theorchid | Dark Hacker News

user:	theorchid
created:	October 24, 2025
karma:	212
about:	Developer, team lead, and founder. 10 years in startups. Blog: orchidfiles.com

1.	Tell HN: I haven't finished a single project 100% 3 points by theorchid 2 days ago \| 2 comments
2.	Show HN: Ungate – use Claude and GPT subscriptions in Cursor without API costs(github.com) 1 points by theorchid 4 days ago \| 1 comment
3.	Questions(guzey.com) 1 points by theorchid 4 days ago \| 0 comments
4.	How to Do What You Love(paulgraham.com) 1 points by theorchid 5 days ago \| 0 comments
5.	Long-running Claude for scientific computing(anthropic.com) 4 points by theorchid 20 days ago \| 0 comments
6.	Derek Sivers: Why I turned down a billion dollars(sive.rs) 2 points by theorchid 21 days ago \| 0 comments
7.	Derek Sivers: Why I gave my company to a charitable trust(sive.rs) 2 points by theorchid 21 days ago \| 0 comments
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9.	Startups only remember backups after the crash(orchidfiles.com) 4 points by theorchid 21 days ago \| 0 comments
10.	I work 10 hours daily without deadlines or schedules(orchidfiles.com) 3 points by theorchid 22 days ago \| 0 comments
11.	Anatomy of a Throttler(planetscale.com) 1 points by theorchid 22 days ago \| 0 comments
12.	Stripe: Analyzing first-party fraud trends(stripe.com) 2 points by theorchid 22 days ago \| 1 comment
13.	Real-time speech-to-speech translation(research.google) 2 points by theorchid 22 days ago \| 0 comments
14.	How Meta used AI to map tribal knowledge in large-scale data pipelines(engineering.fb.com) 2 points by theorchid 22 days ago \| 0 comments
15.	AI cannot plan(orchidfiles.com) 1 points by theorchid 22 days ago \| 0 comments
16.	Show HN: LoreData – generate lore-accurate personas from pop culture universes(loredata.orchidfiles.com) 2 points by theorchid 22 days ago \| 0 comments
17.	Anthropic: How we built our multi-agent research system(anthropic.com) 3 points by theorchid 22 days ago \| 0 comments
18.	DrP: Meta's Root Cause Analysis Platform at Scale(engineering.fb.com) 3 points by theorchid 22 days ago \| 0 comments
19.	Jailbreaking a robot vacuum to run Tailscale and Valetudo(tailscale.com) 18 points by theorchid 23 days ago \| 0 comments
20.	Google Research: A new light on neural connections(research.google) 6 points by theorchid 23 days ago \| 0 comments
21.	Spotify: The archive – the tech behind your 2025 wrapped highlights(engineering.atspotify.com) 2 points by theorchid 23 days ago \| 0 comments
22.	The operating cost of adult and gambling startups(orchidfiles.com) 137 points by theorchid 24 days ago \| 216 comments