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This article resonated tremendously with me, speaking as someone who has been coding since the 1980s and had to develop my own taste the hard way, through lots and lots of mistakes…

Hey HN, I’m excited to show off a project I have been building the last few months called Podverse — it automatically generates transcripts, summaries, and a chatbot from a podcast…

The last couple of weeks, when using Google to search for technical content, I've often stumbled upon AI-generated blog posts from Restack.io, a startup building AI developer tools…

Whoa! Cool. I didn't see that earlier - nice.

These look great. The page says "Thousands of designers, developers, and content creators use HugeIcons Pro". Is this accurate? The project seems to have only about 493 downloads a…

This looks cool! Your website really should feature a couple of sample videos, though, since without finding the links in your post here it is hard to tell what the final results l…

Hey HN - I'm a co-founder at Fixie, a Seattle-based AI startup. We're launching an experiment to showcase what's possible with Fixie's real-time LLM-powered voice platform. You can…

I’m no fan of the WEI proposal, but the headline here is inaccurate. Rick expressed a belief that criminals were amongst those voicing concern over the proposal, not claiming that …

I have deployed similar-looking devices in places like volcanoes in Ecuador. On each of these boxes we put a prominent message in Spanish and English: "This is sensitive research e…

OP here. Thanks for the kind words. I certainly didn't feel like this was an easy raise, but then again it's the only time I've done this and my comparison points were other first-…

OctoML | Multiple Positions | Remote, Seattle, or Bay Area | Full-time | https://www.octoml.ai/ OctoML is changing how developers optimize and deploy machine learning models. We ar…

Long-time former Googler here, author of go/l6talk (internal presentation on getting promoted to L6). While there I coached a lot of people on the L5-to-L6 promotion process. It se…

I bought a Klein Bottle from Cliff Stoll's website after seeing this video. Not only did he immediately pack it up and send it (very carefully packaged!), he sent along photos of t…

I was head of the Blimp team at Google and could tell you exactly what happened, although it’s probably not something I can discuss too much publicly. Great project, great team, tu…

I used to work at Google, as an engineering director on the Chrome Mobile team. While I agree that the UX of many Google products needs fixing, it's not just a simple matter of "Go…

OctoML.ai | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | Seattle, WA or REMOTE https://octoml.ai/#op-398625-senior-platform-engineer OctoML is developing technology to compile and optimi…

This is so completely wrong. The most exciting work happening in systems, networking, programming languages, crypto, computer architecture, mobile, and many other subfields of comp…

I was originally going to list examples of bad industry-focused science in the original post, but decided against it, since I didn't want to offend anyone. Your username is "gradst…

Well, the whole point of my post is to give some tips on how not to.

Bullshit.

I'm not sure if you read the original article or not, but I very clearly point out the benefit of long-range research in addition to things more directly relevant to industry. So I…

Just like it's not fair for me to conflate all of academia together in my post, it's difficult to lump all of industry together. Places like Google have a pretty good track record …