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Re:A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:43PM (#49441105)
Personally I found it pleasant to read. Why does it matter if/how much AI was used to write it if the end result is great?
Re:Series C and Scale (Cursor) on Friday June 06, 2025 @02:33PM (#44203685)
I thought it was a pretty interesting choice to post the funding announcement as the team and not as the CEO, more companies should probably do that.
Rails has ActiveRecord, which has an extremely elegant REPL. It's a delight to use.
Re:Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @12:41PM (#41436656)
Congrats on launching. WebGL is really hard, I built a similar engine and it's tougher than it seems.

Your budget is only 8.33ms if you target 120hz too btw :) And realistically less because you don't get all of it.

The circle of life :)
Another advantage startups have over big companies.
I didn't want to editorialize the article title, but yeah, it's tacky.
Re:The rust project has a burnout problem on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @09:27AM (#39028117)
FWIW, not to me. Variety is the spice of life. It’s their blog, they should use whatever style they feel like using.

Besides, is lowercase poetry a fuck you to the reader as well?

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) on Friday December 01, 2023 @02:28PM (#38491068)
Canvas | Sales Engineer | San Francisco in-person | Full-time | $200k + 1%

Canvas [0] is building the easiest way for founders to grok their startup through analytics.

Come solve this with us and save founders from drowning in Google Sheets.

Why should you join?

- We make money from building for customers that love us

- We actually really need you. You’ll have a huge impact on our trajectory

- We love shipping and we hate bureaucracy

- We’re here to win

- We’re backed by Sequoia, SV Angel, founders of Fivetran, Segment, Datadog, Webflow, Lattice, Flexport, Instacart, Front, Okta, DoorDash, Loom, Shogun, Postmates, and more.

Also hiring killer AEs atm, ping me for a job description.

Interested? Email me at [email protected] (technical CEO)

[0] https://canvasapp.com

[1] https://canvasapp.com/careers

[2] https://canvasapp.com/blog

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:51AM (#38099976)
Canvas | Startup Engineer | San Francisco in-person | Full-time | $200k + 1%

Canvas [0] is building the easiest way for founders to grok their startup through analytics.

Come solve this with us and save founders from drowning in Google Sheets.

Why should you join?

- We make money from building for customers that love us

- We actually really need you. You’ll have a huge impact on our trajectory. This isn’t a ZIRP scale up

- We love shipping and we hate bureaucracy

- We’re here to win

- We’re backed by Sequoia, SV Angel, founders of Fivetran, Segment, Datadog, Webflow, Lattice, Flexport, Instacart, Front, Okta, DoorDash, Loom, Shogun, Postmates, and more.

Interested? Email me at [email protected] (technical CEO)

[0] https://canvasapp.com

[1] https://canvasapp.com/careers

[2] https://canvasapp.com/blog

Re:When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @10:01PM (#37504066)
What would be your recommendation for replacing TOTP today?
Re:When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:59PM (#37504041)
Excellent write-up, thank you.
This is such a great post for so many reasons, but I'm glad Lenny made that chart in particular. The overnight success fantasy is toxic and I've seen it infect (and sometimes ruin) many startups.
Re:Keisan Casio is shutting down on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @07:36PM (#37330536)
It looks like only the English version is shutting down. The Japanese version seems to be going strong: https://keisan.casio.jp/
Re:Ask HN: Co-founder equity split methods? on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @05:35PM (#36702009)
My two cents:

- The equity split is about incentivizing/rewarding you both for the work ahead, which is going to be much harder than anything thus far

- I would treat the 2 years as a sunk cost

- If you are true cofounders, 50/50 or 51/49 is the fair way to go

- Vesting diffuses the edge cases (either of you leave early, either of you turn out to be flakes), and is a necessity if you want to ever raise VC money

- It sounds like there is a question of him working only part time. In this case he should not get founder equity. Read the clerky docs as there can be severe drawbacks of granting significant amounts of equity post-founding

Re:Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (2009) on Saturday June 24, 2023 @02:44PM (#36461529)
Likewise, and have had many people refer to it as well (including managers!)
Re:What I Learned Reading 1k Investor Reports on Friday March 03, 2023 @05:54PM (#35016137)
Pretty good overview from the investor side. I find it's a helpful forcing function to be disciplined about retrospecting regularly – it's as much for the benefit of the investors, as you the CEO.
Re:Startup Decoupling and Reckoning on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @04:03PM (#34988311)
I hope startup founders read this and internalize it. Those who raised at 100x multiples and think "this will not happen to me" might be for a rude awakening a year from now.
Pretty cool! Any plans for a cloud version? If so, what would be the pricing model?
Re:Show HN: Adventures in embedding Postgres schemas in GPT on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:48PM (#34698335)
Our experience so far is that it's pretty tricky and feels a little early to use in production. Curious to hear how others have solved similar issues.

That said, we're looking forward to seeing how the API evolves and seeing what GPT4 has in store.

(I work at Canvas)

Thank you for sharing! Fun to read a story of someone sticking around for so long and not jumping ship frequently. Curious, as an early engineer, what were some things that Sumo Logic did really well that made you want to stay there beyond four years?

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