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mtremsal··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
No this all happened during the formation lap. So teams could clearly push settings changes live.
mtremsal··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
Yes. And wasn’t this the first wet race of the season as well?
mtremsal··on We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
"We want you to dig for gold using our picks and shovels" is a fascinating angle for what I assume was intended as more of a showcase of the underlying versioned storage offering.
mtremsal··on ChatGPT Work
Came to a similar decision 5 months ago and ended up building “seven” on Fly’s sprites: https://github.com/1to10partners/seven

Nowadays, depending on the project’s complexity I either run just 1 sprite, several sprites, or in one case 1 permanent “CTO” VM (with a dedicated GH App identity) that specs work that a fleet of worker sprites pull and implement.

mtremsal··on CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices
I think the context is just mass international travel due to the US hosting the World Cup, no?
mtremsal··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
H1B is considered “dual intent”
mtremsal··on Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference
An AI slop pattern so widespread it’s now referred to as “it’s not pee pee it’s poo poo”.
mtremsal··on Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
Thank you, this was excellent! From McMansions, to F1, to eroticism the author has quite the range!
mtremsal··on Gemini 3
If you mean the "consumer ecosystem", then Gemini 3 should be available as an API through Google's AI Vertex platform. If you don't even want a Google Cloud account, then I think the answer is no unless they announce a partnership with an inference cloud like cerebras.
mtremsal··on No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves
Then white plays 1 stone, capturing all the black stones at once, essentially resetting the game with a 360 points lead.

(black goes first, white has Komi, so really a 260+komi points lead)

mtremsal··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
I was wrong. They’re attaching the fee to the lottery, somehow.
mtremsal··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
IIRC technically there's no such thing as a "renewal". It's just a new application that bypasses the lottery. So given the low level of thought that goes into these EOs, the answer is almost certainly "yes"...
mtremsal··on LLM Agents Are Breaking Your Platform, Not Your Architecture
Which would make MCP registries the new App Stores?
mtremsal··on The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer
This is neat. I wonder what the delta is between this and NextDNS (who funds/powers the non-profit). I imagine NextDNS blocks a superset of the baseline of dangerous domains blocked by dns0.eu? Is the main addition primarily advertising and analytics related?

edit: another key addition by NextDNS is a global infra footprint, rather than just in the EU. Oh it looks like there’s no anycast with the non-profit as well? And you have to pick your local resolver. I guess that makes sense because the main value prop of NextDNS (to me) is when I’m traveling and a local pi-hole won’t suffice.

mtremsal··on Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
> We have a free version. For now, we have kept it invite-only. Question is TOFU.

Comment from `amanchanda`, i.e. the OP.

Nice hustle writing an Ask HN post to then plug your own product, but you have to make sure to respond to questions with your _other_ account `nicooo`. ;)

mtremsal··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
Many EU countries have done the same in recent weeks. This is less about putting diplomatic pressure, and more about warning people to avoid traveling to the US due to real danger.
mtremsal··on The Road Not Taken Is Guaranteed Minimum Income
IIRC Piketty's book also made a similar suggestion of having the government as an employer of last resort, i.e. offering an unlimited number of jobs at a guaranteed minimum income. It's seen as a more "palatable" policy by many, as it's "just a job" and we've already tried something similar during the New Deal. For people who take these jobs, there's also a lot less stigma than "taking social security".
mtremsal··on There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage
IIRC the remaining risk lies in multiple people winning or attempting arbitrage simultaneously, thus dividing the expected revenue by the number of winners. So not a free lunch.
mtremsal··on Stimulation Clicker
> This is why I quit Hearthstone even though I never spent a dime on it.

Good news, you now have time to pick up The Bazaar instead! (joke aside, it's quite fun, a lot more chill, and not nearly as exploitative as Hearthstone)

mtremsal··on The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess
My first thought exactly! I have never heard of Malört outside of the cryptography/security industry, where offering it is seemingly used as a hazing ritual.
mtremsal··on AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched
Would you mind expanding on how SerDes become a bottleneck? I’m not familiar and reading the Wikipedia article wasn’t enough to connect the dots.
mtremsal··on Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained
It has become more popular as a result of Google Search algorithm changes in December 2023. Search results now tend to showcase relevant Reddit posts regardless of subreddit size or post popularity, so it’s an efficient way to beat the SEO game. There’s value in owning the subreddit itself, such as to be able to display sidemenu links of your choosing.
mtremsal··on Hermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Model
> Anyone know why a business would choose to only accept credit not debit cards?

Maybe they want to place a temporary charge to verify the card's valid? I don't believe you can do so with a debit card.

mtremsal··on How can a time traveler encrypt info so it's only decryptable after a given date
Isn’t that exactly what drand is meant to provide?

See drand, the distributed randomness beacon protocol at https://drand.love/

mtremsal··on Workbook for Technical B2B Products
I use this workbook as part of my product and GTM advisory work with technical founders working on B2B products (e.g. devtools, infra, security).

There's something unique about deeply technical products, and startups founded by engineers, that often lead them to similar challenges. There's also a unique requirement that engineers must shape the product at least as much as PMs, however technical they might be. While there's no silver bullet in my doc, there's some opinionated advice to avoid common pitfalls at various stages.

I'm not looking for new customers; I just figured that some technical founders or PMs out there might find the doc useful while navigating their own 0-to-1 journey. Cheers!

mtremsal··on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
> $100mm for a Series A is unheard of in software.

Peak 2020: https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-comes-out-of-stealth-with-100m-s...

mtremsal··on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
A significant portion of startups that raise a Seed round (or equivalent) never get to a Series A. Maybe 30 to 50% fail at this stage.
mtremsal··on Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced to 90 Months in Prison
This is a truly wild article. I was expecting them to be in prison somewhere, not attempting their 3rd major scam in a row.
mtremsal··on Ex-DeepMind scientists raise $220M to launch Paris-based agentic AI startup H
I seem to recall H doesn’t read professional at all in Japanese. :)
mtremsal··on Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
AFAICT Signal is collateral damage in this disinformation campaign. The original attack seems to be aimed at the CEO of NPR, coming from an assortment of right wing (and some Russian-aligned) voices. She happens to also be on the board of Signal which, through the prism of conspiracy theory, now extends their crusade. Given that Telegram is commonly understood to be aligned with the Russian government, this maps neatly on the US/left vs Russia/right axis through which such people already understand the world.
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