A master of that long awkward pause. Co-Founder @AvelisHealth (YC S25)
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Main issue with Flutter is that it paints its own UI, so you never really get native feeling UI components, just replicas. If they ever prioritize making native components the default path, then Flutter immediately becomes a no-brainer.
Yeah I don’t know why Flutter never enters consideration when building a desktop app.
Like, it’s been there all along, it’s fast, it’s GPU-rendered, it’s AoT-compiled, it has incredible devtools, and it supports mobile as well. What’s not to like?
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Gemini 4 Carbon is a league above Argon. Only issue now is just how inaccessible it is. I feel like @GeminiApp should partner with harness providers to offer subsidized access as I am just not interested in using any version of Antigravity
Finally tried Gemini 4 Argon in a real project. This model has a completely different vibe to everything else out there in a good way, still seems to hallucinate a lot, but this could be fixed. The foundations seem really good!
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i went to bed and asked claude to paint an autumn tree overnight.
at around 4am, it realised that it didn't have some shades -- so it stopped and titrated its own paint: diluting red, sienna and madder step by step on a second palette, then measuring each pocket from a photo.
woke up to this beautiful watercolor painting. 303 brush marks, took about 4.5 hours 🍂 (still working on the speed)
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Still a work in progress but I think it's ready for others to try it out. Here's the repo: github.com/expo/exact
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It's close enough that it's hard to tell the difference visually but Exact slightly outperforms idiomatic raw UIKit on fps. This is possible because Exact handles layout and view recycling in a way that is more optimized than most UIKit implementations. With enough work/tokens, you can achieve the same performance with UIKit. But with Exact, you just get it right out of the box.
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The execs spent all their time fear mongering and wannabe influencers kept parroting things like “permanent underclass” and “you’ll have no jobs”. The stigma will take years if ever to get rid of, terrible marketing for an incredible technology.
On today’s episode of why Opus 5.5 is incredible. I found factoring a Gauss-Newton system to be slow and wanted to offload the calculation to the GPU, Opus pointed out that Apple Silicon’s GPUs can only do 32 bit maths but there’s a dedicated matrix unit in the CPU…
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Gave Opus a hard problem, after grinding for 5 hours+, it just told me it’s out of ideas. AGI!
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The attack was so sophisticated, there’s really no one to blame if you aren’t trying hard to point fingers.
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I really was just talking about how incredibly bad YouTube’s recommendations have gotten lately, it does the opposite of what they or I want. Shows me the most uninteresting things and collapses discoverability
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org/
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
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