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Funny how similar this is to the famous comment on Dropbox's Launch HN post in 2007. "1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting a…

Exa (YC S21) is trying to solve this problem by re-indexing the web in an LLM-friendly way.

This is why we need Freshpaint (YC S19) for analytics and other services for healthcare companies. A primary focus on regulatory compliance, privacy, security.

Also: if you've been the new CEO since last July and haven't figured this out, you'll fail to save Medium. You mentioned paying attention to the sentiment and linked to the HN surv…

These aren’t the key problem. The key problem is that you’ve lost the trust of the authors you want to attract. It’s no longer a place I can post and know that my content will be c…

AI will also be able to fill in dialog, plot points, etc.

This was a very nice thing to say.

Your memory would be more credible than mine certainly! Perhaps I'm remembering my/people's reaction to first seeing reviews on Amazon.

My memory is there were some stores that had "customer reviews" before Amazon, but they were all screened by the company before being published. So every product would only have 5 …

My daughter (who just turned 4) seemed like she might like programming, so I started out having her "program" a stuffed walrus, by telling it whether to go forward, backward, left,…

My 3 year old daughter really enjoyed this! Very nicely done.

We've been using Rally for our happy hours, and internal meetings where there are more than ~5 people. It's great being able to easily hop between tables as conversation topics shi…

I imagine some kind of VR tracker for the Quest will come out eventually. Something like the Vive trackers but smaller. Agree, it would open up all kinds of interesting application…

I think people will be surprised how well this works. There are a lot of great startups that will be born in these times. Many of them will be "remote native" -- operated remotely,…

How is that different/worse than a startup? Early founders/employees get stock at a lower price, and then the price goes up if the company makes progress. There's only a return if …

This seems like a good idea! Could even charge for admission.

They took the feedback to heart, built fast, and got paying users! Where's the big mistake there? I think one of the good things about YC, is if you try to optimize for getting int…

Actually pretty good for a 50 year prediction! Anyone want to make 50 predictions about 2069?

Funny, most people have the opposite question: they can't understand what it would be like to have aphantasia. The way you're describing "knowing what a sphere is" and being able t…

It's insane to refer to this article as a fluff piece. It's a detailed, transparent, numerical, inside look at how a particular founder runs various aspects of her business. It's o…

I want to put a plug in for Boundary Layer Technologies. Their crazy Demo Day goal was to build a freaking hydrofoil ship during YC. The founders I know who worked with them before…

I think corners are probably more dark in games and movies than in real life, due to dramatic lighting. It's often an artistic choice. That doesn't address the cases where there ar…

As a counterexample, I used to be like you (loved eating meat) and was convinced not to by allowing myself to entertain the notion that it was wrong, and learning about animal suff…

It would be interesting to see ML recommendations of the form "There is a 75% chance you'll LOVE this movie, 25% chance you'll hate it" rather than only "98% chance you'll like thi…

Thank you! You can reach out tim at fearlessvr.com