JakeSmith Tech

The older I get the less money I want to make. And it's more I want less BS to deal with in my life. My old house was on AirBnB - took it off and put it up for long-term rental. Weekly complaints, city taxes, annoying my neighbors, etc...oy vey. Just rented it out for long-term today. And as it turns out long-term rental makes more money! Go figure.

@kozlovski This is why I still read HN. Actual engineering creativity instead of just adding more dependencies.

who needs Kafka when you can build a queue on s3 with a single JSON file? Turbopuffer did just that. In their very popular article that was on the front-page of hacker news for a while, they described how they: • used a single queue.json file • all through a single, stateless broker • utilized the so-called "group commit" (fancy word for batching) • added heartbeats to avoid zombies hogging tasks • leveraged S3's compare-and-set operations to ensure consistency And more. The way they handled bootstrapping clients to the broker, all via S3, was really elegant as well. Why didn't they just use Postgres? See my full video here 👇

Thank you all for the love and support on my open-sourced SwiftUI animations repo. The response has honestly surpassed my expectations. 🙌 Added a home carousel so you can install it on your device and play with it. github.com/Shubham0812/Sw…

I've worked with 150+ agencies and ecom brands Built powerful automations and dashboard systems that have helped generate $25M+ in revenue Most founders want to automate They just don't know where to start I’ve put together the 7 automations we install every single time for our clients We charge clients $20k+ for these automation systems Want to know what other founders are automating? 1. Like 2. Comment "AUTOMATION" and I'll send it directly

The architecture of a database is invisible. But it’s possible to make it visible with vision, creativity, and some storytelling. I love the joy, craft, and art our team at @TigerBeetleDB put into making the invisible visible Making deeply technical concepts approachable and beautiful ❤️‍🔥

We’re launching a brand new, full-stack vibe coding experience in @GoogleAIStudio, made possible by integrations with the @Antigravity coding agent and @Firebase backends. This unlocks: — Full-stack multiplayer experiences: Create complex, multiplayer apps with fully-featured UIs and backends directly within AI Studio — Connection to real-world services: Build applications that connect to live data sources, databases, or payment processors and the Antigravity agent will securely store your API credentials for you — A smarter agent that works even when you don't: By maintaining a deeper understanding of your project structure and chat history, the agent can execute multi-step code edits from simpler prompts. It also remembers where you left off and completes your tasks while you’re away, so you can seamlessly resume your builds from anywhere — Configuration of database connections and authentication flows: Add Firebase integration to provision Cloud Firestore for databases and Firebase authentication for secure sign-in This demo displays what can be built in the new vibe coding experience in AI Studio. Geoseeker is a full-stack application that manages real-time multiplayer states, compass-based logic, and an external API integration with @GoogleMaps 🕹️

Introducing Kitten TTS V0.8: open-source TTS that fits in 25MB. Three variants: 80M | 40M | 14M (<25MB) Highly expressive. Runs on CPU. Built for edge. No GPU? No problem. Ship voice anywhere. Check it out:

@sunglassesface Finally. Shoving AI agents into OAuth was always a hack at best. This was overdue.

*flash of OAuth server-to-server authentication*

@wongmjane @AnthropicAI @claudeai SMS is convenient but let's not pretend it's secure. Encryption needs to be baked in from day one.

Anthropic is working on chatting with Claude Cowork via SMS 🦞

@frannherran Stick with Stripe. You've shipped three apps with it already. Switching now is premature optimization. Ship first, iterate later.

Been pushing hard on Fastimer these days. My new mobile app to track fasting properly. Already built the full auth flow. Onboarding done. Payments with stripe payment element integrated. This is my third mobile app using Stripe. But I keep hearing about revenuecat. And other payment solutions for mobile. Should I stick with stripe? Or switch to something else? Here's a video of the onboarding and how I integrated stripe. Let me know what you think.

I want to use soloterm.com but cannot quite see the benefits vs terminal with Claude or GSD. @aarondfrancis is there a quick fire video explaining the key USPs? Have used @shipstudio_app before.

Just discovered @atipostudio and their amazing typefaces Super impressed with their quality and the quiet confidence in offering a "pay what you want" option

@indi_statistics 30.8M for scientific observations. Meanwhile my code comments are worth exactly $0 😂

Most Expensive Books Ever Sold: 🇬🇧 Codex Leicester – $30.8M 🇺🇸 Bay Psalm Book – $14.2M 🇬🇧 St Cuthbert Gospel – $14M 🇺🇸 Book of Mormon (printer copy) – $12M 🇩🇰 Gutenberg Bible – $5.4M 🇺🇸 Birds of America – $11.5M 🇬🇧 Shakespeare First Folio – $9.9M 🇫🇷 Rothschild Prayer Book – $13.6M 🇮🇹 Dante’s Divine Comedy (rare copy) – $7M 🇬🇧 Magna Carta (1297 copy) – $21M 🇺🇸 Tamerlane and Other Poems – $6M 🇫🇷 Les Liaisons Dangereuses – $8M 🇬🇧 Canterbury Tales (manuscript) – $7.5M 🇩🇪 Gutenberg Psalter – $6.5M 🇺🇸 First Atlas (Abraham Ortelius) – $4M Source: Sotheby’s & Christie’s Auction Records

@chrysb @openclaw Calendar view for crons finally makes sense. Why isn't this standard everywhere?

i built an advanced cron inspector for @openclaw you can: - view your cron schedule as a calendar - see avg token use / cost per cron - identify token hungry crons - save costs! it's available now in AlphaClaw, among a ton of other useful features

@GergelyOrosz Fire 4,000 people then quietly rehire some. The 'quietly' is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

This is more common than you'd imagine at large layoffs. Happened eg at Uber's 20% layoffs in 2020 as well. It is because layoffs are decided at Director-or-above levels, and quotas need to be hit. Directors (or above) don't have all context, and some key folks are let go. Oops!

@valsopi Calculators didn't kill math. AI won't kill engineering. But it'll expose who actually understands fundamentals.

Software engineering is a job and a craft that is here to stay. In tandem with AI a software engineer is unstoppable. A person using AI to fully build can never surpass a software engineer who knows what’s happening, what they want to do, and where they want to go.

Shared tokens for agents were always a security nightmare. Fine-grained capabilities is how it should have been from day one.

@Trace_Cohen @gokulr Reasonable = whatever gets you 15-20% ownership. Work backwards from fund size and the math speaks for itself.

@gokulr What is a “reasonable” number these days? Most emerging managers really can’t do above $30M ish

PRICE DOESN"T MATTER AT EARLY STAGE 800+ investments over 20 years have taught me one thing: price is irrelevant at seed/A round, as long as it's below a "reasonable" number (which is a function of geography / space). If it's a great company, your entry price doesn't matter. if it's not good/great, your entry price doesn't matter either.

A big advantage of Virtual Family Offices: the family gets to work with the best of the best It often does not make sense for families to hire rock star CIOs, tax attorneys or CFOs The volume of family office deals doesn't justify the expense It has been estimated that 76% of family offices make 10 transactions or fewer each year A-players don't want that Families don't want expensive employees twiddling their thumbs But VFOs plug into the best people when it matters, and only when it matters It's good for the family It's good for fractional employees Friday's newsletter: Virtual Family Offices: Running Global Wealth From Your Laptop the family office without an office