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by sshine 1y ago
Kinda. Their Search API is not freely available, and I believe their current cost structure is preventing its popularisation. Which means I can’t embed Kagi Search or Assistant into my open source products because APIs are second-class citi
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by sshine 1y ago
> where is this expansion? They hired a technical architect and an email engineer, so the biggest expansion is clearly into email hosting. But I imagine that AI R&D continues. I hope they consider more agentic extensions than searc
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by sshine 1y ago
It’s deductible if you run a small company.
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by sshine 1y ago
This horse is dead.
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by sshine 1y ago
They took 92 presumably smaller investors, so no VC.
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by sshine 1y ago
I’ve been measuring my token count and I believe they are making a small amount on me even though I’m not holding back my AI usage. I do pick the cheaper and faster LLMs when I can, but mostly to avoid the waiting of heavy models with exten
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by sshine 1y ago
https://nicolaiarocci.com/kagi-is-profitable/ They reached profitability one year ago, two years into their existence. It’s a cool company. Edit: Corrected from two years to one year
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by sshine 1y ago
Yes, they were profitable before they reached 40k paying users. And as another commenter said: I don’t care how big they are, as long as they’re sustainable, they’re extremely useful to me.
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by sshine 1y ago
> Ooof ... I thought they were doing way better.
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by sshine 1y ago
This is paying users. And what matters to me is: that it’s enough to keep going, securing the service, and that the number is steadily increasing.
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by sshine 1y ago
Being the best Diablo player in the world is hard work.
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by sshine 1y ago
> DNS is boring as hell. I beg your pardon. DNS is extremely interesting because it is a distributed network that everyone depends on. DNS has security innovations with DNSSEC, DANE, TLSA. Granted, authoritative nameservers may be more
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by sshine 1y ago
> suspected there was some architectural change they made on the backend that broke this I think Mozilla specialises in this. At some point, having many tabs open on the Firefox iOS app would eat all the memory and lag out the phone. T
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by sshine 1y ago
I got a split keyboard and for the first time in my life, my wrists are quite strained when I type. It might be a learning curve thing, but I wouldn’t go for a split keyboard for health reasons, just because they’re cool.
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by sshine 1y ago
I treat myself with cheap milk chocolate and caffeinated beverages. I have the expensive equipment and subscriptions I need, and the more expensive chocolate doesn’t make me happier. The thing I can’t buy is time and skill progression.
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by sshine 1y ago
> This isn’t my bragging about money. I get it. Simple living. Don’t own things you can borrow for free or rent cheap. I really see how that makes for quality of life. My brother lives simply but more luxuriously. He owns less and spen
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by sshine 1y ago
> Money buys me a lot of things that lead to my happiness - the ability to tell my wife that she could stop working in 2020 when she was 44 and I was 46 and we could travel post Covid and she could pursue her passions. I told my wife t
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by sshine 1y ago
While you can say that LLMs have each of A, G and I, you may argue that AGI is A·G·I and what we see is A+G+I. It is each of those things in isolation, but there is more to intelligence. We try to address the missing part as agency and self
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by sshine 1y ago
Tauri will render a window with a web app inside on one machine. But that web app can communicate with a local backend that is either hosted by the same program, or some other program, locally or remotely.
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by sshine 1y ago
The rate of learning for infants is rapid, but unlike LLMs. Every day there are very small steps that eventually add up. The size and quantity of each step is often not that impressive, but the number of tries from first random attempt at s
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by sshine 1y ago
That's very backwards. When I ask Kagi's Assistant for references, it provides the search queries that it crawled before answering. That behavior is independent of what LLM is being used, but the reference output format may vary d
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by sshine 1y ago
I’ve wanted to use Hoot for a while now. I’ve done a bit of Wasm via Rust, and the UX is really good. But the DOM stuff is handled via a web-sys JS shim. The Leptos and Dioxus web frameworks are great if you’re building that kind of thing.
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by sshine 1y ago
Small algorithms, sure. Outside of algorithms courses, the practice has diminishing practicality. I once had to write a filesystem driver for a code, and it ended up being a little less than a thousand lines of C. I’m happy I didn’t need to
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by sshine 1y ago
In my experience, it's 70% programming, 20% office politics, and 10% project management. People who realize late they're no good at programming, or don't enjoy it, will pivot towards other kinds of work, like project manageme
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by sshine 1y ago
The students I teach are pre-university. It's called business school, and if a BSc is level 7, MSc is level 8 and PhD is level 9, then this is level 5. So they can become good programmers, but there's no math in the whole study pr
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by sshine 1y ago
> The same group of people that are going to loose their job to an LLM arent getting smarter because of how they are using LLM's. Students who use LLMs and professional programmers who use LLMs: I wouldn't say it's neces
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by sshine 1y ago
Neither better nor worse. Some of my students are naturally talented. Others achieve great results through hard work. Some half-assedly make it. And some don't even try. Those are the dum-dums. They just play games and think everything
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by sshine 1y ago
There really are two opposite policies at play: - Just say no to AI - Just embrace AI I ran one semester embracing AI, and... I don't know, I don't have enough to compare with, but clearly it leaves a lot of holes in peop
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by sshine 1y ago
I'm not using the word dum-dum to their face. And when you see them several times a week for a semester, the sympathy grows on me at least. The people who don't show up before the exam and fail miserably, they're a little har
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by sshine 1y ago
> I'm sure GP isn't calling them dum-dum to their face. If they can't even do basic stuff, which seems to be their criteria here for the name calling, maybe a politely given reality-check isn't that bad. Some will wa

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