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Re:A New Storytelling Tool on Monday July 20, 2026 @05:11PM (#48984939)
Cervantes?
As a public proof of P34, this is bullshit. The headline claim rests on missing code, hidden notebook state, inconsistent published numbers, and no reproducible environment.
Re:Show HN: ArtCraft AI crafting engine, written in Rust on Monday February 02, 2026 @11:31AM (#46857944)
seems a fork of storyboarder without attribution
No signup or payment, inmediate payment flow on landing page
Re:Global Phone Plan – No More Crappy ESims on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @07:20AM (#42245047)
69 dollars per month? just use airalo
what is wallapop? never heard about it
A chinese huggingface clone
No add documents or memory context?
Re:I am done. I give up on Friday December 23, 2022 @09:37AM (#34106263)
Probably you forgot the most important part. Have rich parents.
Re:Ask HN: Are you boycotting Qatar World Cup? on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:00AM (#33595965)
Yes
I'm working exactly on this
Re:China Plans to Feed 80M with ‘Seawater Rice’ on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:25PM (#30602651)
I'm working on this problem since the past year, and certainly it can scale to a wide more people and have very interesting byproduct (like carbon capture).

Contact with me if you are interested in learn more.

Re:Crypto platform Wormhole hit by $320 mln hack on Thursday February 03, 2022 @05:41AM (#30190864)
You wanted to say: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-57520169

I'm working on this direction, with an very specific seaweed that solve this problem now and doesn't need freshwater or fertilizers. If anyone is interested reach me on my profile.
Re:Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors on Sunday August 15, 2021 @03:29AM (#28186881)
> In university (which I paid for myself through internships + loans)

So you got a loan that your family backed and you were able to work as an intern in various places. You also went to a prestigious university. You were a privileged 1% and after entering YC you are part of the 0.1%. This would not have happened if you had been born in Namibia.

My complaint is that by using the leverage of the 0.1% you try to convince the 99,9% that: if you work, think and play hard you can achive your dreams. This is no longer the case. Maybe it was like that 10 or 15 or 35 years ago. Today the wealth difference and inequality is abysmal because of the network effects. So basically you don't need to be good or bad business, you just leverage your network and keep going.

PS: I'm also a 1%

Re:Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors on Sunday August 15, 2021 @02:55AM (#28186749)
> I guarantee you if you build a product w/ a high growth rate or engagement, VC will be kicking down your door to give you money.

Why I need a VC then? Did you understand why the Venture Capital industry was created in the first place on the United States in the 60's? If I have a working product with high rate and cashflow, I just use the private debt markets and keep going and expanding. We are not talking about that.

Re:Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:40PM (#28184155)
100% guaranteed success in fundraising. You only need one of these options:

- Be a friend or acquaintance of the fund manager.

- Be the child of an important client of the investment bank.

- Study at a prestigious university together with other children of the bank's clients

- You have sold your previous business or already own a very successful one.

It is a fallacy to think that your pitch will be of any use in 2021. It is 90% personal relationships, 5% narrative and 5% luck. Not even the business plan is relevant anymore (WeWork and many others)

Re:New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:52PM (#27679380)
Thanks for the tip! Miss google on the services
I'm the CTO of a crypto hedge fund since 2014. If you are newb and want to start working with bots/algos/signals; I must advice you that when I started on early 2014, it was already late for deploying HFT. Also you compete against the frontrunning happening inside the exchanges, so traditional finance tools don't translate to crypto very well. Took me between 4-6 years to refine a valid strategy that is able to move thousands of coins at the same time and beat the crypto market on any condition. This is probably one of the hardest thing I ever did. So if you expect to make money with open source, algos, strategies, you still very far from the objective.
Note to HN. I know personally the attackers, and they send me proof of the attack before making it public. They are just two south america teens having fun cause they can't leave home. They were doing just for the lolz, there is no complex supply chain attack or state-actors involved. Just two kids pwning billions of VC money.
Re:Show HN: Bitcoin Prediction with Tensorflow.js on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:47PM (#26370821)
Javier I have a really interesting project for you. I will write you directly.
Paul actively cooperates with the US justice and secret services. It is likely that his sentence will eventually be reduced.
Because it is a case of corruption that is quite irrelevant at the Spanish level, much less at the European level and totally irrelevant at the global level. Villarejo is an ex-policeman who is blackmailing public figures to avoid a long prison sentence for corruption and bribe. He is a very basic blackmailer and the article at BBC is some PR to give some air to his judicial defence. It is certainly not a relevant/interesting/cultural article for HN.
Never expected to read the name "Villarejo" on HackerNews
Re:Tony Hsieh has died on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:39PM (#25246977)
Will we remember tony in 100 years? What will be his legacy in society?

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