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New comment by chrismjelde in "Show HN: Dozenal – A Game of Spatial Arithmetic"

chrismjelde — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:46:29 +0000

Some puzzles have more than 1 valid solution, and they will all solve the puzzle.

If (for 'yellow herrings') the puzzle didn't complete even though you used all the numbers, it may be because there were empty tiles left? Accepted solutions use all empty tiles.

But, your point about not all valid chains getting a tick / locking down is a legitimate shortcoming. Right now the puzzles have a "canonical" solve used for ticked/locked chains, and hints. We rolled out a fix for the chains, but then the hints didn't make sense for some users, so we rolled it back this morning. We'll get that fixed with something more thought-through shortly.

Thanks for playing!

New comment by chrismjelde in "Show HN: Dozenal – A Game of Spatial Arithmetic"

chrismjelde — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:04:43 +0000

Chris here - excited to show off our puzzle game to the HN community, and get feedback.

New comment by chrismjelde in "Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor"

chrismjelde — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:12:08 +0000

We went through YC with Verdn, a donation software for ecom stores to give a small proportion of revenue to e.g. plant a tree with each sale: verdn.com

New comment by chrismjelde in "Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor"

chrismjelde — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:45:01 +0000

Also re: ‘deceptive advertising’ - if what you mean is that the output of the model will misrepresent what the host site actually sells/provides, that does happen on occasion, and it’s a top priority for us. We’re constantly working to reliably improve what Kenobi outputs in any given situation. It’s partially a research problem (i.e. deeply understanding the host website, and the nuances of their offerings, as well as research on the visitor, where the time window is seriously constrained), and it’s a model + prompting problem.

One of the ways we want to enhance Kenobi is to allow the host site to plug in more data sources (e.g. an FAQ, KB, etc). This helps solve the research problem, and it also increases the utility of the tool because more the very generic website can be be customized in more nuanced, specific, and esoteric ways, depending on the visitor.

New comment by chrismjelde in "Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor"

chrismjelde — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:28:44 +0000

Glad to hear you enjoyed the UI/UX and experience! The ‘how’ is a key question - right now the visitor inputs what company they’re from, and with that info we send out a research agent that compiles a) context on that company, and b) combines that with the deeper research its already done on your domain — essentially it marries up what it knows about you, with what it quickly learns about the visitor, to the customise whatever sections of the website you’ve given Kenobi permission to transform

Obviously a lot of companies have vastly different personas, and this is a harder problem to solve which we are working on.

New comment by chrismjelde in "Show HN: Kenobi – AI personalized website content for every visitor"

chrismjelde — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:56:35 +0000

Thanks a lot!

Positive Feedback Loops

chrismjelde — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 09:25:17 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.verdn.com/p/positive-feedback-loops

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32395772

Points: 2

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New comment by chrismjelde in "Plastics pile up as coronavirus hits Asia recyclers"

chrismjelde — Fri, 01 May 2020 13:30:09 +0000

Yes, and that's barely 2.5% of the 300 million tonnes of plastic we now produce every year - half of which is single-use, and less than 1/10th of which is recycled at the end of its useful life.

New comment by chrismjelde in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)"

chrismjelde — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 16:07:59 +0000

SAIL | London, UK | Onsite, full-time.

Sail is a fast-growing digital marketing agency from Oslo, Norway, which is now setting up a second office in London (London Fields). We’re already working with some of Scandinavia’s biggest brands on improving their customers’ experience online through a combination of creative flair and in-depth data analysis, and hope to grow quickly internationally. Website: www.sail.no (not translated yet, apologies).

We are hiring: 1 Performance Marketing Expert (Search Specialist) and 1 software/web developer (JS, React, Wordpress).

As a Search Specialist, you’ll be working with online marketing through various channels, as well as marketing strategy for clients. You need to have either education or experience within digital marketing, SEO, Google Ads and Google Analytics. Additionally, experience with Facebook Ads and/or CRO (conversion rate optimisation) are great additions.

As part of Sail you’re encouraged to spend 30% of your time on your own projects which we will help support and build with you. We’ll also provide insurance, required hardware, and a competitive salary.

If you have an questions, or would like to chat about details over coffee, reach out to chris@sail.no