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I wrote the “ai” for one of the early popular forks of Slime Volleyball. I have a lot of fond memories! Recently I wrote a modern interpretation of the game in pure TypeScript/html…

You’re probably in the process of learning this now, but in case you’re just getting started: effective multiple myeloma treatments are being approved at an astonishing rate. It wa…

I'd been waiting/hoping for someone to make something like this. Well done. A few ideas that will not clutter the UI but you might consider: - when a user changes the score slider,…

According to GPT-4, and I think this is a good summary: A "Foundational Model" in AI programming refers to large-scale machine learning models that serve as a basis for a wide rang…

Slime Volleyball directly inspired it! I mention that on the about page, https://tippycoco.com/about . And ~20 years ago, I actually programmed one of the popular Slime Volleyball …

Tippy Coco is a volleyball game in the browser. You can play with a friend at the same keyboard, or solo challenge the built-in opponents. As for the tech: it's all TypeScript + HT…

I say this because investors sit on boards and work alongside these lawyers once they invest. They learn pretty quickly who is great and can often give very direct recommendations:…

If you’re talking to investors at all, ask them for recommendations. That’s a good place to start.

As an example of the magic referred to in the post, here's some encrypted text that could be read by `pg` here on HackerNews: https://pastebin.com/raw/bxRaymaB . As explained in th…

Official response here - I work for Keybase. This article isn't just misleading; it's entirely false, and the title is both highly damaging AND false. Someone below threw out the w…

Nope, that's not the case, in fact you'll get the Lumens automatically within a day or so. If you want to _continue_ after the first month, you'll need to click the button in the a…

Not a dark pattern, an accidental leftover string from our testing. Any account registered before today qualifies. I'll deploy a fix to that shortly. Update: deployed, although you…

This was a summer internship project at Keybase, and the whole team is thrilled with how it turned out. The OP of this post is the author of the project and would be happy to answe…

Further: Keybase is a security product and it wasn't deemed worth the risk for the CEO. And while Keybase isn't made of money, the $5k was roughly irrelevant compared to the other …

There is giphy integration, and how it works is described here. https://keybase.io/docs/chat/linkpreviews . Similarly we'll be launching a location-sharing (including realtime) fea…

David Mazières (designer of the protocol) has given a number of talks. Here's a good video of his talk at Google, and I believe it's the one I watched a couple years ago: https://w…

CoinMarketCap's paid API. We're open to considering other data sources.

Good q - this step will likely be automated soon. Still, there will always be one final step of our approving any integration, otherwise there would be 10,000 pr0n sites or ad site…