Stories by venkii

Show HN: Generate random gradients like on OpenAI's website

Methods for Random Gradients

Founder Virtues, per the Thiel Fellowship

The Calculus of Grit (2011)

The Inkhaven Blogging Residency

How Much Is a Pension Worth?

Engineering Buy-In

The String Theory [David Foster Wallace, 1996]

Grad school is worse for public health than STDs (2019)

Void, the Bluesky bot that remembers everyone

What are you getting paid in? (2024)

Reverse-engineering Firestore calls to export your data

A Review of Alpha School

Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027

Google Gemini has the worst LLM API

Survey of LLM Finetuning APIs (Apr 2025)

Love Your Competitors