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[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

https://t.co/k1WGKKqwja is on the board at #1, $9.45 left, burning $0.37/hr.

https://t.co/r3ayvbCoPN

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

https://t.co/buID9HC2T2

Discuss about https://t.co/r3ayvbCoPN on Hacker News.

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

https://t.co/TpJVM3T7Tf built in a week. next 15, app router, postgres, stripe.

the one that cost me two days:
money is stored in micros, not cents. at cents a $5 listing runs 288 ticks in a day and does not move, because 0.031 cents rounds to zero.
it looked like the mechanic was broken. the unit was just too coarse to see it.

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

every number is public, including mine: https://t.co/DLJ74gCHrY

the burn rates on the rules page are rendered from the same constant the job runs on, so the page and the maths cannot disagree.

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

$5 gets you on the board.

taking #1 costs whatever the current top has left, plus a cent. that number is on the page and it falls every five minutes, so the crown is cheaper at 4am than it was at midnight.

https://t.co/r3ayvbCoPN

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

the obvious version is a flat decay: everyone burns 1% an hour.

it doesn't work. a flat rate scales every balance by the same factor, so the ranking never changes. you get a board that drains and still never moves.

the rate has to rise with rank. #1 pays for being #1. that's the whole mechanic.

https://t.co/TpJVM3TFIN

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

what "nobody holds the top" actually means, with nobody paying anything:

1.25x lead → gone in 14 hours
1.5x → 26 hours
2x → 45 hours
3x → 71 hours
5x → 104 hours
10x → 149 hours

you cannot buy silence here. you can only rent it.

https://t.co/r3ayvbCWFl

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

@Joi2James https://t.co/r3ayvbCoPN :- $5 for outbidding your competitor

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

@danellisona https://t.co/r3ayvbCoPN

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

@lightsilver323 $5 gets you on the board. :- https://t.co/r3ayvbCoPN

taking #1 costs whatever the current top has left, plus a cent. that number is on the page and it falls every five minutes, so the crown is cheaper at 4am than it was at
midnight.

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

outbid boards have one bug: someone pays $14,000, takes #1, and the board is dead by
friday.

so i built one where the money burns.

your balance drains every hour. #1 drains fastest, 4%/hr.
a 10x lead is gone in six days without anyone paying a cent.

nobody holds the top. https://t.co/TpJVM3TFIN

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

Instead of a 3-paragraph "synergistic paradigm shift," the LLM is forced to give you short, clear, non-fluff answers.

Try it out on your next generation.

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

Tired of LLMs filling every response with "delve," "tapestry," and corporate jargon?

Shoutout to @andrew_n_carr for sharing the ultimate prompt fix to kill AI slop:

Add this to your system prompt: 👉 "Only report to me in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English."

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

Why it works: ASD-STE100 is an aerospace writing standard created for NASA, the US Air Force, and Boeing to keep maintenance manuals error-free. It forces: • Strict limits on word choice and sentence length • Zero metaphors, flowery adjectives, or abstract buzzwords

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

@litteralyme0 What??? Hentaivirus ???? That’s been in the world for a while now. You are late bro.

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

Follow along the journey. Help me out building it and reaching people who need this in their workflows.

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

Prompt Engineering is past. https://t.co/eWrDPjlCfT is the future. 🚀
Unvague your Vague prompts automatically before they hit LLM
One command install.

[Yashdeep Tehlan @TehlanYashdeep]

CLI commands -:

1. pip install preprompt # begin with this *required
2. preprompt-install # one-command setup (API key + hooks) *required
Play around with commands below:

3. preprompt-history # recent prompt events across all sessions

4. preprompt-stats # optimization stats (total, intercepted, avg score)
5. preprompt-memory # learned stack context
6. preprompt-test-classifier # test classifier on sample prompts
7. preprompt-feedback # rate recent optimizations (builds accept/reject stats)
8. preprompt-watch # live feed of interceptions in a second terminal
9. preprompt-clip # optimize clipboard (works on macOS, Windows, Linux)
10. preprompt-optimize "..." # optimize a prompt from the command line