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New comment by orlandohohmeier in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

orlandohohmeier — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:21:35 +0000

I’ve been using symlinked agent files for about a year as a hacky workaround before skils became a thing load additional “context” for different tasks, and it might actually address the issue you’re talking about. Honestly, it’s worked so well for me that I haven’t really felt the need to change it.

New comment by orlandohohmeier in "Ask HN: What's Your Data Worth?"

orlandohohmeier — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 12:53:39 +0000

You're touching on an interesting point, so sharing a little data over time is less of an issue then sharing your entire life story all at once. Thinking of Facebook which slowly learned more and more details about all it's users and people where willing to share pieces of data that maybe otherwise would have shied away they would have been asked about all their data upfront.

To your second and last point: I think one can share all the data one want's the more difficult part is using said data. Under GDPR there are very tight limits on what one can use and what not, even inferred data are personal data [0] so I'd say it's a good start for framework protecting personal rights.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/02/cjeu-sensitive-data-case/

New comment by orlandohohmeier in "Ask HN: What's Your Data Worth?"

orlandohohmeier — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 12:41:28 +0000

Hm, so if I get you, you're saying it's basically useless to others thus without value for them. What do you think e.g. Google would be willing to pay considering that they make about 6$ revenue[0] (there is a Forbes article [1] with even higher numbers form 2013) per monthly active users, and they do so by analyzing data to serve ads.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/306570/google-annualized... [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/08/31/how-muc...

Ask HN: What's Your Data Worth?

orlandohohmeier — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:52:10 +0000

Found a few articles about per-user valuation and average revenue per user. There are posts on data marketplaces and the likes. Yet, I'd like to understand what people think their data is worth and whether different forms of "putting that data to use" affect that valuation. So here are my two questions for you:

How much money would one need to give you in exchange for your data? -> Imagine a service where you upload all your data and receive some money in exchange.

Assuming one could use your data without ever looking at it and it never leaves you, what would you want in exchange for it then? -> Imagine a service which basically trains a machine learning model locally using your data (e.g. on your computer) and then only uploads that model while you receive some money in exchange.

Does it make any difference? Would you want something different in exchange, i.e. free services or data?

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