Hacker News: PhillyPhuture

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "Rippling sues Deel over spying"

PhillyPhuture — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:50:01 +0000

The VCs in DEEL (per Crunchbase):

Y Combinator Andreessen Horowitz SV Angel General Catalyst Spark Capital Soma Capital Coatue Quiet Capital AltaIR Capital Elad Gil Franklin Templeton Alexis Ohanian Four Cities Capital Emerson Collective Justin Mateen Lachy Groom Neo Altimeter Capital Mubadala La Famiglia Nat Friedman Sinai Capital Partners Firebolt Ventures Y Combinator Continuity Fund Daniel Gross BAM Elevate Avichal Garg Incisive Ventures Ryan Petersen Darian Shirazi Counterpart Advisors Worklife Weekend Fund Recursive Ventures William Hockey Green Bay Ventures Esas Ventures Jeffrey Wilke Roosh Ventures Cem Garih Fresh Ventures Dara Khosrowshahi Nick Raushenbush Jeffrey Katzenberg Bouaziz & Partners Alexandre Scialom Ben Lang Vinay Hiremath Rex Salisbury Terrance McArthur Pierre Bi John Zimmer Anthony Schiller Talal Chedid Raed Malek

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "Making any integer with four 2s"

PhillyPhuture — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:41:20 +0000

There's a version of this with "4"s that I have done through 20. I have used factorials and square roots but nothing more. I felt dirty.

BUT I did not use "44", which I did see in some solutions. That seemed out of bounds to me!

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem"

PhillyPhuture — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:22 +0000

"There was a risk that such a single-minded pursuit of so difficult a problem could hurt her academic career, but Späth dedicated all her time to it anyway."

I feel like this sentence is in every article for a reason. Thank goodness there are such obsessive people and here's a toast to those counter-factuals that never get mentioned.

Show HN: Hockey Roster Generator with AI

PhillyPhuture — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 16:58:50 +0000

So, I am not a software engineer but I do like some Excel, PowerQuery and VBA.

Seeing all the amazing work that Claude can do, I spent the last 5 days (until 8:30am) building a web app pretty much only with Claude, Vercel, Visual Studio, NeonDB (marketplace).

I know this is a simple app and I know I have not "hardened" this, but I cannot tell you how empowering this was and how much more I want to build.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42567270

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New comment by PhillyPhuture in "Movie-Theater Behavior Has Gone Off the Reels"

PhillyPhuture — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 13:16:21 +0000

Oh, they moderate in China... https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/24/23467181/difference-betwe...

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "When the yogurt took over (2010)"

PhillyPhuture — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 05:52:33 +0000

Most of "The Road" absolutely kills me. But Scalzi wrote something that's etched forever into my brain:

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.” ― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "Meta rolls out AI language model LLaMA"

PhillyPhuture — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:50:52 +0000

The language model that lies better than any other model in the universe? (just guessing from the training data)

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "FDA permits marketing of AI-based device to detect diabetes-related eye problems"

PhillyPhuture — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 18:35:53 +0000

The company's board (politcos) and syndicate (there is none) is a bit weird for a FDA approval...maybe there are some caveats or scope notes that I have not seen.

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "Do Teachers Need to Include the History of Mathematics in Their Teaching? (2003)"

PhillyPhuture — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 03:05:53 +0000

I think I recall reading a different version from Leibniz's POV (sp). I have always liked these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW8Cy6WrO94&index=1&list=PL3...

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "Peter Thiel Speaks at the National Press Club – Live Stream"

PhillyPhuture — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:25:24 +0000

Sorry, but why hold any of these people out as purveyors of truth?

I could rip a apart Thiel, Adams or Taleb on ___(their own dumb kryptonite). For example, listen to Taleb on religion. He's a buffoon. On power laws...very insightful.

I see no reason to glorify individuals outside of their domains.

Regarding Trump, he's just a Republican, as Hillary is just a Democrat. They are the faces of the machine. This is how most Trump-backers get comfort with Trump.

If Trump TRULY TRULY was anti-establishment, he would sound more like Lawrence Lessig and less like Archie Bunker.

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "When Is a “Mark” Not a Mark? When It’s a Venture Capital Mark"

PhillyPhuture — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 01:57:22 +0000

OPM is terrible. Even the academics realize it (I think). This paper evaluates the analysis. There's a caveat on pg. 24. GIGO. In my opinion, it's not just a caveat. It's a killer. I'm not sure what the overarching societal value to applying OPM to private, illiquid company valuations could be.

http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035...

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "Five startups from Norway"

PhillyPhuture — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:11:30 +0000

TechCrunch has become the in-flight magazine of technology. How many of these marketing pieces are meaningful for anyone involved in the technology community? Moving on...

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "Do You Love Music? Silicon Valley Doesn’t"

PhillyPhuture — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:16:02 +0000

So build a better systems. Super successful artists have the ability to create better and "fairer" platforms for other artists and consumers (if that's your belief). We are all open to new models. Let's see how Patreon does, for example. I hated this article.

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub"

PhillyPhuture — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 02:23:19 +0000

Very similar dynamics happening in Philadelphia. Go PA!

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "Apply HN: EventCast – the simplest event planner"

PhillyPhuture — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:08:48 +0000

So we're thinking about an integration to EventBrite and TicketLeap as optional features after composing an event. Neither company's API (actually, I don't think TL has an API) considers sub-event data. So EventCast can essentially serve as an event authoring tool that can be pushed over to EventBrite (optionally) to enable ticket sales and other EventBrite features.

Competing against Facebook...If you are only inviting through the graph, it might be hard, but I think there are plenty of situations where organizers and guests are less well connected. Hmm.. LinkedIn...we're open to chatting :).

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "Apply HN: EventCast – the simplest event planner"

PhillyPhuture — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 03:42:11 +0000

- abuse is a concern. I'm hoping the disposable nature of the experience limits it. - there is a monetization strategy dependent on the user base. We want to offer helpful services (deeplinking or otherwise) that are location/context specific. - there is a white-labeling feature too for a smaller cash-flow. Let's say Red Bull wants to use it for a Fleugtag (sp) weekend of activities. - we're hoping the disposable nature of hashtags will allow for enough of a namespace. - You have to subscribe through EventCast. Growing the userbase will be THE challenge as this is a tool useful when you need it but otherwise dormant.

The early users, though, found it to be their go to app at the 4AsTransformations conference, for example.

New comment by PhillyPhuture in "Apply HN: EventCast – the simplest event planner"

PhillyPhuture — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 03:22:04 +0000

Franze is a good friend an partner on this project. I've done a lot of the Android front-end and another friend, Lucas has built the iOS version. It has been a labor of love.

As an example, my family and friends are using EventCast this weekend at the USA Disabled Hockey Festival in Detroit. You can subscribe to #USADHFPatriotC, #USADHFAmericanC, or #USADHFYouthSledC for live examples.

If nothing else, I hope it helps someone have a wonderful event. We're also talking to some tourism folks to have a perpetual event. You could setup #VisitPhillly and the owner could continually update new items. Think of it as a "fun things to do feed".