense …
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i see @btown's comment below but also just for education about this space: - anyone have comments/comparisons about launchdarkly vs posthog vs statsig (is it still alive after openai?) vs __…
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only 2 hard problems in computer science...
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sad that going viral on social media is the only functional support system for many tech companies. good luck hope you get your mom's stuff.
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related preprint from the letta team https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13171 Scaling test-time compute has emerged as a key ingredient for enabling large language models (LLMs) to solve…
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> I haven’t started work yet. spooky action at a distance
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i did a bit of work on netlifycms, and am a bit disappointed that decapcms's website doesnt seem to acknowledge that history.
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> fills a niche theres a lot of git based CMSes out there. what is the niche you perceive? (not being critical just want to see what you see)
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as with many things, we say we like decentralization but quietly vote for centralization
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i wonder if DID or World (various ways of Proof of Human) can help solve this issue.
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i mean even google and aws are not without sin on this one. maybe wait for an RCA before punching someone who is currently down. theres a reason classy people do "hugops" when a competitor g…
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how does this work exactly? do i use that string for other links or how do i change it?
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why is this a HN worthy post?
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> leading researchers won't work for you unless they're able to publish oh, honey.
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how exactly was it incompatible and why do you thikn you know better