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I often tell startups if you have amazing revenue, that your startup might get a lower acquisition offer price because your acquirer doesn’t care about your revenue. They might just care about your tech.
Re:Chronon: A data platform for serving for AI/ML applications on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @07:06PM (#45282517)
Is this something like Spark or Apache Flink?
People are allowed to evolve opinions. It seems to me he believes that a combination of transformer and program synthesis are key. The big unknown at the moment is how to do program search.
Historically Apple used Apple Wireless Direct Link. Now it can communicate with the more open Wi-Fi Aware which is enabled on most modern Android devices and even ESP32
Re:LLMs are making me dumber on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @07:19PM (#43990194)
It’s been overall good. Being able to access a web app or website by entering a URL is impressive!
Supabase is particularly valuable for its users. Or right now “vibecoders”
Re:Clair Obscur Metacritic user score on Friday May 02, 2025 @04:38PM (#43874340)
FFVII Rebirth is perfection. Best battle system ever, great voice acting, great music.
Re:No Calls on Saturday January 18, 2025 @03:45PM (#42751280)
I don’t think this is true anymore. Firebase, auth0, AWS, figma and many more SaaS obliterated this dichotomy
No they should not do this. They are trying to create generalized artificial intelligence not a specific one. Let the cursor, zed, codeium or some smaller company focus on that.
A marketing rule is that you cannot pick the same combination of colors as the incumbent product. Because looking at your website, I am thinking of DeScript all the time. So your website is now an ad for DeScript. This is why Pepsi cannot pick red and Xbox cannot pick Blue.

Congrats but please change the color if you want to compare yourself to DeScript.

Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn about program synthesis

I was recently inspired by this talk from Francois Chollet on Program Synthesis and Discrete Search as a compliment to how transformers and LLM work. Like LLMs are kind of bad a math, but if they can be complemented byhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTU8Ha4Jyfc&t=8965sThis always made me think of Genetic Algorithms no?Does anyone have any suggestions on content for program synthesis to read...

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Does anyone know if this will run on the iPhone 15 (6GB) or iPhone 16 (8GB)