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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) on Sunday July 27, 2025 @02:51PM (#44703565)
Homebrew tabletop RPG adventure maker for multiple settings that easily lets you toggle from AI/human creation.

Also Plex for books (https://www.passagebooks.com/) but that has a much bigger scope.

Re:Atom 1.1 is out on Thursday October 29, 2015 @07:10PM (#10475086)
I don't have any hard numbers for you, but it feels as if it's improved by a lot.

I had switched away from Atom precisely because of the speed issue, but switched back to it a number of months back and I haven't noticed any performance problems.

Re:Why Revolution Can’t Come to North Korea on Monday November 05, 2012 @10:31AM (#4743938)
Indeed, would the French revolution have even happened without all the bad press the royal family got from Marie Antoinette's tweets and the subsequent flashmob at La Bastille? And the American revolution's well-attended "Boston Tea Party" Facebook event?
Re:Ask HN: How do you create a Silicon Valley? on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @12:49PM (#4101357)
Thanks, I will definitely read/listen to Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley!

Ask HN: How do you create a Silicon Valley?

I realize this isn't a new question, and has even been addressed by Paul Graham before ( http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html ), but I was wondering if I could glean some more from HN's collective wisdom.What does it take to create a vibrant tech hub filled with entrepreneuring hackers?I ask with a specific place in mind. I live in Moncton, a mid-sized Canadian city that is in Atlantic...

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Re:How To Build A Startup From A Beach on Thursday May 10, 2012 @10:47PM (#3957307)
I'm from New Brunswick, currently living in Moncton, and I'm really surprised you mentioned New Brunswick, and then called it exotic! But it is indeed all relative.
Re:Show HN: My table of tools for startups [Google Docs] on Friday October 07, 2011 @07:25AM (#3083475)
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Teamlab: http://www.teamlab.com/