Hacker News: whoisnnamdi

New comment by whoisnnamdi in "MIT 6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models"

whoisnnamdi — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:25:17 +0000

Great for MIT to be putting out such timely and relevant content for free!

New comment by whoisnnamdi in "Test-driven development with an LLM for fun and profit"

whoisnnamdi — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:01:37 +0000

This is a helpful breakdown of a trend, thank you

Might be a boon for test-driven development. Could turn out that AI coding is the killer app for TDD. I had a similar thought about a year ago but had forgotten, appreciate the reminder

New comment by whoisnnamdi in "The surprising effectiveness of test-time training for abstract reasoning [pdf]"

whoisnnamdi — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:22:55 +0000

yes

Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models

whoisnnamdi — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 02:27:21 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09687

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37217886

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by whoisnnamdi in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

whoisnnamdi — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 16:00:18 +0000

https://whoisnnamdi.com/

About 50 longer-form essays over the last ~5 years, mostly about venture capital, software, and developer productivity.

Some interesting Hacker News discussions on a few: Remote Software Developers Earn 22% More Than Non-Remote Developers (377 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935476

Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers (366 points) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31724942

New comment by whoisnnamdi in "Cerebras-GPT: A Family of Open, Compute-Efficient, Large Language Models"

whoisnnamdi — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:10:54 +0000

Chinchilla actually came first!

We Don't Have Nearly Enough Startups

whoisnnamdi — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:05:56 +0000

Article URL: https://whoisnnamdi.substack.com/p/not-enough-startups

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34371499

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Stripe Apps

whoisnnamdi — Tue, 24 May 2022 18:50:12 +0000

Article URL: https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-apps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31496042

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Companies Rarely Grow into Their Valuations

whoisnnamdi — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:15:31 +0000

Article URL: https://whoisnnamdi.com/grow-valuation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29544034

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by whoisnnamdi in "Our fundraising learning post-YC"

whoisnnamdi — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:55:42 +0000

Good on you guys for being so transparent about your fundraise process! Amazing persistence, glad it worked out

Writing is networking for introverts

whoisnnamdi — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 21:36:22 +0000

Article URL: https://byrnehobart.medium.com/writing-is-networking-for-introverts-5cac14ad4c77

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29299986

Points: 335

# Comments: 89

A Robin Hanson Primer

whoisnnamdi — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 21:13:36 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/3sjtar/a_robin_hanson_primer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28911842

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Always Do Extra

whoisnnamdi — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 19:50:03 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2021/always-do-extra.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28856730

Points: 258

# Comments: 121

WebAssembly-Ing the Pieces: Vectorized’s Data Policy Engine

whoisnnamdi — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 17:28:56 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/lightspeed-venture-partners/webassembly-ing-the-pieces-vectorizeds-data-policy-engine-5ceea983ed5d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28789525

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Allbirds S-1

whoisnnamdi — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:31:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653909/000162828021017824/allbirdss-1.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28368595

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by whoisnnamdi in "Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser"

whoisnnamdi — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 18:41:56 +0000

This is an incredibly well-written article and helps track and rationalize some of the trends I've been seeing as well around backends as a service that enable developers to easily spin up modern web applications

Thanks so much for writing it!