mdwelsh
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Comment · 2 months ago
Man! I’m disappointed this article didn’t mention the coolest .plan hack of all time: you could link your .plan file to a named socket so whenever someone fingered you, an arbitrary program would run that spat out whatever output it wanted back to the client. Made for some very fun hacks, like randomly generated text every time you were fingered, or showing things like the current load on the server, etc…
Comment · 2 months ago
This article resonated tremendously with me, speaking as someone who has been coding since the 1980s and had to develop my own taste the hard way, through lots and lots of mistakes. Whenever I see a software demo built by someone mostly using agents to do the work, I have to question whether it's any good on the inside - or whether any real intuition or judgment went into its design. On the flip side, maybe none of that matters anymore - as long as it works, who cares how it was built.
Comment · 2 years ago
Whoa! Cool. I didn't see that earlier - nice.
Comment · 2 years ago
These look great. The page says "Thousands of designers, developers, and content creators use HugeIcons Pro". Is this accurate? The project seems to have only about 493 downloads a week on NPM, and 194 GitHub stars. I would have expected a lot more given the number of people you claim are using the library.
(Edit: For clarification, the NPM stats refer to the number of times the library was fetched from NPM's servers, not the number of times a developer incorporated it into a project. For popular NPM libraries, this number can be in the many millions of downloads per week. My confusion stems from the fact a library used by thousands of projects will have substantially higher numbers in NPM than what is seen here. It is of course possible that this number counts developers incorporating these icons not through the NPM library.)
Comment · 2 years ago
This looks cool! Your website really should feature a couple of sample videos, though, since without finding the links in your post here it is hard to tell what the final results look like.
Comment · 2 years ago
Hey HN -
I'm a co-founder at Fixie, a Seattle-based AI startup. We're launching an experiment to showcase what's possible with Fixie's real-time LLM-powered voice platform. You can check it out at https://hisanta.ai - you can have live voice chats with Santa, Mrs. Claus, Rudolph, and other friends (toggle the naughty/nice switch at the top for some other characters!)
We'd love to get your help testing this and get any feedback -- especially from people with kids :-)
All the code for this app is open source: https://github.com/fixie-ai/hisanta.ai
This is not just a thin wrapper around LLMs. To get the performance to this level, we've had to do a lot of engineering to wire together ASR, LLMs, and TTS models efficiently, and are doing some clever things to hide latency. Happy to answer any questions about the technology.
The Fixie platform (https://fixie.ai) powers the app and embeds the logic for managing voice sessions with LLM agents, which can be built either through a no-code UI or using our AI.JSX (https://ai-jsx.com) framework for building LLM apps. We support a range of ASR and TTS models under the hood as well.
We'd love your feedback! Drop me a line or join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/tRMV7PW8f2
Thanks! Matt on behalf of the Fixie team
Comment · 3 years ago
I’m no fan of the WEI proposal, but the headline here is inaccurate. Rick expressed a belief that criminals were amongst those voicing concern over the proposal, not claiming that all opponents are criminals, as the headline suggests.
Comment · 3 years ago
I have deployed similar-looking devices in places like volcanoes in Ecuador. On each of these boxes we put a prominent message in Spanish and English: "This is sensitive research equipment, please do not touch" with contact information.
Comment · 4 years ago
OP here. Thanks for the kind words. I certainly didn't feel like this was an easy raise, but then again it's the only time I've done this and my comparison points were other first-time founders who raised 2x what we did with less than we had done. Yes, these are all pretty senior, well-established folks, not kids straight out of college.
The main point of my article was the surprise around the extent of the VC network and the helpful interactions with them. Before going through this process, VC was a black box to me. Now, a lot less so.
A few folks below have pointed out that I must have had an extensive VC network to draw on. Not quite. I knew 3-4 VCs casually from having worked at a couple of other startups. None of them invested in us by the way. It certainly didn't hurt to get their advice. Now, of course, I have a rolodex full of dozens I could potentially call up at some point, which is useful. I can see how founders who have done it before likely find it a lot easier to get the ball (and the checks) rolling.
Comment · 4 years ago
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Series C, over $130M of funding, company is 100 people and growing to 200-250 next year.
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Embedded Software Engineer - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/OctoML/c263e74a-d74c-4940-8bbf-a65c...
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Field Engineer - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/OctoML/16ab7270-913b-4af2-bedc-3683...