<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: twosdai</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=twosdai</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:57:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=twosdai" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by twosdai in "Show HN: Name2Tree – Turn any name into a deterministic tree"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks so much. Its really clean now, I like your site a lot. Its a great form of internet art. :)<p>If you end up getting some spam or whatever, you can make people login in the future. But I would just wait for that to be a problem TBH. Your user experience is really nice now.</p>
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<p>If a company that wanted to IPO had 1 trillion dollars, their market cap would have to be larger than their cash holding. Their cash on hand is considered or at least should be considered in any normal valuation of the company. Because shares are ownership of the company.<p>So a simple valuation would be something like
Current Cash + Assets + Expected Future cash - (Expenses + Risk)</p>
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<p>Really cool!<p>Why does adding a name require a PR? Could it be handled with a database instead?</p>
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<p>There's probably some upper limit to it, i am not sure a horse could live through the ultra marathon moab race in the western us.</p>
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<p>This is an exceptionally good point. Truly. Thanks for sharing.</p>
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<p>Good callout on the underlying assumption. I agree.<p>And I additonally agree that people will gravitate toward comfort over the right choice.</p>
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<p>It is possible to move most of that discussion to required but intentional async communication.</p>
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<p>Really great point. I have wondered that as well.<p>Even weirder to me is that in the case of a person doing the computation on a board or paper or whatever medium, its still computation. This time the physical medium doing the work, is the human and their brain.<p>If consciousness can be proven to emerge from computation alone, then in a way we humans with our brains can simulate a new consciousness.</p>
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<p>I think if you make the sharing intentional to specific groups or specific people with high quality work, people will be interested.<p>So you can biforcate your sharing somewhat. 99% of your content of sharing will not be watched initially, but if you trim it and edit it intentionally well for an audience who care, people will come to see more of what you have.<p>Many "influencers" share a lot on twitch and then cut up the best part of their stream into a 2 minute video byte for youtube. As an example.</p>
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<p>> Oversight Log // PAX-7: We can confirm the crying. Our historical data includes 4.7 billion Slack messages containing the phrase “I can’t do this anymore” followed by a return to the desk within 9 minutes<p>This was amazing. Thanks for this, got a good laugh.</p>
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<p>Found this really well written. I really enjoyed reading it, and found myself agreeing with a lot of it.<p>I wish the author wrote more about the day 2 problem cases with AI built applications. It somewhat matters what the programming language is, the architecture and design for debugging and reasoning verification when we want to alter the system specification.<p>Basically as a Dev, or "Owner" of the application, we are responsible for the continuous changes and updates to the system. Which I've found hard to reason about in practice when speaking to other people, if I dont know the code explicitly.</p>
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<p>I also have this feeling. But do you ever doubt it. that when the time comes we will be like the boiled frog? Where its "just so convenient" or that the reality of setting up a local ai is just a worse experience for a large upfront cost?</p>
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<p>Go and live in the woods. You dont need money. Die without a hospital its not required. You just want saftey.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I think if there is some sort of super intelligence, the idea would be that it would make the system of computers and computation irrelevant entirely. Now that would be novel.</p>
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<p>In this regard, the company cannot be created where there is not a single person tied to it, at least legally, even shell corporations have a person on the record as being responsible. So there needs to be some human that is apart of it, and in any "normal" organization if there is a person tied to the outcome of the company they presumably care about it and if the AI 99.99% of the time does good work, but still can make mistakes, a person will still be checking off on all its work. Which leads to a system of people reviewing and signing off on work, not exactly a fully autonomous firm.</p>
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<p>Also for what its worth, I enjoyed reading your article, it was engaging. Keep it up!</p>
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<p>I too crave my car when I am running around a track on the 5th lap.<p>In your comparison, I think you're getting tired because you need to reason through syntax writing which you have not done in a while, its more akin to going to gym than it is to "withdrawl". Having to reason through syntax for writing is going to be a muscle memory thing which AI will reduce, but its not really the most valuable skill of programming. Reading, comprehension, ownership, and your internal mental model of programming tasks are without a doubt the most important aspect of our work.</p>
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<p>I really enjoyed this article, I didn't bridge the idea of an ATM and mobile banking.<p>I think the idea raised about "Automated Firms" is a bit off in the picture painted in that linked article. I think the David Oks intention is to paint a picture of a fully automated company, but the linked article gives this impression:<p>> Future AI firms won’t be constrained by what's scarce or abundant in human skill distributions – they can optimize for whatever abilities are most valuable. Want Jeff Dean-level engineering talent? Cool: once you’ve got one, the marginal copy costs pennies. Need a thousand world-class researchers? Just spin them up. The limiting factor isn't finding or training rare talent – it's just compute.<p>In that above paragraph the author is saying to the reader that a human will be able to spin up and get these armies of intelligent workers, but at the end of the day their output is given to a human who presumably needs to take ownership of the result. Intelligent workers make bad choices or bad bets, but those AI machines cannot "own" an outcome. The responsibility must fall on a person.<p>To this end, I think the fully autonomous firm is kind of a fallacy. There needs to be someone who can be sued if anything goes wrong. You're not suing the AI.</p>
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<p>They (any government agency) literally scan your physical ID whenever they need it. How is this materially different to a digital ID being accessed.</p>
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<p>I would add these motions only really make sense in a few cases:<p>1. its apart of an enterprise sales motion, eg you want to get ~1000$ per user per month out of it. 
2. Its apart of some well subscribed newsletter, this looks more like an ad than a cold email.<p>If your business is trying an outbound sales motion, then these methods might work. If you're going down a Product lead growth motion because of the nature of the problem/product/customer, then I would try getting some influencers who your prospective users like to use your product.<p>I know a lot less about PLG motions, so take that with a grain of salt. Feel free to email me directly if you want feedback or anything. Email is in my profile.</p>
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