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My Cofounder was diagnosed with cancer, what should I do? Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-28 08:29:52

My cofounder and I started the company 9 months ago. We are on 4 year 1 cliff vesting schedule. This coming June 2024, we'll finish the 1 year cliff. However he only commited 6 months out of this 1 year. And I can't blame him for that as none of us has expected this scenario. What should I do?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848868

Points: 7

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What things are happening in ML that we can't hear oer the din of LLMs? Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-28 08:25:58

What are some exciting things that are happening in the #ML #DataScience world that we are not able to hear over the din of LLMs?

I notice that Cynthia rudin is continuing to produce great stuff on explainable AI.

What else is going on that is not GPT/Diffusion/MultiModal?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848847

Points: 15

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AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-28 07:44:29

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848657

Points: 20

# Comments: 7


Treemap of World GDP by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) 2020 Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-28 06:59:55

Article URL: https://treemap-world-economy.pages.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848439

Points: 9

# Comments: 0


Endlessh-go: a Golang SSH tarpit that traps bots/scanners Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-28 06:23:19

Article URL: https://github.com/shizunge/endlessh-go

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848268

Points: 5

# Comments: 0


We've been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958 Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-28 04:39:40

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/weve-been-here-before-ai-promised-humanlike-machines-in-1958-222700

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39847848

Points: 21

# Comments: 20


ST-DOS Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-28 04:14:50

Article URL: http://sininenankka.dy.fi/~sami/fdshell/doskernel.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39847728

Points: 90

# Comments: 8


A few thoughts on the DOJ's antitrust case against Apple Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-28 03:49:40

Article URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/a-few-thoughts-on-the-dojs-antitrust-case-against-apple/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39847592

Points: 5

# Comments: 0


A step beyond Rust's pattern matching Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-28 01:20:50

Article URL: https://radiki.dev/posts/match-and-bind-patterns/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39846729

Points: 54

# Comments: 9


Astronomers discover a rare eclipsing X-ray binary Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-28 00:18:05

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2024-03-astronomers-rare-eclipsing-ray-binary.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39846296

Points: 11

# Comments: 0


BeagleY-AI: a 4 TOPS-capable $70 board from Beagleboard Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-27 22:40:26

Article URL: https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/beagley-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39845471

Points: 80

# Comments: 35


Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-27 21:43:59

Article URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844960

Points: 220

# Comments: 199


Writing Gnome Apps with Swift Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-27 21:40:59

Article URL: https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844936

Points: 385

# Comments: 151


Finley (YC W21) is hiring to remake the $1T private credit space Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-27 21:00:37

Article URL: https://www.finleycms.com/careers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844529

Points: 0

# Comments: 0


Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-27 20:24:43

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/startup-school-east-boston/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844159

Points: 100

# Comments: 72


Peter principle Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-27 20:19:54

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844104

Points: 135

# Comments: 72


Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers (2019) Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-27 20:05:48

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-mad-scientist-who-wrote-the-book-on-how-to-hunt-hackers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39843930

Points: 137

# Comments: 77


Infinite Mac: Turning to the dark side Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-27 20:02:57

Article URL: https://blog.persistent.info/2024/03/infinite-mac-nextstep.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39843902

Points: 202

# Comments: 43


Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 466 bytes Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-27 19:52:31

Article URL: https://github.com/meribold/btry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39843778

Points: 76

# Comments: 15


Launch HN: PointOne (YC W24) – Automated time tracking for lawyers Hacker News: Front Page

Hacker News: Front Page2024-03-27 18:10:57

Hi HN!

We’re Adrian, Katon, and Jeremy from PointOne (https://pointone.ai). We’re building an app that automatically figures out what lawyers are doing and generates timesheets for them. Here’s a quick demo: https://youtu.be/yrL3e1hgaNc, and here’s an even quicker one: https://youtu.be/giIaAxZp2M0.

If you’ve ever hired a lawyer, you know most of them bill by the hour—or more specifically, by the 0.1 of an hour (hence our name!). What most clients don’t realize is how painful it is for lawyers to track all their work in 6-minute increments. Lawyers hate time tracking, and many say it’s the worst part of their jobs.

Adrian started out his career as a corporate lawyer at Fenwick & West. The first thing he was taught was how to track and bill his time. Between the 70-hour work weeks and billing to 10-15+ clients per day, staying on top of timesheets is surprisingly hard. To make things worse, law firms are extremely particular about how narratives (that is, descriptions of tasks performed) are crafted—down to the punctuation and diction required. So, Adrian became chronically delinquent in submitting his timesheets, and the firm threatened to take away his bonus multiple times as a result.

Attorney time tracking is not a new problem, and companies have been promising to solve it for years. But pre-LLM attempts at automatic timekeeping never worked as advertised. We were inspired by products like Rewind, and felt that a narrower vertical application could finally solve this problem for lawyers.

Our product is a desktop application that a lawyer turns on at the start of their work day. It runs passively in the background and captures logs from everywhere they work: the OS itself, Word, Excel, calendar, emails, web browser, Slack/Teams, etc. We then clean, pre-process, and interpret the logs. Modern LLMs enable a bunch of cool features. For example, we can pull subtle context from an attorney’s browser activity to associate that work with a client. And for each client and project, we use these models to generate a time entry with a narrative description that matches both the firm’s and the client’s style preferences.

Besides the fact that lawyers hate timekeeping, using PointOne lets them be sure that they’re not letting time slip through the cracks, and frees up hours per week they can spend on other things. It also helps firm leadership by getting more consistent narratives, and faster timesheet submission.

Given the sensitivity of the data captured, privacy and security are massively important. As such, we have customizable data retention periods, we do not use firm data to update models, and we encrypt all data (in addition to employing other standard practices for processing confidential data).

Since our app primarily works for legal workflows, it might not be super useful for most people here (maybe some though!). We would love it if you could check out our demo video, leave your thoughts in the comments, and introduce us to any lawyers you know.


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39842617

Points: 114

# Comments: 89