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by cjbarber 10d ago
Thanks! Investor bios for the investor panel would be helpful, agreed. The why join a breakout startup section links to those people's career advice posts.
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by cjbarber 10d ago
Interesting, fwiw HN comments are 9pt and comment headers are 8pt, whereas the descriptions on the breakout list site are 9.4pt (12.5px). Though I do agree it's small.
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Breakout List: Great startups to join(breakoutlist.com)
2 points by cjbarber 10d ago|5 comments
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by cjbarber 10d ago
Hi HN, I made this list of startups to join. I asked people for help identifying the investors who have a good view on how different startups are doing. Then I asked some of those investors to pick their top bets inside their portfolio, and
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by cjbarber 11d ago
I found this interesting. > We evaluate 11 frontier models (see Figure 1), all run within the OpenCode agentic harness. Claude Opus 5 performs the best, yet still only manages to pass 12.3% of tasks. Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra are
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Atlas-Finance: Evaluating AI Agents Inside a Bank(joinhandshake.com)
2 points by cjbarber 11d ago|1 comments
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Remind HN: Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight
11 points by cjbarber 2mo ago|0 comments
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by cjbarber 2mo ago
From Jeff's twitter post: > Our general approach is to automate the experimental loop. We think this approach is broadly applicable across many different fields of science and engineering. We’ll initially focus on ML research and en
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by cjbarber 2mo ago
My understanding: it’s like tmux but the session lives on a server instead of one machine and you can open it on your computer/phone/etc
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by cjbarber 3mo ago
Bright Data ranks #1 on Foil's leaderboard [1], but is still detected. ScrapFly is #4 and ZenRows #7. And I guess Capsolver isn't really a scraping thing but is more just for the captcha component. I think it'd be good if the
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by cjbarber 3mo ago
This (agent detection) is now a kind of emerging space. Obviously it'll get much more important, too. Other products in the space: - Foil ( https://usefoil.com/ ), I'm biased, a friend is building this - Kasada htt
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by cjbarber 3mo ago
This is often, but not always, also what stand up comedy is.
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
I think of computer use as like last mile delivery. APIs and bash and such are the efficient logistics networks. Both have different benefits. Obviously, use the efficient methods when you can.
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
Awesome, thanks for checking it out.
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Show HN: I made a quiz to help people learn Claude Code features (with macOS UI)(slashquiz.org)
3 points by cjbarber 5mo ago|3 comments
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
Thanks for answering!
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
> market uptake. I think the market uptake of Claude Cowork is already massive.
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
My view is different. Agent products have access to tools and to write and run code. This makes them much more useful than raw models.
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
The history of both knowledge work and software engineering seems to be increasing in both volume and complexity, feels reasonable to me to bet on both of those trendlines increasing?
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
> Maybe but the product category is not necessarily a monolith in the same way that Claude Code is. These general purpose tools will have to action across a heterogeneous set of enterprise systems/tools. What would make it not be a
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
> For all the benefits that agents offer, they can be asymmetrically harmful. This is not a solved issue. Strongly agreed. I saw a few people running these things with looser permissions than I do. e.g. one non-technical friend using cla
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
> There are businesses that want bespoke AI tools and don't have the discipline to deploy them in-house. I don't know if it is ever possible for OAI & friends to develop a "hyper" agent that can produce good outco
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
> Non-technical users expect a CEO's secretary from TV/movies: you do a vague request, the secretary does everything for you. LLMs cannot give you that by their own nature. What are you using today? In my experience LLMs are al
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
Yes, and the same thing will happen in non-coding knowledge work too. Making knowledge work cheaper will cause complexity to increase, more knowledge work.
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by cjbarber 5mo ago
My current expectation is that the Cowork/Codex set of "professional agents" for non-technical users will be one of the most important and fastest growing product categories of all time, so far. i.e. agents for knowledge work
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by cjbarber 6mo ago
I was sent this and thought it looked pretty interesting. I and others collected more sandbox tools here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102258 .
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Moat: Run AI agents in isolated containers(majorcontext.com)
3 points by cjbarber 6mo ago|1 comments
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by cjbarber 6mo ago
Surprised that no one commented on the clever title!
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The Friend Compound Field Guide(livenearfriends.com)
3 points by cjbarber 6mo ago|0 comments
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by cjbarber 6mo ago
I think this is smart and very interesting. I see it like an aggregator marketplace. A powerful position to be in. Cloudflare, GitHub (if they shipped more), Anthropic and OpenAI are also in decent positions to do this. I wrote notes on thi

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