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kofman··on Claude Code on the web
Thanks for the suggestion! We’re working on making this smoother.
kofman··on Claude Code on the web
You can specify * as the url whitelist. We’ll have a drop down for it shortly.
kofman··on Claude Code on the web
It’s currently only available to max and pro users. It will be available to enterprise and teams users soon!
kofman··on Claude Code on the web
Our title generation is done preemptively as you type and is a bit too eager to declare it has enough context. We’ll tweak it.
kofman··on Claude Code on the web
You can ask Claude to install Postgres and it should just work. We'll have it. In the default image shortly.
kofman··on Claude 4
Let us know if you were able to get it installed. You need to run claude inside the vscode (or cursor/windsurf) terminal for it to auto-install.
kofman··on Show HN: Debate.bingo – interactive debate bingo built in 1 day
We're also at http://debate.bingo, but with a 1 day lead time, DNS propagation delay is a bitch :)

You grab a candidate specific bingo card at eg. https://2020madness.com/bingo/yang

kofman··on Show HN: Fantasy stock market (w/shorting!) of 2020 Democratic candidates
Great idea - we'll look into it!
kofman··on Show HN: Fantasy stock market (w/shorting!) of 2020 Democratic candidates
Perhaps! Currently focused on refining the gameplay, but let us know if you have any specific questions and we'll make sure to address here or in such a post!
kofman··on Show HN: Fantasy stock market (w/shorting!) of 2020 Democratic candidates
If anyone wants a few free coins to play around with, reply with your twitter handle (that you used to sign in to the site) and we'll credit you! (But really you should donate because climate change!)
kofman··on Show HN: Fantasy stock market (w/shorting!) of 2020 Democratic candidates
Thanks! Let us know if you have any feedback as you play with it!
kofman··on Show HN: Fantasy stock market (w/shorting!) of 2020 Democratic candidates
Exactly! The only downside is that ActBlue sometimes takes a little while to confirm the transaction. But usually only 2-3 minutes.
kofman··on Show HN: Fantasy stock market (w/shorting!) of 2020 Democratic candidates
The donations are handled 100% by ActBlue which is the non-profit site (run on tips) that handles donations for all the democratic candidates. They raised >$1B for the Democrats in the last cycle.

We are self-funding our minimal infra costs and the work is being done by volunteers on a part-time basis.

kofman··on Show HN: Fantasy stock market (w/shorting!) of 2020 Democratic candidates
Built with GraphQL/Apollo, React, Node, Material-UI in a few weeks by some ex-Dropbox, ex-Airbnb and current Slack folks. Designed to raise money for the eventual candidate, whoever it ends up being. Ask us anything and let us know any ideas for making it more fun!
kofman··on 2020 Madness: a game that raises money for the eventual Democratic candidate
Our goal is to raise $1m for the eventual Democrat candidate, while getting folks more engaged with what’s happening in national politics. We don’t take a cut, 100% of donations go to the eventual candidate fund.

Why: Everyone has their current favorite Dem candidate, but we can all agree on one thing — we have to defeat Donald Trump. As the candidates spend money to compete, Trump continues to fill his war-chest. We want to help give the eventual candidate a better shot.

In addition to raising money, we’re hoping to also get more people engaged with what’s happening in national politics -- kind of how fantasy sports gets people paying more attention to sports.

There’s still a TON of work to do to make this awesome, but we decided to launch it early to get feedback and ideas. Please let us know any suggestions or questions!

kofman··on A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
The particular change Chris is referring to was in implementing delay load for the related video thumbnails. Now as you may imagine the /watch page gets most of the traffic and is hyper optimized. Now imagine every load of /watch hitting the much more dynamic and personalized and much less optimized homepage 10-15 times :)
kofman··on Ask HN: Tools you use for remote working?
Have you considered hackpad.com for a wiki replacement?
kofman··on Hackpad
There are a number of differences (attribution, the way the stream shows you edit diffs from your team members, the way content such as code and media is handled, the way email integration works, etc).

But fundamentally it is a difference of design intent. Hackpad is not a replacement for a word processor. It is not designed for cosmetically designing papers or reports. Hackpad has been designed from the ground up for collaboration on ideas and for living documents (which evolve over time). It's in use in a number of leading tech companies (airbnb, stripe, upworthy) as well as on the open web.

kofman··on Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
For a Docs replacement, do give https://hackpad.com a try. It's web-native and optimized for collaboration and sharing (vs trying to bring a desktop experience to the web).
kofman··on Amazon Services Hackpad
Thanks for the feedback - we'll get this fixed.
kofman··on TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development
It might be nice to make a canonical list of things which suck about JavaScript.

https://hackpad.com/spTEgxqvFYj#Things-That-Suck-About-JavaS...

kofman··on TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development
Agreed, it's a terrible language. Among other things, it makes it way too easy to write code which many people will read as being correct, but will actually be subtly incorrect.

A few of the weakest parts:

- for (var x in y) when used for array iteration or even dict iteration; hasOwnProperty? Really?

- x[obj] = y; seriously, did i really want '[Object object]' as my key?

- the choice of function level scope over block level scope

kofman··on A Better Live Wiki: HackPad (YC W12) at SXSW
Thanks, we'll take a look!
kofman··on Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever
> I want daily backups of my wiki data. Can I do that with this?

Yes. We back up hourly, and we give you a way to get a full html zip dump with a single http request.

> Similarly, where's the source? / Where's the install for private wikis, such as a company's private internal wiki?

Hackpad is not open-source but would a jar or VM you can run internally do the trick?

> Plugins? Nothing yet - we hope to make something

> What is preventing wiki spammers? Private instances are invite-only (or can be setup to automatically let people with certain email domains in), there's also revision history etc.

>Themes? Not yet.

>I see that groups are 'private' based on my invitations to them, but how can I be sure this isn't easily compromised?

Hackpad always runs on https and we take security seriously. Outside of that as I said - if there's interest we may offer a jar/vm you can run inside the firewall.

Thanks for the feedback / questions!

kofman··on Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever
iPhone support is currently in beta. Basic editing works but it's fairly easy to break.
kofman··on Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever
Some of hackpad's features are: task-lists, inline linking and page creation, simple image embedding, search, deep email integration, dropbox integration, mobile (iphone,android) support, an osx launcher/search app. The way hackpad handles basic editing and authorship annotation has also received a lot of attention and iteration. Play with it and let us know what you think!
kofman··on Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever
Fixed, sorry!
kofman··on Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever
Yep
kofman··on Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever
It lets you insert shared links to any file in your dropbox by typing @ in any pad - it'll autocomplete by file name.
kofman··on Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever
See the response just below
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