Hey HN!

I got this idea that Jev would be a good fit for content moderation, so I investigated how good it is exactly, see my write up at https://tn1ck.com/blog/jevdit

And it is actually quite good at it and dirt cheap.

I built this reddit like site to see if it actually holds true when exposed to the internet. Anyone who visits gets immediately an anonymous account. It's a simple server side rendered go application, it uses Cloudflare Turnstile to limit bots.

i kept collecting rare internal company docs + out-of-print business books in random folders, so i put them all on one page.

top shelf has docs like intel's 1968 investor memo, apple's original marketing philosophy, bill gates' internet tidal wave memo, yahoo's peanut butter manifesto, facebook's little red book, valve's handbook, and mrbeast's onboarding doc.

bottom shelf has hard-to-find books from the founders/leaders of ibm, hp, gm, fastenal and others.

everything links to a free legal source. original pdf/scan when i could find one, otherwise internet archive.

if you know any rare docs or books that belong here, send them my way.

I'm not a computer science guy, but I had a play with Jev and found it impressive. It allowed me to offer non-technical researchers the ability to classify arbitrary things their participants enter, without prior training or classification, at near instant speed, and negligible cost. My users may find that very helpful in the qualitative research world.

I showed them an innocuous working example of how they could classify thousands of participant entries as "mentioning Italian food" whether it mentioned "pasta", "penne", "rigatone", etc etc. Jev did this task with high confidence, and showed it could differentiate between the inverse, eg had very low confidence when I switch entry to mentioning "hamburgers". I find that a very useful tool to pass on to non-technical colleagues.

But on HN, there are lots of much more qualified people saying Jev is a con, a step backwards, or bonkers that people are impressed. Will one of them tell me plainly what software was doing this prior to Jev, and the like? I don't doubt it existed, but I never came across it. I'm interested to hear from people more expert than myself.

To be precise, software must be able to: - Classify thousands of entries with arbitrary themes or topics, even if entry doesn't mention that theme or topic directly, with high enough confidence to be useful. - Do it with thousands of entries in 0-3seconds. - Do it at negligible cost, eg sub 0.1cents

I'm always curious what happens with these viral projects a few months after they go viral. Are you still using OpenClaw in your day to day?

Leaving broad and vague by design. Who formed your thinking? Philosophers? Business magnates? Ancient wisdom? Or more recent thinking?

Socrates to Bill Gates?

I'll go first, in no particular order:

- The Ancient Stoics

- D. T. Suzuki, Thich Nhat Hanh, and other

- C G Jung

- Alfred Adler

- Arthur Schopenhauer

- Friedrich Nietzsche

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

- Franz Kafka

- Niccolo Machiavelli (highly misunderstood, I strongly suggest starting by watching the "Learning to Love Machiavelli: Don MacDonald at TEDxBoston"

- George Pólya

Indie hacker group on X feels right now just 10 guys sucking up to each other.

Top indie hackers are not promoting anything noble. Not highlighting any new indie hackers.

I remember a time when 5 years ago indie hackers were supporting upcoming builders and talked about variety of things.

These days it's all circle jerking between top 10-20 builders.

Good self reminder to not be like them as I mature in this journey.