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Can anyone with a compression background say how important "Polynomial-Time 2-Approximation for Shortest Common Superstring" will be practically?

You should talk to the Editory guys, they did this for local news.

One packaged API for the takeover would be great, also worth considering predicting answers with a stronger LLM while the user is talking. Ello (the reading tutoring company) does this.

Does this include a turn taking API? It'd be great to have one API that could do "Conversation in a box". One of the biggest annoyances is daisy chaining many models together for turn taking, dumb models for immediate responses, with smarter models returning and taking over after.

Built in AI editor for Wordpress to make it easy to make your site better. Originally just for online newspapers but starting to get interest from Wordpress agencies. First user is free: https://presspass.ai/ai-editor

Highly rec going after a specific vertical - healthcare might be the right spot given your experience. Why did you use DuckDB instead of CockroachDB/Snowflake?

You've peed in the pool Simon, this has to be a part of the internal evals by now! You got to try something new - maybe a panda in a canoe?

I’m building AI tools for click based workflows, starting with wordpress sites. Clicks run the world and AI needs to run on clicks!

If you want to check it out: https://presspass.ai

If you think this is stupid or you know of a more annoying “click based” workflow that should be automated, let me know! I’m early and need more thoughts.

One thing I remember from my days in the LMS world is that obfuscated copies of prod tenants were used for testing. Almost every dev had at least one tenant from prod on their local computer. So with some de-obfuscation at least some of the data is plausibly retrievable. Whether that data is also public depends on how the negotiations go.

NPR member stations in many communities have _not_ made up lost federal funding through donations, in fact many are at risk of closing: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2025/07/22/kotz...

Donations are definitely a piece of the puzzle but local journalism will never reach the level it was in the early 2000s without a new revenue stream.

Can you give some examples?

The death of local journalism is fundamentally a revenue problem. My cofounder and I have been working for the last year to find new revenue streams for newspapers at https://seward.presspass.ai/.

Our current hypothesis is that local rewards programs could be a sustainable revenue stream and give the newspaper a way to prove their advertising works with locals.

While trying this out, we've also helped a few papers get up and running - we're calling it "newspaper in a box". Check out a few of the papers we've helped launch: https://sewardfolly.com/ (9 months old) https://homerindependentpress.com/ (2 weeks old).

I'm working on creating Lovable for popular CMSs like wordpress, ghost, substack etc.

I've spent that last year working with news organizations to improve their online presence and a lot of my job has ended up being translating their ideas into wordpress clicks using Claude or ChatGPT. They can't take advantage of products like Lovable because the resulting code won't work with the CMS that their staff is used to.

Email me if you'd like free access! seamus@presspass.ai

I still want something no one has, which is the ability to launch agents in different git worktrees simultaneously and check the results out on my main branch for testing when they are finished.

Why would I introduce randomness where I don't have to? I'd regret this as soon as I had to debug something related to it.