- Get into a reputable accelerator program, you’ll build your network.

- Find meet ups in your major metropolitan area.

- Your 2nd and 3rd degree networks are bigger than you imagine, you can absolutely get a warm intro.

- Forgo all investment and bootstrap.

Totally agree - accelerators and local founder meetups are underrated for building real investor relationships. Even a few genuine connections can open surprising doors.

That said, I’ve seen a lot of early-stage founders outside major hubs (or first-time builders) struggle to access those same circles. For them, even getting visibility with the right investors is tough.

Warm intros are always best, but it feels like founders today need a mix — network where you can, and use smarter tools or systems to fill the gap when geography or timing works against you.

If you’re getting value from it, keep adding it!

Two cases where this advice breaks down:

- If the telemetry boilerplate code starts hampering your ability to read and reason about the underlying business logic code.

- When your observability bill gets too big.

Well, I was so worried about boilerplate that I created a Python decorator for avoiding polluting the code with so much of that (https://github.com/diegojromerolopez/otelize).

About the cost, AFAIK it is not prohibitive.

I will continue working as I was, thanks for your opinion!

I think you meant the Go 1.25 release notes?

Corrected; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44881977

- Ads

- Paywalls

- Subscribe pop-ups

- Obvious AI slop

- Dead links

- Information already out of date

All of the above.

Most articles I want to read have quite a bit of text that I'm going to be wanting to see.

Anything less and you wouldn't have the complete information.

This can amount to many kilobytes, even a megabyte or more.

It's still supposed to be an "information superhighway" so anything that's more massive or takes longer to load than the desired text (such as graphics) has always been clearly due for scrutiny whether or not they are an essential part of the article or not. Too many people just don't remember or are incapable of caring. This can make it harder than it needs to be from the get-go.

So the thing that's the hardest now is really no different than it was under dial-up, that's the lack of progress which is yet to be overcome.

Whenever an article has more kilobytes devoted to things other than the desirable text & supporting content itself, it continues to suck in the same way they did in the 1990's.

Except slower now with over 10x the processor speed and RAM, even under broadband.

Put your site behind cloudflare with geo and bot blocking should eliminate the vast majority of them.

Yeah, Cloudflare is a good idea, that should probably help block them before even getting to the site.

Do note there’s nothing stopping you from doing both.

As I recall it was primarily based on some rough hardcoded heuristics on your searches. It could be reliably reproduced with certain exact searches, and seemingly only targeted a few programming languages.

I asked ChatGPT and it said it 'means more than CS degree or working at a big company because it shows you are self-taught, scrappy, resourceful'.

It's not a big deal whether it is or not, I just haven't met anyone else who has gotten it. People who are a lot more experienced than me. I'm a bit of an outsider coming to the Bay Area, I've been cruising in Hawaii for a few years.

I'm moving to the Bay Area whether I am accepted or not. I believe in what I'm building and am ALL IN. I haven't been this excited to work 100 hours a week in a LONG TIME.

Definitely something to this. I think that’s why so many social media platforms are entirely image/video based because that’s easier on the phone.

Some approaches we’ve used:

- Group the comments by theme, then pass groups to the LLM to summarize/deduplicate then pass the outputs of that as context.

- RAG where only relevant parts are included in the context.

- Use an LLM with a larger context window (like Gemini pro)

Yeah, I think I need to use Gemini

Question, how if possible could you query rows in a table?

Surely the better approach would be to have some sort of connection to table rows?