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I'd settle for one day without a SEV.
My buyers and sellers were heterogenous, so I could not acquire one user and get both personas; I purchased supply which had publicly-measurable demand and resold it below cost (in line with my target CAC) to bring the demand on platform. Once I had aggregated enough demand and developed the demand-side marketing and trust, I brought in the suppliers directly.
Re:The Brand Age on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:33PM (#47266911)
Re:Can you reverse engineer our neural network? on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:18AM (#47181540)
To better understand your thinking here, can you illustrate for me a scenario with less liquid markets because firms like JS are less efficient at making them, and the knock-on effects?
Re:Testing Ads in ChatGPT on Monday February 09, 2026 @04:30PM (#46951694)
Does anyone know if there is an option to enable ads in the tiers which do not have them by default?
Counter-argument: why are my tax dollars replicating Wikipedia?
Re:Building a Security Scanner for LLM Apps on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @12:55PM (#46303005)
Really cool to see this! Building a security scanner specifically for LLM apps feels like an important step given how quickly production AI workflows are proliferating.

What stood out to me in the blog is how the scanner isn’t just a general linting tool — it actually traces inputs and outputs through the code to understand how untrusted user data might flow into prompts, models, and then back into privileged operations. That focus on data flow and behavior rather than just surface diffs seems like a solid way to reduce both blind spots and noise in alerts.

I also appreciate the emphasis on concrete vulnerabilities and real CVEs (e.g., LLM code executing arbitrary commands or translating LLM output directly into database queries) — showing that these aren’t just hypothetical risk categories but things happening in the wild.

A couple of thoughts / questions from my side:

Balancing precision vs noise: The blog mentions tailoring what counts as a real finding so you don’t overwhelm engineers with false positives. It’d be interesting to hear more about how that balance was tuned in practice, especially on larger codebases.

Integration with existing pipelines: I saw the GitHub Action auto-reviews PRs, but how do teams handle this alongside other scanners (SAST, dependency scanners, etc.) without ballooning CI times?

Vulnerability taxonomy: Prompt injection, jailbreak risk, and sensitive information leaks are all big categories, but there are other vectors (RAG-specific issues, tool misuse in agents). Curious how far the scanner’s heuristics go vs where red-teaming still wins.

Overall, a much-needed tool as LLMs go from experiment to core business logic. Would love to hear from others about how they’ve integrated this kind of scanning or what other categories of LLM security risk they’re watching for.

Like most things in life that make reference to information outside of one's context window, runtime linter warnings would go a long way.
Misleading title change; original title is "OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy".
Re:Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:20PM (#46137186)
Stylistically, this smells like it was copy and pasted from straight out Deep Research. Substantively, I could use additional emphasis on the mismatch between expectations and reality with regards to telco debt-repayment schedule.
Re:Firefox Expands Fingerprint Protections on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:08PM (#45892153)
Out of curiousity, how would you steelman the argument that fingerprinting is no different than a store owner, standing behind the counter, taking note of the faces of who enters his store, and maintaining a log?
Re:Benchmarking the Most Reliable Document Parsing API on Thursday November 06, 2025 @02:40PM (#45839381)
Curious how it compares to https://github.com/datalab-to/chandra
800 environment violations in service of the development of modern subterranean transportation is a utilitarian trade I'll take any day of the week.
...When you realize GPT-5 is going to be trained on your meme preferences...
This might be interesting if it pulled data from Meta properties (e.g. the Instagram accounts I am following) in order to personally contextualize its responses.
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Either Perfect or Dagster. FWIW, the Dagster team is actively reducing the learning curve with each release.
Re:Happy 400th birthday to the world's oldest bond on Monday December 23, 2024 @08:48AM (#42494347)
Bond, Perpetual Bond
Re:The first snapshot of Hacker News on Archive.org on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:05AM (#41390400)
Dagres missed network effects as the moat.
Re:Ask HN: How do you ask users about their pain point? on Friday April 19, 2024 @10:58PM (#40094342)
Skip hospital doctors because they don't make purchasing decisions. Doctors who own their own practice either outright or as a group partner are actually very easy to interview: in the US (assuming where you're located) there are at least a dozen within each county. Have you tried door-to-door? I helped a friend with healthcare customer discovery interviews for a few months, and it's surprisingly effective.
Re:Ask HN: Is RAG the Future of LLMs? on Monday April 15, 2024 @10:18AM (#40040847)
Here's a question you can ask yourself: "where does my context fall within the distribution of human knowledge?" RAG is increasingly necessary as your context moves towards the tail.
Any word which model they used?
Some argue it’s gotten worse due to recent tradeoffs between privacy and accuracy, such as the negative effect Apple’s ATT has purportedly had on Meta’s targeted ad efficacy.
Would have been a great April Fools'.

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