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skeptrune

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Interests: Blockchain, Cycling, Entrepreneurship, Hardware, Open Source, Privacy, Running, Sports, Startups, Web Development, Writing

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Founder/CEO at trieve.ai helping with search, recommendations, and RAG

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skeptrune··on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules
*edit. Will this actually change OpenAI's behaviour to any meaningful extent?
skeptrune··on Sued by Nintendo
I expected to see way more cases considering Nintendo's reputation. Are there cases missing?
skeptrune··on Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon
I'm skeptical, but how can you not cheer for this? Sounds so awesome.
skeptrune··on Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line
Yes, I forgot the details and just looked them up.
skeptrune··on Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line
Does nobody else remember Apple intentionally reducing battery life so you'd have to buy new phones?
skeptrune··on Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance
Its hard to imagine not going fully native in the modern day with coding agents. Most of the code can just be clanked out.
skeptrune··on Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
Good people over there
skeptrune··on NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again
Just get the standardized test scores you need and call it a day. I find this to be very performative from a student perspective.
skeptrune··on I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel
Simon posting tiktok quotes on his blog was not on my 2025 bingo card.
skeptrune··on The Continual Learning Problem
I appreciate that people are going beyond RAG and few shot prompting.
skeptrune··on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
I know that this is supposed to be targeted at NextCloud in particular, but I think it's a good standalone "you should care about how much JavaScript you ship" post as well.

What frustrates me about modern web development is that everyone is focused on making it work much more than they are making it sure it works fast. Then when you go to push back, the response is always something like "we need to not spend time over-optimizing."

Sent this straight to the team slack haha.

skeptrune··on Jujutsu at Google [video]
I love this. Will review my presentations by this standard in the future haha.
skeptrune··on Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews
Ah, I see now.
skeptrune··on Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews
I feel like this is really smart. Going to have to set it up!
skeptrune··on One year with Next.js App Router and why we're moving on
Homeroll Vite plus Express and call it a day.
skeptrune··on One year with Next.js App Router and why we're moving on
>This is because when Next.js loads the actual Server Component, no matter what, the entire page re-mounts. I was begging Next.js to just update the existing DOM and preserve state, but it just doesn't.

YES! YES! I FEEL SO SEEN RIGHT NOW! I find this behavior unbelievably frustrating. It's hard for me to understand why they ever even shipped RSC's without fixing this.

skeptrune··on Nvidia Becomes World’s First $5T Company
Not on my 2020's bingo card at all. What a crazy run
skeptrune··on I Don't Want Ads on My Refrigerator
I think this is a sour grapes argument. There is certainly a world where advertising and coordinating campaigns requires a lot of creative thought.

Ramp, a finance company for corporations to manage spend, did something absolutely amazing in New York with one of the actors from the office recently[1]. Those kinds of activities certainly take trained creatives!

The optimistic view is that there are more ads than ever and the bar for what it takes to stand out has been raised. So as someone with liberal arts degree, there is more opportunity for you to leverage that into commercial and creative work than ever before.

[1] https://artofthebrand.substack.com/p/stop-selling-start-ente...

skeptrune··on Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
Facts. They really need to make pricing more clear across the entire product.
skeptrune··on Tailscale Peer Relays
Yay! Excited to see them building this in public.

I recall that tailscale DERP servers were always slow and made things feel delayed when they had to be used as a relay.

skeptrune··on Show HN: Bash Screensavers
I love seeing projects like this on the front page. They are so fun and can be little small tricks that improve your quality of life drastically.
skeptrune··on I tried OpenAI's new Atlas browser but I still don't know what it's for
I am incredibly amused by the idea that OpenAI was so cynical about the latest in what people are hyping that they decided to make a browser themselves.
skeptrune··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
My understanding is that they became more of a hardware company than a software company over the past few years and they just don't care about shipping with the same level of polish anymore.
skeptrune··on Roc Camera
I like the spirit of this, but not the implementation. It feels very performative to create a ZK proof to show that a photo is real. And not really in the spirit of capturing magic moments on film.

I think that a disposable camera, or even something fancier, like a Mamiya C330, are better and more gratifying bets for the money.

skeptrune··on Building an LSP for your docs by overcoming Vercel
I rarely ever read documentation outside of the code blocks. So anything that makes those more valuable and gives me context and surrounding copy without having to read is awesome.

I cannot believe how much of a pain it was to ship this, though, given how simple it is in theory. Docker has been solving this for a decade, but we are somehow still relearning the lesson that engineers just want to ship their machine to prod.

skeptrune··on Show HN: Thanks Stars – A CLI that stars all GitHub repos your project uses
What an awesome idea. This feels so good to run. :)
skeptrune··on Build your own database
I love the design and examples in this post. Easy to read for sure.

Exercises like this also seem fun in general. It's a real test of how much you know to start anything from scratch.

skeptrune··on BERT is just a single text diffusion step
Fun writeup! It's amazing how flexible an architecture can be to different objectives.
skeptrune··on Go beyond Goroutines: introducing the Reactive paradigm
My understanding was that Go intentionally avoided patterns like this to improve readability.
skeptrune··on WebSockets for Vercel Functions: How We Built It
I was wondering how this worked. Very cool usecase for pubsub!
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