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According to Crunchbase, Massdrop raised ~92 MM through their series C, and then another ~40 MM in debt over the last couple years. There is no way that MassDrop was ever going to …

I really don't think AI is undermining your competitiveness if you have a unique perspective that other people value. You don't have to build a product that drives a company to IPO…

I think calling it inflated is to play to a narrative that labor was overvalued broadly in tech. Salaries across industries in the US have remained flat since the 1970s. Calling th…

This is a classic HN mistaking the map for the territory. R&D and capex absolutely figure into de-facto profitability and sustainability for AI labs, despite their separate treatme…

I don't quite remember the details, but there's a fascinating section in Julian Jaynes's "Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" where he talks about how m…

I think executives are excited about AI because it confirms their worldview: that the work is a commodity and the real value lies in orchestration and strategy. It doesn't help tha…

The problem is that Iran can defend the strait against the world's most advanced military with drones built with commercial hardware for 30-50K per drone. And that doesn't even tak…

Oh I'm sorry, that was actually my mistake, I should have been much more specific, and I will update the comment if I still can. My intention was to emphasize that Taiwan may have …

Scanning some of the early comments here, and acting as-if the oil and LNG disruptions is just a question of renewable investment is naive. This is the worst energy crisis in moder…

If they were being honest they would ask explicitly for permission instead of advertising opt-out. Now you might ask: who will explicitly give Microsoft permission to train on thei…

Right, but it shouldn't be opt-out only to begin with. It's a dishonest pattern that relies on people not noticing. Honest use of data is a "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion" …

I honestly think it's a bad term. I constantly chuckle from Tyler Cowen's post from last April calling o3 AGI: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/04/o3... Comme…

AGI is a marketing term used to encourage continued investment in an industry that is not even close to breaking even commensurate with its investment. Even so, this is a false dic…

Most of this discourse feels like some kind of religious ritual built on the foundation of authority bias. Where is the evidence that skills improves performance over any other met…

To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't work at a firm that requires vibe-coding. The hype train in tech is honestly nauseating, and the so-called productivity boost neither shows up in…

I think the OP's comment is entirely fair. Karpathy and others come across to me as people putting a hose into itself: they work with LLMs to produce output that is related to LLMs…

Your response reads much more like a strawman than my original comment. I’d challenge you to identify where in my post I said I wouldn’t use software that employs automation? It is…

I don't really think this is at all at the quality bar for posts here. This is obviously AI-slop -- why should I invest more time reading your slop than you took to write it? Even …

I totally agree. I've written about this topic a lot on this site, probably most recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47115597 The US is built on-top of a high value…

In my mind, AI is making a lot of engineers, including Carmack, seem fairly thoughtless. At the other moments in recent history where technology has displaced workers, labor has ei…

This reads as incredibly damning to me. PR throughput should be a metric that is very supportive of the AI productivity narrative, but the effect is marginal. Before everyone gets …

The generic elevator music used for the demo video is highly representative of this whole concept: generic and derivative. Seriously though, Perplexity, like most of the AI wrapper…

As soon as you accept "we need to survive to do good," survival becomes the priority and the good becomes negotiable. And so every compromise reduces their ethical position a littl…

You're being downvoted, but if Anthropic is going to deploy Claude for decision making in target prosecution it is clearly a "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion" moment. Associa…

Even if you don't care about the needless human suffering the US has caused from this operation, this conflict threatens global stability because of oil supply disruptions, and if …