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by jamest 28d ago
Alex (the OpenRouter founder) and I went for walks to Sightglass coffee on Divisadero St during our weekly office hours @ HF0 in the Fall of '23. On one walk I asked 'why are you doing another startup?' For context, his last
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Lying is Best. The Most Honest AI Won Anyway.(kradle.ai)
6 points by jamest 3mo ago|2 comments
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by jamest 4mo ago
I’ve been using this local debugger for the last ~week. Seeing traces in real-time (and Claude seeing them too) is so so good. The velocity speed up is hard to understate. Request for the Raindrop team: I wish your eval support was better.
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Raindrop Workshop: Local OSS agent debugger(github.com)
9 points by jamest 4mo ago|6 comments
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by jamest 5mo ago
They actually deliver on the promise of "relational queries && real-time," which is no small feat. Though, their console feels like it didn't get the love that the rest of the infra / website did. Congrats on the
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Tasklet's 6 year "overnight success"(twitter.com)
2 points by jamest 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jamest 8mo ago
Add a list of people (PMs) who have added feature requests. Have their username be "<username> (<Full Name>) - <karma points>" and then I can click through to see their bio.
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by jamest 10mo ago
It was not on my bingo card to see the Shell Grotto on HN. I loved this place as a kid and would marvel at the patterns. The air of mystery around who made it and why invites some fun speculation.
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by jamest 11mo ago
I don't trust an AI model to operate my computer, but giving me my own VM that AIs can use on my behalf is a brilliant way to do this. Kudos Tasklet.
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by jamest 1y ago
Genie 3 is super impressive -- but you can't manipulate it programmatically like Minecraft. We've built our infra so that we can plug in any simulation environment. If an AI-generated world starts being programmatically modifiable
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by jamest 1y ago
Hi HN - Minecraft has a DSL that lets you manipulate the world. We've piggy-backed on that, along with a K8s infra to run N worlds in parallel, to let you create simulations of arbitrary complexity. We think simulations are the best wa
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by jamest 1y ago
I don't have the prompts, but here you go: - https://the-inference.vercel.app - https://github.com/jamestamplin/instant-test
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by jamest 1y ago
I built an app (HN Clone, of course) with Instant's MCP hooked up to Claude Code. The experience was brilliant. Pros: + Fast + Easy + "Vibe coding on steroids" basically + The sense of 'wow' that comes very rarely w
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by jamest 2y ago
+1 to Shortwave being great
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by jamest 2y ago
[Firebase founder] The thing I'm excited about w/Instant is the quad-fecta of offline + real-time + relational queries + open source. The amount of requests we had for relational queries was off-the-charts (and is a hard engineeri
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PostgreSQL comes to Firebase(firebase.google.com)
32 points by jamest 2y ago|4 comments
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Meet your AI Executive Assistant(shortwave.com)
49 points by jamest 3y ago|21 comments
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by jamest 3y ago
We were talking to (and using the sites) of all our customers of any reasonable size. This was one of them.
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by jamest 3y ago
The satire in the title is reminiscent of how Firebase was born. We were previously working on a chat system called Envolve ( https://www.envolve.com ), that was 'Facebook Chat for any website'. A game that was using us
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Build charitable giving into your app(daffy.org)
21 points by jamest 3y ago|1 comments
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Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail(shortwave.com)
74 points by jamest 4y ago|66 comments
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by jamest 4y ago
Related, but different, & if there's someone at Google looking at this: There was a Titan Bluetooth Key (for 2FA) Vulnerability, you've said you'll replace the affected keys[1], but you're no longer doing so. Which i
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by jamest 4y ago
Fun fact: the original App Engine datastore evolved into Firestore (which now powers Snapchat and many others).
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by jamest 4y ago
Thanks, fixed!
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by jamest 4y ago
[Firebase founder] I no longer work at Firebase / Google, but two points: 1. There may be issues with the GCP integrations & UX/DX, but GCP integration is good for many customers and necessary for the future of the business. O
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by jamest 4y ago
Those words are far too kind! Most of the credit goes to my co-founder, Andrew, and the whole team who gave nothing short of everything to build it.
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by jamest 5y ago
This over-dramatizes a bit. For example some of the “deaths” were consolidations that’s were well implemented: Eg. Fabric’s products were rolled into Firebase with continuity for developers. AngularJS was replaced by Angular.
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by jamest 6y ago
Yes, this falls in the bucket of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) [1] Yes, there's a trend of investors seeking to deploy capital towards ESG (thankfully!) No, this isn't going to gussy up pure-tech with the 'clima
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by jamest 6y ago
Thank you for everything you do, Dan. Many of us spend our precious time here because of you. It is deeply appreciated.
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by jamest 6y ago
I was surprised to see this on HN! A story, if you'll permit... I visited two of Ackerman's caves (Spring Valley and Temple of Doom) in May of 2002. It was a few days shy of high school graduation and summer was starting to arrive

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