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dopamine reward feedback loop. Video scrolling is an insidious form of it because the feedback time is so short that you end up hooked on it for hours, feeling bad afterwards; seri…

There's the politics of the corporations and then there's the business of the science behind LLM's, this article feels like the former. Maybe someone active in the research can com…

All my solo projects suffered from all the things you mentioned. Once I found a cofounder for my current project, these problems went away because 1. There’s social altruism activa…

i'll start panicking when it can productionalize an app and deploy it to GCP without any errors.

Google Cloud SQL

My most productive workflow, is take a stab at what I want first and use gpt/claude to generate boiler plate code. I use the base components from tailwind components and ask Claude…

Why don’t you open source it and let devs know they can contribute starting today? Devs who don’t use HN can find it on GitHub by searching and you can begin posting call to arms i…

What market are you in? We can only speculate based on presumptions.

Not sure if it was clear in my OP, but there are only 2 technical founders and I am one of them. We also already have a pathway to paying customers; that was also clear in my OP. A…

I'm one of 2 technical founders for a mini-startup that's beginning to get traction in terms of market fit. We both realize that neither of us have the skills or time to develop an…

Genuine curiosity. What compels a company to write such an extensive handbook about remote work? The company I joined right after covid started was relatively small eng organizatio…

I've worked on very complex systems - The disney streaming platform (before it was disney), live video streaming systems, banking transaction systems, your run of the mill crud sof…

I'm one who lives in the east bay (oakland/emeryville area) and don't use BART anymore because I'm WFH now. I also choose to drive into the city on weekends and off commute hours b…

This is cool but in the last 12 years I have never written a cover letter for a role or read one as a part of the hiring process. Maybe other markets outside of tech still use them…

While there are legitimate scams in the space, calling the entire effort a scam is overgeneralized.

Great point for a deeper discussion. When it comes to deciding when to move fast & when to think more carefully, the answer to this question feels very nuanced and problem domain s…

I really enjoy reading about folks sharing their OCD stories. This one resonated with me because it's one of my obsessions. I will say that after going through CBT and becoming an …

Thank you for this.

Stock splits can also be used for companies with values too low (A reverse split) . These companies split to increase the value of stocks in order to prevent delisting from exchang…