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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Hacker News comes up
The Future of AI Infra: from Kubernetes to Agent Sandboxes — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
- ▶ 9:54 Akshat Bubna Yeah, you blew up on Hacker News, and we got a big traffic spike.
The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw
- ▶ 14:05 Gavriel Cohen Launched it on, ah, Hacker News, MIT license.
⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
- ▶ 1:46 Stay Sassy EM So I would say in the early days, Hacker News was actually like a really great growth engine for, uh, the blog. 2 times in the scene
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- ▶ 5:05 Jared Palmer And then launched AI Playground, that shot to the top of Hacker News.
⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- ▶ 23:19 Vivek Ravisankar We got caught once like that in Hacker News. 2 times in the scene
Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
- ▶ 16:55 Kyle Corbitt You know, would generate like hacker news titles from, from articles, um, which is a fun project.
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 58:47 Alessio Fanelli And then you go on Hacker News and it's like, I've never got a single good result from AI.
- ▶ 1:20:14 Thorsten Ball To help me as much as, you know, reading Hacker News for how many hundred hours and writing code for how many thousand hours, you know.
⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
- ▶ 30:35 Brendan Falk There's probably some free open source clone that I could just download and host myself, and it sort of reminds me of the classic Dropbox hack and use comment, which is just like,
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 1:43:07 Alessio Fanelli Because I think when we did the, the cursor episode explain, then everybody on agronews is like, oh, why, why did you fork?
- ▶ 1:53:26 Shawn Wang We have some listener questions, actually, about the Windsurf launch, and obviously, I also want to give you the chance to just respond to Hacker News. 2 times in the scene
AI is Eating Search
- ▶ 22:44 unnamed speaker Yeah, I think Alessio was very struck by, uh, there was an example this week on Hacker News, I think, where ChatGPT hallucinated a feature that they didn't have, then they were like, that's great, let's build it.
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 13:01 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan There was an article on Hacker News
Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
- ▶ 40:03 Shawn Wang That was like a show hacker news.
Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra
- ▶ 0:18 unnamed speaker So I think that Zed is relatively famous, uh, at least Hacker News famous, and so, like, I've heard it a bunch.
npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
- ▶ 29:00 Shawn Wang Like every day it'll just be on Hacker News anyway.
Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- ▶ 1:12:50 Shawn Wang Twitter, obviously for me, Substack, Hacker News, I try to, I really try very hard to rank on Hacker News. 2 times in the scene
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
S1: the $6 DeepSeek R1 Competitor (ft. Entropix)
- ▶ 17:03 unnamed speaker Uh, we wanted to talk about S one and, you know, your blog post is the top of hacker news.
The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
- ▶ 47:25 Karina Nguyen Some, uh, this particular, like, Harkin news articles.
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 1:55 Shawn Wang Hacker News hates it, which is a good sign, but there's enough people that have defined it, you know, GitHub, when you launch GitHub models, which is the Hugging Face clone, they put AI engineers at the, in the banner and like above the…
- ▶ 52:48 Shawn Wang So the reason I used to do that, by the way, is because I wanted to show up on Hacker News. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36:12 Shawn Wang Computer use was one of the most upvoted demos on Hacker News of the year.
- ▶ 1:43:22 Shawn Wang I will take a little bit of credit for that, for the naming of that one, because I think that was the hack, that was the Hacker News thing.
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 5:57 unnamed speaker Because I think when we did the, the cursor episode, explain, and then everybody on AgriNews is like,
- ▶ 16:16 unnamed speaker We have some listener questions, actually, about the Windsurf launch, and obviously, I also want to give you the chance to just respond to Hacker News. 2 times in the scene
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- ▶ 3:09 NotebookLM Host 2 And someone on Hacker News pointed out a cool detail.
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 1:45 Michelle Pokrass So that was kind of my, I also was a little bit into crypto at the time, then I got into it on Hacker News, and so Coinbase was on my radar, and so that was like my first real startup opportunity was Coinbase.
- ▶ 7:03 Michelle Pokrass I actually remember the first time seeing it on Hacker News and being like, wow, this is absolutely crazy.
Personal benchmarks vs HumanEval - with Nicholas Carlini of DeepMind
- ▶ 33:44 unnamed speaker Hecker news as well.
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 1:11:10 unnamed speaker It was on the front page of agronew.
The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw
- ▶ 16:25 Steve Ruiz There was like number one on Hacker News for a while.
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- ▶ 0:38 Shawn Wang I, I've seen Find blow up this year, mostly, I think since your, your launch in Feb and, uh, V-Two and then, uh, your, your, um, Hacker News post.
- ▶ 15:51 Michael Royzen Um, so ended up doing a show HN on Hacker News in January, 20, 22 of that system.
- ▶ 28:57 Shawn Wang So you got 1500 points on Hacker News in April, which is, like, if you live on Hacker News a lot, 4 times in the scene
Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- ▶ 22:02 Shawn Wang Yeah, that was mostly because you were on HN, right?
- ▶ 27:50 Shawn Wang Your Hacker News stuff is very high signal because obviously you're folding, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:09 Shawn Wang You can just kind of listen to the hack and use daily thing.
- ▶ 56:08 Shawn Wang Um, summarizing the Hacker News comments and the, the content. 4 times in the scene
FlashAttention-2: Making Transformers 800% faster AND exact
- ▶ 51:25 unnamed speaker Front page of accurate news before this podcast.