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il

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About il

Working on AI security.

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    Comment #49012127

    Probably not as much effort as writing books and creating art the models were trained on.

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    Comment #48865686

    Grok 4.5 is $2/$6 there's no model anywhere close to that cheap

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    Comment #48483972

    The em dash gave it away

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    Comment #48042050

    People are very scared of messing up authentication and getting hacked. They would rather offload that responsibility to a third party and not think about it.

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    Comment #47565280

    Why isn't production scaling to meet demand? Shouldn't the market address this.

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    Comment #47415852

    I've been working on webtool because I got tired of battling captchas in Playwright and cloud browsers. For most tasks, it's a lot better to just let the agent work in a real, live…

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    Comment #47401125

    I like the agent-first signup via API. Is this meant to be distributed as an agent skill?

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    Comment #47401014

    Tool search pretty much completely negates the MCP context window argument.

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    Comment #29111572

    This is largely symbolic, but it does send a clear message. Like it or hate it, there is a sea change happening in how governments treat cryptocurrency.

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    Comment #27690529

    I think even for those who do not subscribe to any election fraud conspiracies, this will seriously shake confidence in the election. If a mistake like this went by unnoticed until…

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    Comment #20304812

    This is old (Jun 16). Facebook has already revealed the details.

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    Comment #19143782

    The main value of token compensation is liquidity. People frequently underestimate how long it will take until exit and their equity becoming cash. Tokens for a good project are li…

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    Comment #9554557

    The canonical example of funding!=success.

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    Comment #8373574

    The solution is simple: always treat each round of funding like it's the last money you'll ever get.

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    Comment #8350823

    A corollary is that your SaaS product needs to be priced in a way that enables sales (typically >$5K ACV).

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    Comment #8184018

    Most people on HN exist in a very different world from the unbanked population. Credit scores mean nothing to these people. Many can't even get approved for a checking account and …

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    Comment #7858924

    Founders owning the majority of the business is not a uniquely Silicon Valley phenomenon.