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by mdwelsh 1mo ago
Man! I’m disappointed this article didn’t mention the coolest .plan hack of all time: you could link your .plan file to a named socket so whenever someone fingered you, an arbitrary program would run that spat out whatever output it wanted
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by mdwelsh 1mo ago
This article resonated tremendously with me, speaking as someone who has been coding since the 1980s and had to develop my own taste the hard way, through lots and lots of mistakes. Whenever I see a software demo built by someone mostly usi
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Show HN: Podverse – AI Superpowers for Podcasters
4 points by mdwelsh 2y ago|1 comments
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Tell HN: Restack.io is spamming the web with bogus technical content
4 points by mdwelsh 2y ago|1 comments
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by mdwelsh 2y ago
Whoa! Cool. I didn't see that earlier - nice.
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by mdwelsh 2y ago
These look great. The page says "Thousands of designers, developers, and content creators use HugeIcons Pro". Is this accurate? The project seems to have only about 493 downloads a week on NPM, and 194 GitHub stars. I would have e
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by mdwelsh 2y ago
This looks cool! Your website really should feature a couple of sample videos, though, since without finding the links in your post here it is hard to tell what the final results look like.
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Show HN: Real-time AI voice chat with Santa(hisanta.ai)
8 points by mdwelsh 3y ago|4 comments
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by mdwelsh 3y ago
Hey HN - I'm a co-founder at Fixie, a Seattle-based AI startup. We're launching an experiment to showcase what's possible with Fixie's real-time LLM-powered voice platform. You can check it out at https://hisa
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by mdwelsh 3y ago
I’m no fan of the WEI proposal, but the headline here is inaccurate. Rick expressed a belief that criminals were amongst those voicing concern over the proposal, not claiming that all opponents are criminals, as the headline suggests.
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by mdwelsh 4y ago
I have deployed similar-looking devices in places like volcanoes in Ecuador. On each of these boxes we put a prominent message in Spanish and English: "This is sensitive research equipment, please do not touch" with contact inform
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by mdwelsh 4y ago
OP here. Thanks for the kind words. I certainly didn't feel like this was an easy raise, but then again it's the only time I've done this and my comparison points were other first-time founders who raised 2x what we did with
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by mdwelsh 5y ago
OctoML | Multiple Positions | Remote, Seattle, or Bay Area | Full-time | https://www.octoml.ai/ OctoML is changing how developers optimize and deploy machine learning models. We are the creators of Apache TVM, a popular ope
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by mdwelsh 5y ago
Long-time former Googler here, author of go/l6talk (internal presentation on getting promoted to L6). While there I coached a lot of people on the L5-to-L6 promotion process. It seems a lot of Googlers get disillusioned about getting p
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by mdwelsh 5y ago
I bought a Klein Bottle from Cliff Stoll's website after seeing this video. Not only did he immediately pack it up and send it (very carefully packaged!), he sent along photos of the process, some glamor shots of the Klein bottle in hi
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Show HN: I wrote a website in 6502 assembly(mdw.la)
20 points by mdwelsh 5y ago|1 comments
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by mdwelsh 5y ago
I was head of the Blimp team at Google and could tell you exactly what happened, although it’s probably not something I can discuss too much publicly. Great project, great team, turned out to be very hard and involved making major changes t
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by mdwelsh 6y ago
I used to work at Google, as an engineering director on the Chrome Mobile team. While I agree that the UX of many Google products needs fixing, it's not just a simple matter of "Google, you are made out of money. Fix your fucking
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by mdwelsh 6y ago
OctoML.ai | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | Seattle, WA or REMOTE https://octoml.ai/#op-398625-senior-platform-engineer OctoML is developing technology to compile and optimize Deep Learning models for deployment on a
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by mdwelsh 11y ago
This is so completely wrong. The most exciting work happening in systems, networking, programming languages, crypto, computer architecture, mobile, and many other subfields of computer science is highly relevant to industry and very inter
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by mdwelsh 11y ago
I was originally going to list examples of bad industry-focused science in the original post, but decided against it, since I didn't want to offend anyone. Your username is "gradstudent", suggesting you have read a few papers
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by mdwelsh 11y ago
Well, the whole point of my post is to give some tips on how not to.
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by mdwelsh 11y ago
Bullshit.
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by mdwelsh 11y ago
I'm not sure if you read the original article or not, but I very clearly point out the benefit of long-range research in addition to things more directly relevant to industry. So I don't agree with the premise of your criticism.
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by mdwelsh 11y ago
Just like it's not fair for me to conflate all of academia together in my post, it's difficult to lump all of industry together. Places like Google have a pretty good track record of leveraging the latest innovations from academia
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by mdwelsh 11y ago
No, I mean incorrect assumptions. It doesn't matter if we're talking research in industry or academia; doing research based on flawed (not simplifying) assumptions is bad science.
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by mdwelsh 11y ago
I'm sorry, but I think this perspective is fairly naive and ignores the reality of how applied science and engineering work in universities today. You're talking about 17th century scientists, but the reality is that in the middle
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by mdwelsh 11y ago
Nobody needs multihop routing protocols. Show me one instance in which they have been useful, despite 20+ years of academic work in the area.
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by mdwelsh 11y ago
I don't agree with this at all. The partnership between industry and academia is long-standing and has proven to be extremely valuable -- much of the Internet came about because of it.
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by mdwelsh 11y ago
See my reply above - I'm all for industry opening up where possible, and a lot of stuff gets open sourced these days (hell, didn't Facebook even open source its data center designs?). Opening up technology doesn't necessarily

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