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flysonic10··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
There were two:

1) When I was testing one of the early coding agents, I gave it admin keys to a fresh AWS account and it configured everything beyond just building a demo site. That was, "oh shit, tool-use is going to be the killer feature of GenAI."

2) When I was still skeptical of the system as just a more-or-less dumb statistical predictor of the next token/word, I read the argument that even if it is a statistical predictor, the fact that it can reason means the intelligence is necessarily baked into the statistical model somewhere. That was "oh shit, intelligence is actually modeled."

flysonic10··on Nano Banana image examples
I added some of these examples into my Nanna Banana image generator: https://nannabanana.ai
flysonic10··on Ask HN: Who Is Baking?
I need to get started on croissants, or better yet pain au chocolat. What recipe do you use?
flysonic10··on Ask HN: Who Is Baking?
I like this approach
flysonic10··on Ask HN: Who Is Baking?
Nice! All for the gram... all for the gram
flysonic10··on Ask HN: Who Is Baking?
If you take 10 min tonight to make the starter (poolish), you'll be good to go to make the main dough in the morning!
flysonic10··on Ask HN: Who Is Baking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig6vqqHHulw
flysonic10··on Make Ciabatta While Working from Home
Yes, quite literal!

Ciabatta aligns quite nicely with the pomodoro, requiring being left alone for several 25 minute intervals of rise between folds.

Would love to see photos when you make it!

flysonic10··on Make Ciabatta While Working from Home
This is broken down into pomodoros where you do real work for 25 minutes, then tend to the dough during your 5 minute breaks!

Not sure why the first one got flagged. Reposting with a matching title.

flysonic10··on Show HN: Track New Twitter Follows by Tech CEOs, Founders, VCs and Executives
Currently tracking ~50 people. Let me know who else should be on the list!
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
It's an "exit intent modal"
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
Looked into this. Turns out that the default extensions report 0 installs, so the original number is correct.

Though, the latest number is now ~137M installs.

flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
ooo.. I'll get on that.

There are in fact 10 default extensions. Will filter them out...

flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
Do you mean some way of integrating donation requests by extension devs?
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
What would you like to see? I'll make some.
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
turns out 2fb.me redirects users to this PayPal page after they share their twitter post on Facebook:

https://www.paypal.me/qkast/2#_=_

flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
Yes, and since we don't have data past 10M installs for any given extension, all of those are essentially tied for the top spot.
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
...and where does it come from?
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
The top list lists only the top extension in that category.
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
Yea, I'm also curious.
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
Just ran the query to find that Chrome HD Themes has only 51,724 installs across now 6064 extensions.
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
Yea, the title refers to the author that is prolific by installs (FreeAddon), rather than the author that is prolific by extensions (Chrome HD Themes).

Chrome HD Themes has over 6k published extensions!

flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
Some other stats:

- The most popular category is “Productivity” accounting for ~40k extensions and 676M installs

- Google itself authors 155 extensions accounting for ~133M installs

flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
The developer is FreeAddon
flysonic10··on Part 2 of our Chrome Web Store analysis: Category breakdown, ratings, authorship
Some highlights:

- The most popular category is “Productivity” accounting for ~40k extensions and 676M installs

- Google itself authors 155 extensions accounting for ~133M installs

- A single publisher has accumulated ~72M installs across 618 published extensions

flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analysis of Extensions
I appreciate the openness about this.
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analysis of Extensions
I appreciate the detail in your privacy policy.

- Do you collect browsing history? Do you sell it? - How many companies have offered to buy the extension from you? For how much? - Have you tried publishing an in-app or in-store paid version? - Is the "User generated information" encrypted at rest?

flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analysis of Extensions
Also, how do you deal with duplicately named extensions?
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analysis of Extensions
What happened to it?
flysonic10··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analysis of Extensions
Yes
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