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Can confirm. I did a clean-room implementation of this in Rust just by reading the paper. Will update once they release the reference implementation. https://github.com/ptaranat/ze…

I use GLM 5.2 via Neuralwatt and it's gotten so cheap I wouldn't mind cancelling my personal Claude subscription if work gave me one. I've spent 374M tokens this month and it only …

I pre-gen all my plans with Opus 4.6, and if there's an outage, I use pi with Kimi K2.5 via Fireworks. It's comparable to Sonnet.

I went down this rabbit hole last year after buying a carbonator. Rather than mixing a bunch of oils together, I bought my flavors from Bakto Flavors (based in NJ, USA) which is fo…

I once had a conversation with a potential co-founder who literally told me he was pasting my responses into AI to try to catch up. Then a few months later, another nontechnical CE…

Small business owners work 997 and you don't see them incessantly posting about it. That's the catch, though. They own the business. Founders can subject themselves to 996 all they…

I interviewed with an early stage pre-seed startup with a very young team, like 25-27. I was interviewed by someone way more junior than me. According to the recruiter, in 3 months…

I have been exclusively doing this in the past year, selling my services as “hardening vibe-coded prototypes for production” or “helping early stage startups scale”. In the best ca…

To combat LinkedIn spam, I exclusively write wizard-themed LinkedIn posts: https://dungeonengineering.com/i-could-have-cursed-him-inste...

One blogpost I found on HN completely leveled up how I use LLMs for coding: https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/ Having the AI ask me questions and think abo…

That's the core challenge in designing a system like this. Echo chambers and comfort cages emerge from recommendation algorithms, and before that, from lazy curation. If you have c…

I've noticed a lot of people are converging on this idea of using AI to analyze your own data, the same way the companies do it to your data and serve you super targeted content. R…

This was a big confidence booster for me as when I first started learning English, people would complement me on how well I spoke English, but I took that as my accent was still de…

BizBuySell. However, according to my broker, most business sales never make it to market. It's mostly through email lists and connections.

Yes, this is really only viable in a major city. I wouldn’t consider doing this without at least 200k population in a major metro area. The area I’m in is 600k people with a heavy …

Funny enough I am also planning to convert this cafe into a bookstore/board game shop. The best way to find these numbers is to work in a similar shop or be friends with the owner.…

I can’t really talk much about this yet because legally, until my E2 visa is approved, I can only be in the owner role, not operator. Right now, I pay my friend to be the manager. …

The business sale was a transfer of assets sale, so the previous owner taught me everything.

The cafe doesn’t wake me up several nights in a row at 3am.

650k avg revenue for past few years, COGS around 350k, Gross Profit 300k, 80k expenses, SDE 220k, EBITDA 170k. Catering is also a major source of revenue.

I got burnt out as a SWE at a startup from stress and health issues. Bought a cafe and turned it into a bookstore cafe. Annual revenue is around 600k. Seller's discretionary earnin…

Dual N-back had measurable results for me.

Serious in the sense that, "I'm going to put some effort to investigate what is going on, seek out teachers and resources, and apply my knowledge through daily practice". The actua…