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mattfrommars

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mattfrommars··on OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
Agreed. This year around is the best time for OpenAI related firm to IPO. The stock market has been resilient reaching and hovering around ATH. Along with them, SpaceX plans to IPO and will force index fund to purchase their shares at trillion dollar evaluation.

OpenAI and SpaceX firms need exit liquidity - and markets are ready!

My advise for retails folks is to stay invested in the market since these trillion dollar companies cannot afford market to tank at all.

mattfrommars··on How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
Incredible. I'm more amazed at OP's ability to generate that kind of revenue from SAAS when we live in LLM world where the issue really isn't producing apps, but distribution and turning it into profitability.
mattfrommars··on Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games
that's reasonable I think if he isn't using any kind of game framework.
mattfrommars··on Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
I find Gemini 'guided learning' to be very good as a Leetcode teacher. I finally been able to understand dynamic programming and have become better.
mattfrommars··on Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
This is incredibly heart breaking, but unfortunately, in war, there are always casualties. This is the grim reality of war.
mattfrommars··on Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games
This is incredible piece of work. I was looking into .claude folder and skim reading it. One thing stood out to me how large it is.

If I'm not mistake how Claude Code or AI agent work, they need everything in 'context' and few tricks to reduce the context size. Sure, but given the number of files you have, how much of the context is consumed by all those claude files vs actual user input?

mattfrommars··on Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games
incredible. And this was all using $20 plan from Claude or do you pay extra for Claude bandwidth?
mattfrommars··on 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
Random: are you personally paying for Claude Code or is it paid by you employer?

My employer only pays for GitHub copilot extension

mattfrommars··on Roblox is minting teen millionaires
I think it’s because of Kings Kids on their iPad playing this games vs being on PC playing a game on Miniclips or Ebaumsworld…
mattfrommars··on MacBook Neo
What on earth, at least they could have provided 16gb as base RAM. 8gb RAM in 2026 - what on earth were they thinking.
mattfrommars··on MacBook Neo
More affordable Mac, there is nothing wrong with it.

But the only issue in school is the rick kid's parent will get them Macbook Pro or even Macbook Air, and the poor kids will get Macbook Neo... I'm sure the kid will not feel great about having Neo while her friend have Pro version.

mattfrommars··on MacBook Air with M5
I have yet to understand myself why did I pay $2300 something for M4 Pro with 512gb storage. Like, for that kind of money, I should have gotten at least 1 TB.

My worst purchase thus far.

mattfrommars··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
like the other comment, openai can force itself onto the massive index like VOO/FXAIX etc to make retail folks to provide liquidity exit for openai investors.
mattfrommars··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
mark my words, the entire stock market will need to float until openai goes public.

there is no way openai - and players who are vested them can afford market to tank before it.

mattfrommars··on Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
Tbh, the only thing that sucks about .NET is their package manager or the entire build process. It just feels more fun to write C# then Java but when it comes down to building the application and general work, its absolute pain. Nuget and all. Gradle just works better in comparison.
mattfrommars··on Facebook is cooked
Personally, it’s all through WhatsApp
mattfrommars··on Facebook is cooked
Facebook is still has excellent marketplace

Only that keeps me going back.

mattfrommars··on Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
I don’t know if this warrants a separate thread here but I have to ask…

How can I realistically get involved the AI development space? I feel left out with what’s going on and living in a bubble where AI is forced into by my employer to make use of it (GitHub Copilot), what is a realistic road map to kinda slowly get into AI development, whatever that means

My background is full stack development in Java and React, albeit development is slow.

I’ve only messed with AI on very application side, created a local chat bot for demo purposes to understand what RAG is about to running models locally. But all of this is very superficial and I feel I’m not in the deep with what AI is about. I get I’m too ‘late’ to be on the side of building the next frontier model and makes no sense, what else can I do?

I know Python, next step is maybe do ‘LLM from scratch”? Or I pick up Google machine learning crash course certificate? Or do recently released Nvidia Certification?

I’m open for suggestions

mattfrommars··on 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
Agreed. You succinctly put my thoughts into words which I couldn’t quite describe.

I truely wish this kid continues to pursue his passion and not get side tracked with grim realities of the real world.

mattfrommars··on 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
As a grown adult in this mid 30s, I wonder when the transition happens in kids who are passionate about certain subject or career turn into becoming lawyers or accountants in adulthood… it’s like encounters in life changes people to pursue a career which they never imagined they’d do in their childhood

You won’t find a kid who’d say, “I want to be accountant when I grow up…” instead you’d find people want to be pilots or police officer….

mattfrommars··on Show HN: OpenJuris – AI legal research with citations from primary sources
I’ve been lately trying to build something similar, where did you acquire case law database to build this tool on top?
mattfrommars··on Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests
I’ve been thinking lately a lot of female pornographic actresses on sites such as Brazzers don’t have US origins.

Does anyone know on which work visa do models come in then? It can’t be H1B…

mattfrommars··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
Jews left Arab stats on their own accord because of rise of Zionism.

Arab were the only folks who accepted Jews in the first place as they sought refuge from Nazi Europe

mattfrommars··on Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
A random thought has started to occur, maybe given how early we are in LLM tech world, isn’t it strange a lot of AI tech is being built on top of proprietary tech? In this case, it’s Claude Code

And honestly, all this free marketing has me convinced to pay for it

mattfrommars··on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
I’ve been saying this a countless time, LLM are great to build toy and experimental projects.

I’m not shaming but I personally need to know if my sentiment is correct or not or I just don’t know how to use LLMs

Can vibe coder gurus create operating system from scratch that competes with Linux and make it generate code that basically isn’t Linux since LLM are trained on said the source code …

Also all this on $20 plan. Free and self host solution will be best

mattfrommars··on Spherical Snake
Stuff you guys come up with are so clever
mattfrommars··on Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
Also, AI is great but it hasn’t improved by ability to solve Leetcode problem any faster.

Anyone experiencing this problem as well?

mattfrommars··on Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
Are you saying AI for commercial day job or is this something for personal project workflows?
mattfrommars··on I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)
Are people still getting paid five figures for web development? Was through upwork?
mattfrommars··on I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)
Absolutely impressive, any idea how did your company find agency to build out the website and cashed out three million dollars?
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