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making things, sipping cold brew, and blasting taylor swift • @uwcse @atlasfellow @JupeInc @kobra_dev

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but when the world needed him most, he vanished
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gpt-4V is brutal LMAO
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it honestly feels like high school cs classes are ✨designed✨ to make programming appear to be boring and uncreative it's frankly absurd that the way programming is introduced is having students spend a year writing java for an autograder
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BREAKING: Sundar Pichai is leaving Google to join @Replit as a junior product manager
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Where do y'all store your secret recovery phrases? I would keep mine on paper but I know I'd lose it
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time to add “angel investor @replit ” to my bio
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Had lunch at @Replit HQ in SF!!
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2 years
after 32 hours of hacking and far too much caffeine @HackTheNorth , we built Tandem — a bike attachment that warns bikers about cars in their blind spots with ML!!
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@patrickc This reminds me of an HN comment from when the M1 came out with incredible benchmarks - “don’t worry software is going to eat up those gains within a couple years”
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2 years
@anothercohen just use the latest 5 minute dinner delivery app so VCs can pay for your chicken bowl
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3 years
We're really excited to announce that Kobra got into @Replit ventures, and we can't wait to work with Replit's amazing team on Kobra!! We're building a visual programming language (like Scratch) for ML, and check out our demo video at !
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2 years
the urge to rebuild everything you've ever made with @cloudflare workers, R2, & D1
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geohot was so real for this
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Just got access to DALL E-2 by @OpenAI !!! Reply to this tweet with something you want DALLE-2 to draw and I'll reply with the generated image
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You can create custom image backgrounds with @OpenAI DALL·E 2 – here are two PFPs I generated with #dalle !! What's super cool is that it makes other minor changes to the image to make the background better fit in (i.e. it makes your hair flying if you're in a windy background)
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life update: i've been working for @JupeInc for the past couple months & I'll be joining them full time this summer in SF🌉🪐 Jupe is building autonomous, off-grid housing units for the 1.5B ppl w/o access to adequate housing, and i'm so hyped to be part of this stellar team <3
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me before vs. me after a one line bug fix
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saturdays @ uw #1 @aidenybai & i are trying to create a playful, chill space for makers of all kinds at @uw . dm me if you're interested in showing up or sponsoring!!
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@FP_Champagne
François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦
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Criminals have been using sophisticated tools to steal cars. And Canadians are rightfully worried.   Today, I announced we are banning the importation, sale and use of consumer hacking devices, like flippers, used to commit these crimes. 🔗:
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LOL @GITHUB COPILOT TRIED TO RICKROLL ME
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this is probably one of the best analogies for why i love programming – it allows me to build magical projects with 100k+ visitors with just a laptop and an internet connection (and it might not even require a laptop w/ @replit on mobile)
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Zachary Fogg
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@AnthonyCastrio tell them it's the closest thing to real magic that we have! literally like in harry potter. learn the right magic words to tell the computer in the correct order, and whatever you can dream will literally happen... as long as you get those magic words right :)...
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we got started almost immediately with a @Raspberry_Pi & opencv ai camera — here’s one early version after sleepless night #1 we demoed to @DanielleFong !!
@DanielleFong
Danielle Fong 🏴‍☠️
2 years
“is it electric?” “it’s electric enabled! we have a rear view mirror, and ai based collision detection if something is coming up on you from behind “what do you call your project?” “bike thing” “you got it working last night?” “we got it working just now” nicely done
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I got early access to this course last week, and it's absolutely amazing and made Rust click for me. Highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning Rust
@ossia
Quincy Larson
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After months of hard work, our free multi-hour Rust course is now live.⚙️ Learn Rust by building projects step-by-step – right in your browser. Congrats to the freeCodeCamp team. And thanks to @replit for the grant that made this course possible.
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Hackathons are probably the main reason I'm in tech, and they are the first place I was able to find the creative side of CS I didn't find in the classroom, and I'm super excited to announce that I'm organizing HackWA – an IRL hackathon in Seattle: (RTs appreciated)
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@ifvictr
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@_pranavnt @patrickc “The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.” - Henry Petroski
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It looks like our school district blocked @replit :( This is incredibly disappointing, given how powerful replit is when learning to code. The worst affected by this are people without other devices (furthering inequities in CS), and I really hope @LakeWashSchools reconsiders.
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no [student at my high school], i don't want to join your "nonprofit".
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made a map of coffee shops in SF I want to visit w/ @felt !! reply with any cool places you want added :)
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good news: no school for 3 days bad news: i tested positive :/
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Last weekend, 150 hackers from around the world assembled at @Figma HQ in the largest IRL post-pandemic hackathon, run by @hackclub !!
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- Every open source maintainer upon realizing tomorrow is October + Every open-source maintainer upon realizing tomorrow is October
@devongovett
Devon Govett
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Every open source maintainer upon realizing tomorrow is October…
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I was just working with a horribly documented library, and using @sourcegraph to traverse the codebase of that library (rather than using the docs site) saved so much time. Quality code search makes working with open-source libraries so much faster, regardless of docs quality
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Now that it's winter and I'm cold, I'm really missing my Intel Macbook
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paperclip maximized
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f(x) (Taylor's version)
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Gave my first ever conference talk at ToorCamp last Saturday on visual programming!! so grateful to @toorcamp & @CodeDay for the opportunity and i'm so hyped for toorcamp 2024 <3
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go aiden!!! so excited for when i can have 30 tabs open without my laptop dying
@aidenybai
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I'm extremely excited to announce... Million.js ( @milliondotjs ) is joining @ycombinator W24!
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it's sad to see so many friends who lose interest in programming because they see programming as just writing solutions to boring text output questions
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i just saw $20 on the street in nyc and immediately was like “this is why the efficient market hypothesis is fake” and right as I was saying that someone else picked it up 💀💀
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Today, Math.floor((new Date() - new Date("2005-05-05").getTime()) / 3.154e+10) evaluates to 17 (it's my birthday)!! What's a piece of advice you'd give to 17y/o you + one bday discount i should know about?
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"Jesus playing beat saber in the metaverse", by DALL·E 2
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writing rust is 90% wanting to throw your computer out of the window and 10% admiring the beauty of the language
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Kobra got featured in @InfoWorld 👀👀
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in my deep learning class last winter, everyone got $75 in gcp credits for running experiments, but roughly no one used it because it takes like 30min navigating the gcp ui to actually spin up GPUs
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a decent chunk of these friends who've worked on a creative project after these classes found programming to be so much more fun, and imho these creative projects are how programming should be taught.
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I'm super excited to be hosting a @hackclub AMA with the one and only @feross this Friday (April 8th) at 5PM PST!! If you're a teenager and want to ask questions, join the Hack Club Slack at :)
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also: i cant express how thankful i am to @hackclub and hackathons for showing me that programming is fun and creative, and especially to hack club for creating an amazing community for teen hackers to ship stuff together
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thank you so much @vercel for this ❤️
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top 0.05% of taylor swift listeners this is going on my common app honors & awards
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New @hackclub GameLab Ship – Capture the Flag 🚩🚩🚩
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how to go viral on twitter: 1. "I'm building something new™. Drop your ENS" 2. "I'm creating a group chat for ____. Say 👋 if you want to join" 3."Want to change the background color of your website with CSS? Here's 240 ways to do it: (1/241)" i would say /s but they sadly work
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(this is a joke... or is it 👀👀)
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So hyped to be living & hacking at the Otto House in SF this summer – if you want to hack with us, apply here - :)
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@tszzl scifi authors unironically might have the best track record when it comes to predicting the future
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ok i'm definitely now on an nsa watchlist lol
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@PradyuPrasad ikr literally
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“just another 2x samples, that’s all i need”
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me when i see walkable, car-free urban spaces
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@ProductHunt You forgot to gitignore `.env`
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reject modernity (celsius), embrace tradition (diet coke)
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@replit is now unblocked in @LakeWashSchools ! Thank you so much @demc_la @amasad @mirobotdev for making this happen! Thank you @LakeWashSchools for unblocking !
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It looks like our school district blocked @replit :( This is incredibly disappointing, given how powerful replit is when learning to code. The worst affected by this are people without other devices (furthering inequities in CS), and I really hope @LakeWashSchools reconsiders.
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@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R git push --force origin master :)
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Had dinner with a bunch of awesome hackers at #ETHDenver !!!
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me: *opens linkedin* me: sees messages from 20 million people trying to sell me something I clearly don't need me: *closes linkedin*
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got pascal mugged into wireheading my rl agent :(
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Ways to prepare for SAT grammar: 1. Do the CollegeBoard's practice tests 2. Practice specific skills on Khan Academy 3. Identity at least 2 grammatical errors in islamophobic MTG tweets
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@sourcegraph whoever runs this account deserves a raise
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@panickssery Why is manufacturing consent pretty terrible?
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The early worm gets eaten by the bird.
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Watching #PrismaServerless by @prisma in math 🙈
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gusto: here's your 1099 me:
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I just had a great time meeting and chatting with Jerry from Ben and Jerry's and @explorer_flight in Burlington, VT!!
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Does anyone else kinda miss online school lol
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❤️
@socraticainfo
Socratica
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to the hundreds of people who have been involved with this, we wish we could tag you all. you leave us constantly in awe and remind us that socratica is truly nothing without its people.
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I'm going to be in SF from Nov 2nd to 6th!! Anyone want to: - grab ice cream/ @PressedJuicery smoothie bowl - go on a walk/run by the marina or park - get coffee at the interval/another overpriced coffee shop that's cool
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cold sales emails have gone too far
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microsoft word is gaslighting my spelling
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i miss the days when github copilot gave me free api keys
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There are only three kinds of languages: the ones people complain about, the ones nobody uses, and Rust
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Had an awesome day with some awesome people in an awesome city 🌉
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RV0 was a life changing experience for us, and I highly recommend applying to RV1 to anyone interested!!
@Replit
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1/ 🚀Announcing Replit Ventures 2022 (RV1)🚀 This year we are 10x'ing the program 🏅6 -> 12 teams 💰$2k -> $10k in #Bitcoin 💻Full-service tools to build 🌎Global teams 🧠Mentorship from Replit Here’s why we are doing it:
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Super cool that Twitch is now a commercial open source company :)
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We're cancelling each other over coffee takes today. Post your most cancellable take on coffee
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the urge to drop everything and move to amsterdam after reading an article about their approach to urban development
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What’s the best explanation yall have seen for why language models can’t count the number of “r”s in strawberry? (tokenization quirks seem wrong here)
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"We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky
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just took my dad to my favorite sf tourist spot (salesforce wework)
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The Otto team are some of the kindest & smartest people I know – if you're looking to join a great team and a rapidly growing startup, you 100% should join them!!!
@rishiosaur
rishi kothari ⁂
2 years
Our journey’s been incredible so far; we’re always on the lookout for more engineers and product ninjas to join our team of serial hackers based in sunny San Francisco. If our mission resonates with you, drop me a note at rishi @otto .pet—I’d love to chat!
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Wrote my first blog post on the health effects of coffee!! This was a fun rabbithole to fall down, and I wrote about all that I've learned here :)
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just spent like 8 hours debugging torch fsdp errors only to give up and just train in fp8 instead :/
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just changed the random seed and we’re actually so back
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geohot was so real for this
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KOBRA IS LIVE ON PRODUCTHUNT!! We're super excited to be finally launching Kobra after nearly a year's worth of work, and we'd really appreciate it if you could upvote our launch post! You can find us on:
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i made a taylor swift heardle instead of studying for AP exams!! You can try it out at –
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