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New ask Hacker News story: Is VC the new PMF strategy?

Is VC the new PMF strategy? 3 by networkOne | 0 comments on Hacker News. It seems that companies use VC funds as the main advertising for their company these days. In fact, without capital raising it is hard to set yourself apart from the rest of the budding companies started in their thousands each day. The receiving of VS funds now seems the only way one can create any virality in the marketplace. People still have a plea to the expert-from-out-of-town in that they feel... "well VCs are very experienced people who know what to look for when investing", which is counter-intuitive when faced with the realisation that VCs fund 19 losers for every 1 unicorn. People want a company to be big before it has a marketplace-chance of being big. An press release of "ABC Co., a startup tech firm, has a $25M investment from Vulture VC Fund resulting in a $1B valuation" carries considerably more viral weight that a PR stating "ABC Co., a startup tech firm, has a business...
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New ask Hacker News story: Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET

Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET 2 by aleph_one | 0 comments on Hacker News. Cuttle is a combat card game of mysterious origins dating back to the 1970's. It feels like playing Magic or Yugioh!, but it's played with a standard 52-card deck. https://cuttle.cards is an open source (code: https://ift.tt/95JSIUe) project that lets people play Cuttle online, for free. The project is under active development and has a competitive format with 4 seasonal championships each year, followed by a world championship tournament. The Cuttle World Championship is tomorrow, April 11th, at 1pm ET. You can watch it live on Twitch (https://ift.tt/vMD8wgK) or Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/live/mBj04alF1Z8?si=amIR5flmW7zewmL9) and chat with the players on the Cuttle discord (https://ift.tt/BdRVtNf). *RULES* ### Goal The goal is to be the first player to have 21 or more points worth of point cards on your field. The first player to reach the goal ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?

Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works? 5 by nitramm | 3 comments on Hacker News. I saw the HackerRank (YC S11) hiring post (https://ift.tt/hDOq8SG) and it made me realize I no longer understand how to evaluate candidates effectively. Specifically, we are changing hiring across 3 dimensions: > Tasks: Real-world tasks on code repositories vs standard algorithmic-style puzzles > Evaluation: AI fluency, orchestration skills vs functional correctness > Candidate experience: Agentic IDE vs a simple code editor In the “old world,” you could ask multiple questions and triangulate skill from answers. Now it seems like evaluation depends heavily on tools and models that keep changing month to month. So I’m curious: > What signals actually correlate with strong engineers today? > How do you design interviews that don’t become obsolete with the next model release? > Are algorithmic interviews still useful at all? Would love to hear from people who have re...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does Sam Altman know how to code?

Ask HN: Does Sam Altman know how to code? 5 by shchess | 4 comments on Hacker News. Asking for my friend, they claim coworker testified at news But think deeply based on his activity sama
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New ask Hacker News story: Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer? 5 by tree666 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Curious about projects where a volunteer doc writer could make some impact.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?

Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber? 3 by dandaka | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am looking for local-first a meetings recorder that - supports on-device models - transcribes to MD - detects ongoing meetings - open source I was actively using Char/Hyprnote, but they have stopped supporting local models. Big fan of handy.computer UX, maybe something along those lines. Anyone using something good?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related? 3 by meander_water | 0 comments on Hacker News. I don't have anything against AI, but HN (and everywhere else) seems to be drowning in AI atm. Seems like every man and his dog is building an AI agent harness. And power to you (and your dog) if that's you. But it would be refreshing to hear about some non AI related projects people are working on.
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