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You are discounting iteration. Today they are fragile and lightweight. Tomorrow they will have better actuators, pneumatic/McKibben muscles, etc.
I built modelrelay.ai that does this. Happy to give you an invite code if you want to play with it.
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shanev on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:32PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://vanta.shanev.ai
Vanta is a Markdown notes app for iPhone, built around on-device AI organization and GTD (Getting Things Done).I use Obsidian with Claude on desktop, and wanted a similar but automated flow on mobile. This started out as an experiment with Apple's local Foundation models which turned out to be genuinely useful for me. The local models are used to clean up messy dictation, format Markdown, and...
Congrats on the launch! It would be useful to have a matrix somewhere showing how this compares to Jina, Firecrawl, etc.
The GPT models, in my experience, have been much better for backend than the Claude models. They're much slower, but produce logic that is more clear, and code that is more maintainable. A pattern I use is, setup a Github issue with Claude plan mode, then have Codex execute it. Then come back to Claude to run custom code review plugins. Then, of course review it with my own eyes before merging the PR.
My only gripe is I wish they'd publish Codex CLI updates to homebrew the same time as npm :)
I built a little Chrome extension that shows the flag for where the account is based in on the profile page itself:
https://grokify.app.
Elon got another thing right, as he often claims the goal for Grok / xAI is to be "maximally truth-seeking".
This is solvable at the level of an individual developer. Write your own benchmark for code problems that you've solved. Verify tests pass and that it satisfies your metrics like tok/s and TTFT. Create a harness that works with API keys or local models (if you're going that route).
Close. It won because of Github. Git was gaining over SVN slowly but it was Github that really propelled it into widespread use.
DAOs are fixing this in the crypto world. You contribute to the protocol and get paid by the DAO. Everything is transparent and open. If you do this enough and earn the respect of the dev team it could even turn into a full-time role.
> He worked hard to enable software reuse. No one was interested in his idea of trying to monitor component use during runtime to pay developers
People are experimenting doing this in blockchain smart contracts. It’s transparent and supports micropayments as well.
I was mulling over this exact issue the other day but couldn't find the words to express it. Thank you for this.
I thought it was about resque, the ruby queuing library, switching from redis to kafka.
Khan Academy’s economics and finance videos are excellent for learning the fundamentals.
Ray Dalio’s talks on YouTube, and his most recent TED talk are great for context around economic downturns.
Real Vision and Anthony Pompliano’s podcast are good for deep dives into what’s going on with a bit of an alternative take.
This will be popular, and might even replace regular usage, as Stories have in Instagram. It'll enable people to be more authentic, transparent, and casual. It will help counter Twitter getting increasingly LinkedIn-like.
I made an app called Blink that did exactly this a few years ago: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/blink. Build it and they will come, not :)
_why’s contributions to the Ruby world always had an art project element to them. His disappearance is just an extension of his art.
It was amusing to me that his real name wasn’t even exposed on conference badges.
When a company switches languages like this, it's usually because the engineers want to learn something new on the VC's dime. They'll make any excuse to do it. As many comments here show, there are other ways to solve this problem.
I hope we are learning that substituting fake things for real things often have catastrophic effects. If fake meat becomes popular, this will get much worse. Food production is complex. Substituting one thing for another may seem like a good idea on the surface, but it ignores second order effects.
Is there a better term for "hipster stack"? Rails and Django were most certainly considered hipster when they first came out.
Posted by
shanev on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:38AM
from the linkedin.com dept.
It would scale if the technology to create these financial instruments easily and to monitor the land existed. There are startups working on it.
This is a common pattern with many of Go’s features. Experienced folk sometimes tend to make unconventional design decisions. You don’t appreciate them until you’ve tried out all the alternatives, and arrived at the same conclusions yourself.
Since the App Store launched in July 2008 until Nov 2011, my app, Drum Kit, was one of the top apps in the Music category. It went up to #2 at one point, only behind Smule's Ocarina, and had over 10 million downloads.
The day GarageBand launched, my app went from something like #24 in Music to #64, and downward from there. Fun times!
Interestingly, at an Apple conference sometime in 2010 (either C4 or WWDC), some guy asked me all kinds of detailed questions about the custom audio engine I wrote. Back then the "iPhone SDK" (now iOS SDK) audio APIs had too much latency for a drum app. So I had to write my own in C++ based on Audio Units (a low level C API). A tricky thing I had to do was mix multiple buffers of audio to create the resonance effect drums make when you hit them repeatedly (most prominent in cymbals). Later I found out the person asking me the questions worked at Apple, on the team that made GarageBand. They didn't launch with a blended resonance effect. When you hit a cymbal repeatedly, it would cut off the sound and play the sound again. Ew.
People miss out when they don't try some of the more indie apps. A lot of care goes into making them.