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Just curious how much folks here spend for LLM subscriptions personally, i.e. not paid for by your employer if you have one or your own company, but purely for your own pleasure. Personally I have a Claude subscription…

I see there's very little activity (at least in the main branch) of the River proxy repository [1], so I wonder if the project is doing well? There was a lot of excitement about it when Cloudflare open-sourced their…

I still think back very fondly to the original YC startup school experience, where groups of around 10 startups were paired with a mentor / facilitator from a previous YC batch and met once per week through video chat…

Is anyone here an ICANN-accredited domain registrar? How's your experience, how much does it cost you to run this business apart from the yearly ICANN fees?

I'm wondering if making a 3D engine has become more difficult due to the higher bar of existing engines, or more easy due to the vastly increasing hardware power we have available? I'm not talking about making an Unreal…

Does anyone have experience running your own SMTP server for handling incoming mails while sending outgoing mails through a large third-party provider? My thinking here is that deliverability is the main issue when…

I was part of YC's initial StartupSchool batch in 2019 (?), and back then we had groups of maybe 5-10 startups which were mentored by a YC alumn. Every week we would have a video conference where people would share…

I recently noticed that my company [1] has 23 reviews on G2, all of which seem to be fake. I know they're fake because we sell an enterprise product with a high amount of consulting and I happen to know all our…

Does anyone here know if it would be possible to draft a software license that excludes using the software code for training ML models? Can this be done at all or is reading/analyzing code always considered fair use,…

I sometimes think back fondly of the small automation scripts I wrote over the years, so I wanted to ask you: Which scripts, hacks & automations did you create that your're proud of? Personally, I e.g. built a bot to…

So, I'm working on a new idea to build a "friendly neighborhood" of the world wide web where websites respect the privacy of visitors and do not track them. Technologically I already know how to approach this, but I'm…

Is there any service that enables organizations to build a global network stack using anycast and similar "smart" routing paradigms, but without locking them into specific ecosystems (e.g. AWS, Azure) or forcing them to…

Hi HN! I'm a solo founder building privacy-enhancing software solutions. I'm currently working on a new product that aims to make event analytics (e.g. for mobile apps, software or IoT devices) more privacy-friendly. I…

I'm looking for a database that can efficiently store and retrieve a very large number (billions) of structured datapoints for use in machine learning. Each datapoint can have an arbitrary number of categorical and…

Dear fellow data scientists / ML experts: How do you explain the impact and value of your work to the business people in your organization? Do you have to explain your work to them, do they check it and do they…

Dear ML developers, data scientists and ML DevOps: How do you track your ML systems in production and which metrics do you monitor? How do you make sure your models do what they're supposed to do when confronted with…

To all data scientists and machine learning researchers & practitioners: - What do you do first when you get a new dataset for machine learning? - How do you analyze your data to find relevant features? - How do you…

In your company, how do you handle sensitive (e.g. personal) data in your IT infrastructure? How do you control access to that data and how do you secure it? Do you use pseudonymization, encryption or anonymization?…

I'm looking for a service, blockchain-based or not, that would allow me to publicly (and ideally irrevocably) log audit-related information, i.e. put a blob into a database with a unique ID/URL and allow anyone in…