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thm

38,940 karma · joined April 19, 2008

Mostly known among your parents for creating the infamous Popurls and Twidroyd (Very first Android Twitter app). Idealab alumni.

Later biztoc.com (With Mark Cuban, acquired by ProRata)

Still running upstract.com

thomas.me

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Austria, Japan, CA

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thm··on Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
Ask Jeeves - Only took us 30 years to come full circle.
thm··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
AI needs to get rid of model versioning and model effort combinations. It's like selling an automatic transmission but still asking you to choose the gear, then after the trip telling you how much fuel you burned.
thm··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
The place is Rosenau actually.
thm··on The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
Nothing seems to accelerate moral development in twenty-somethings quite like having enough vested equity to suddenly afford principles.
thm··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Hard to trust a guy with your life after he already came for your legs.
thm··on Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
Talking predominantly to humans on a web forum.
thm··on Agent memory as a file format
A whole lot of text to say "Just use text".
thm··on I'm becoming AI-blind
Perhaps a one-trick pony is all we need.
thm··on Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
The Twitter situation was a bit different: I built the very first Android Twitter client which grew to millions of users. We later got acquired by TweetUp and I'm partly responsible for their strategy to acquire other popular clients, too. We basically owned 60%+ of the third-party market within months with the potential of 'migrating' a large portion to a new tbd Twitter competitor. Needless to say Twitter wasn't happy, and the rest is history. Never build on somebody else's turf.
thm··on IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]
I remember showing up in meetings with a Psion Netbook in '99 was a nice flex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_netBook
thm··on Reddit's AI is turning posts into podcasts and short videos
TikTok most recently
thm··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Eternal September already?
thm··on Newsfeeds.net
Also: https://flipso.com
thm··on Exclusive model of Ferrari's first electric car, Luce, sells for $40M
Reminds me of the guy who bought the NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet.
thm··on Gloomberb
For news: https://biztoc.com
thm··on YC startups are abandoning .com
Anything other than a .com for a commercial site screams gimmick and immediately strips away most of its credibility. Go .com or go home.
thm··on Manus will return to operating as an independent company
Too expensive & unpredictable credit system.
thm··on More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts
Great podcast on this: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XqYCQT4PgD3axPy0w5Wcd He calls this category certainty.
thm··on ChatGPT Work
OpenAI clearly failed to consult ChatGPT for branding advice.
thm··on Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people
https://flipso.com is a small boutique site.
thm··on Read the Emails Revealing How Anthropic's Pentagon Relationship Fell Apart
Gift Link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/read-the-emai...
thm··on Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
People never wanted microtransactions, and agents are not people.
thm··on Bring back crappy forums
https://flipso.com does chronological + up/down voting but without nested comments.
thm··on Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615814
thm··on [dead]
AI Marketing Slop
thm··on Image Compression
I recently built a small image optimizer for macOS since ImageOptim is mostly abandonware now. Specifically for folks who dislike complex build tools for this job https://shiboru.com
thm··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
That’s two zeros too many.
thm··on Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine
I guess either buying stars, or one or the other video from a TikTok AI attention farmer.
thm··on It used to be hard
I have bad news about the demand for DJs.
thm··on CrankGPT
I can do 300W for 30mins - does that mean I can barely heat up a Pop-Tart?
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