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Ninety Percent Done(rishabhegde.substack.com)
2 points by vertoc 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: I built an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) for some friends(rishabhegde.substack.com)
3 points by vertoc 1y ago|0 comments
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by vertoc 1y ago
But even your example gets worse with AI potentially - the "upsell" of his blog isn't paid posts but more subscribers so there will be thankful readers, a few donators, people talking about it. If the only interface becomes a
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by vertoc 1y ago
I think the hard part with these ai models is it’s kind of hard to figure out how many tokens you’re going to use, especially as a new user. 4,000 tokens sounds like a lot for instance, but is tiny
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The sublime minimalism of Stanley brouwn(rishabhegde.substack.com)
1 points by vertoc 1y ago|0 comments
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Why am I so bad at being bad at things?(rishabhegde.substack.com)
2 points by vertoc 2y ago|0 comments
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by vertoc 2y ago
I went to a state school (and not a prestigious one) and I got in ~a year after graduating, I don't think this is super accurate
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by vertoc 3y ago
Personally, I enjoyed Goblin Emperor much more
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by vertoc 3y ago
This sounds like a gpt bot almost exactly?
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by vertoc 5y ago
Looks amazing, great job!
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by vertoc 5y ago
I think Heroku has a right to charge what they're charging but the price is really the only con for Heroku. It definitely isn't the cheapest service out there by miles so if someone could make a Heroku that's cheaper, that wo
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by vertoc 6y ago
Hi HN! Comradery was a startup that I founded and worked on from 2019-2020 before unfortunately deciding to spin it down in the middle of last year (you can read more about why here: https://twitter.com/rishab_hegde/sta
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Show HN: Comradery – an open source community platform(comradery.com)
4 points by vertoc 6y ago|2 comments
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by vertoc 6y ago
As an FYI, most of the newspapers’ dream places/best places to work are bought and paid for by companies’ PR departments - it’s not a meritocratic competition and afaik, they rarely actually conduct polls or ask real employees. At best
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by vertoc 6y ago
Hi HN! Occasionally I get a little overzealous with my music volume and my roommate has to ask me to turn it down so this weekend I built something that lets him to do it remotely! Hopefully this can make WFH a little easier for a few peopl
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Show HN: JerryNeedsQuiet – Let your roommates turn your Spotify volume down(jerryneedsquiet.com)
5 points by vertoc 6y ago|2 comments
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by vertoc 6y ago
Here’s the source! https://github.com/reparadocs/localhostforward
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by vertoc 6y ago
Hi HN! When integrating with some APIs (specifically for auth flows), many will require a callback URL and unfortunately frequently don't allow localhost. This is annoying for local development and usually requires paying for ngrok and
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Show HN: LocalForward – a url that redirects to localhost for use as a callback(localforward.dev)
5 points by vertoc 6y ago|3 comments
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by vertoc 7y ago
Awesome, this will be great for hackathons :D
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by vertoc 7y ago
I know this is sort of a meme reply on this forum but this does remind me of the dropbox comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 ) Peloton comes ready to go out of the box - you don't need to do any research
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by vertoc 7y ago
> Disney+ kicked off the streaming wars. Which is going to be fantastic as a consumer... :( It actually is going to be fantastic as a consumer. Since people are cutting cable and going to Netflix, the money for content has to come from s
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by vertoc 7y ago
Very highly recommend, I did the one in spring/summer of 2018 and it was an awesome experience :)
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Ask HN: What’s the story about a challenge to get someone to edit a GitHub repo?
1 points by vertoc 7y ago|0 comments
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by vertoc 7y ago
I'm on neither side of this debate, but citing how much Bitcoin is worth seems like a really weak argument in favor of traction. I think a more convincing argument would be citing # of transactions or use cases (store of value, cheaper
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by vertoc 7y ago
Related good read: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/16/against-against-pseudo...
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by vertoc 7y ago
Right but to fully understand what's going on you need to also visualize the physics in a 3D world - just dots and lines and squares wouldn't fully show what's going on. This may be close to the simplest visualization that ma
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by vertoc 7y ago
Yeah but Stripe doesn’t get to keep most of those fees - it’s mostly interchange which goes to Visa which is then distributed to the issuing bank of the credit card
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by vertoc 7y ago
My guess is that Brex is more geared towards Silicon Valley VC funded startups - they look at how much money you have in your bank when setting your credit limit (it’s essentially a charge card if I’m using the terminology right - your cred
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by vertoc 7y ago
All your points are true - but I think using the API to essentially just create a “better front end” for Goodreads would be the the new idea here because of that momentum. You wouldn’t need to add your books or friends on this new app, you

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