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by aresant 2mo ago
Curious if this kimi moment is net growth (jervons paradox - abundance = more consumption) or just people shifting to cheaper model Is there a good source for total token consumption between the various labs / openrouter / etc?
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Intercept Fund – Eliminating respiratory infection(interceptfund.com)
4 points by aresant 3mo ago|1 comments
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by aresant 4mo ago
This is an absolutely classic PR "submarine" effort to reframe the impact of AI Paul Graham has mandatory essay on this - https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html (1) More than 50% of Americans at this point are
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by aresant 4mo ago
That is an absolutely beautiful infographic and should become the standard for time series change!
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by aresant 4mo ago
The context this comment misses is Gamestop's secret weapon is their CEO Ryan Cohen who has been sitting around the hoop trying to figure out how to leverage Gamestop's fundraising capabilities to do something big Couple of highli
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by aresant 5mo ago
The AI data center narrative is the perfect storm: First most of the data center build out is happening in areas that have had little other opportunity so local resistance is muted. Abilene, Texas is referenced and is the kind of place my g
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by aresant 5mo ago
If you enjoyed the Fifth Element absolutely watch Jodorowsky's Dune https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/ On the cover it's a story about the failed production of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune script
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by aresant 6mo ago
Clicked this and was hopeful it was a TSA-line-tracker Anybody have a good solution that's utilizing actual traveler data vs the (non existent atm) TSA data?
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Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up(pixeldust.se)
185 points by aresant 6mo ago|74 comments
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by aresant 7mo ago
Fascinating first principle to thinking about Kalshi 90% of it is sports betting - I assume a lot of their revenue is gambling law regulatory arbitrage atm https://closingline.substack.com/p/the-takeaway-kalshi-non-s...
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by aresant 7mo ago
It's a tech story wrapped in a soap opera wrapped in one of the all time finest soundtracks ever played by an incredible group of actors and written by artists - it is singular! PS - Christopher Cantwell - one of the writers and showru
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by aresant 7mo ago
Really good comment and fair point But mortality credits (pooling) don't solve the math of the discount rate - they add 100 - 150 basis points of reduction so retarget to 5.5% vs 4% if generous So they are still structurally designed w
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by aresant 7mo ago
From first principles public pension funds are broken. The "Safe Withdrawal Rate" assumed by many private individuals planning for their own retirement assumes a withdrawal rate in the 3 - 4% range based on the "trinity study
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by aresant 7mo ago
Top comment of one of the standout Bitcoin-culture memes -> "The best technical analysis anyone has done on bitcoin." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
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Alphabet Q4 Earnings(blog.google)
4 points by aresant 7mo ago|0 comments
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by aresant 10mo ago
Great find and also worth a watch is the Classic Game Postmortem: Fallout video from Fallout creator Tim Cain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2OxO-4YLRk
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by aresant 10mo ago
"Teleoperation makes this even stranger. . . There are people in one country sitting at desks, driving forklifts in another country . . . It feels like immigration without immigrants." This is a fascinating point - if Neo / T
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by aresant 11mo ago
"When I was a kid, science fiction was off in the future somewhere. . . now it’s kind of science fact. . . AI and social media and all these influences are driving progress so quickly, at a pace that I think many of us, as human beings
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by aresant 1y ago
The real "genie is not going back in the bottle" moment is that both sides have decided that power - at any cost - is a valid strategy. And that's very apparent even in this article which leads with the logical fallacy of mor
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by aresant 1y ago
Feels like a mixed bag vs regression? eg - GPT-5 beats GPT-4 on factual recall + reasoning (HeadQA, Medbullets, MedCalc). But then slips on structured queries (EHRSQL), fairness (RaceBias), evidence QA (PubMedQA). Hallucination resistance
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by aresant 1y ago
It's a great / memorable / and tongue-in-cheek name that anybody seriously in the space will instantly get and appreciate.
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by aresant 1y ago
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." UX 101 taught by George Carlin
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by aresant 1y ago
Can’t believe this doesn’t include our friend Pinot who is still churning out unreal MacPaint pixel art https://www.cultofmac.com/news/pinot-w-ichwandardi-flatiron-...
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Palmer Luckey aims to revive tech banking with crypto-friendly 'Erebor' startup(nypost.com)
1 points by aresant 1y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 1y ago
Not sure that's the right way to look at it Premium Telegram users get to try for free, will move to a subscription model Telegram has 12m premium users up from 4m in 2023, and 1b+ users Not unreasonable to think a 5% take rate from ju
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OpenAI's Stargate Megafactory with Sam Altman [video](youtube.com)
2 points by aresant 1y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 1y ago
This is a techcrunch link arbitrage to the actual article if we can update https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/softbank-...
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by aresant 1y ago
"Flurry of activity for everything other than acquiring customers" In 16 years on HN this is one of the best pieces of startup advice I've seen. Default should be 10% of time on MVP and landing page, 90% on distribution until
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by aresant 1y ago
Drooling over PC part reviews in magazines that I could never afford, checking the weekly printed Fry's ad in the local paper to find deals, convincing my parents to drop me at the electronics-nerd-utopia for a lazing weekend afternoon
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Major AI Clusters Now Sit Idle as China Apparently FOMO'd into the AI Bandwagon(wccftech.com)
2 points by aresant 1y ago|0 comments

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