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sire-vc··on A retrospective of my time on the internet
This is the classic 'things were better back then' crap. It was easy to let people set up their own website on your platform when CSAM was unheard of. It was easy to host a website when IPv4 addresses were plentiful and free. It was easy to get more land when you could declare war on the previous owner. It was easy to dump toxic waste when that was legal. The world changed for a reason.
sire-vc··on The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
The LLM secret techbros don't want you to know.
sire-vc··on The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
What makes a company founded by an non-MBA have a soul? Only a true Scotsman deserves a billion dollar exit presumably.
sire-vc··on What happened to nerds?
'Were'? There are still people claiming that fronted isn't real coding. It is deeply embedded in human nature to define an us v them, and if skin colour is off the table substitutes must be found.
sire-vc··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
I had a mysterious bug related to environment variables being different in managed (csharp) and unmanaged code. I told GPT 5.4 'here is how to reproduce the bug' (it only happened when certain shells were used) and told it to 'figure it out'. It just iterated, trying stuff to narrow it down before finally landing on the bug (it had to do with the unit test console runner). When I glanced at the logs, it was a basic 'try this, nope that didn't fix anything', add logging 'that fixed it, make sure it wasn't a timing issue etc, oops it was' etc. That's when I realised: nothing it did was anything I couldn't do, but what would have taken me a week of debugging took 10 minutes for the AI, and I could do something else at the same time.
sire-vc··on Google Safe Browsing incident
No, however it does include a Microsoft entra/Azure AD/Microsoft 365 login for that clients tenant. It is also a newly registered domain so I can understand why it looks suspicious. The most frustrating thing is that this is all a machine I.e. no-one I can speak to, nothing I can do to fix it. My fate has been decided by an algorithm.
sire-vc··on Google Safe Browsing incident
I am a solo developer. I recently created a new web app for a client. Google has marked as phishing so they can't use it. Obviously I can't do anything about it except report error and wait. I'm worried if I move it to a new domain that one will get marked as well. Not sure what to do TBH.
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