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chermanowiczon Bending Spoons acquires Airtable for $1.25B

Was great... how did so many things go wrong over the last few years? Sorry for the employees, equity worth 0 and probably being laid off by Bending Spoons

chermanowiczon Gemini 3 Deep Think

It's so capable at some things, and others are garbage. I uploaded a photo of some words for a spelling bee and asked it to quiz my kid on the words. The first word it asked, wasn't on the list. After multiple attempts to get it to start asking only the words in the uploaded pic, it did, and then would get the spellings wrong in the Q&A. I gave up.

chermanowiczon Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash

the talk is that sambanova-intel is akin to a firesale, so who knows what the real story with any single company. same with graphcore.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/sambanova-explori...

chermanowiczon Shipping 100 hardware units in under eight weeks

How do you implement the same thing on Android?

chermanowiczon Shipping 100 hardware units in under eight weeks

It looks like there are spacers that might fill in different gaps depending on a case - the whole usb plug looks a bit long to suit different cases

chermanowiczon Shipping 100 hardware units in under eight weeks

Will you offer this without a subscription fee? I like it but for this it should just be a small voice model running on device, not cloud - especially given you don't use APIs. I think you'll get a lot of adoption if it doesn't have a subscription or cloud requirement.

chermanowiczon Figure AI Valued at $39B

https://archive.ph/r2Jb7

chermanowiczon Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity

I can also guarantee you points 2 & 3 are pretty wrong as well. Funny (and also sad) how different peoples realities can be. I have been worn out sitting on both sides of the table to tell you the truth. (One thing I will say is that within VC, the vast majority of the folks actually doing the work are sympathetic and helpful to companies, working with early/senior employees, but it gets lost up the food chain so to speak and there's usually just one or two people making decisions at the end of the day about a particular deal or a whole portfolio- and these people are generally very self-interested.)

chermanowiczon GPT-4o

On one hand, some of these results are impressive; on the other, the illegal moves count is alarming - it suggests no reasoning ability as there should never be an illegal move? I mean, how could a violation of a fairly basic game (from a rules perspective) be acceptable in assigning any 'outcome' to a model other than failure?

chermanowiczon Google Search's cache links are officially being retired

Sucks, but there were three users I think

chermanowiczon Visualizing American inflation across eight categories

This is a list from 2018

chermanowiczon Google's Bard shows incorrect information in its launch ad

For what it's worth, thats not accurate - a spectrograph was used in 1995 to discover the first exoplanet by Mayor and Queloz, and they received a Nobel prize for this. So GPT is right. One can be pedantic and say that not an "image" but most would disagree.

chermanowiczon We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it

Here's the thing... so many jobs are bullshit. So many things people are paid to write, presentations made, etc. are bullshit. I'm not judging the bullshit per se. There's good bullshit and bad, necessary bullshit and not. But yeah, when you accept this reality, AI is sort of perfect for the bullshit that exists in our lives.

chermanowiczon I help seniors with technology issues

Is there a bloatware app that one can run that identifies all the garbage on a pc and removes it?

chermanowiczon Helium, T-Mobile Launch Crypto-Powered 5G Mobile Network

https://www.helium.com/5G#vendors You run your own base station/gateway, but let's be real - it's all T-mobile (and 4g) right now

chermanowiczon New cars make me want to Saab (2020)

I don't get the Saab obsession. I can't speak to anything mechanical about them, but I've seen plenty and they look like many others on the road at that time. Like, what exactly is so aesthetically interesting? a different grille design? You could make the argument about many older cars - like the Nissan Fairlady/Z - but not really the Saab.

chermanowiczon Taiwan hit by widespread power outages

"malfunction"

chermanowiczon Launch HN: Fogbender (YC W22) – B2B support software designed for customer teams

This is a huge pain point for so many companies! I haven't seen a solution that does this well until now.

And not limited to customer support - think about partnerships and sales (while perhaps a smaller opportunity).... shared Slack channels can be such a pain.

Anyways. Andrei and team are really smart, great people. Very exciting!

chermanowiczon Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing

This. As a former rower I'm biased, but also I have a C2 that sits around unused, mainly because as I've gotten older, I care less about the competitive/fitness optimization aspect of working out and more about fun.

Having tried several of the third party apps for C2, they've all suffered from 2 problems: pretty sub-par development/bugginess & wrong (or bad) content for the mass market. So much training oriented content and little on the fun/gamification side. I would pay $ for the right app, but not for a new rower. Ergatta is cool but again I wouldn't go out and buy one. When you think about the hundreds of thousands of C2s, it is a nice opportunity.

chermanowiczon Show HN: Pluto – In-browser spatial video chat

Is this surprising given who posted?

chermanowiczon Building Kubernetes native SaaS applications by deploying in-cluster data planes

Off topic from the comment you replied to, but could you explain how Pixie is different from something like Crossplane? For some reason in my head that was the first comparison I made. Your blog post does hit on a major pain point for private cloud/on-prem deployments which is management & troubleshooting post-deployment. I'm looking for the best solutions for this problem so always like to hear what people recommend.

chermanowiczon I asked GPT-3 to make a presentation for me

This is better than many presentations I have been subjected to over the years.

chermanowiczon A first look at Unreal Engine 5

Just for fun, somewhat unrelated, here's what is possible on an 8 year old engine (if you want to melt your GPU/CPU a bit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8kEIOBoRGk

chermanowiczon US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor

OK, but can its owner hold the copyrights to its works? This is probably a more pertinent question.

chermanowiczon They Said You Could Leave Scooters Anywhere, Then the Repo Men Struck Back

https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/FileC...

Every state/city is a little different with regard to the specifics

chermanowiczon My Parents Give Me $28k a Year

https://archive.fo/gBd5I

chermanowiczon Request for Startups: Water

I'm excited about this quite a bit, but does YC have any experts on water & science/engineering in general? "lower-cost desalination plants, novel purification technologies" are technical science & engineering problems often closely tied to academia & research. Fortunately though there are some great resources in the Bay Area in these fields.

chermanowiczon A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China

Re: business competition, worth reading another post at the top of HN today:

https://backchannel.com/when-it-comes-to-china-googles-exper...

chermanowiczon Parker Conrad Steps Down as Zenefits CEO

His contribution may also be its destruction (had things continued).

I can't imagine any reasonable company wanting to do business with Zenefits right now or even some time from now even if there is evidence they've improved and corrected things. Its too risky for a company to entrust them with their HR & insurance needs, and I wouldn't even want to be remotely associated with them. Any company with a smart CEO or General Counsel would advise to wait a while, and I think that'd be best case scenario. There goes your "growth"

chermanowiczon How we use Slack in our family

"It turns out our school is living in the future, providing a RSS-feed per child."

That's crazy (awesome).