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Investing in the Python Ecosystem – Vercel

daniel_levine — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:52:09 +0000

Article URL: https://vercel.com/blog/investing-in-the-python-ecosystem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126687

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by daniel_levine in "Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents"

daniel_levine — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:59:56 +0000

I'm biased, but like Vercel's AI Gateway https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway

New comment by daniel_levine in "Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B"

daniel_levine — Tue, 06 May 2025 03:30:59 +0000

https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-acquires-oriole

New comment by daniel_levine in "Show HN: We Put Chromium on a Unikernel (OSS Apache 2.0)"

daniel_levine — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:25:12 +0000

This is awesome stuff. I think the biggest thing holding back a bunch agentic use cases is great infra and this is a a great step in the right direction. Love how fast it boots!

New comment by daniel_levine in "Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com"

daniel_levine — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:08:25 +0000

this is a great comment, thank you for your service!

New comment by daniel_levine in "Static Chess"

daniel_levine — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:35:21 +0000

Fork it!

New comment by daniel_levine in "Static Chess"

daniel_levine — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:34:41 +0000

Fork it!

Enterprise Is Dead

daniel_levine — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:27:23 +0000

Article URL: https://cra.mr/enterprise-is-dead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635349

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by daniel_levine in "Sidewalk Garden"

daniel_levine — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 01:00:50 +0000

21st or 22nd and Harrison I believe

New comment by daniel_levine in "EdgeDB 2.0"

daniel_levine — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:52:47 +0000

And I bet the team would help with those migration scripts if you asked!

New comment by daniel_levine in "ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system"

daniel_levine — Fri, 28 May 2021 13:12:42 +0000

Altinity offers a managed service for ClickHouse on AWS https://altinity.com/cloud-database/

New comment by daniel_levine in "ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis"

daniel_levine — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:38:35 +0000

Yes to both, Altinity maintains the ClickHouse Grafana plugin https://altinity.com/blog/2019/12/28/creating-beautiful-graf...

And Superset has a recommendation of a ClickHouse connector https://superset.apache.org/docs/databases/clickhouse

New comment by daniel_levine in "I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track"

daniel_levine — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 03:33:13 +0000

This is one of the more incredible expressions of passion I've seen in a long time. Thanks so much for doing it and sharing with all of us!

New comment by daniel_levine in "Ask HN: How to effectively get feedback from users?"

daniel_levine — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 18:07:30 +0000

I'd check out something like https://userleap.com/ so that you can integrate bite-sized surveys right into your product. Great for onboarding, trial conversion, feature feedback, etc

ClickHouse, Redshift and 2.5B Rows of Time Series Data – Brandonharris.io

daniel_levine — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:39:55 +0000

Article URL: http://brandonharris.io/redshift-clickhouse-time-series/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643541

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How eBay moved their OLAP to ClickHouse on Kubernetes

daniel_levine — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 03:04:57 +0000

Article URL: https://tech.ebayinc.com/engineering/ou-online-analytical-processing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562520

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by daniel_levine in "Raise Less Money"

daniel_levine — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:18:09 +0000

While I tend to agree with you in principle, I'm curious how often YC is flexible on the ownership target :P

New comment by daniel_levine in "Raise Less Money"

daniel_levine — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:14:30 +0000

It's a bit confusing but does make sense. Imagine wanting to buy 20% (or 100%) of Apple in the public markets. If you try in normal trading it will either take months based on trading volume or you'll bid up the price as you're buying.

People looking to own larger pieces of a business are often willing to pay a premium to folks trying to buy smaller pieces.

New comment by daniel_levine in "Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?"

daniel_levine — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:26:44 +0000

You should consider bundling video yourself and charging for it. Could use something like Mux.com to power it without much trouble.

New comment by daniel_levine in "Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M"

daniel_levine — Sat, 16 May 2020 14:07:44 +0000

That's not how simple preferred works. That would be participating preferred. And I'd strongly suspect this is simple preferred, as participating preferred is exceptionally rare for Silicon Valley-type companies (it does happen though).

Investors get either the 1x or convert to common. So the most recent investors will take their 1x ($72mm if public sources are correct, which might include some shares bought by previous investors), but previous investors are likely to convert to common if their price per share of purchase is below the acquisition price. But even in your simple example, the $250mm is only split between founders and team, the shareholders who take their 1x are done prior to that point.