Hacker News: dschnurr

New comment by dschnurr in "Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight"

dschnurr — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:08:59 +0000

Nice! Something must be in the air – last week I built a very similar project using the historical archive of all-in podcast episodes: https://allin-predictions.pages.dev/

Show HN: Using LLMs to extract and grade predictions from the All-In Podcast

dschnurr — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:51:29 +0000

Article URL: https://allin-predictions.pages.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196112

Points: 1

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New comment by dschnurr in "OpenAI Tokenizer"

dschnurr — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:32:37 +0000

Hi folks – I work at OpenAI and helped build this page, awesome to see it on here! Heads up that it's a bit out of date as GPT4 has a different tokenizer than GPT3. I'd recommend checking out tiktoken (https://github.com/openai/tiktoken) or this other excellent app that a community member made (https://tiktokenizer.vercel.app)

New comment by dschnurr in "DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content"

dschnurr — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:59:51 +0000

I gave this a try: https://twitter.com/_dschnurr/status/1514673929209614337

New comment by dschnurr in "Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3"

dschnurr — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 20:03:26 +0000

OpenAI engineer here. Cloning this project and running it locally with your own API key does not violate any policies. However the way this project is configured, publishing it to the web would expose your API key in the client-side source code, which violates our policies since it would allow your account to be compromised.

New comment by dschnurr in "Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference"

dschnurr — Wed, 19 May 2021 18:32:08 +0000

Sure there will be middlemen trying to profit due to asymmetry of information / technical knowledge. But as technology marches along the barriers to entry of launching new things trends to zero. Smart creators are increasingly harnessing new technologies to cut out existing middlemen. Podcasts are a great example of this, anyone with a microphone can start an entertainment business now and collect money from direct relationships with advertisers.

New comment by dschnurr in "Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference"

dschnurr — Wed, 19 May 2021 18:18:47 +0000

The creator is almost always the artist. Provenance is what gives NFTs their value. The value of a Beeple NFT minted by a random user is $0.

New comment by dschnurr in "Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference"

dschnurr — Wed, 19 May 2021 18:15:30 +0000

Some artists choose to attach "perks" to their NFTs – i.e. meet and greets, access to private communities. They could choose not to honor these perks for NFTs held by contracts. They could even choose to re-mint the work if the new owner is doing nefarious things with the old one (though many would see this as a dubious action)

New comment by dschnurr in "Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference"

dschnurr — Wed, 19 May 2021 18:01:31 +0000

The people receiving royalties are the artists in these cases – instead of the record companies, instagrams, and etsys of the world. I fail to see how this won't be a net positive for wealth equality when we're shifting the advantage to those who have historically been taken advantage of.

New comment by dschnurr in "India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency"

dschnurr — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:56:16 +0000

Gov-supported digital currencies would mostly streamline things and replace existing bloated and slow programs. Imagine the current stimulus situation – instead of sending checks to people they could just press a button and immediately send credit to all citizens that have a certain account threshold or income rate. Currency units could be earmarked for certain retailers (i.e. food stamps, education, etc).

New comment by dschnurr in "Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?"

dschnurr — Thu, 21 May 2020 15:56:42 +0000

This is cool! What tech/service are you using to handle accepting payments & paying out to event creators? To my knowledge you can't use stripe for things like this (though maybe I'm wrong)

New comment by dschnurr in "Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce"

dschnurr — Tue, 05 May 2020 21:42:22 +0000

going public at any point after nov '19 probably would have been a disaster for most employees due to lockup period. Let's say I have $1M of RSUs at IPO – fed+state gov wants 450-500k for taxes total. When I went through Uber IPO they only withheld ~30%, which leads to a $200k tax bill at the end of the year in this scenario. If stock declines 75% due to COVID before I can sell at expiration of lockup period, I'm left with $175k ($700k post-withholding * 25%) and $200k tax bill. Not sure about you but I'd prefer the non-IPO scenario.

New comment by dschnurr in "Ask HN: Startups/Companies Working on Simulation?"

dschnurr — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 05:07:21 +0000

> "human genome" sized project to create an accurate physics engine and a chemistry engine

bingo. this would insanely impactful long term.

Ask HN: Startups/Companies Working on Simulation?

dschnurr — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:34:19 +0000

I've always thought doing large-scale biological or economic simulations would be an incredibly powerful tool if it can be done well enough. Imagine being able to run clinical trials for new drugs in a simulation in 1 day instead of 1 year. Of course this is currently science fiction, but I'm wondering if there are any companies or startups working on this kind of problem?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23026263

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by dschnurr in "Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain"

dschnurr — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:35:39 +0000

If they end up using Rome internally that should be a good sign that it will be supported for years to come. React has been very well maintained for the past 5+ years.

New comment by dschnurr in "Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain"

dschnurr — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:32:33 +0000

Starting a new JS project these days can be a huge hurdle for many users because they have to manually set up all the compilation/linting/testing/formatting etc infrastructure, each of which have multiple possible libraries, versions, and non-trivial configurations. You could spend a week configuring webpack alone to get code splitting, css compilation, etc to work. Projects like create-react-app and next.js have helped remove some of this fatigue, and you can see by their adoption just how much of an impact this has. Seems like Rome should be similarly beneficial without being inherently tied to an application framework like create-react-app or next.js – the challenge will be avoiding a confusing mess of 1000 configuration options to fine-tune each subsystem.

Show HN: Dashboard comparing Covid-19 spread over time by US state/county

dschnurr — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:48:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.us-covid-tracker.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781814

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dschnurr in "Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?"

dschnurr — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 20:48:31 +0000

I'm building a no-code web app development platform. There are numerous existing tools in this space, but I don't think anyone has really hit the sweet spot of having the same composability/reusability/conditional benefits of code in a WYSIWYG interface that drastically increases development speed.

Also happen to be looking for a cofounder as well. I'm a developer myself but I'd love to partner with another product-minded dev or a product person with significant industry experience. Let me know if you're interested.

New comment by dschnurr in "Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?"

dschnurr — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 19:04:52 +0000

Naval Ravikant on Joe Rogan. Probably the highest wisdom per minute piece of media I've ever consumed.

New comment by dschnurr in "Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?"

dschnurr — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:38:08 +0000

One that I heard about last year and have been following – https://www.smallrobotcompany.com/