15:[[41633360,{"by":"diegoguerra96","descendants":18,"id":41633360,"kids":[41637329,41640518,41634820,41634588,41636379,41650059,41634722,41636461,41654219,41636712,41635358,41634545,41653758,41638952],"score":29,"text":"I work at Meta's AI Partnerships team and we're trying to understand why startups use Llama models. Was wondering if I could pick the community's brain on the following topic

- what criteria did you follow that led you to choose Llama for your use case?\n- how important is fine-tuning small models for your strategy?\n- what are the major pain points of using Llama models that Meta can streamline?\n- what documentation needs would be most useful to help you build an open source AI stack with Llama?","time":1727155888,"title":"Why do you use Llama models? and what support do you need to build on Llama","type":"story"}],[41639543,{"by":"shaneryan","descendants":1,"id":41639543,"kids":[41652713],"score":2,"text":"Does anyone know of a company working on natural language interfaces for bookkeeping. Seems like a really great idea for small businesses. It would have a great deal of context to automate a lot of the bookkeeping tasks. "hey, i have a few transactions i'd like to discuss with you". "what was this purchase for" -- "it was for 'x' thing from 'y' vendor. heres the receipt" then it codes it in the right chart of accounts. Is it a big regulatory hurdle or something? Or perhaps a reliability issue?","time":1727202676,"title":"Bookkeeping Through Natural Language Interface","type":"story"}],[41473892,{"by":"professorTuring","descendants":1,"id":41473892,"kids":[41479877,41473900],"score":1,"text":"Hello, I’m white collar in a global banking corp, lately I’m trying to use genAI (gpt) to my advantage in my day to day work.

The idea I’m pursuing is giving all inputs and ideas I have to ChatGPT so it helps me connecting Ideas, I’ve put into my team information, information about my company, personal notes on meetings, context about the people I meet with… I even add abunch of mails so it have my writing style.

The thing is that it is not helping that much, the to-do lists it generates are not very helpful and it looks that it is not connecting as many ideas as a would have anticipated. The idea is to have a supercharged PA I can use as a second brain…

Has anyone succeed with this experiment and what’s your setup and approximation?

Kind regards","time":1725716397,"title":"Así HN: GenAI in Global Corporation","type":"story"}],[41264901,{"by":"ryshbg","descendants":18,"id":41264901,"kids":[41265088,41278199,41266615,41281240,41290926],"score":5,"time":1723802587,"title":"Ask HN: An engineer resigns -> How tech companies manage knowledge transfer?","type":"story"}],[41283877,{"by":"spikey_sanju","descendants":53,"id":41283877,"kids":[41283995,41325460,41325330,41291450,41287383,41325234,41325256,41284513,41325346,41284282,41284267,41336436,41291314,41283911,41326232,41328993,41325343,41325333,41325310,41325279,41325576,41294771,41288749],"score":40,"text":"Let's get real. We all screw up. What's the dumbest thing you did in your first startup? Share your epic fails so others can learn from your mistakes. Let's help each other avoid disaster!","time":1724002996,"title":"Ask HN: What was your biggest startup fail?","type":"story"}],[41246310,{"by":"DoubleDerper","descendants":6,"id":41246310,"kids":[41246541,41280590,41246664,41247646,41264782],"score":9,"text":"Personal experience. Last year I switched my Kindle font to 'OpenDyslexic' and after a day or two reading became overall more enjoyable. Less eye strain. Longer reading sessions. I've doubled the amount of books I'd normally read in a year.

I was never diagnosed as dyslexic and have always enjoyed reading. It's one of the best life hacks I've found.

Has anyone else experienced this?

More about OpenDyslexic\nhttps://opendyslexic.org/","time":1723644779,"title":"Goofy looking OpenDyslexic font vastly improves reading","type":"story"}],[41249692,{"by":"strawberry578","descendants":2,"id":41249692,"kids":[41253898,41254487,41257419,41259213],"score":2,"text":"$16","time":1723664127,"title":"How do you figure out how to build an AI app?","type":"story"}],[41220898,{"by":"shivajikobardan","descendants":2,"id":41220898,"kids":[41221777,41221463,41223650],"score":1,"text":"I am studying data structures/compiler design. And I am surprised that I can't find much reputed resources for learning LTM Column Major. There are books like sartaj sahni and debasis samnatha which lightly present this.

I google

filetype:pdf "row-major order" compiler design OR data structures "column-major order"

Still I didn't get accurate results.

Theere are some trash videos on youtube, and almost everyone is deriving hacky way. I want a mathematical way of deriving the address calculation. I would love if they're using different techniques to calculate the address.","time":1723432528,"title":"Ask HN: References for Lower Triangular Matrix column major?","type":"story"}],[41124995,{"by":"Leo-Jay__","descendants":4,"id":41124995,"kids":[41125091,41214592],"score":2,"text":"Hey Guys. Im a green card holder with a cofounder that is on an F1 visa.

So many large companies have been built by students on F1 visas, like Elon, Jason Gui, Sanjay Mehrota, etc.

Did so much research and know F1 students can incorporate in the US but cant work at the startup. What did you guys do? What is advisable?","time":1722471954,"title":"How do F1 Students start companies here?","type":"story"}],[41182197,{"by":"wabyilmaz","descendants":2,"id":41182197,"kids":[41182619,41182859,41207878],"score":4,"text":"I like coding and building but I reaally hate marketing. I feel like it pulls all my energy when I deal with marketing. I'm solopreneur and I wanna stay so. I wanna find a way to automate it. So far, couldn't get any significant success from SEO and classic marketing campaigns. I tried a lot of different ways and I don't have a big budget so I have to be creative. What do you suggest for me? (My product is an AI flashcards app)

*I got great advices on reddit so I wanted to ask here too","time":1723043194,"title":"I hate marketing, should I force myself?","type":"story"}],[41197598,{"by":"sexy_seedbox","descendants":2,"id":41197598,"kids":[41198291,41201759],"score":3,"text":"Example chat usage:

    - Load the sitemap and find all broken links on this website \n    - Reveal all "hidden" input fields on this page's form submission\n    - Append a Dark Mode button using the moon emoji to the top-right of the page and save the code as a Userscript\n    - Perform typical SQL injections on this form\n    - Optimize all images on this page larger than 500kb

","time":1723161048,"title":"Ask HN: Is there a ChatGPT or an add-on baked directly into the web dev console?","type":"story"}],[41187652,{"by":"Jianghong94","descendants":4,"id":41187652,"kids":[41188564,41195093],"score":6,"text":"$17","time":1723085244,"title":"Ask HN: How to manage docs for LLM RAG app?","type":"story"}],[41162400,{"by":"alexander2002","descendants":0,"id":41162400,"kids":[41207967,41191011],"score":1,"text":"Hi,I had recently got the impulsive idea that I should try to start a company that specializes in creating UI/UX interface and Interface research for AI products.It is obv not a unique idea nor I intend to be.

My thesis is that in long term landscape of LLMs products, the LLMs will be equally powerful but will be competitive based on their interface and user accessbility.

P.S I can be slightly biased as I dont have hardcore ml/ai knowledge as I am not that smart.I do have web dev and ui/ux experience.

My aim is to make 50k dollar revenue in the upcoming 12-14 months from my startup

EDIT:Slighly inspired by this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5mG4z343qg

Do let me know some (valuable) advice.Feel free to reach out to me to my email!","time":1722872584,"title":"Ask HN: Advice for Building a Language User Interface Startup","type":"story"}],[41094059,{"by":"NihalSaaSGuy","descendants":2,"id":41094059,"kids":[41094201,41094124,41178386],"score":2,"text":"After receiving the AWS bills I have decided to park my micro saas aside and decided to focus on services to fund my micro saas.

I have decided to over website designing and Gtm consulting for startups.

Any advice?","time":1722182576,"title":"Built a micro SaaS and decided to sunset","type":"story"}],[40997532,{"by":"gabrielDoStuff","descendants":3,"id":40997532,"kids":[40999356,41072796,40997660,40997791,40997616],"score":3,"text":"I've been working on my SaaS for two years and have many happy clients, but I'm struggling to reach and appeal to English-speaking users.

The website and app are translated into English. While the copy isn't perfect, it's generally acceptable.

We have users across Europe, but almost none in the US and UK. English-speaking users don't seem convinced by our product.

We've been doing : \n- SEO (not that good)\n- PH one time, was a failure (no american or english native speaker came)\n- TikTok influence\n- Instagram influence\n- Affiliate program

I came here to know what you would do ?

Thanks !","time":1721321837,"title":"Ask HN: Marketing is a B*tch, please help","type":"story"}],[41019586,{"by":"Olshansky","descendants":0,"id":41019586,"kids":[41038380,41038282,41038117,41037932],"score":2,"text":"Have you personally or your team actually settled on a useful "ask questions about your docs" solution?

It could be one of:

1. Custom built in house (e.g. using LangChain or LlamaIndex)

2. Uploading PDF to ChatBot (e.g. ChatGPT/Claude) and asking questions

3. A hosted solution (e.g. chatbase.co)

4. An out-of-the-box self-hosted open-source solution

I've tried, used and built many of these but while the demo is cool, they're not critical to my life. ChatGPT & Github Copilot are part of my day-to-day.

Getting ahead before it comes up: transitioning to Claude Sonnet 3.5 & Supermaven are very much on my list of things to do.","time":1721507491,"title":"Ask HN: Have you settled on an LLM powered search your docs solution?","type":"story"}],[40970993,{"by":"a_lifters_life","descendants":2,"id":40970993,"kids":[40971035,41024542],"score":2,"text":"Working on a b2c startup really just trying to understand how other b2c startups validated their business before completely building ? Thanks","time":1721073568,"title":"Ask HN: Examples of how b2c applications were validated","type":"story"}],[40921857,{"by":"fuzztester","descendants":6,"id":40921857,"kids":[40922436,40923660,40922598,40922895,40927240,40927212,40977062],"score":1,"text":"preferably, they should discuss the music that they post, at least a bit, not just post links to music.

I specifically asked about blogs, because I don't want just YouTube or Spotify channels, where there is only music (apart from the comments). I want some discussion too.","time":1720563520,"title":"Ask HN: What music blogs do you like?","type":"story"}]]

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