@eikedrescher @spielwerkapp Plain text prompting was never the final form factor. Love this!
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Pat Becker
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Pat Becker
@plbecker
Co-Founder @official_throne. CS @ ETH Zurich
🇺🇸 انضم Mayıs 2013
205 يتبع569 المتابعون
Today we’re introducing Cheats in @Spielwerkapp
Prompting has failed us.
Most people don’t know what to type.
AI unlocked a ton of skills for experts, but the rest of us kinda need a… cheat.
Sound on!
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Pat Becker أُعيد تغريده
All answers sought from the silicon God must pass through the approved priesthood first. Very 1517.
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, & more.
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Pat Becker أُعيد تغريده
Streamers, it's time to make the switch.
Check out our friends @official_throne, a privacy-first wishlist platform whose top priority is to keep your address private built with creators in mind!
Zach Bussey 🇨🇦@zachbussey
Amazon is making a change to Wishlists that may make your address visible to gift buyers, starting on March 25, 2026. They recommend you get a PO Box to protect yourself from accidentally being doxxed.
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@samuelstros Sadly not ideal for more complex relational datasets & if you want to give users easy ways to suggest edits, have a version history of individual rows etc.
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Is there an equivalent of GitHub for open-source databases / crowd-sourced data that lets users suggest edits, version history etc? Couldn't find anything established
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In personal news, @autotabai has been acquired by @cursor_ai .
@alexirobbins and I have been working on giving Cursor's agent its own computer it can use like a human developer.
Excited to hear what you think!
Cursor@cursor_ai
Cursor now shows you demos, not diffs. Agents can use the software they build and send you videos of their work.
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*opens Hacker News*
reads personal attacks
*closes Hacker News*
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Pat Becker أُعيد تغريده
In der USA sind die meisten Menschen enthusiastisch.
In Europa werde ich beschimpft, Leute schreien REGULIERUNG und VERANTWORTUNG.
Und wenn ich wirklich hier eine Firma baue dann kann ich mich mit Themen wie Investitionsschutzgesetz, Mitarbeiterbeteiligung und lähmenden Arbeitsregulierungen abkämpfen. Bei OAI arbeiten die meisten Leute 6-7 Tage die Woche und werden depentsprechend bezahlt. Be uns ist das illegal.
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@Ricburton If those numbers would make me lose control of my company, I have no other choice. Admirable how locked in you are!
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@pbecker Absolutely a risk
But if you’re scared of a few numbers
Then I actually do hope you leave or never come here
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Kids in
Creators in
Students in
Engineers in
Designers in
California is worth fighting for. Don’t let the tax bills of a few post-economic ballers change your plans.
Balaji happily extracted what he needed from California and then scurried away like the rest of his ilk.
Balaji@balajis
Zuck out Page out Brin out Thiel out Elon out The most successful tech founders of all time have now exited the failed state of California. You shouldn’t move there for tech. And if you are there, you should leave. The future is the decentralized Internet.
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San Francisco Neighborhood Ranking
S Tier: Pac Heights, Cole Valley, North Beach
A Tier: Marina, Noe valley, Richmond, Hayes valley, Nob hills
B Tier: Russian Hill, Haight Ashbury, Rincon Hill, Mission, Castro
C Tier: Potrero Hill, Bernal Heights, Sunset
D tier : SoMa,Dog patch
No go list : Tender loin, civic center, bay view, mid market, 6 th street
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@phara4assembly The marginal tax rate for $2M+/yr income in NY is: 9.65% state + 3.88% city, total: 13.53%. Already the highest (by far) in the US. The proposal increases it by 2%.
The marginal rate in Massachusetts for $2M+/yr is 5% (state) + 4% (millionaire tax), total: 9%.
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4 years ago, Massachusetts passed a millionaire's tax. Not only did millionaires not leave the state, there are now MORE of them and the tax is generating billions in revenue for critical public services. Let's make sure New York's millionaires pay their fair share.
Josie Stratman@JosieStratman
Mayor Mamdani pitching his plan to raises taxes on $$$ NYers on the biz-minded CNBC. He says there’s a lot of “fear mongering” ab it. “For all of the talk about capital flight… we lose sight of the fact that there is an exodus of people from the city. It's working people”
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At 800M yearly passenger miles flown by business travelers in the US, adding @Starlink to all domestic flights could increase the United States GDP by the GDP of Panama ($90 billion)
Paolo Berard@pberard
Not without its critics, but sitting at 32,000ft, traveling at 500mph with this kind of @Starlink connectivity is truly a modern miracle. Well done @united 💫
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@BenjaminHouy Wait until you go to the notary and pay 60k+ Euros to have them read a document to you for 10 hours
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Unpopular opinion: Germany is coasting on a reputation it stopped deserving a long time ago.
Ran a business there for a year. Accountant sat on paperwork for months, fired me for following up.
Embassy invented visa rules. Tax office couldn’t find my own file.
Germans defend this. “It filters out unmotivated people.”
Almost every immigrant I met wants to leave. Some stay only because exit tax traps them or because they are waiting for a passport.
For all the jokes about Mediterranean inefficiency, I’ve found the opposite. Cyprus has more delivery options, longer hours, and people who shrug and find workarounds instead of lecturing you about process.
Germans want to be right. Cypriots want to help.
Southern and eastern Europe are rising while Germany argues about fax machines. The tide is turning. Germans who can’t see it will learn the hard way.
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@MaxTagher Love the question! Only minor points, will send you a DM
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Collected as many infamous Hacker News launch comments of companies that went on to be huge (Airbnb, Stripe, Cursor & others) ⬇️
John Horton@johnjhorton
@tanayj It would be interesting to collect the earliest mentions of every big tech company of last 20 years on HN & do a mega thread e.g., here's Uber (then UberCab):
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@MaxTagher I checked your original launch post (great product btw, we’re using Mercury too!) but comments were generally very positive - same for a handful of other launches.
Main point of collecting the screenshots is showing that a badly received HN launch doesn’t predict failure
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@pbecker I checked the comments for Mercury and they were really quite positive news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196940…
I think it’s valuable to collect the infamous comments but also some of the reputation of HN being so cynical can be overblown
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@brian_armstrong Looks like Bitcoin was posted twice by accident - here is Retool's launch post (2017) - @dvdhsu
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The Cursor launch post on Hacker News only had 14 votes and "I still can't figure out if this is just some sarcastic joke software" as the top comment.
Incredible
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