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Nevin1901

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https://nevin.cc

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Nevin1901··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
I love free market competition. We're getting insane advancements every day. I remember when llms used to cost an arm and a leg for decent intelligence
Nevin1901··on Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
Cloudflare tunnels are really useful when dealing with webhooks. Way better than Ngrok and you can set it up on a custom subdomain you own. eg: site.yourdomain.com
Nevin1901··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
Correct me if I'm wrong but a human will be able to cut through the noise with quirky advertising, new/novel distribution methods, etc.

Most of the bottleneck in business isn't building the things or sourcing, it's mostly advertising/sales.

These specifically require doing something unique or interesting.

Sure, maybe LLMs can help with fulfillment or operations, but distribution still remains the hard part.

Nevin1901··on We must pace the frontier
Never thought China would be the leader in open source AI. OpenAI and Anthropic are making fools out of themselves. The reason they want this is likely because they don't own the compute and their models get distilled shortly after releasing them
Nevin1901··on How SaaS startup guys get first 100 customers first, make fkn $500k ARR fast?
They have an ICP, a no-brainer offer, and they reach out to hundreds of people per day. They also test multiple offers. That's literally it.

Most people can't get customers because they don't do enough targeted consistent volume over one channel.

For example, email requires minimum ~300 targeted sends per day to see any sort of replies. Anything less and you're guessing.

The people running ads spend thousands per month before they have a winning angle, and even then target relatively modest ROAS.

People who make content make it with little views for months or years before finding something that works.

All of this takes time, and more volume than you could imagine. Take however many outreaches you think you should be doing per day, and 10-100x it. That's the real number.

And anyone who tells you "all cold outreach is spam, don't send it!" doesn't understand the game. Most people who view your content/outreach won't buy or find it interesting. The whole point of outreach is to find the 1% who do.

So TLDR: Do more volume and test more offers. There is no shortcut. The people who are winning mostly do more volume than you do.

Nevin1901··on AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
School has always been about creating compliant workers, not educating people. They will double down on "performing the right things" and "morals" while the economy will continue on its K shaped path as AI gets more capable.
Nevin1901··on Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
Fix: Just switch to OpenAI, Grok, or other LLM's. They provide better performance and respond with 5 sentences. They also don't lecture you when you get angry.
Nevin1901··on Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
Would gladly switch over to OpenAI and pay them 2x what I'm paying Claude if this becomes generally available
Nevin1901··on We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447
Ai on its own makes mediocre (or bad) outputs. But humans using Ai get improved returns. This doesn't show that Ai is bad, only that it's being used inefficiently.
Nevin1901··on GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN
Or just use Linux.
Nevin1901··on Proving a human wrote something
Detecting Ai use based on "how many keystrokes did you type and when" doesn't solve the problem, because someone can just write a program to mimic human typing in the words.

So the issue isn't "did a human write something", it's what the actual content is

Nevin1901··on Claude Opus 5
Excited to use it? Will we be seeing Haiku 5 next? /s
Nevin1901··on Advertise in ChatGPT
Funny how none of their testimonials/case studies state any ROI. I'd guess it's because it isn't too strong at this point.

But it's always been the case that initial bidders overpay for ads.

Nevin1901··on Zed 1.0
These are all fairly standard terms.... nothing crazy
Nevin1901··on Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
I've managed to get close enough w/ kde. I just asked claude code to implement it for me, and it web searched and built config files.
Nevin1901··on Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine?
But that won't fit the narrative that Antrhopic is an evil company nickel and diming their users...
Nevin1901··on Anthropic Redesigns Claude Code Desktop
From their X:

> You can now run multiple Claude sessions side by side from one window, with a new sidebar to manage them all.

Nevin1901··on Can Claude Fly a Plane?
I wonder if using a model with a higher TOK/s would yield improvements, as the model will have faster feedback loops
Nevin1901··on OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio
Thank you so much for making this. Screen studio was unbelievably expensive for what it was
Nevin1901··on When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
This is actually the first use case where I agree with the poster. really interesting, especially for technical people using ai. why would you spend time setting up and installing an mcp server when u can give it one man page
Nevin1901··on Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API
use the new gpt oss to have 0 logs end to end. but cool project
Nevin1901··on Ask HN: Using Stripe Atlas to start a LLC for a small side project?
I used it twice. It's good. You can also just take payments under your own name if it's a small project but otherwise stripe atlas is good. Only pay the delaware llc fee every year and that's it.
Nevin1901··on Ask HN: How did you acquire your first customers for a consumer SaaS?
I made a vscode extension which I charge money for. I mainly relied on reddit + seo to gain users. Eg: I made interesting reddit posts, and made a pretty website. Then users find it organically
Nevin1901··on Ask HN: How Do SaaS Startups Choose Payment Gateways?
For me it was the developer experience and credibility. I run a small project (~4k arr) and I don't mind paying fees since it was so easy to set up. Also, the investment required to learn these things. I don't want to spend a lot of time configuring everything, I just want a simple page and that's it.
Nevin1901··on Ask HN: How did you become a good listener?
Work in a job where you talk to people (eg: supermarket) and you'll pick up listening skills. Also listen to family, friends, etc. I mean half of the battle is literally being open minded and just genuinely be interested in someone. If not, then why else are you listening to them?
Nevin1901··on That Editor
You can hear him talk more about his editor choices in this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/ZMBQmhO8KqI (That Editor is around the 12:00 mark)
Nevin1901··on Cosmopolitan v3.5
The "actually portable executable header", fun to read through: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jart/cosmopolitan/1.0/ape/...
Nevin1901··on I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
He uses an image segmentation model to detect if a person is standing under his apartment.
Nevin1901··on College students should study more
Not a lot. I do exactly this and I'm only left with a few hours per day to do whatever I want. I could obviously sleep less/eat out but that's not worth it imo.
Nevin1901··on Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context
Interesting launch. I saw you were the original founder of tabnine. I’m curious as to what you’ve learned since you launched tabnine in 2018, and why you’re deciding to create another code completion ide extension.

Will be trying this out.

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