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zachlatta

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About zachlatta

Founder of https://hackclub.com.

Email: zach@hackclub.com (mention HN)

Website: https://zachlatta.com

GitHub: https://github.com/zachlatta

Recent public activity

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    If you go to https://hackclub.com/clubs , there’s an application form. Once you fill it out you’ll get a response within a week. If anything comes up, please email jared@hackclub.c…

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    Comment #49144166

    If you go to https://hackclub.com/programs , there are a bunch of things you can join right now! Another commenter mentioned it - but you should also join the Hack Club Slack at ht…

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    Comment #49144146

    If you have any ideas on how we can better orient the community around self expression and self actualization, please email me! It’s really important to me that Hack Club is a spac…

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    Comment #49140756

    Hey, you should join Hack Club! I was just at an event where a high schooler designed and built a continuous variable transmission ( https://outpost.hackclub.com ). You’ll meet a t…

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    Comment #48490455

    I once set up a 1 month hotspot with Verizon when I moved into a new place that didn’t have internet yet. After the month, I returned the hotspot to the store and they told me I wa…

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    Comment #48482961

    At Hack Club we have made tremendous investments to help teenagers get into electronics and design their own PCBs over the last 2 years. It’s much harder to fake and in many situat…

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    Comment #48476576

    If you check the post on Pangram it shows up as 100% AI written.

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    Comment #48405256

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    Comment #48347650

    Make sure you open it with a Chromium browser. Made by a 17 year old Hack Clubber. Repo here: https://github.com/crabby605/DOSPDF

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    Comment #48021125

    This is how you get bad stuff. This mindset will turn the software ecosystem into mechanical / electrical engineering. Closed source, bad, and expensive tools.

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    Comment #47957412

    Two founders of a small startup in Europe trying to build a new decentralized git forge and open sourcing their code are anti-democracy? Come on.

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    Comment #47950583

    Just like engineering, monetizing is an iterative process. As long as they don't make it hard to move off their platform, IMO it's completely fine for them to try different monetiz…

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    Comment #47949763

    This kind of absolutism is crazy. People who are doing 90% of what we want them to do should be greatly celebrated and rewarded. Else we penalize idealistic people who are not perf…

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    Comment #47735234

    This is a website created by a professional lobbyist who still has an active role taking lobbying contracts through a firm they founded called Steinhauser Strategies.

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    Comment #47712716

    Running a nonprofit is really, really hard and I commend them for doing it. I hope they get through this crisis. Hack Club almost went insolvent in 2017. We would have, if it wasn’…

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    Comment #47675605

    AI slop. Please see the Hacker News guidelines on writing with AI.

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    Comment #47474797

    You are barking up the wrong tree. Ryan can't do anything to make government grants for this kind of work exist. It would be a huge public service if you could get more public supp…

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    Comment #47317477

    This is really not true. It’s important that when people say this, we hold them to it and reward them when they see it through. The internet has a tendency to penalize people who t…

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    Comment #47308890

    This project was made by a teenager in https://blueprint.hackclub.com , a nonprofit program I'm helping run that helps teenagers learn PCB design and get up to $400 USD in funding …

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    Comment #47056232

    Watsi is an incredible organization doing incredible work. Chase and Grace are both incredible people. When I was 15 and first starting Hack Club, I went to Startup School 2013 and…

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    Comment #47043260

    That’s awesome! The specific thing that was causing the long latency was the image LLM call to describe the current context. I’m not sure if you’ve tested Handy’s post-processing w…