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brdd

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About brdd

https://brandon.wang

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47155671

    Hosted models only. (my philosophy is that I need these things to be fast if I'm talking to them, and they also need to be maximally not wrong, which means cloud hosted big models …

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    Comment #47147939

    I wrote a piece on this which was on the front page of HN a few weeks ago: https://brandon.wang/2026/clawdbot I still do all of the text automations, which have been pretty set-and…

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    Comment #46921053

    it's meant to throw out crazy low or crazy high numbers. i monitor 5 nearby stations and usually only 1-2 of them are bad (which is tolerable but not ideal).

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    Comment #46921042

    OP here! i am actually very anti-notification (almost all are disabled; i use the iphone "notification summary" feature to get them delivered a few times a day only). i do want to …

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    Comment #46902413

    it uses a real chrome browser window (that i can see when i remote desktop into the mac mini) that's been very good so far. re: scale, is it that this whole project is worthless bc…

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    Comment #46772229

    I use PurpleAir data for a lot of my home automations— I have a smart window vent and configure it to blow in/out depending on which side has the worse air. (Thank you to those who…

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    Comment #46683608

    They give you a cleaning cloth? Did I accidentally throw mine away!?

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    Comment #44576554

    We agree! Unchecked development could lead to disaster. Insurers can insist on adherence to best practices to incentivize safe practices. They can also clarify liability and cover …

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    Comment #44576544

    Thanks for the thoughtful response! Some replies: 1. Someone is always carrying the risk; the question is, who it should be? We suggest private markets should price and carry the f…

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    Comment #44574787

    The "Incentive Flywheel" of AI: how insurance unlocks secure Al progress and enables faster AI adoption.

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    Comment #29411152

    Dreambound | San Francisco, CA or remote | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer | https://dreambound.com/company/jobs/405770100 ---- Dreambound creates upward mobility for American…

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    Comment #28631423

    This is a classic! https://qntm.org/abolish

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    Comment #27213890

    Totally false. We saw many commercial units between $35-50/sf IG and just signed on one at $37/sf.

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    Comment #26662917

    Dreambound | San Francisco, CA or remote | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer | https://dreambound.com/company/jobs/405770100 ---- Dreambound creates upward mobility for American…

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    Comment #26310682

    Dreambound | San Francisco, CA or remote | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer | https://dreambound.com/company/jobs/405770100 ---- Dreambound creates upward mobility for American…

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    Comment #25991704

    Dreambound | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer, Product | https://dreambound.com/company/jobs/4057701003 ---- Dreambound creates upward mobility for American…

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    Comment #25945637

    During a pandemic, the only roles that you can hire for are ones that are remote (by definition, more or less). So this is not really charting a "shift". The question is, post-pand…

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    Comment #25937857

    If you're on HN, chances are, you're not very correlated to the sample from this research study... which looks entirely at correlation, not causation. I'm interested in a long-term…

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    Comment #25798274

    Well you must be very fun in meetings.

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    Comment #25635039

    Dreambound | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer, Product | https://dreambound.com/company/jobs/4057701003 ---- Dreambound creates upward mobility for American…

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    Comment #25597420

    I disagree — as a direct result of play #7 in this playbook, multiple large-scale initiatives were launched; most notably 18F, which is like a "startup" within the federal governme…

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    Comment #25307291

    Do you have a source for Livermore designing their bridges to specifically prevent BART expansion? I'm a transit nerd and I find this to be stunning, but I Googled around and could…