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mercurialsolo
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About mercurialsolo
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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.