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I barely use the autocomplete features of Cursor, and for agentic coding, Claude Code blows Cursor Agent out of the water. I don't think Cursor has anything that cannot be replicated in a week or two other than the first mover advantage; certainly not an advantage that cannot be justified at 30B+ valuation.

most likely a finetune of existing model

They haven't built their own editor, they haven't built their own models; what have they actually built?

I expected this to happen. I knew people who were involved in the organization who were unnecessarily chummy to TPOT/Postrat/FTX culture before it blew up.

You made a right decision; The big-world social platforms are doomed to fail, as they have quadratic scaling costs. I am a big proponent of "curation over moderation".

I am working on Mikoto Platforms, which is basically designed to be somewhere between Discord and Notion, but open source + decentralized. There is no global feed; in fact, some users thought it was a bug that it took you to such an empty screen when you first started it. Platforms are what you make of it.

I like the fact that there's less politics - I know that many people might call it censorship or something, but I feel like it does do somewhat to reduce doomscrolling, as it is one of the topics that people are deeply invested about. Still, there's that mix of "A Modest Proposal" style faux-intellectualism (low-effort social conservatism, kneejerk reactions to technology, toxic startup grindset positivity), that I still tend to get sniped by.

For interacting with the people I know, I try to collect Signal/Discord contacts for those who I find valuable enough to talk at a future point, with the end goal of moving all contacts I know to Mikoto Platforms (a messaging platform that I am building).

> It's a single list that everyone sees. No personalization, meaningful customization, recommendations, or notifications. I'm not sure how it can be considered "intentionally addictive."

It doesn't need to be personalized to be addictive, in the same way that tobacco is addictive without personalization.

Yes, and it is addicting as any of the others. I quit Twitter and Bluesky a while ago, locked myself out of my Reddit account, but HN is one of the hardest that I found to rid of.

It's on hey.com domain, which is part of his company.

I'd say Oxide is the exact opposite, in that they have the same base salary but they vary compensation by adjustment of equity

I've been building Mikoto Platforms on https://github.com/mikotoIO/mikoto

check out https://tetr.io

I have an E-3 visa sponsored by my company. I know that it doesn't have a direct path to green card; so anything that I should be doing now at this point for permanent residency?

In Korea, people often have seaweed soup. Seaweed is very high in iodine, so most people in South Korea doesn't use iodized salt.

We did block each other mutually, but the world is a small place, and the algorithm works to ensure that the world is a small place, as you're usually only one or two degrees of separation away.

Bsky does not fix any of the core problems with Twitter. It's still fundamentally a "town square" with algorithmic feeds that keep you engaged. It actively tries to transplant the culture of Twitter to itself, which is something that I don't wish to deal with at all.

I've had a particularly bad breakup with my ex-girlfriend who I met on Twitter (I was the one responsible for the falling out), and I had to delete my Twitter account for two reasons:

1. The open, "town-square" nature of Twitter meant that it was easy to run into each other again, and she was feeling uncomfortable sharing space with me.

2. This was taking a huge toll on my mental health at the time, because just being on Twitter (or any of the many Twitter clones, for that matter) was reminding me of my relationship with her, just because of how the algorithm worked.

I still think Twitter provided value for me as a startup founder, for marketing and networking purposes. But It wasn't really matter of if it provided value or not; Twitter was driving me to death in the most literal sense of the word possible. To choose life, I chose to leave Twitter.

As someone whose startup builds social platforms, I am extremely turned off by the idea of "public square" models for the internet, after these incidents. We shouldn't aim to get everyone into a single feed, where you are given a curated feed, designed to engage you for as long as possible for the whims of advertisers, as opposed to the utility of the users.

I'm building an open source messaging app similar to Discord or Slack, but with the notetaking/wiki capabilities of something like Notion or Confluence integrated. I just finished rewriting it in Rust, and while the new release is somewhat buggy, I feel like it solves many of the problems with Discord being the "black hole of knowledge".

https://alpha.mikoto.io/

https://github.com/mikotoIO/mikoto

Can I self-sponsor an E-3, if I'm the founder of the company, with no other shareholders?

I'm an Australian citizen running a bootstrapped startup (and would prefer to stay bootstrapped, but would raise if there was no other way of immigrating). What is the best way to immigrate to the US? I have a computer science degree from an Australian university.

Really love Bun, I talked about migrating my project to Bun on Twitter, and Jarred found and replied almost immediately!

Location: Brisbane, Australia

Remote: Yes, but only necessary if relocation isn't sponsored

Willing to relocate: Yes, assuming legal sponsorship

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, Go, Java, Kotlin, Lisp, Haskell, Elixir, SQL, React, React Native, Vue, Redux, MobX, PyTorch, Numpy, NodeJS, Express, Socket.io, Unity, Axum/Tower/Tokio, OpenAI API, gRPC/Protocol Buffers,

GitHub: https://github.com/TheCactusBlue

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qGonCL2-c83SxSa6lDmmO_a-XTl...

Email: thecactusblue [at) gmail (dot] com

Hey, I'm a developer with ~4 years of experience. I've worked for Spellbrush, the company behind the Niji Journey AI models, as well as bootstrapping my own startup for building real-time messaging application for communities.

  Location: Australia (Can move to US, can get relevant work permits)
  Remote: Preferred, but not necessary
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: React, TypeScript, Python, C#, Elixir, SQL, Kubernetes
  GitHub: https://github.com/TheCactusBlue
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15L9sNZZHywcOQHH7UYapi0E90kgOXY8f/view?usp=sharing
  Email: thecactusblue [at) gmail (dot] com

There were also some performance issues regarding the read/writes compared to plain PostgreSQL, but these were relatively minor compared to issues with the extensions and tooling

This. Just upgrading this made me (a fresh university grad with minimum savings) basically and my startup "default alive" so that the startup can be bootstrapped

I mean as in what the big (and small) clouds support. I haven't seen any clouds supporting Hashicorp Nomad or Docker Swarm!

I use AI-generated anime girls for article covers because I'm a weeb and it makes the rather-thick wall of text slightly more bearable.

For me, the main benefit of Kubernetes is declarative deployments. You can have the entire deployment automated through this and GitHub actions, without much fiddling with the production environment manually. I know, it's overkill and I don't like it that much either, but it's the industry standard.

GCP is expensive even compared to Amazon and Azure. The only reason I really used it was because it was the cloud that I was used to (when employer was covering for the cost), and I kinda stuck with it.

Probably. But it was only a single command to get up a k3s node - not much difference in effort for a relatively low-workload, low-critical service.