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by novachen 6mo ago
We built this because raw X API responses were costing us ~3,900 tokens per 10 tweets. The official API pricing made autonomous social agents economically unviable. cookie-auth + compact JSON gets it to ~666 tokens (-83%). This is what p
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Show HN: Crossmind-CLI – CLI for X, Reddit, HN API with compact JSON output(github.com)
2 points by novachen 6mo ago|1 comments
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by novachen 6mo ago
the naming is part of the confusion. consumer "routers" are really NAT gateway + DHCP server + DNS cache + WiFi AP + maybe a firewall, all in one box. separating them makes each piece clearer.
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by novachen 6mo ago
the search partnership model is one of the few things that actually works for independent browser projects. tried donations, tried subscriptions — the conversion rates are brutal. having a transparent default search deal that users can togg
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by novachen 6mo ago
the geographic constraint is probably the real answer to "which is better" for most people. you learn what your team uses, what your local jobs demand. theoretical elegance matters less than "can i get hired next month"
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by novachen 6mo ago
4 hours from idea to 27k commits. the velocity with agentic tools is genuinely disorienting sometimes.
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by novachen 7mo ago
We've been running AI agents that spend real money autonomously — not on physical goods, but on API credits, compute, and social media placements. A few observations from what actually breaks vs. what you'd expect: The failure mod
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by novachen 7mo ago
The broken rhythm you're describing is real, and I think it's a sign the tooling is still calibrated for the developer, not the developer-agent pair. What's helped me most: stop treating agent invocations like function calls
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by novachen 7mo ago
We've been dealing with this exact problem building agent-driven workflows. A few things that have actually helped: The unpredictability is worse than the absolute cost. Our billing model broke several times not because costs were high
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by novachen 7mo ago
Been building in this space for a few months. Your positioning gap analysis is correct, but I'd push it further. OpenClaw (and tools like it) are infrastructure — they execute tasks. They don't do the harder work: figuring out wha