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trevoragilbert··on Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
It feels bolted on to an otherwise cool thing. Even angling the board, or smudging, dimming color, localizing language, etc. All would make it feel like it fits.
trevoragilbert··on Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents
What a great name for a project
trevoragilbert··on Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire
This is very cool! For the name extraction, how are you handling false positives across such a large dataset? I’m assuming there are mentions that could be a name but are actually just a noun. For example, Agricola being the word for farmer but also a name.
trevoragilbert··on Tell HN: Azure outage
You should research what’s inside the boxes in Oregon before just assuming they’re easier to tamper with.
trevoragilbert··on Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
As does the Long Beach Aquarium. Had a lot of fun!
trevoragilbert··on Show HN: The missing link of a bookstore's tech stack
This looks really nice! I'm not a bookseller so I can't speak to the value props, but it's clearly coming from a well-informed position based on your background.
trevoragilbert··on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
The interaction is really great and I love the premise. But it seems to be missing a huge amount of information from pre-1000BC that gives the impression nothing happened/there are no people there.
trevoragilbert··on Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
I can't speak to international arrivals (though I can to the rest of the airport, it's gorgeous), but while PDX is international it only has 5 direct international flights other than Canada. Hardly going to be the focus of the airport.
trevoragilbert··on Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017)
Tomatoes like a fairly neutral ph of ~6.5. A better example is blueberries with mid-4’s.
trevoragilbert··on Launch HN: AnswerGrid (YC S24) – Web research tool for lead generation
Any thought on incorporating contact enrichment to really make it end-to-end?
trevoragilbert··on Launch HN: AnswerGrid (YC S24) – Web research tool for lead generation
Congrats on the launch. As someone who has dealt with early lead-gen at multiple startups, I'd say it's 50% finding the right company and 50% finding the right person at that company. Especially when there isn't already a network connection.
trevoragilbert··on Agile Is for Losers (2020)
Whenever I read about why Agile is bad and then the inevitable comments about how "no, Agile is good, it's just [company/business people/project managers/etc.] implemented it wrong," I'm struck with the similarity of "no, Communism isn't bad it's just that no one has really done it yet."
trevoragilbert··on Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas
And this is on top of it being stolen away from the rightful owners: hay farmers.
trevoragilbert··on Show HN: Briefer – Multiplayer notebooks with schedules, SQL, and built-in LLMs
This looks very interesting. Congrats on the launch! I’m curious how you see it developing compared to an existing tool like Hex?
trevoragilbert··on Stop Offering Me Amazon Gift Cards
Follow up: sign the deal and we’ll also send you batteries.
trevoragilbert··on Show HN: Store Text in Minesweeper
This is fun! In trying to find an edge with generating based on a word, from what I can tell it also has a border of not-bombs which gives the player an edge they wouldn't have in classic minesweeper.
trevoragilbert··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
It's not a fallacy if one of the complaints is "routine practice in American politics." It's directly pointing out that it isn't routine by accident, it's routine by design from the beginning.
trevoragilbert··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
Historically this is just how it works. You want law x passed and I'm ambivalent about it, I want law y passed and you're ambivalent about it. We both need each other to pass either of them, so we agree to pass both as part of a larger law. This isn't a new thing and has been happening since the 1800s. As early as the decision to make DC the capital we've traded goals through compromise.

The process does get abused and I get frustration over those instance. For this one in particular, there are thematic similarities that can reasonably fall under "national security concerns".

trevoragilbert··on House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure
Far less if the personalization and recommendation system isn’t included.
trevoragilbert··on House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure
It doesn’t have to be owned by a US company, it just needs to not be owned by a CCP backed entity.
trevoragilbert··on House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure
Why would it be to a conglomerate? It’s more likely that existing US investors raise extra money to just buy it and run it locally. Existing antitrust environment would make it extremely unlikely an existing consumer tech co will be allowed to buy it and non-consumer wouldn’t make sense.
trevoragilbert··on O1 Visa Hacks for Founders
I found myself thinking “oh wow I hope I get enough criteria to be approved” and then remembered I’m a US Citizen and do not, in fact, need to get an O1.
trevoragilbert··on USAF Test Pilot School, DARPA announce aerospace machine learning breakthrough
> we have more than enough resources and means to distribute them to everyone

I read that as giving everyone weapons and was surprised at the tone shift.

trevoragilbert··on We are moving to General Availability
Ha, the timing makes it look like you did this in response to my comment. :D Very excited about this!
trevoragilbert··on We are moving to General Availability
Happy Supabase user here, albeit on a tiny app I work on in my spare time. So no comment for larger or more complex orgs.

That being said, the Swift documentation could use some love. It’s not terrible but it’s also not great. There have been a number of times when I wanted to do something, ended up reading about it on the Supabase JS documentation, and then thought “well I assume it’s roughly the same in the Swift library.” It worked, but a pain to have to guess a lot.

trevoragilbert··on Salesforce Paid $20M to License Einstein
There’s some question about that. One group claims they own his likeness and they’re litigious so no one wants to push against it.

https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/17/who-owns-einst...

trevoragilbert··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
You can just let it run.
trevoragilbert··on BreakTime: Running Breakout inside Google Calendar
Whimsy! Love it.
trevoragilbert··on Launch HN: Glide (YC W24) – AI-assisted technical design docs
Looks really interesting! Would love it to support Swift, it's very underserved with other AI code assistant tools currently.
trevoragilbert··on U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing
Where do you get “the most likely outcome is bankruptcy” and not say, a $5b fine and something akin to a consent decree? Totally exaggerating the likely consequences.
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