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Podcast Marketing - getAudiogram.com Podcast MCP - AudiogramAPI.com
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npollock··on Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
exactly, it's like Bobby Fischer playing 10 games of chess simultaneously
npollock··on Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
one of the interesting properties of public forums like SO is that the maintainers of software packages get visibility into the problems and frustrations that their users experience

we're losing that signal when the Q&A behavior shifts into language models

npollock··on Using AI to write better code more slowly
learn by considering critique
npollock··on Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
You can configure the status line to get a feel for token usage:

[Opus 4.6] 3% context | last: 5.2k in / 1.1k out

add this to .claude/settings.json

"statusLine": { "type": "command", "command": "jq -r '\"[\\(.model.display_name)] \\(.context_window.used_percentage // 0)% context | last: \\(((.context_window.current_usage.input_tokens // 0) / 1000 * 10 | floor / 10))k in / \\(((.context_window.current_usage.output_tokens // 0) / 1000 * 10 | floor / 10))k out\"'" }

npollock··on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
Disney said "Our IP is $1B for a 3yr license, or we sue"

Altman said "We can pay with equity, but let's frame it as an investment"

No cash exchanged

npollock··on Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews
it could be the "grounding with google search" feature when using Gemini models
npollock··on Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
no, but a subset of English could be
npollock··on Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters (LoRAs)
LoRA adapters modify the model's internal weights
npollock··on Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats
Here's how I would market this:

Create "packages" of context for popular API & Libraries - make them freely available via public url

Keep the packages up to date. They'll be newer than the cutoff date for many models, and they'll be cleaner then the data a model slurps in using web search.

Voila, you're now the trusted repository of context for the developer community.

You'll get a lot of inbound traffic/leads, and ideas for tangential use cases with commercial potential.

npollock··on Ask HN: Sharing Evals with OpenAI
Are 7 free weekly eval runs fair compensation for sharing your evaluation and fine-tuning data with OpenAI?
npollock··on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
"The takeover of io will provide OpenAI with about 55 hardware engineers, software developers and manufacturing experts"

6.5B / 55 = $118 million per engineer

not a cheap aquihire

npollock··on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
if you own the device, you control the flow of data and dollars
npollock··on Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code
something like this that runs as a browser agent, allowing me to extract structured data from websites (whitelisted) using natural language queries
npollock··on RLHF Book
A quote I found helpful:

"reinforcement learning from human feedback .. is designed to optimize machine learning models in domains where specifically designing a reward function is hard"

https://rlhfbook.com/c/05-preferences.html

npollock··on Show HN: LLMpeg
does the tool snap to I-frames when slicing?
npollock··on Perplexity got ads
how long before the advertisers pressure model providers to "fine-tune" mentions of their competitors?
npollock··on Launch HN: FlyCode (YC S22) – Stop losing revenue due to failed payments
doesn't Stripe have an interest in maximizing this revenue recovery? they earn a percentage of successful charges
npollock··on The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep
running inference
npollock··on Ask HN: How to speed up my MacBook Pro?
thanks - is there a way to determine/monitor if excessive swapping is taking place?
npollock··on Ask HN: How to speed up my MacBook Pro?
you're right, Firefox is gobbling up about half of the RAM

thanks for pointing me in this direction

npollock··on Ask HN: How to speed up my MacBook Pro?
thank you, disabling the floating thumbnail has sped up the file/image delivery

the launchctl analysis is a great suggestion too

npollock··on Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships
OpenAI gets the data it needs, and publishers get prominent placement in the product:

"PPP members will see their content receive its “richer brand expression” through a series of content display products: the branded hover link, the anchored link and the in-line treatment."

There's some similarity to the search business model

npollock··on Building a starter pack for an API-as-a-Service
are there any open source solutions in this space? something that sits in front of your API as a proxy, and has an interface for managing access, rate limits, billing etc - with simple deployment to a cloud provider?
npollock··on Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?
your values change as you age, so if you're repeating the same old activities and feeling drained - it's time for change

recall the excitement you had as a child, as a teenager, a young adult - this will yield clues as to what might spark your energy again

as others have mentioned, movement and exercise are simple hacks to improve mood quickly

npollock··on Show HN: An app to create asynchronous micro podcasts
there's been a few similar products that you could learn from, for example: https://www.producthunt.com/products/lava-beta
npollock··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
if you're throwing away arguably billions in brand equity, you can be sure the app's about to change radically
npollock··on Show HN: Banger.show – Create colorful visuals for your songs in seconds
(disclosure: affiliated)

we have an API for converting audio into video - https://getaudiogram.com/api/

it's not self-serve at the moment, we manually onboard new clients

npollock··on Introducing Superalignment
don't forget regulatory moats - lobby govt to mandate "superalignment"
npollock··on FDIC accidentally reveals the Silicon Valley Bank depositors it bailed out
> Crypto stablecoin company Circle Internet Financial Ltd. previously disclosed its SVB deposits ... The document listed it as SVB’s biggest depositor with a balance of $3.3 billion.

just when you thought the government was anti-crypto

npollock··on Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in
There's a good chance the lack of traction is a marketing problem, not a product problem.

What have you tried do so far to market the product?

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