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handfuloflight··on 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
With Reddit, at least it's the legal agreement you enter into them by creating an account and using it.
handfuloflight··on Show HN: Era – Open-source local sandbox for AI agents
What exactly is a microVM?
handfuloflight··on Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
Polar prohibits: Human services (custom development, design and consultancy).

Is this the case with Flowglad? We have a SaaS with a monthly team seat fee + usage fees, but we also offer a bespoke service where we may bill per hour or bill per project (for work done and delivered inside of the SaaS). So these would be higher ticket.

Would you support this?

handfuloflight··on Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
This is great! Where does the Stripe Connect process happen, I'm not seeing it in the dashboard?
handfuloflight··on Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
Any plans on building the Stripe Connect features?
handfuloflight··on Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
Is your pricing ON TOP of what Stripe charges? Are we bringing our Stripe API Key to this?
handfuloflight··on Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]
End of an era.
handfuloflight··on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
The experimental part is that he's Brown and Muslim.
handfuloflight··on AI's Dial-Up Era
It can do that today. I am doing that today.
handfuloflight··on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
Then you're missing the point of my rebuttal. You say submarines don't swim [like fish] despite both moving through water, the only distinction is mechanism. Can AI recursively create new capabilities like thinking does, or just execute tasks like submarines do? That's the question.
handfuloflight··on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
Swimming and thinking being 'human capabilities' doesn't preclude them from also being solutions to evolutionary problems: aquatic locomotion and adaptive problem solving, respectively.

And pointing out that we're in a 'semantic debate' while simultaneously insisting on your own semantic framework (capabilities vs solutions) is exactly the move you're critiquing.

handfuloflight··on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
What an oversimplification. Thinking computers can create more swimming submarines, but the inverse is not possible. Swimming is a closed solution; thinking is a meta-solution.
handfuloflight··on How I use every Claude Code feature
It's a known issue among us Claudemasters.
handfuloflight··on [dead]
And in case it needs to be said, I'm not using Hacker News as a wholesale bookmarking service (my frequency of link submissions is testament to that), only for links I think would interest this community. I believed a look into the entrepreneurial history of a marginalized community in America would be exactly that.
handfuloflight··on [dead]
I thought the audience of this website would have the base level of education such that if I had expected this response, I wouldn't have posted it.

That being said, the Wikipedia page definitely needs work.

handfuloflight··on [dead]
No. I will continue to. What's your problem?

And it's ironic your account is from 2008 and you don't know that's exactly how Hacker News started, a del.icio.us inspired, social link bookmarking service.

That's why when you click submit there's a message on the bottom thats reads:

"You can also submit via bookmarklet." Which if you click: https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html, speaks about adding a shortcut to your browser toolbar so....

so...

so...

so you can bookmark via Hacker News.

handfuloflight··on [dead]
Who is the racist? I use my Hacker News account as a way to bookmark things, if you have a problem with that, take it up with the moderators.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Negro-Business-Booker-T-Washington/dp...

> The Negro In Business is a book written by Booker T. Washington, a prominent African American leader and educator, that explores the history and current state of black entrepreneurship in the United States. The book discusses the challenges faced by black business owners, including discrimination, lack of access to capital and resources, and limited opportunities for education and training. Washington also highlights the successes of black entrepreneurs, including their contributions to the economy and their role in building stronger communities. Through personal anecdotes and statistical analysis, Washington offers a comprehensive overview of the state of black business in America at the time of the book's publication in 1907. The book serves as a valuable historical document and a testament to the resilience and determination of black entrepreneurs in the face of adversity.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

handfuloflight··on Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain
I can feel when this fluid hasn't properly flushed.
handfuloflight··on Code like a surgeon
frankensteinian
handfuloflight··on Francis Coppola selling his antique watch after $100M loss on "Megalopolis"
I mean, it is a very odd movie. It wasn't marketed at all and the production and overall atmosphere feel more like a movie with less than 1/20th of the stated budget. Like an obscure cable TV thing.

Would have been better investing $5M each in 20 new promising directors.

handfuloflight··on Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives
I'm sure there's already a significant overlap.
handfuloflight··on J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange
He's probably estimating the cost to produce these, after the fact.
handfuloflight··on J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange
Too bad that's not how much they spent on that all of that, though.
handfuloflight··on Claude Haiku 4.5
Here's a hint. What goes inside the inference engine is an array. You control that array every time you call for inference.
handfuloflight··on Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering
You're describing the classic developer dopamine loop, just faster now.

Spinning up test after test, tweaking parameters, chasing that "it works!" high, that's what debugging has always been.

You're doing the exact same thing with your code that you're criticizing him for doing with AI. Same sunk cost fallacy ("I've already spent 3 hours, might as well get it working"), same illusion of control, same "I'm on a roll" feeling when the tests finally pass.

The only difference is speed. He gets micro-hits every 10 seconds watching tokens stream. You get them every time you re-run your test suite. Same gambling structure, same reward circuit lighting up, you've just normalized yours because it happened slowly enough to not look like a slot machine.

And you're the one reducing it to "gambling" unless you're claiming human developers experience zero dopamine and write code with omniscient correctness the first time. If they don't, if there's iteration, failure, reward, then you're describing the same neurochemistry. You've just decided it only counts as "gambling" when it makes you uncomfortable.

handfuloflight··on Show HN: Wispbit - Linter for AI coding agents
Pricing?
handfuloflight··on NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
What do we build now to reap the coming of the messianic era?
handfuloflight··on How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)
Sora, show me this.
handfuloflight··on Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
I actually found in my case that is just self inertia in not wanting to break through cognitive plateaus. The AI helped you with a breakthrough hence the magic, but you also did something right in your constructing of the context in the conversation with the AI; ie. you did thought and biomechanical[1] work. Now the dazzle of the AI's output makes you forget the work you still need to do, and the next time you prompt you get lazy, or you want much more, for much less.

[1] (moving your eyes, hands, hearing with your ears. etc)

handfuloflight··on Customize Claude Code with plugins
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