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achempion··on Ask HN: How many AI startups are just OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. API calls with a UI?
How many startups are UIs around rsync?
achempion··on What are people using for email?
Just get less email messages
achempion··on Ask HN: Is it ironic that OpenAI says DeepSeek used its work without permission?
Is it ironic that we have a free open-source model (that also shares reasoning chain) from a hedge fund and $200/mo model from a non-profit?
achempion··on DeepSeek could represent Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's worst nightmare
thanks for the explanation, these facts are completely overlooked in mass media in favour of catchy headlines
achempion··on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
Why you think it's stolen when company paid for your time? If the app wasn't successful, would you have considered refunding your salary back to a company?
achempion··on Ask HN: GPT o1 pro users, was it worth the $200/month subscription?
Can you please provide an example? With my experience the code it generates is mediocre at best. It works after a couple of nudges, but the approach to problem is quite average with lots of oversights.
achempion··on Ask HN: AWS Lambda Credible Alternatives?
Have you looked into PaaS, for example, Render: https://render.com/docs/deploy-an-image
achempion··on Ask HN: How do some software engineers "do it all"?
Even when you don't have energy to chase things that you want, you have energy to chase things that you need.
achempion··on New Gemini model significantly outperforms others on Chatbot Arena (LMSYS)
Most of the content they crawl is SEO spam, I'm not sure if it's that helpful for model training
achempion··on The correct amount of ads is zero
The Economist has the same problem, they sell you a subscription and then embed animated ads into the content
achempion··on Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool?
here you go: https://github.com/pulls/review-requested
achempion··on Ask HN: How to Market Before Building?
If you can deliver something that has value, it'll find its way.
achempion··on Ask HN: How do I search the web in the age of enshittified search engines?
Could you provide example search queries that return bad results? My solution is to ask generic stuff from LLMs (and rarely youtube) and read specific on vendor's website. HN search works good as well.
achempion··on Does anyone know how much VC firms contributes to wealth inequality?
Only inadequate taxation rules and state failure to enforce such rules (corruption) contribute to wealth inequality.
achempion··on Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
If you need to force yourself to write, why write at all? Did you use any technique to write this comment?
achempion··on Ask HN: Alternative to Emacs with undo-tree functionality?
Does it support syntax highlighting for modern languages? What about having multiple languages in one file (.tsx or .heex, for example)?
achempion··on Show HN: A challenging, infinite jumping game with lots of bombs
Love the game
achempion··on An idea to make EV charging like refueling
Why EV gas stations are needed at all? Plug during the night and at the any parking spot. Zero time wasted refueling.
achempion··on Startup and Co-Founder Spouse
Would you change your opinion/attitude if it was your spouse?
achempion··on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
I have the same observation as well. The hype is getting generated mostly by people who're selling AI courses or AI-related products.

It works well as a smart documentation search where you can ask follow-up questions or when you know what the output should look like if you see it but can't type it directly from the memory.

For code assistants (aka copilot / cursor), it works if you don't care about the code at all and ok with any solution if it's barely working (I'm ok with such code for my emacs configuration).

achempion··on Ask HN: How to export photos from iPhone to non Mac computers
Can you use iCloud for Windows app?
achempion··on Ask HN: One-man SaaS, how do you attract customers?
That’s right, the product is required in some cases. The plan on how to build relationships with customers is required in all cases. It’s even better if those relationships already exist.
achempion··on Ask HN: One-man SaaS, how do you attract customers?
The main problem is that as software engineers we start with product first and figure out distribution later once we built it. In order to build successful products you need to have an insight into the distribution to win customers, so it makes sense to figure out customer acquisition plan in advance.
achempion··on Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS
You can use docker swarm just for single VPS.

  - install docker 
  - run docker swarm init
  - create yaml that describes your stack (similar to docker-compose)
  - run docker stack deploy
That's basically it. My go-to solution when I need to run some service on single VPS.

If you want to just run a single container, you can also do this with `docker service create image:tag`

achempion··on Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS
This looks amazing, congrats on the release! Really looking forward for the database hosting feature as well (and probably networking and mounting data dirs).

As a side note, any reason why you decided against using docker in swarm mode as it should have all these features already built it?

achempion··on Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups?
did you become a founder?
achempion··on Show HN: Simple Alternative to Complex Project Management for Freelancers
Looks cool, congrats on the launch.

p.s. scrollbars in the column view on the each column are a bit distracting

achempion··on Ideas to make money as solo dev
If you want to make money as a solo dev, the best risk-adjusted way is to find a job or do contracting. You'll build something that actually helps people (== they will pay for your time).
achempion··on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
I built fluent, a chat where all your messages upgraded to the language that you're learning.

https://fluent.im

achempion··on Ask HN: Where can I learn how to get better at code reviews?
What prevents you from doing better code reviews?
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