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shpran

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    Comment #48911221

    A blog post reviewing brain computer interfaces, succeeding and failing BCI companies, and timelines for commercialization

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    Comment #48621353

    thanks! I tried writing a program where if it can't find the runway online, then it tries to guess by using other values, clerk is not really in risk of ever running out of money, …

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    Comment #48614855

    good idea, I will roll out tomorrow.

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    Comment #48614850

    no scraping the yc startups is easy, I've already done that, its just writing and researching the actual profiles uses an internal tool (built into the website,I can trigger it fro…

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    Comment #48614747

    Thanks, this is all really interesting feedback, I'm mostly free right now, so il definitely try to roll out these changes soon. probably will announce them on website blog.

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    Comment #48614687

    I just approved a whole bunch of micro businesses! I do not get payed for this, and these aren't ads, instead I do it so people can find under the radar early companies.

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    Comment #48614101

    I fixed it

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    Comment #48614091

    acessing crunchbase even if its the free version with AI agents is illegal since they have a paid API, so I need to manually get it, which is fine for now, but I eventually need to…

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    Comment #48614080

    This is pretty early stage, I'm planning on adding more startups every day, il Luma and Saronic soon.

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    Comment #48614073

    this is pretty early stage and so I didn't want to make a ton of profiles only to have to update them later because of an issue int he generation pipeline, Im planning on adding ab…

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    Comment #48613217

    just fixed it

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    Comment #48612830

    hey just checked the pipeline after running, the anthropic profile looks better now. (I will roll out more updates in the next few days to keep improving accuracy)

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    Comment #48612659

    micro companies aren't added by me, people submit their own, then I go in and approve, haven't gotten any submissions yet, when I do I'll add them in.

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    Comment #48612562

    just added a agent ledger, it shows exactly what the agents were doing during the pipeline, u can find it at the top of the sources tab. (it truncates part of the ledger sometimes …

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    Comment #48612330

    I got the agents to cite sources, there's a bug with fetching the urls from the DB, the way it should work is when you hit verified it leads you to the source, working on fixing it…

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    Comment #48612300

    just launched the button, click it, fill out form, il manually go in aprove, and write your profile.

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    Comment #48612281

    just added roughly 20 startups, focusing on biotech

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    Comment #48612222

    AI agents have to cite sources for each thing (there's a bug with displaying sources, it should let u click a fact and send you to where the agent got it. I'm working on fixing tha…

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    Comment #48612194

    Sounds good! its just I used up most of my API key limits in development, and I'm keeping some so I can run improvement pipelines or fix errors, so il batch the YC companies day by…

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    Comment #48612173

    AI agents have to cite where they get stuff from, also people can flag issues, and I'm gonna run pipelines periodically to fact check pages. But yeah, with this kind of site I do a…

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    Comment #48612153

    yeah, just spotted the error, AI agents seem to be searching for news without adding keywords like "latest", I'm updating that, and changing some system prompts, also adding a fact…

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    Comment #48612126

    As far as I can tell from FAQs on hacker news, if your previous post failed to gain significant feedback (in this case, only 1 user interacted with my old post) you are allowed to …

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    Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

    I've been building StartupWiki, a free startup database designed to make it easier to discover and research companies. The original motivation was frustration with how difficult it…