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frankdenbow

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http://Frankdenbow.com

Building Ballers (AI Basketball Community) http://realballers.com

If you're raising for a startup, can intro you to Boardy Ventures and others: http://bit.ly/startupfundingapp

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frankdenbow··on Elevated errors across many models
i ran into the same thing, i thought it was just timing
frankdenbow··on Elevated errors across many models
I got lucky and this was in my timeout window
frankdenbow··on Claude Code Plugins
this is awesome, thanks!
frankdenbow··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
Have been using Opus 4.5 and can confirm this is how it feels, it just works.
frankdenbow··on After my dad died, we found the love letters
when my mom died i found a bunch of letters she wrote to people but never sent. Theres so much to peoples lives that you can never fully know and some of the things really shocked me. Appreciate you sharing your story, many parallels that I can appreciate through reading.
frankdenbow··on Why hasn't there been a new major sports league?
Overtime exists: https://overtime.tv/

Unrivaled only launched last year but its going well and I believe going to be a powerhouse in the womens basketball market as well: https://www.unrivaled.basketball/

frankdenbow··on Facts about throwing good parties
Get up and move is the best thing to do, there was an article on HN with the correct algorithm for this but cant find it.

Having a follow up email with everyones contact helps a ton.

I've also given people a prompt of what the question is to ask to get the convo started when people move around. Let people focus with 2-3 people listening mostly to the story of one person.

Many friendships/teams started from these tips!

frankdenbow··on Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
Nashilu Makoua did a lot of their storytelling and strategy, very talented.
frankdenbow··on Show HN: Whittle – A shrinking word game
Came here to say it needs a victory state or a score to know if I got to the best possible solution.
frankdenbow··on 15 Years of Building Jefit
Still a happy user of this app, thanks for sharing your journey. Especially love the Apple Watch app
frankdenbow··on Google can now read your WhatsApp messages
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/former-apple-engineer-explain...
frankdenbow··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Love this. Saw some computer vision work in this area that may be helpful (I used to Bodybuild so totally get the need).
frankdenbow··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
AI basketball highlights and stats community - http://realballers.com
frankdenbow··on PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods
Iron certainly can be poisonous https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459224/
frankdenbow··on Y Combinator startup Sorcerer raises $3.9M to launch more weather balloons
The reality is that the government is not doing it, so the choices are to sit back and watch things crumble or have private companies work to try to fix things. I agree with you in principle that its a sad state of affairs though.
frankdenbow··on The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting
Off topic but have you seen the app Orgo? Meant for parents juggling kids sports schedules.
frankdenbow··on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
Nice work! Would like to see what the correct result would have been for ones I didnt get after the time expires. Keep going!
frankdenbow··on Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms
Been using http://getrealnice.com which is pretty simple and clean
frankdenbow··on Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash
More likely that a podcast is a performance for marketing
frankdenbow··on Show HN: AI that can use Gmail, SMS, Slack, Calendar
Good stuff, always shipping. I definitely sit at my desktop a lot of the day so having a window for this would be clutch
frankdenbow··on NYC Subway Station Layouts
There was an app called Exit Strategy that showed you where to stand on the train to maximize your routes, depending on what transfers you were taking.
frankdenbow··on Notes on Guyana
Lots of beautiful spots to see in the interior, Kaiteur is the highest single drop waterfall in the world. Baganara Island is a good vacation spot. Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
frankdenbow··on Notes on Guyana
Well hello, fellow Guyanese in tech. My grandmother got the Cacique crown of honor (second highest civilian honor in the country) https://guyanachronicle.com/2017/02/05/outstanding-doctor-en...

I remember being lectured that I was latino since Guyana is in latin america and I had to explain that, nah.

frankdenbow··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
"cobbled together by an AI"

It will be as cobbled together as the thoughtfulness of the person in charge of the code. Same as if they wrote it themselves.

frankdenbow··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
Hey there. Been where you have been and can safely say, there is always a way out of it.

Sounds like you just need a bit of consistency to make some progress. I'd be down to chat once a week for 15 minutes and we can figure out the focus for the week. Hit me if you think that would be helpful, sounds like you can build some good stuff.

frankdenbow··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
yea this is smart. It should be obvious who i communicate with or which emails have an urgency to them.
frankdenbow··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
what would you do with the money and how much would you need?
frankdenbow··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
This is actually very relevant: most people think this is just an arms race to see who can get the better percentages on benchmarks but to me all this technology is useless if we dont give programmers and end users the right interfaces to utilize the technology.

Anthropic seems to have a better core design and human-computer interaction ethos that shows up all throughout their product and marketing.

I wrote on the topic as well: https://blog.frankdenbow.com/statement-of-purpose/

frankdenbow··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Thanks for these. Wonder how many people will use this at work to pretend that they are doing work while they listen to a podcast.
frankdenbow··on Sometimes the product innovation is the distribution
Some other recent related examples I've seen of changing the format to differentiate:

Guacamole squeeze bottle: Typically guacamole at supermarkets come in tubs, but one company put it into a squeeze bottle which lets it last longer and use it to squirt on your tacos easier. Normally I would compare prices / taste but the format trumps all of those other factors. https://www.instacart.com/products/21844889-yucatan-guacamol...?

Flour: I typically see flour sold by multiple companies in these small paper bags that you would throw away after you put it into a real container. Wondra put theirs in a shaker bottle, making it easier to use when you want to thicken up a sauce while cooking. Now their brand is shown and maintained when other wise it would just be yet another flour company: https://www.instacart.com/products/16409225-gold-medal-wondr...?

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