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sberens

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About sberens

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https://getbrighter.com

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    Comment #48690040

    For comparison, openrouter says opus 4.8 is ~55 tokens/s and fast mode is ~102. 750 tokens/s for their largest model is going to be nuts

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    Comment #48580161

    great, just confirm you also have >>$200MM revenue[0] and have also previously founded a hard tech startup! [0] https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/midjourney-revenue-...

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    Comment #48580022

    Also fmr cofounder of leap motion, which developed a mouse that didn't you to touch it!

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    Comment #48579989

    I don't understand how people can hate on this. It's probably the most novel & ambitious consumer health device ever? Plus they're doing it fully bootstrapped. Let them cook!

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    Comment #48535291

    If all you need is the idea, then the minions could easily start their own company and reach a similar order of magnitude outcome.

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    Comment #48317635

    Investors are usually prevented from selling until 180 days after IPO

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    Comment #48305459

    > They've got, ballpark, $5t to $10t to make back in the next 5 years OpenAI's spending commitment is in the ~1T range for the next 5 years, and Anthropic is ~300B. If they continu…

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    Comment #48089606

    Have you seen https://fort.cx ?

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    Comment #47237831

    As someone who likes bright monitors, I'm excited to try the 2000 nit peak brightness! Are there any comparable monitors to the XDR brightness wise?

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    Comment #46891460

    I did use it for this project! While the UI was good, there was a lot of last mile debugging to make charts/animations/responsiveness work well.

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    Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code)

    There's been a lot of discussion around the california budget and some proposed tax policies, so I asked claude code to research the budget and turn it into an interactive dashboar…

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    Comment #46880530

    Glad you like it - we're working on improving the airflow right now actually! Thanks for the feedback on the paint.

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    Comment #46880514

    Thanks so much for the kind words and being an early supporter <3

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    Comment #46879565

    Because the lamp is 6'3" it's only below eye level for people who are 6'7-8. We had another 6'5" customer who was worried about the height but they said it was totally fine even wi…

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    Comment #46879492

    We had to remake half the mold, and I split it 50/50 with the factory.

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    Comment #46878842

    Just made one - use HN100: https://getbrighter.com/discount/HN100 :)

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    Comment #46878772

    LEDs are pretty insane these days - the ones we use have an L90 (time until they hit 90% brightness) of >50,000 hours (17 years if you use it every day 8 hours a day).

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    Comment #46878695

    We use constant current reduction dimming so there's zero flicker!

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    Comment #46878660

    Thanks! The ups and downs of startups are very real (maybe doubly so for hardware)

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    Comment #46878513

    It's 60k lumens now, and it draws 580W off the wall

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    Comment #46878471

    Looking back I agree it was miraculous lol, I don't know if I'd do it again...

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    Comment #46851877

    The main cost driver is the sheer size/weight/power. Dimmability, adjustable CCT, and smart home controls do add a decent chunk though.

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    Comment #46851849

    Thanks :) It turns out "hardware is hard" isn't an exaggeration!

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    Comment #46851833

    Yep lumens are additive (though your eyes perceive them logarithmically). I don't know much about car headlights, but chatgpt says high beams are typically 25-45 watts, and assumin…

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    Comment #46851761

    The controls weren't working because we had wired them up according to the labels which were wrong (which is also why the measurements didn't make sense to us).