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Started working on an LLM application for language learning. Are there any good resources that show how differently structuring prompts gives different results, in a reliable way. …

Thanks for sharing a critical insight.

Good to know there's a whole set of actions you have to be prepared for if you list a company's logo -- discounts, set up reference call, etc. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing your insight.

I agree. I see single-digit million ARR startups list Google, Facebook, Visa, etc. as customers. Do you think they actually went through the process of getting permission to 1. lis…

Many startup websites list company logos on their website as a form of social proof. I'm wondering if these startups took the company's permission before displaying their logo.

What's are some widely believed to be sound but hanging by a thread things around us that are not sustainable? Usually something a minority knows and talks about but most people ar…

You own the pointer to the image but the pointer can never be dereferenced.

In the less distant future, our grandchildren will read the wikipedia on the NFT mania of 2021 and exclaim "I can't believe you guys were that dumb" At that moment I'll point to th…

Amazing synthesis of facts... so much I didn't know. I have a copy of The history of the future and was planning to read it. If all it's going to be is PR for Luckey, I will donate…

Watched the video from start to finish. It's basically too good to be true -- modular, undetectable, lethal, rain proof, etc. Picturing the meeting room where the Anduril salesman …

It's for insights like these that I come to HN. Thanks for disabusing me of the notion that Oculus was a classic garage to greatness story.

Only if you are in all hands on deck mode. It's helpful when a team to be in sync on an urgent and critical issue. Otherwise, always-on communication tends to be a distraction.

Do you mind beaming me up on what's happening/happened with Clubhouse? I know what the app is about not much clued into the fortunes of the company.

Are his essays not copyrighted? If they are copyrighted, probably a good call to take the repo down.

Thanks a lot for sharing your wisdom. A counterintuitive yet better way to understand how modern business works.

The video you shared is unbelievable (in every sense of the word).

I could be wrong on the timeline, but wasn't Ben Evans at that time a partner at Andreesen Horowitz. Partners are expected to be cheerleaders of their investments. After all diffic…

Do you mean Anduril? I have only a passing knowledge of Anduril, thanks for sharing your impression of them. But knowing his track record, I tend to believe Palmer Luckey has the a…

Unprofitability is rampant among public software companies: https://survivingtomorrow.org/why-do-so-many-famous-companie... Wonder if you have an opinion -- has unprofitability alw…

I knew a startup founder who was spending 10-15K Euros on marketing each month. He knew the startup was a dead-end but had raised money and wanted a "managed X million $ budget" bu…

"AI" also gets used for cosmetic reasons. I knew a startup that got acquired. They had a .ai domain with no AI product whatsoever.

Now I'm glad I started this Ask HN as your response is eye opening. You should write a blogpost about it.

I'm hoping this to be a funny-but-it-somehow-works thread of tactics. Of late I've seen product creators declare staggering (unverified) revenues for their side-projects and make i…

We're all strangers on this forum. Half take the numbers at face value, the other half doesn't. The allure of this thread is the author's claims on revenue. I'm asking on behalf of…