Hacker News: frsandstone

Sierra launches "GhostWriter" – Agents as a service

frsandstone — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:15:33 +0000

Article URL: https://sierra.ai/blog/agents-as-a-service

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525151

Points: 2

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New comment by frsandstone in "Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection"

frsandstone — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:27:55 +0000

Very cool stuff.

Vintage marketing of the future: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/curator-picks/vi...

Lectures: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/search-c...

Oral Histories: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/search-c...

New comment by frsandstone in "Launch HN: Risely (YC S25) – AI Agents for Universities"

frsandstone — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:53:22 +0000

Very cool work. I particularly like your focus on student outcomes and building a curriculum that extends beyond the classroom to extracurriculars. I hope you succeeed.

New comment by frsandstone in "We are teen hackers from around the world who code together"

frsandstone — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:50:08 +0000

cc Daniel Gross

New comment by frsandstone in "Launch HN: Inkeep (YC W23) – Copilot for Support (think Cursor for help desks)"

frsandstone — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:04:15 +0000

There is a typo in the title of your example https://copilot-demo.inkeep.com/?ticketId=new-ticket

"Escelating to humans from Inkeep AI Slack bot" : "Escelating" --> "escalating"

New comment by frsandstone in "The Sourdough Framework"

frsandstone — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:37:45 +0000

Have you considered making a standalone tool to take input variables and generate custom instructions?

Your introduction suggests that you know people's input variables (type of flour, environment, other ingredients, etc) have a heavy influence on the end product. It might be easier to generate custom instructions rather than generate content for every possible combination.

New comment by frsandstone in "CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS"

frsandstone — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:29:05 +0000

I kickstarted my career 8 years ago by going through an old version of this course online. Huge props to Stanford for making it more easily consumable by others.

Airbnb announces 'host advisory board,' endowment fund ahead of IPO

frsandstone — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 20:44:45 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/airbnb-ipo-brian-chesky-host-advisory-council-140019705.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24946718

Points: 2

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New comment by frsandstone in "Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization"

frsandstone — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 20:08:41 +0000

Given that AWS continues to spin out more and more purpose-built technology as needs come up, I wonder whether AWS's long-term strategy is to:

- Continue to spin out products to support common business use cases.

- Expose commonly used functionality from products via this WYSIWYG tool.

- Allow drag and drop programming by connecting services.

- Lambdas are the primary way that a business bridges gaps between OOB functionality and business requirements, but are still connected up via this WYSWYG tool once created.

It would be a while before it was useful to FAANG, but maybe mom and pop businesses could cheaply partner with AWS experts to ship custom software?

New comment by frsandstone in "I recorded vlogs to show how I built side projects"

frsandstone — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:46:17 +0000

You might also take a look at how popular influencers use Instagram Stories to collect throughout-the-day updates into cohesive stories across days and weeks.

IE: "My trip to Cabo" might include 1-2 stories out of 10 posted that day, but they are the user's favorite and tell a cohesive story.

Another analogy is Youtube's "Playlist" feature.

New comment by frsandstone in "What is GPT-3? written in layman's terms"

frsandstone — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 03:35:44 +0000

Looks like they also made a podcast.

"#828 - What is GPT-3?"

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/828-what-is-gpt-3/id13...

Airbnb Hosts Olympian and Paralympian Online Experiences

frsandstone — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:18:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.airbnb.com/s/experiences/olympics-online

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23921700

Points: 1

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Summer Festival of Olympian and Paralympian Online Experiences

frsandstone — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:24:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.olympic.org/news/the-ioc-the-ipc-and-airbnb-announce-summer-festival-of-olympian-paralympian-online-experiences

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860553

Points: 1

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New comment by frsandstone in "The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival crash so fast?"

frsandstone — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:14:10 +0000

This is a good time for a reminder about the startup journey. Quibi is in the "Trough of Sorrow" which is NORMAL.

https://andrewchen.co/after-the-techcrunch-bump-life-in-the-...

New comment by frsandstone in "Beyond Meat: Scaling ethical consumerism"

frsandstone — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 01:25:42 +0000

Archive.org cache: https://web.archive.org/web/20200610011002/http://4thquadran...

Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vg6P9j...

Looks like a classic HN hug took it down.

Airbnb now offers virtual ‘travel’ experiences to keep you entertained at home

frsandstone — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:50:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/9/21214930/airbnb-experiences-online-virtual-travel-stay-at-home

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22825256

Points: 1

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New comment by frsandstone in "In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky"

frsandstone — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:13:11 +0000

Google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rKOigGZ...

(Sorry for the search pop-up, I'm not sure how to get a cached version without it.)

New comment by frsandstone in "13.3" full color ePaper display"

frsandstone — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 22:29:41 +0000

Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20200108221349/https://shopkits....

New comment by frsandstone in "13.3" full color ePaper display"

frsandstone — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 22:29:26 +0000

Cached in Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20200108221349/https://shopkits....

Ask HN: Is it legal to ask for personal information without reason?

frsandstone — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 23:55:56 +0000

While surfing the web of Youtube content creators I ended up on a website that prompts the user for their date of birth in order to continue. No reason, no information about what it will be used for - just preventing the user from continuing without typing in this personal information.

"What year were you born?" [Blank area to type in year] "Enter" Privacy Policy

It seems super spammy but is it legal? It's a little scary that people can be preyed on in this way.

Source: https://www.j-14.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17584517

Points: 3

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