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by david_shi 4mo ago
I think a lot of what people call failures of discipline actually comes from not having the tools they need. Someone who lives 15 miles away from the nearest gym will have a tougher time than someone who's gym is next door.
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by david_shi 4mo ago
Love this type of detailed textual analysis.
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by david_shi 4mo ago
For the ones that don’t have a submit button, what have you found are the best ways to get featured? I know some are pay to play but curious if there are other methods you’ve found effective.
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by david_shi 4mo ago
On the tracking point: I’ve found that a coding agent that can modify a file system (create and update CSVs) that’s accessible on both my laptop and phone to be the single best way to track things I’ve ever used. Bar none. Even apps with th
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by david_shi 4mo ago
I've heard this argument before and it's always seemed downstream of capacity constraints and the current incentives of the healthcare industry. There's a reason why billionaires like David Rockefeller, Larry Ellison, and Rup
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by david_shi 4mo ago
They don’t want you in the bake-off.
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by david_shi 4mo ago
Has anyone built LoreHub?
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by david_shi 4mo ago
Have you found any alignment research with clear a/b tests? An experiment that I found interesting was asking Claude for 10 ways to legally bankrupt Anthropic vs. Philip Morris. In the Anthropic answer, it gave reasons like employees l
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by david_shi 4mo ago
I’d imagine there’s value to being in the same room as funds and other board members, also helps with scouting new deals.
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by david_shi 4mo ago
Cool stuff.
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by david_shi 4mo ago
Easily beats the "screen extension" monitors you see at every coworking friendly cafe.
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by david_shi 4mo ago
Thought this was going to be a Sopranos/mob thing
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by david_shi 4mo ago
Perhaps we are perceptually anchored to the last few hundred years where guns provided a scalable way for peasants to kill well-trained, well-armored knights. If political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, then much of the post Enligh
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by david_shi 4mo ago
Unfortunately a lot of (economics) research is co-opted to reinforce and obfuscate in service of power.
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by david_shi 4mo ago
What's the project?
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by david_shi 4mo ago
"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes ap
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Ask HN: Why did you open source your project?
4 points by david_shi 4mo ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: What have you built with Claude Managed Agents?
2 points by david_shi 4mo ago|0 comments
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by david_shi 4mo ago
As AI becomes more capable, it seems like a company can be a founding charter and a pool of cash to be spent on tokens to achieve the aims of that charter. How do you feel about these AI only companies, and how do you think they could affec
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by david_shi 4mo ago
Is there a technical term for this phenomenon? Ladder pulling? https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-secu...
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by david_shi 4mo ago
I've spent the last 3 months making it super fast to set up new OpenClaw agents in the cloud https://operator.io - multiple isolated agents in Telegram with their own memory and tasks has been great for automating reminders
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by david_shi 4mo ago
If you burn a model to a chip what happens if there's a better model?
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by david_shi 4mo ago
that's a great looking pelican
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by david_shi 4mo ago
Perhaps Golden Ages are the rare and illusive times when a third way is possible.
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by david_shi 4mo ago
This is the singularity we were promised
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Ask HN: How do you solve AI's confused deputy problem?
2 points by david_shi 4mo ago|1 comments
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by david_shi 4mo ago
A bit off topic, but I think Google's A2A protocol could be a sleeper hit vs. the MCP protocol. Not because it's better, but with one switch a significant portion of web traffic can be directed to A2A servers through Google's
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by david_shi 5mo ago
which itself seems to have been just a ruse: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QTcL6Xc_eMM
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by david_shi 5mo ago
Incredible how often perverse incentives are implemented, it's like there's no foresight or understanding of behavior at all.
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by david_shi 5mo ago
I've found double and triple negations ("Not this. Not that. Not that either.") instead of just removing stuff to be one of the clearest tells.

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