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andrethegiant

1,937 karma · joined August 30, 2007

@apple → various startups → @featurepeek (YC S19) → @netlify → @workos
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andrethegiant··on Nearly 90% of our AI crawler traffic is from ByteDance
[Shameless plug] I'm building a platform[1] that abides by robots.txt, crawl-delay directive, 429s, Retry-After response header, etc out of the box. Polite crawling behavior as a default + centralized caching would decongest the network and be better for website owners.

[1] https://crawlspace.dev

andrethegiant··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
I'm building a platform for developers to build, deploy, and share web crawlers. It's built entirely on Cloudflare and aims to be the cheapest and easiest solution for crawling tens of millions of pages.

https://crawlspace.dev

andrethegiant··on Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine
I think OP was referring to how fast someone built something with Anthropic's new Computer Use product, as it was announced yesterday
andrethegiant··on ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms
I’m working on a platform[1] (built on Cloudflare!) that lets devs deploy well-behaved crawlers by default, respecting robots.txt, 429s, etc. The hope is that we can introduce a centralized caching layer to alleviate network congestion from bot traffic.

[1] https://crawlspace.dev

andrethegiant··on Why wordfreq will not be updated
That sentence stood out to me too, very powerful. Felt it right in the feels.
andrethegiant··on Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data
Have you tried the Structured Output feature that OpenAI released last week?
andrethegiant··on Mistral NeMo
That's my question -- why license as Apache 2
andrethegiant··on Mistral NeMo
> What I'd worry about is Amazon/Cloudflare repackaging my model and outcompeting my platform.

Why let Amazon/Cloudflare repackage it?

andrethegiant··on Mistral NeMo
I still don’t understand the business model of releasing open source gen AI models. If this took 3072 H100s to train, why are they releasing it for free? I understand they charge people when renting from their platform, but why permit people to run it themselves?
andrethegiant··on Mistral NeMo
Why would it take a couple days? Is it not a matter of uploading the model to their registry, or are there more steps involved than that?
andrethegiant··on How Apple Fell Behind in the AI Arms Race
Let's talk after WWDC
andrethegiant··on I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
> Sale price: $598,000 (2.4x annual earnings)

Also confused here, the math doesn’t seem to be mathing up

andrethegiant··on xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
ML < Rocket Science < AGI
andrethegiant··on Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
Same here on everything you mentioned
andrethegiant··on How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
You can also, you know, just not use Google
andrethegiant··on The most talented person in the world
Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5 News
andrethegiant··on A dystopian iPad commercial has X ripping Apple for crushing instruments and art
I would have no issue if you smooshed a 3D rendering of my house
andrethegiant··on A dystopian iPad commercial has X ripping Apple for crushing instruments and art
What’s wrong with smooshing inanimate objects?
andrethegiant··on A Single Div
Lynn hype
andrethegiant··on HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI
How about some color? Or in other words, how much longer until the Vercel-inspired brutalism fad wears off?
andrethegiant··on Should Apple Kill Siri and Start Over?
They should rebuild it from the ground up and call it Iris
andrethegiant··on Strudel: A live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser
This is super cool
andrethegiant··on Launch HN: Glide (YC W24) – AI-assisted technical design docs
I was initially confused because Glide is the name of a different YC company (from W19: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glide). But now I understand that Glide is the name of your product, but not company
andrethegiant··on Kagi search reached 20k paying members
> Simply put, wearing the Doggo t-shirt is an incredibly awesome experience.

Reeks of buyer’s remorse. No one cares about your shirts. Imagine if they used that 200k to buy carbon offsets instead.

andrethegiant··on Only 150 apps have been designed specifically for Apple's Vision Pro, so far
The iPhone launched without an App Store at all, and it did just fine
andrethegiant··on Beeper Mini is back
what is SLAPP in this context?
andrethegiant··on Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
Dashboard widgets! I miss those — yes we still have widgets in macOS, but being able to author in HTML/JS/CSS really leveled the playing field in who could contribute. I made a widget called Gas that fetched local gas prices, and that got a bit popular too. Developing it led to my career in frontend and I’m sure didn’t hurt when I applied to (and landed) a job at Apple right out of college.
andrethegiant··on Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
Will give this a try. I had given up on bookmarking and now rely on Raycast to search through my browser history, which works pretty well. But I miss the browsability, and screenshots for each page entry.

What would be awesome is if I could wget all the assets locally, and then use a local LLM to search its contents.

andrethegiant··on Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe
If you tap the Instagram logo in the top left and select Following, your feed won't have any ads.
andrethegiant··on Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN
Link to documentary?
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