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govideoon Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number

yep re blizzard. they've gotten lots better since the msft acquisition, based on my (limited) experiences with the newer employees there.

govideoon Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents

Cool product. I see the need. Many vendors might look like they have similar capabilities on a powerpoint, but when you look one level deeper, they really don't. Eg, webhook notifications at 1 minute intervals with one big json of multiple emails, vs continuous/instant/single.

btw, would love to hear stories of you journey thus far. fwiw, I think you're really onto smtg!

govideoon Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent

ML first, then Bio and Data. Of course, interconnectedness runs high (eg just read about ML for non-random missingness in med records) and that data is the foundational bottleneck/need across the board.

Interesting anecdote abt Stanford doctors annotating QA question!

Each of your comments get my mind going... I'm going to think about them more and may ping you on other channels, per your profile. Thanks!

govideoon Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent

I'd love to hear more of our thoughts re open questions in biomedical ML. You sound like you have a crisp, nuanced grasp the landscape, which is rare. That would be very helpful to me, as an undergrad in CS (with bio) trying to crystalize research to pursue in bio/ML/GenAI.

Thank you.

govideoon Ask HN: Writings that you'd like to share but haven't

Wow, you sound like a mega voracious reader, to put it lightly. And prolific writer too.

Have you posted even just snippets (or a favorite sentence or graf), or perhaps pseudo/anonymously, anywhere?

It literally hurts my heart when personal, creative expression is stifled or not given a chance to grace our greater world.

govideoon Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

Thanks for everyone's perspectives. Very educational and admittedly lots outside the boundaries of my current knowledge. I have thus far relied on CloudFlare's automatic https and simple instant subdomain setup for their worker microservice I'm using.

There are evidently technical/footprint implications of that convenience. Fortunately, I'm not really concerned with the subdomain being publicly known; was more curious how it become publicly known.

govideoon Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

I have been just relying on CloudFlare's automatic https. But I will look into my own certs, though will likely just use CloudFlare's. I don't mind the internet knowing the subdomain I posted about; was curious how the bots found it!

govideoon Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

I'm so often amazed (but no longer surprised) at the depth of niche (relatively) info and tools out there.

govideoon Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

Thanks for mentioning. I checked it out, and am learning lots of new stuff (ie, realize how much I do not know).

govideoon Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

Interesting! Just checked them out.

"MerkleMap gathers its information by continuously monitoring and live tailing Certificate Transparency (CT) logs, which are operated by organizations like Google, Cloudflare, and Let's Encrypt. "

govideoon Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

If it does, I did not set it up; it would have been automatically done by CloudFlare when I told it to use my custom subdomain for the upload urls.

govideoon Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

Nope, never emailed or posted to anyone. Just me (it's my solo project at the moment).

govideoon Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

Ahh yeah, my internet network knowledge was never super strong, and now is rusty to boot. Thanks for your note.

govideoon Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

Yes, https via cloudflare's automatic https. Thanks for the info.

govideoon Announcing the data.gov archive

From the post: Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use.

govideoon Think your dog can understand words? This scientist says you might be right

Reminds me of when I was in 3rd grade, I told my teacher that some birds (parrots) can really understand words.

He flat out laughed at me in front of the whole class, and said No Way. I quietly disagreed with him.

When I got home, I told the story to my bird :)

govideoon Pre-hype DeepSeek Liang Wenfeng profile/philosophy

https://archive.is/P4TxW

Based on interviews/info, before all heck broke loose. Some very interesting insights into his mindset.

Eg, When DeepSeek undercut its Chinese competition last year by offering its model at bargain prices, forcing larger rivals into their own price cuts, Mr. Liang dismissed the significance. “To be honest, we didn’t really care — it was just something we did along the way,” he said in a widely shared interview with 36Kr, a Chinese tech outlet. “Providing cloud services is not our main goal. Our aim is still to achieve A.G.I.”

govideoon Another (new?) free open model to try this weekend

I didn't see any previous posts about the public facing website. Sorry if it's old news.

I'm pretty toast right now from trying to catch up on DeepSeek. Plus, I don't have the expertise, frankly. I welcome the thoughts from the many, many people more knowledgeable than I am.

govideoon DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

What do you mean? I was referring to just the chain of thought you see when the "DeepThink (R1)" button is enabled. As someone who LOVES learning (as many of you too), R1 chain of thought is an infinite candy store.

govideoon Emerging Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning

Did you read the paper? What do you think based on the methodology and details in the paper?

btw, I think this is a net major benefit for the US startup ecosystem -- from new model developers to applications.

Edit: Stevvo - Thanks for your info.

govideoon DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

Interesting insight/possibility. I did see some capacity glitches with my Cursor recently. Overall, I like Anthropic (and ChatGPT); hopefully they continue to succeed.

govideoon DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

Let me qualify your statement... CapEx is what EXISTING US firms were/are lining up to battle with.

With R1 as inspiration/imperative, many new US startups will emerge who will be very strong. Can you feel a bunch of talent in limbo startups pivoting/re-energized now?

govideoon DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

Can you tell me more about how Claude Sonnet went bad for you? I've been using the free version pretty happily, and felt I was about to upgrade to paid any day now (well, at least before the new DeepSeek).

govideoon DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

The chain of thought is super useful in so many ways, helping me: (1) learn, way beyond the final answer itself, (2) refine my prompt, whether factually or stylistically, (3) understand or determine my confidence in the answer.

govideoon Ask HN: Did Google/Alphabet ever try to build a Starlink?

Nikesh was a telco guy, too. But I was referring to Patrick Pichette, Goog CFO. Before Google, Patrick was at Bell Canada, as President of Operations and CFO.

Agree with your sentiment about Musk shipping.

govideoon Ask HN: Did Google/Alphabet ever try to build a Starlink?

I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.

govideoon Ask HN: Did Google/Alphabet ever try to build a Starlink?

Interesting! Sorry it was cancelled, and hopefully you ended up well in any case.

Would have been such a galactic halo for the Google brand. Not sure how the financial spreadsheets looked, but those don't do well in accurately quantifying brand value.

govideoon Ask HN: Did Google/Alphabet ever try to build a Starlink?

your comments remind me of some related, potential factors. I was at Google in the early aughts... definitely had some mega futuristics visions (including later with moonshot).

But their CFO (excellent, loved by everyone) had major traditional telco background, so GoogleFi was natural idea, despite it's limited market traction. And you are right -- Google dominant mindset was "ad supported" everything.

Separately, Musk of course was physics major. Google 99% CS. So mindsets and ideas vary (with plenty of overlap too)

govideoon Introducing Initialized Capital

VC tweets is also a great signal. Not perfect, but great. You can most tweeted startups every week here: https://chartups.com/topstartups/