joshmarinacci
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Startup success comes from making a product that customers will pay for. Full stop. Intensity can be a way to find that, but no amount of intensity will change the fact that most startups make products that no one wants to pay for.
That looks really useful. Cool!
How good are the predictions? Have you made any trades on this data?
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joshmarinacci on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:33AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I’m not talking about your grand ambitious SaaS startup or your mega open source project. Whats the favorite thing you’ve built just for you and your friends and family to use. I’ll start.Meem Makr is a lolcat maker featuring my actual cats. I use it every morning to tell the rest of the family when coffee is ready.https://apps.josh.earth/meem-makr/WiFi QR code generator. Gives you a nicely...
3270 terminals from GT? From the old Rich building? Who are you?!
LLMs are a technology, not a product (or tool). In five years the underlying technology will look similar to what we have today, but the way we access it and the usage patterns and the interface (the product) will be completely different. If we are still interacting with LLMs through chat in five years I will be severely disappointed.
The earth wobbles. It doesn’t “tip”.
VRML? That's a name I've not heard in quite some time.
Many if not most of these oddities about humans come down to either they don’t affect reproduction, or because humans are social animals. Menopause makes sense because a grandmother will have more successful descendants if she stops having babies and helps her daughters with the grandkids. I would guess the few other species that exhibit menopause are also social animals.
Adult onset Type 1 has become a lot more common in recent decades. Ask me how I know.
Wow. How can it do this without an MMU?
I like the concept. Your website needs screenshots.
This shouldn’t be surprising. Horses are almost as smart as dogs, and dogs personalities are heavily dependent upon their upbringing.
Programming language innovation is measured in decades. I expect LLMs will make it easier to prototype new concepts, but adoption will still progress on a human timescale
I love the concept, but I wonder why he wasn’t printing to PDF. Can this device not render PDFs?
I don’t understand the point of WebMCP. Any website that you could do interesting things with programmatically either already has an API or doesn’t want to provide programmatic access for business reasons. So who is this for?
I was able to get Claude to write an embedded Rust driver for an unsupported epaper screen in a couple of hours by providing it with the spec and some existing C drivers. It’s still not as fast as the arduino versions, but it let me make progress in a project that I’d been stuck on for months.
Reverse engineering seems like an AI sweet spot.
These are an exciting new curve. I’d like to hear about how they will handle stroking. The inside and outside stroke of a Bézier curve can’t be represented with a Bézier curve. How do hyperbeziers fare?
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joshmarinacci on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:52AM
from the carette.xyz dept.
I don’t understand what this is for? Does it help you code esp32 programs or does it use an esp32 devices sensors as input to LLM sessions. Or something else.
Is this an update for the original quake or do you need one of the newer ones?
If you were to count the margin of everything it would be 100%. At the end of the day everything is either a resource harvested from the earth or human labor.
What devices are likely to benefit from Kraid? Are Arm Mali GPUs mostly in Android phones?
I am overjoyed with how many commenters we have here who enjoy talking about typography.
The alternative is what the last five American presidents have done: containment. There's a reason Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton and Bush didn't start the war that Trump did. This is why.
A change in quantity can become a change in quality.
This is just a Macropad, right? All of the smarts are on the PC side. So why is it so expensive?
Posted by
joshmarinacci on Sunday June 28, 2026 @04:27PM
from the josh.earth dept.
I love that it doesn't feel like every other vibe coded VC backed startup.