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agordhandas

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agordhandas··on We're pausing the Agent SDK credit change (Anthropic)
Just received this as well. Wonder what caused this turnabout.
agordhandas··on What Leopold's $5.5B portfolio reveals about powering the AI boom
It's not! I wrote the comment myself
agordhandas··on What Leopold's $5.5B portfolio reveals about powering the AI boom
I started paying attention to the power grid when I realized that the biggest constraint on AI isn’t compute, but electricity. The more I dug in, the less I understood, and the more I wanted to.

Then I saw that Leopold Aschenbrenner made $1.3B last week betting on Bloom Energy and its solid oxide fuel cells tech. Oracle signed a contract with Bloom to power their upcoming data centers.

It turns out that powering a new data center is a challenging game that combines both science and policy (and often politics). In this piece, I dive into a number of different ways to power data centers, some of which are scalable but logistically hard, others which are novel and promising but whether they are scalable or not is TBD.

agordhandas··on Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)
That kinda defeats the purpose of why scheme was the language of choice in the first place! The goal was for us to fall in love with programming, not a programming language.
agordhandas··on SQLModel – SQL Databases in FastAPI
Been a fan of FastAPI! Does this support async?
agordhandas··on Ask HN: How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?
Assuming your users are also users of Slack, I highly recommend creating shared channels; that way, they can reach out to you in your slack, without leaving their own. Email is great, but there is something about IM that feels way better.

Also, if you are offering your product/service for free initially, I would say, "it's free, but in exchange you gotta give us 20 minutes on a call every week/every other week". This ends up being super valuable.

agordhandas··on [dead]
Love it! I have seen too many such checklists before position these tasks as all-or-nothing. Good to see something that inherently prioritizes some items over others.
agordhandas··on Show HN: RpCheckup – Catch AWS resource policy backdoors like Endgame
This looks cool! Very timely. Every time I update our AWS settings (or provision new users/resources), I spend a decent amount of time just worrying whether I inadvertently opened up everything to the web.

Any plans to support running this as a cron job and diffing successive outputs?

agordhandas··on Launch HN: Sunsama (YC W19) – Daily Planner for Busy People
We have been using Sunsama for quite some time. It's great to manage your to-do's or bite-sized tasks. I heartily recommend giving it a shot! It's good to have something that forces you to plan your day every morning, so you only take on things that you can do. Being able to see what others are up to is also nice, but I don't use that functionality.

edit: /s/hardly/heartily

agordhandas··on Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests
I independently used this tool a couple days ago. Helped save me a lot of debug time!
agordhandas··on Launch HN: Axdraft (YC W19) - Legal documents for startups in minutes
Hey guys, this is awesome! To help with SaaS sales agreement for my own company, I started builiding a tool just like yours this past weekend. I am glad I did not invest a lot of time into it :-)
agordhandas··on Kicking off Stripe’s private beta in India
I think YC funds competitors often (not sure how often). For example, Amplitude and Mixpanel are both YC companies.

https://www.quora.com/Would-Y-Combinator-invest-in-a-company...

agordhandas··on Show HN: Residency Match Simulator
For anyone who wants more info: here's the blog post that accompanies the simulator https://medium.com/@agordhandas/residency-match-simulator-78...