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qixxiq

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About qixxiq

Co-founder of Smyte (YC W15) acquired by Twitter

Previously: Instagram (Facebook), SnapBill

http://www.github.com/qix

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jyud; my proof: https://keybase.io/jyud/sigs/gpvgfbbChwQ2UYzmAoa1yKWjK68nsglbOCQ63jOjak0 ]

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    I’d caution against your “free forever” offer. Most people tend to backtrack on it. There’s one case where it gets super popular, or attacked by spammers/bots, and the site becomes…

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    Ask HN: "Claws" and Human-in-the-Loop Safety

    Hi all- I built Sandclaw (https://github.com/qix/sandclaw) to test an idea of having a human in the loop on any write path that the agent might do. The core agent has access to rea…

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    Comment #45733179

    Current implementation has the following limitations: Maximum object size: 65534 keys The order of object keys is not preserved ... These limitations may be lifted by using more by…

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    Comment #42335343

    A piece of this (after just plain greed and enshittification) is inflation. Or perhaps some type of shrinkflation, just offering less services at the same price.

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    Comment #41636107

    I don't have an understanding of SSE in depth, but one of the points the post is arguing for is compress once (using zstd dictionary) and send that to every client. The dictionary …

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    Comment #39694308

    I think there's one extension, although you _kind of_ covered it with "you just like the product" Some people are addicted to the product. It's not even that they like it any more,…

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    Comment #39692656

    I've been using Google Sheets as a data store for some of my latest projects, and it's really (mostly) delightful. https://www.wheremoneygo.com barely has a database, and bedsides …

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    Comment #34701732

    Honestly our findings from working at scale (Facebook, Google, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, ...) were actually the opposite. With hand written (not arbitrary) rules it's easier to und…

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    Comment #34699703

    I've tried to release this a couple times in the past (you'll notice the git repo has a four year history), and happy it's finally out the door. If anyone is interested in using th…

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    Comment #34699328

    This was temporary due to the Twitter API being turned off, should be working now! (With slightly older data)

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    Comment #34699251

    Sorry based on some other feedback I was just hacking away on turning off the profanity filter. Didn't think about the profile images (which we're not scanning, but typically is as…

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    Comment #34698793

    Ah! Yeah extremely poor timing. The Twitter API has stopped letting me fetch the events. Going to try see if I can fix it quickly. In the meantime the Wikipedia demo should be work…

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    Show HN: SQRL – Anti-spam rules language Twitter acquired in 2018, open-sourced

    Hey all, author here! This is a demo of the rules engine we built to fight spam/abuse on the internet. It was built based on learnings from Facebook & Google, while trying to make …

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    Comment #27320771

    Yes, but stock ownership isn't even and so it'll again primarily go to the CEO/etc (while reducing their tax impact). The employees earning minimum wage, and who likely don't hold …

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    Comment #27207639

    Yes. The buyer would might have been willing to pay $15,000+, but wanted to anchor (and start low) so went $4,500. The real max was introduced when the seller gave the $15,000 numb…

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    Comment #26456439

    A minor clarification about IPFS here: The metadata in the NFT can (and in my opinion _should_) point to an ipfs:// style URL. The websites displaying the NFT would have to use som…

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    Comment #26254204

    Was released early December, was pretty confident about it-- probably should have bought more than one ;)

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    Comment #26250208

    I bought one of his "Into the Ether" NFTs[1] but now I'm in a fairly interesting position. If I prove ownership of the artwork (via a signed message from the address) then Beeple w…

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    Comment #25951468

    Would bitcoin be where it is today without Coinbase? Not to say it's impossible, but their work and approach definitely helped bring Bitcoin to the masses.

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    Comment #25789462

    ... and now you get to my point why I argued ETH2 is likely better on the security front. Bitcoin needs a huge factory. ETH2 needs a billion dollars. I feel like a billion dollars …