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mattfrommars

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mattfrommars··on Google to buy Wiz for $32B
Isn't this what tool like MEND or Black Duck (formerly Synopses)?
mattfrommars··on Launch HN: Sift Dev (YC W25) – AI-Powered Datadog Alternative
What is your background to build 'AI powered datadog' alternate? Datadog is a massive company... how much experience do you guys have to have a product that competes with them?
mattfrommars··on Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
I'm been fascinated to make games but never truly jumped into it. I'd love to pick it as a hobby but quiet unable to balance this hobby when always worrying about to put time into 'doing certification' or doing 'LC'. To get an idea on your situation and compare it with mine,

1) did you have any formal game development experience in the past? say in school? 2) since you made it into FAANG, did you LC before or time during FAANG to find another FAANG job? 3) does anyone in your personal circle does game development? 4) so instead of first developing the game, you already were in talking with publishers? what kind of background did you have for publisher to 'ok' you which i'm guessing supported you financially?

mattfrommars··on Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
Another system to organize my life? I JUST got started with BulletJournal :)

Tbh, a person with ADHD and in my mid 30s, the biggest problem I have faced and none of these system [haven't tried Johnny.Decimal] yet is 'given my current situation, be it career and life, what should I prioritize' and the second hard part if keep track/progress.

I do miss school/university days where we had a curriculum to follow with deadline and all. That brought structure and with fixed milestone. But in personal life, with unknowns everywhere, it is challenging. I have tried multiple strategies but they don't seem to work or eventually are forgotten. From two minute rule to this, I can't remember the exact details but something like invest x hours and if it doesn't work out, move on.

mattfrommars··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Could this be the catalyst for the rise of third party encryption companies that operate in UK? Or perhaps, rise to third party self host E2E cloud solution?

Only time will tell.

I've already invested in USB storage :)

mattfrommars··on Quick but powerful research for AI agents with data scrapping and selenium
is it possible you pull this off but for Chinese, European or GCC market? I feel there is complete gold mine out of the US which people might be ignoring.
mattfrommars··on Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
I read this on Reddit, but it capture in essence where we are headed in the future.

"AI won't replace you. Programmers using AI will."

mattfrommars··on Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense tracker
Haha, I guess people making their own expense tracker a thing.

Because I built mine but it's a bit more rudimentary

mattfrommars··on Onlyfans took over the World
I skimmed read the article, but one critical part that made OF explode to 'household' name is catalyst COVID provided.
mattfrommars··on Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
Thanks for this. To get it straight, you decided to go for marketing niche has it was an industry that obsessed you.

From their, feedback allowed to focus on one thing and do it well. This makes sense as you probably stretched yourself too thin. But the thing I don't get is, what was the trigger/pivot that made you go for 'A/B/ testing and not another segment of marketing niche?

At that time, weren't there other players in A/B segment who were far more established? What competitive edge did you see that made you go all in in A/B and which eventually took off?

mattfrommars··on Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
Congrats!

What made you commit and build this project when you were 22 year old vs million others SAAS you could have built at that time? Say, a CRM to compete with Salesforce, or a new web based Excel or web based Photoshop tool?

mattfrommars··on Building Game Prototypes with LÖVE
I'm always amazed how people like author "learn" and "build' so quickly. I recently started to dabble with unity on basics and no way on earth I can build, say something like Heartstone clone or the interaction. My background is web back end mostly.

Good stuff OP.

mattfrommars··on Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading
> Node.js/Lambda backend for AI processing

Is this AWS? Why did you pick lambda over say Python code, say in Flask to perform actions?

mattfrommars··on Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought?
Wondering about folks who keep up to date with the industry,

Does anyone use specific keywords or tools to get latest LLM research and their ideas?

Something like Goolge Scholar + keyword "LLM" ?

mattfrommars··on Show HN: Obsess Jobs – Apply to jobs in your sleep
Are you using any kind of job scheduler to do the job for you in the background? Are you using Apache Arrow for job scheduling since you mentioned you need to apply to jobs behind the scene and spread out across day and night.
mattfrommars··on I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
This is great and I look forward to your YouTube video. It is intriguing to me since you went you choose existing tool and piped the entire workflow vs to build the entire thing from scratch in Python, for example.

In the demo Loom video, the part where you are scheduling an appointment, it looks very calendly like but it is not. Did you build the entire UI and UX yourself?

mattfrommars··on Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
I kept telling people here and on Reddit that Apple is using the whole idea of "Privacy First" on Apple devices as a marketing gimmick. The company has began introducing bloatware into their product and rivaling Windows bloatware.

Yet, people perception on Apple bloatware here seem to be, "that's fine".

mattfrommars··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
> I purchased the CKA, CKAD, and CKS certifications for approximately USD 400 during a discount. I plan to take the exams in April.

Woah, that sounds an amazing deal. Is this deal still up? I could not find link to i5.

mattfrommars··on Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)
Great, I have yet to understand why does not the ML community really push or move away from CUDA? To me, it feel like a dinosaur move to build on top of CUDA which is screaming proprietary nothing about it is open source or cross platform.

The reason why I say its dinosaur is, imagine, we as a dev community continued to build on top of Flash or Microsoft Silverlight...

LLM and ML has been out for quiet a while, with AI/LLM advancement, the transition must have been much quicker to move cross platform. But this hasn't yet and not sure when it will happen.

Building a translation layer on top CUDA is not the answer either to this problem.

mattfrommars··on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
Guys, its already happening. I recently got laid off due to AI taking over my jobs.
mattfrommars··on Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
For Linux pros here, can anyone explain how is this, in my understanding, driver implementation for Linux to be completely written in Python?

My understanding is most for driver code is written in C or C++. The 'new' way of developing - the kernel development is in Rust.

How can this work that is written in pure Python?

mattfrommars··on Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history
There are plenty of better ways to money launder right now than to use BTC. The classic buying of art work and shell companies are fantastic to evade taxes and clean black money
mattfrommars··on Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
TIL: there are randoms in the world who feel the exact what I feel, on daily basis for past three or four years.

It is frustrating. One recent mindset change I have adopted that reduces the feeling of overwhelming is:

1. Say it out loud, "I have plenty of time" and breathe deeply

2. "I have to work within constraint for which I do not have control of"

3. Can things be a lot more worse then they are? Fortunately, the answer to this has been 100% yes. Things can be worse in terms of developing complicated medical condition to family complication.

4. There always be be 'noise', work on reducing it and accept the 'distractions' are noise. Since distraction is noise, ignore it instead of giving into it.

mattfrommars··on M4 MacBook Pro
Does anyone know if there is a way to use Mac without the Apple bloatware?

I genuinely want to use it as primary machine but with this Intel MacBook Pro I have, I absolutely dislike FaceTime, IMessage, the need to use AppStore, Apple always asking me have a Apple user name password (which I don't and have zero intention), block Siri, and all telemetry stuff Apple has backed in, stop the machine calling home, etc.

This is to mirror tools available in Windows to disable and remove Microsoft bloatware and ad tracing built in.

mattfrommars··on Busy Status Bar
Anyone know how are the folks behind this and VC? This is a way too polish product and 'production' for a startup...
mattfrommars··on Show HN: Donobu – Mac App for Web Automation and Testing
Just to be clear, did you really decide to use Java to build a desktop application for Mac? I see you mentioned Java 21 as main business logic layer, which technology did you use to build the desktop application?
mattfrommars··on AI won't replace human devs anytime soon
Neal Wu recently posted a video of him attending Meta Hack Coding challenge. This time around, Meta has two score board, one for all human and the other one, I believe is AI assisted. Shockingly, the leader board for human was significantly faster than leaderboard for folks who used AI.

We have a long way to go before AI surpasses human.

mattfrommars··on Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS
I consider myself bit techsavy knowing Linux and basic scripting.

But does anyone have a resource or link that explains the idea to make a service which OP shared here?

Because frankly, I'd feel lost reading the code from one file at a time without knowing where to start.

Plus it's written in Go which I have I am not familiar with.

mattfrommars··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Israeli war in Gaza is the bloodiest happening right now.

These bombs went off right in front of civilian population with no regards to children or women.

Close to 3000 wounded. Wounded include children losing limbs.

mattfrommars··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
> 2,750 wounded

Absolutely insane. Imagine this many Israeli had been wounder by Hammas attack.

Disgusting move from Israel to keep civilian causalities minimum! This is no excuse for 'collateral damage'

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