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mercurialsolo

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About mercurialsolo

Building cabal

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    Comment #48656954

    This whole thing reeks of AI slop writing - wtf allowed this to be on the main page

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    Comment #48089458

    Not your weights not your brain. Owning your own action and decision model is super important as these models emulate more of our decisions, thinking and learning. Built claudectl …

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    Comment #47865438

    The best design is invisible - most (web)sites are designed for text based reading / watching - primary modality. Maybe we will see more inspired design - with voice, video or agen…

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    Comment #47857063

    every wrapper either gets acquired or stays long enough to be a zombie startup

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    Comment #47832938

    15 mins into this - Built this to identify the fraudsters https://github.com/mercurialsolo/realstars We should do a hall of shame!

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    Show HN: See if the GitHub stars are real or fake

    Read the top trending post on Github and decided to hack up this one - it's an OSS project based on the CMU Star Scout. Ideas open - please submit issues for improvement. Star, For…

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    Comment #47832767

    Cost of signalling is way lesser than the cost of verification.

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    Comment #47832736

    Stars are like for developers? and you have a bunch of creators now entering the arena. what did you expect?

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    Comment #47775117

    Why not just do event based triggers e.g. register (web)hooks instead of schedules time based triggers. Have a mechanism to listen to an event and then run some flow - analyze, pla…

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    Comment #47506781

    For the past few days have been thinking on the future of open source in the agent era - a lot of more coding agents and source code gets generated by agentic tools. Small essay on…

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    Comment #47408311

    This whole post sounds - LLM generated

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    Comment #47070400

    Codex has now caught up to Claude Opus and this is a defensive move by Anthropic

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    Comment #46717338

    The slop is everywhere

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    Comment #46716743

    I wonder if we need to "bitter lesson" this - aren't general techniques gonna outperform any constitution / laws which seem more rule based?

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    Comment #46656823

    Clickhouse needs observability models to be more useful to agent run infra

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    Comment #46654860

    Software markets are in a thermopylae kind of pass - every inch matters now

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    Comment #46627919

    A perspective on where opportunities lie in the markets today.