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mikkelam

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Software @ Reshape Biotech YC W21

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mikkelam
·3 days ago·discuss
Zulip is bad
mikkelam
·4 days ago·discuss
Super happy to see someone take on slack. We just want a performant chat with simple features.

Slack integrations are overrated. Just give me webhooks.
mikkelam
·16 days ago·discuss
Would love to see benchmarks on cognition's FrontierCode
mikkelam
·18 days ago·discuss
I cannot believe they're sticking to their guns on this website design. It's awful.
mikkelam
·last month·discuss
Linear is probably starting to hit enshittification territory. The feature bload is immense and they are trying extremely hard to not be left behind on the AI wave.
mikkelam
·last month·discuss
My own experience is far from this. Steering the AI, early and while developing a change, matters sigificantly.

Therefore a maintainer is more likely to steer the AI in a direction that is aligned with the codebase.
mikkelam
·2 months ago·discuss
The enshittification has begun. Time to move on!
mikkelam
·3 months ago·discuss
Just improve what you have GitHub. Stop the AI bloatware. You will lose that race anyway, obviously.
mikkelam
·3 months ago·discuss
I've been super happy with my Framework desktop. And since getting that I've been craving replacing my MacBook... This looks super attractive
mikkelam
·4 months ago·discuss
Why are we treating LLM evaluation like a vibe check rather than an engineering problem?

Most "Model X > Model Y" takes on HN these days (and everywhere) seem based on an hour of unscientific manual prompting. Are we actually running rigorous, version-controlled evals, or just making architectural decisions based on whether a model nailed a regex on the first try this morning?
mikkelam
·4 months ago·discuss
For me, GitHub CLI is the prime example of this. This CLI is so incredibly powerful when combined with regular command line tools. Agents know how to use head, tail, jq and so on to only extract the parts it needs.

The best selling point of CLIs is the ability to chain, transform and combine. MCP cannot do this.
mikkelam
·7 months ago·discuss
They have a very nice comparison in terms of performance and price https://planetscale.com/benchmarks/aurora
mikkelam
·8 months ago·discuss
I agree. If you strictly follow the syntax of "Example 1" in JavaScript (calling and awaiting on the same line), the observable output is identical to Python.

I suppose the author meant to say that if you first called your async function and then later did `await` you would have different behavior.
mikkelam
·10 months ago·discuss
Totally. It's a very boring part of this that one would have to contend with.

I kinda feel the same way about Facebook. Groups, events, marketplace are amazing for community building. But it's just so hard to compete with Meta.
mikkelam
·10 months ago·discuss
Safe can mean a lot of things to different people i guess. I would love to incorporate some sort of reputation signal.

Perhaps positive reinforcement after people have met? Or just having social links?

But yeah, i dont have it all figured out yet
mikkelam
·10 months ago·discuss
I think something like the matrix protocol would be better. I would be especially interested in not storing unencrypted user messages. Matrix would be a good choice for this.
mikkelam
·10 months ago·discuss
I've been thinking a lot about building an open source dating app as a non-profit offering.

I have a sense that succesful dating contributes highly to overall human happiness. It should be a public service similar to wikipedia or libraries.

Free forever, fair and safe, and responsibly managed. It's probably not that expensive to run. But idunno, i'm kinda frightened to "compete" in this market
mikkelam
·2 years ago·discuss
I have honestly been so excited to try this after listening to several videos of mitchell talking about his work. What a christmas present!

A terminal is so dear to us software engineers, and this seems like such a love declaration to the terminal.

Time to spend hours tuning my config!
mikkelam
·5 years ago·discuss
I remember seeing these crackers around back in the days. Skidrow at least cracted some grand theft auto games.

Not sure why they're blocked