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shalinshah

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i'm shalin -- i'm on a journey to do my life's work. currently building hyper, prev autonomy lead at matic robots and eecs at uc berkeley.
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shalinshah··on Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
it's fun!
shalinshah··on Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
Curious what you mean, why not? Business is just a group of people creating a product or service so valuable people are willing to pay more for it than it cost to build. In what way do you think Hyper does not fit that model?
shalinshah··on Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
Yes that's super fair feedback, we're changing the wording soon :)
shalinshah··on Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
Appreciate the thoughtful questions.

1. I'll address this in two parts.

(a) Memory vs. Enterprise Search. I consider search to address targeted, stateless retrieval whereas memory solves temporal, tacit, and derived problems. Glean can tell you why a ticket was filed or answer a specific question regarding a customer call. But in many companies, important questions are broader: "What went wrong the first time we went with this vendor?" "How has our brand shifted in tone over time?". These cannot be answered by a few documents, and it's not obvious whether this information would be in Slack or Notion or Drive. It requires an active, entropy-fighting system that is going to extract information and keep track of how it evolves over time.

(b) Benchmarks: absolutely. Don't want to claim anything before we've published results, but Hyper scores very well on LoCoMo and LongMemEval, and we are constantly trying to bolster our set of evals. We will publish results more openly in the coming weeks. I will caveat though: many SOTA memory providers are converging on the top end of these benchmarks, and yet we don't see mass adoption. We believe that UX affordances are underrated and critical to get "company brains" working in real, messy businesses. Many of our users have come to us from other providers purely because the competition was too difficult to use and maintain across the org.

2. Hyper maintains a graph of information where each node is an extracted "fact." This happens continuously, in the background, live from every connector or connected agent. At insertion-time, new information is compared against relevant information. Our system (a DAG of agentic nodes) determines the relationships between these facts and makes appropriate updates: X derives Y, A updates B. For now, we rely on recency as the primary indicator of conflict (i.e. we assume more recent information is generally more true than old information). We realize that this will need to become more sophisticated, and are iterating.

3. Knowledge extraction is real-time and asynchronous, and should add next to zero latency to any existing system. We continually update the graph in our backend, without relying on a nightly compaction/dreams cycle, so information from the world should be reflected in Hyper's responses in close to real time. Retrieval can be slightly more expensive, but the latency is negligible compared to the overhead of the calling agent. We recognize the importance of performance (we both worked on on-device robotics!) and are happy to publish numbers as we measure them :)

shalinshah··on Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
thank you !
shalinshah··on Show HN: Hyper, the self driving company brain
Appreciate it! They're actually entirely vibe coded animations via claude code with (a lot of) handholding. Also that's a good question, we use hooks as much as possible which means on each chat turn hyper is being queried by claude asking if there's anything relevant, hyper's agents scour the knowledge-base to figure out if there is, and then return any relevant context back.
shalinshah··on Show HN: Tiny Moon – Swift library to calculate the moon phase
Is there a plan to add this for linux / windows? Either way, super cool project
shalinshah··on Show HN: NLP Flashcards for Most of the Internet
Aside from challenges regarding per inference latency, any other unique challenges you guys faced when deploying nlp models to web? It's pretty cool to see ml being applied more actively in day-to-day web browsing.
shalinshah··on Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read
Yes, in the future, I will be making an android version, so stay tuned :)
shalinshah··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
I have a group of friends that are all my age. Also, at the school I go to, no one really knows how to code.

I usually listen to the billboard playlist while coding. http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100

shalinshah··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
Or neither...?
shalinshah··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
Most of the kids my age are doing exactly what you just described above. I want to be the person making games and apps that other teens get addicted to.
shalinshah··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
The IdeyaApp link is now fixed for my portfolio page... Sorry!
shalinshah··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
Thanks for the great advice! I really want to get into Stanford :)
shalinshah··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
I agree. I got a lot better at coding, and a real life experience. What more could I ask for?
shalinshah··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
During my internship, I ran almost every single day and I love do other activities besides coding... I agree with you that I shouldn't make coding my everything, I still love to do it when I have free time.
shalinshah··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
The thing is, I really like coding, and it gives the same amount of fun as trading pokemon cards probably did to you.

Interning is a way for me to use my skills in the outside world versus just working at home.

shalinshah··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
Thank you!
shalinshah··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
I think I should study for the SAT, because I'll only be giving up one of my summers (I can intern during my Freshman, Junior and Senior summers)
shalinshah··on My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
Thank you very much! I appreciate it!
shalinshah··on MakeGamesWithUs gives young developers a home
I am a current intern at this company and this company has been the best iOS App development experience. They only take 30%. And to us interns, the money does not really even matter. If "Making games is about making. Creating. Learning.", then MakeGamesWithUs is doing their job well because my purpose of interning here was not about the money, it was about the experience- money is just a plus.
shalinshah··on Programming
Thank you so much for putting your time into this. This is a great way to learn programming and I will be sure to follow it!
shalinshah··on Programming
Thanks so much for the advice. My school is not so good at technology and I'm the only one that knows so much about computers. I will never stop listening to those better than me. Also, I will not give up coding. Thank you for taking the time to give me feedback. I really appreciate it!
shalinshah··on Show HN : Ideya - A fast way to write down your ideas
This is my side project but it's a simple app.

Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ideya-App/534278166588750

Twitter:https://twitter.com/ideyaapp

iTunes Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ideya/id578536295?ls=1&m...

shalinshah··on Why Hacking is Awesome
My thoughts on why hacking is not always bad. Tell me what you think.
shalinshah··on Looking to Meet Cool Young Coders in the Bay Area
Got it :)
shalinshah··on Looking to Meet Cool Young Coders in the Bay Area
Hi! I am Shalin Shah. I am a 13 year old Web Designer, Mobile Developer, and Graphic Designer. Although, I do not live in the Bay Area, I would like to keep in touch with you. My site is http://www.shalinvs.tk!
shalinshah··on [dead]
This is a really nice tool with an awesome UI and friendly environment. What this tool does, is it finds all the people near you (you can choose how near) and it allows you to message with them.

Mixer lets you make the most of the people around you.

Mixer key features:

• Browse profiles of people nearby

• Share conversations with the entire community

• Be a part of multiple communities by simply using the application in different areas.

• Use the neighborhood activity feature and Mixer will automatically notify you of new conversations in your area wherever you happen to be.

http://www.facebook.com/getmixer

http://www.twitter.com/appmixer

shalinshah··on Your iPad sucks - here are 6 examples why
The iPad does suck for those six things, and more, but it also has hundreds of awesome features which in my opinion, makes it the best tablet.
shalinshah··on Coding
Thanks for these great tips!!!!!
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