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valhalladev

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About valhalladev

Writer, developer, researcher https://valhallaresearch.net

Launching New Things Soon

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    Dario Amodei believes that the end goal for AGI/ASI is building a "country of geniuses in a data center." That is supposedly One Smart Model, presumably developed by Anthropic. I'm…

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    Show HN: I'm giving LLM's and agents access to all of your favorite content

    I got tired of Claude being wicked smart but only being able to access out-of-date information that isn't super pertinent to my research. So I'm building a way to give everything f…

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    Show HN: I built a SaaS idea generator that uses LLMs to generate business ideas

    I got tired of folks complaining they couldn't think up a SaaS idea, so I whipped up a quick web page that generates 75 SaaS ideas per day. You can vote on your favorite, and each …

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    Comment #41304735

    ... I don't think I'm seeing the point you're trying to make. I'm saying that there is a massive power imbalance in freelancing that is not at all the same as the power imbalance w…

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    Comment #41301740

    At least in the United States, the government has the ability to and a history of stepping in for the employee to ensure they are reimbursed, and court cases _very frequently_ side…

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    Ah yes, I ruin it for everyone by "letting" a company with significantly more financial means "get away with" breaching contract. Again, I acknowledged the mistakes I made in this …

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    I want to reiterate, not to be catty to iancmceachern but to make it clear, I know that this can be done and can be done correctly (and I've even watched that video!) but for me, t…

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    Net/30 is 30 days after the contract is signed in this case, Net/60 is 60 days. Sometimes instead of "after the contract is signed" it is "after work is delivered" but my case was …

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    Hi folks. This is a blog I wrote up detailing what will almost definitely be my last freelance contract. I want to get ahead of a lot of the comments I foresee from HN: - Yes, I kn…

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    Oh wow... this is infuriatingly hard lol

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    Show HN: Tired of investing rationally? Check out Random Stonk

    Random Stonks - One Random Stock Pick Every Single Day. I got really bored and wondered just how quickly I could build and launch a super simple web application. Turns out, it took…

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    Not trying to entice you with this comment, moreso trying to clarify, especially since you took the time to give constructive criticism: My thinking is this: everyone has their own…

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    That's totally fair! This is a project I started last week, so I definitely plan on posting more about it in the future, on the blog, etc. I got some good feedback on Reddit about …

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    Hey folks, I'm Mitch! I've been a software developer for the better part of a decade now, and I kept running into the same problem: There are tons of resources for developers out t…

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    Show HN: I got tired of losing great dev resources, so I'm making DevCheatSheets

    Over the years, I've found thousands of awesome blogs, StackOverflow answers, YouTube videos and, most recently, ChatGPT prompts that have helped me a ton in my software developmen…

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    Show HN: GrabbrApp – Securely Grab Certs and Malware from Sketchy Infrastructure

    I've been in the information security industry for quite some time now and at every company I worked at, I always ran into the problem of grabbing malware samples, certificate info…

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    I've been in the cyber security/threat intelligence industry for a couple years now and noted that one problem I've had at every job I've worked at is how much of a pain it is to d…

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    How do you gather information about malicious infrastructure?

    I'm working on a cyber security SaaS platform that helps cyber security researchers gather information about malicious infrastructure - download malware, scan ports, fetch SSL cert…