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Hi HN, Curious how many folks here use LaTeX in their work or study? I built this as a solo dev to scratch my own itch: https://TexSandbox.com/ Uses a mix of Claude 3.5 Sonnet and …

Interesting point. OpenAI has said they don't train on files uploaded via the API (like the Assistant API), but unclear what the policy is for documents in GPTs. Either way, the si…

Cool, makes sense! It seems like you're heading in the right direction on packaging/pricing. Charging for services you manage, more team members, and security features bigger cos c…

Congrats on the launch, and great you'll be dedicating more focus to Tiptap! If anyone wants to see another example of an app using Tiptap, I built https://duckbook.ai as a fun/fre…

Comments like this remind me of the old-timers from IBM saying "but wait, we invented the PC! and the cloud! and..." Gotta put products in the market, or it didn't happen...

Look at Snapchat: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/16/snapchat-announces-750-mil... Just above 700m MAU. So yeah, probably aimed at their direct competitors in social.

Sam doesn't have much financial upside from OpenAI (reportedly, he doesn't have any equity). And he wrote about the risk in 2015 months before OpenAI was founded: https://blog.sama…

Also: Figma, Linear, Notion, Slack, Superhuman, Pitch, Loom. All Electron. I’ve never understood the hate Electron gets on HN, when it powers so many great products that users love…

When I was a product leader at Dropbox back in 2015, we chose to build our Gmail integration on the InboxSDK and we're generally happy we did. It let us focus on our core user expe…

Is this true though? I can send $1000 USD to someone in France who wants EUR for $7 with Western Union. How does Bitcoin or Ethereum let me do this for less?

The focus on compactness (or other geometric properties) as a goal is misguided. The districts don't exist to look pretty or have nice geometric properties. They exist to translate…

The 2015 federal transportation bill allocates $48B to transit over 5 years and $205B to highways. I've never understood why people frequently describe transit spending as a "gover…

The unpopularity of annuities seems like a direct consequence of loss aversion, which says losses are more psychologically powerful than equivalent gains. [1] If I trade $100k in s…

(Hi all, I'm the PM for the Dropbox desktop client team.) I just wanted to let you all know that we take any claims like this really seriously. There aren't any known bugs on the D…

No, you'll only get prompted on desktop/mobile the first time you link your account. If you already have a linked desktop or mobile app, it will continue to work without a prompt. …