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Tech founder reimagining making learning+video personal.

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j45··on Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
Time isn’t money, money is time.

Money that doesn’t need to be spent is freedom of time.

j45··on Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line
I recall seeing some that were offered in Asia but might not be elsewhere.

It looked like an office desk phone but instead of Ethernet, a SIM card goes only. Some came with a cordless handset with it too. seeing

j45··on Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line
I believe there are VOIP phones that are sim card based. Imagine a country that doesn't have land lines but folks want a home phone.
j45··on Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line
Probably for a while - lots of IoT uses it, especially with the push away from 3G.
j45··on OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
I thought I had finished my sentence - the companies have different GTM, and maybe different trust/experience.
j45··on Casio Watches of the 1980s
This site is a great flex in innovation over decades.
j45··on OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
Claude may have captured a different mindshare of the past year who tried AI before and it didn't work.

The more people see AI is still just software (albeit a different kind), the more they will remember to instead start with where/how it works.

j45··on OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
I agree with this.

ChatGPT and Claude are differently operating and behaving products in the same space.

One is a little better/ different at considering the web, and the other is a juggernaut at sentences and reading in between / connecting the lines.

I'm also pretty proud, first flagged post ever for saying the obvious that they're two different companies.

They have different approaches to the tools they're providing. That fits people differently.

j45··on OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
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j45··on Pico CSS is no longer maintained
Standardization is valuable.
j45··on Pico CSS is no longer maintained
Respectfully it's up to the maintainer who decides where they think it shoudl go.

After I read the same I thought, ok, that's what _they_ wanted to do.

Me? I'd love to see what could be rewritten to be 100% future proofed for as many years as possible. But see what that did? I have to share, and see if anyone else already thought of this (I doubt I'm the first ever to have this thought), and maybe, I'll be lucky enough to benefit from someone exploring it already, before I decide to put on a jedi robe and wave my hands to use the force to move AI around.

j45··on Pico CSS is no longer maintained
Pico is a great little library.

Thank you to the developer and maintainer

For what it’s worth I had to force Claude early in to use pico and not ever generate react or ornate tailwind.

Pico is extraordinary for standalone tools where ai can’t let complexity build out of control.

Maybe there’s other options but pico is what got it done, and vanilla LLMs has a hard time keeping something this simple and elegant and flexible.

j45··on Patrick Stewart has died
RIP
j45··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
It may or may. not try to convince anything.

Often when we use a search engine, we're trying to piece together something that might be across multiple links, or a single link

j45··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
Google's AI search is different because they have the history of what right, and quality looks like, it's not just the most common webpages.
j45··on For the first time ever, Google Search is less than 50% of Alphabet's revenue
It's not about whether it moves on or not.

Google ranked the best results, not the most commonly occurring ones.

AI is by default returning the highest statistical percentage of what it thinks you are looking for in a response, which may or may not be a search result.

A fun example is having the AI run a search, and comparing it to perplexity, or even gemini a little. OpenAI is improving, and Claude is pretty consistently not made for comprehensive search.

j45··on For the first time ever, Google Search is less than 50% of Alphabet's revenue
Search is not analysis like you're describing.
j45··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
It seems this way - however, it's not.

Google's organic search results are ranked by quality (including how many people click on them).

AI, generally thinks the best result is what's most common, or average, resulting in decent results, but not the best for what you're looking for.

We notice it when we're looking for a level of specificity google can hit, compared to an ai model. It's why Google's AI search can hit a bit differen too.

The example that comes to top of mind is a search that is not made for search rarely can compare to something as well as Perplexity.

j45··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
AI can definitely be a more natural experience for search, but it doesn't return better search results.
j45··on Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers
Wild, I hope the challenge on HN didn't contribute to this.
j45··on DoorDash to acquire Instacart
I didn't realize DoorDash was so big.

Instacart has it's own unique offerings and propositions, hopefully those don't dissapear, they were invaluable during the pandemic.

j45··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
It's hard to imagine some times, but a lot of places in their own ways outside of North America are in the future.
j45··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
Appreciate the breakdown.

It's totally wild that there isn't an interactive script/check already built to test, detect, and run the solution on all fronts.

j45··on I've used WordPress for 20 years, and I've stopped recommending it
After seeing the alternative creative suite... I'm not so sure I can doubt it anymore.

Imagine the backwards compatibility.

j45··on Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
Maybe someone will vibecode a replacement.
j45··on I've used WordPress for 20 years, and I've stopped recommending it
Personally I can't wait for Wordpress to be revibecoded by super experienced devs.
j45··on Anthropic S-1
That's a fair way to think about it.

Most technologies seemed doom and gloom, and also have absorbed existing jobs for new ones, and current LLMs as AI is a bigger sponge than usual.

j45··on Is my data used for model training?
Interesting idea - I'm not sure if there's enough reliability that another LLM would reliably answer the same way over time since it's non-deterministic.
j45··on Is my data used for model training?
Just because you can't imagine a scenario doesn't mean one doesn't exist, or couldn't exist.

That's a pretty risky way to build blind spots and it's worth learning more about this.

When you make the product work with your words, you're doing the training and improvements to get it to that line as a pattern which then lets models "improve" from your corrections.

j45··on Is my data used for model training?
How would they know when to bring it up?

A determination of it has to be made some way beyond looking for frustrated or angry keywords.

If there was direct transparency regarding this it would be great vs digging into it on our own.

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