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johnpaulkiser··on Does Georgism work? Five years later
> Anybody could have bought it.

People that were not alive could not have bought it.

johnpaulkiser··on Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
Yeah the auth angle and unobtrusive integration path seems like the real neat thing here. From your customers eyes its just another user account right?

Is that a requirement to integrate it? your app has to essentially have "teams" or at least shared resources?

johnpaulkiser··on Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
Not to mention the market is tiny, a few thousand seats at most.
johnpaulkiser··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
willingness to stand in line for a ticket probably correlates well with fandom
johnpaulkiser··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
I think its more complicated than that. An artist is pretty constrained by how many shows they can play in a given area which makes the total market for any given show really small and trivially manipulated for profit.
johnpaulkiser··on Toxicity on Social Media
I think tweaking section 230 in the US would have a similar effect. Make corporations liable for posts that they algorithmically amplify. The "discovery" algorithms would become banal overnight without an outright ban.
johnpaulkiser··on We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is
Oh, I thought the purpose was to to build a "copy this saas" app?

You give the agent a URL it records itself going through UX flows, give that video to a coding agent and you have quite a feature.

johnpaulkiser··on The Codex App
interestingly opencode's first product was an IaC platform... seems to be where this is all going.
johnpaulkiser··on The death of software development
Why not just share a video of the "bloomberg terminal" clone he prompted in 2 hours?
johnpaulkiser··on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
How big were the lots? How far of a walk was the closest bar, grocery store, cafe? Do you have to walk onto someone's property to talk to them if they are sitting on the porch?

I lived in a car dependent burb for 20+ years and would rarely, if ever, run into my neighbors out on the town. Living in a walkable neighborhood in a medium-low density city for under a year and I regularly run into my neighbors.

johnpaulkiser··on Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
This sounds like a stop loss? Are they losing money per token even through the api?
johnpaulkiser··on AI is a business model stress test
There will be no royalties, simply make all the models that trained on the public internet also be required to be public.

This won't help tailwind in this case, but it'll change the answer to "Should I publish this thing free online?" from "No, because a few AI companies are going to exclusively benefit from it" to "Yes, I want to contribute to the corpus of human knowledge."

johnpaulkiser··on AI is a business model stress test
> if you train your model on this, your weights and training code must be published.

This feels like the simplest & best single regulation that can be applied in this industry.

johnpaulkiser··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
Tailwind should have bought shadcn and started pushing a better subscription model. Shadcn & vercel ate tailwind's lunch imo.
johnpaulkiser··on "Vibe coder" on X claims SaaS makes $60k while app is trivially insecure
Even if he did make the money he claims, he is selling the idea that "you too can make money by exposing all your users private info."
johnpaulkiser··on "Vibe coder" on X claims SaaS makes $60k while app is trivially insecure
I'm getting sick and tired of people on Twitter/X making wild claims that they can build a profitable app with 100% vibe coding so I started poking around and can almost always find a business destroying vulnerability.

In this case it was a user claiming their app is doing $60k MRR while, get this, building a vibe coding management platform & boilerplate. Quite the house of cards.

johnpaulkiser··on This website is for humans
Soon with little help at all for static sites like this. Had chatgpt "recreate" the background image from a screenshot of the site using it's image generator, then had "agent mode" create a linktree style "version" of the site and publish it all without assistance.

https://f7c5b8fb.cozy.space/

johnpaulkiser··on This website is for humans
I'm building a sort of "neocities" like thing for LLMs and humans alike. It uses git-like content addressability so forking and remix a website is trivial. Although i haven't built those frontend features yet. You can currently only create a detached commit. You can use without an account (we'll see if i regret this) by just uploading the files & clicking publish.

https://cozy.space

Even chatgpt can publish a webpage! Select agent mode and paste in a prompt like this:

"Create a linktree style single static index.html webpage for "Elon Musk", then use the browser & go to https://cozy.space and upload the site, click publish by itself, proceed to view the unclaim website and return the full URL"

Edit: here is what chatgpt one shotted with the above prompt https://893af5fa.cozy.space/

johnpaulkiser··on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack
You get all the money from the block rewards for those blocks if you reorg other miners blocks out.
johnpaulkiser··on Claude Code weekly rate limits
I doubts thats what they want. They want a static fixed price, $5k a month for example and never have to think about it.
johnpaulkiser··on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
Are you saying "see the world?" or "seaworld"?
johnpaulkiser··on "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing
Let me help you. An AI boss would be 100x worse.
johnpaulkiser··on Vibe Coding Is Fun–But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills
Man, I must really suck at this stuff. This is not at all my experience. Asking LLMs to refactor almost always results in hasty abstractions that I want to keep out of my codebases at all cost. Am I not letting go enough?
johnpaulkiser··on Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
I think we need to be very careful & intentional about the language we use with these kinds of tools, especially now that the MCP floodgates have been opened. You aren't just exposing the users browsing data to which ever model they are using, you are also exposing it any tools they may be allowing as well.

A lot of non technical people are using these tools to "vibe" their way to productivity. I would explicitly tell them that potentially "all" of their browsing data is going to be exposed to their LLM client and they need to use this at their own risk.

johnpaulkiser··on Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
> Private > Since automation happens locally, your browser activity stays on your device and isn't sent to remote servers.

I think this is bullshit. Isn't the dom or whatever sent to the model api?

johnpaulkiser··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
A platform for indie devs to publish WIP web games: (https://flipkick.gg)

The goal is to build a discovery system/algo that surfaces stickiness and fun to give developers a tighter publish/iterate feedback loop so they can really hone their craft on a shorter time frame.

If you have a prototype of a game that can be hosted as a static frontend web rotting away in your "projects/" directory feel free to toss it up on the site. Bugs beware :)

johnpaulkiser··on Bitcoin breaks above $20k
With the news around PH not accepting credit cards anymore I'm curious to see how much revenue they generate through bitcoin in the next quarter. I imagine their revenue will drop substantially.
johnpaulkiser··on Bitcoin breaks above $20k
What do you mean by layer of trust? Bitcoin is definitely not "trustless" its trust minimized for sure. Lightning also minimizes trust in a very similar way. As a user you don't have to make any more assumptions when using lightning than you do already using the bitcoin base layer.
johnpaulkiser··on Bitcoin breaks above $20k
No, node software verifies transactions. Miners are supposed to also verify transactions because they should also run a validating node. There have been blocks in the past mined by miners who did not verify the transactions before putting them in the blocks (doing this would give you competitive edge) only to find out that the rest of the network rejected their blocks.
johnpaulkiser··on Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
That question doesn't make a whole lot of sense so I'll answer another one. Do off-chain transactions need to be mined using proof of work? No.
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