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blhack
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About blhack
email is: blhack at gmail dto cmo.
My current (profitable) stack is: python/jquery/apache/mysql My current (dev) stack is: golang/react/RDS
My failed startups are: Social networking websites: thingist.com (better, more organized facebook/twitter), newslily.com (fark/digg/reddit/HN clone), lanmarks.com (social mapping). News aggregators: newsyndicated.com (computational linguistics applied to news/RSS).
Successful startups are: Business analytics/CRM software for niche industries.
Startups I have worked with but not founded so I won't name: Unnamed telemedicine project. Well funded, solved social isolation in the elderly. Great team. Parent company was acquired, and our project (ran as an internal startup to the larger company) was terminated. My role here was research/design/build hardware devices which were to be placed in senior's homes, as well as the backend service that they reported to, and the interface for remote health-providers to interface with this data. Unnamed educational non-profit. This project is ongoing and successful.
Times I have been rejected from YC: 2.
Other consulting that I have done and don't consider startups: design and build custom robotics and control systems for large scale advertising installations. Clients have been amazon, carvana, Tostitos, red bull, the NFL. Design and build complex, custom fire effects displays for use at music festivals including EDC and bonnaroo. The fire effects team is easily one of the most brilliant, competent groups of people I have ever gotten to work with.
My skillset is extremely broad, and I have worked at almost every design/build level of many different successful products.
My hobby is designing and teaching educational workshops for teenagers. I have a strong belief that most people are capable of much more than they realize; I find sharing this understanding with people extremely rewarding, and so do my students. I have taught workshops on electronics to both children and adults all over the world.
My other hobby is creating interactive art installations. I have a profound love for people and humanity, and my art projects typically try to highlight the beauty I see in other people.
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Comment #48513006
What is going on at Anthropic? First, it comes out that on some specified subset of queries they will simply downgrade you to a different model. One example is if you are doing mod…
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Comment #48103734
Is there any obvious way to detect if you’ve gotten owned by this?
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Comment #48066615
This is bad advice. The choice depends on which is more popular in your area. For me in Phoenix that’s meshtastic.
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Comment #48066594
Meshtastic is really cool! The heltec v4 is the best board for it you can get on Amazon. Put it on your roof with a cheap solar panel meant for a security camera, and join it to yo…
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Comment #47188667
Well I certainly feel surveilled when I know that OpenAI will simply give up my data if asked. If anthro is saying they won’t, that’s good!
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Comment #47188656
Strength is saying what they were asked to do. I want to know! Did the DoW ask them to make kill drones? Because if so THAT IS A REALLY BIG DEAL. The vagueness is irritating. He’s …
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Comment #47188639
>he said this >>no he didn’t he actually said the opposite of that and the link you just posted says the opposite of what you are claiming >but he might change his mind! Okay?
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Comment #47188619
GOOD. I don’t want Anthropic, or anybody else to have their tools used for these things either. But Dario is showing weakness here by talking around it. Whatever they were asked to…
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Comment #47188607
No, the DoW may be implicitly asking for those things. That’s the point I’m trying to make here: Anthropic should just say the unsaid thing here . DoW asked for the following thing…
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Comment #47188600
Because mass surveillance has been happening by every tech company under every president since George W. Bush, and despite everybody trying to stop it they haven’t been able to. Op…
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Comment #47188585
The first sentence of that post is: > The Department of War has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to dev…
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Comment #47188541
Then Anthropic should say: this is what the DoW has asked for, and we aren’t able to do it, or don’t want to.
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Comment #47188528
The DoW has explicitly said they don’t want this, and what you are describing are not automated kill drones. Anthropic’s safeguards already prevent what you are describing, again t…
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Comment #47188447
Right. Did the DoW ask for that? Or does Anthropic make a product that does that?
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Comment #47188274
Did the DoW ask for these things? This whole thing seems like people talking past each other, and that there’s something being left unsaid. Anthropic doesn’t make a product that wo…
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Ask HN: What have you built/shipped with Claude Code?
I'm trying not to get too caught up in the hype here. I'm curious what you've actually built or shipped so far with claude-code. I made a little phonics flashcard game for my kids …
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Comment #46663742
Consider what the rise of things like shopify, squarespace, etc. did for developers. In 2001, you needed an entire development team if you wanted to have an online business. Having…
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Comment #46617723
I think you're talking about Renee Good - who is the other person?
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Comment #46522846
Especially when the software they're developing is supposed to speed up the speed at which the software they are developing is developed.
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Comment #46508746
Can you elaborate on this more? What would be a task you would use claude code for, and what would accomplishing the task look like?
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Comment #45610291
These are all over the place in Tempe, AZ. I see them cruising through my neighborhood all the time. The funny thing is that there is usually a guy on an ebike following right behi…
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Comment #40742725
I will happily pay for high quality news. Every few months I check back in with The Financial Times to see if I can get it delivered to my house again (they used to deliver in Phoe…
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Comment #40384700
How could this possibly comply with European "right to be forgotten" legislation? In fact, how could any of these AI models comply with that? If a user requests to be forgotten, is…
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Comment #40363206
Have you ever seen the Northern Lights with your eyes? If so I'm curious where you saw them. I echo what some other posters here have said: they're certainly not gray.