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Blockbusters were like the worst business ever and embodied enshittifying before the term existed. Once in a rare while there was a local video rental though that was cool. And the…

I would describe him as a leading educator / explainer / teacher in this space.

"US government bans floating point numbers"

ah cool - thanks for the clarification. some of the comments here read like nothing like this has ever been done before ...

Lots of great work that pioneered here (I wish the website did a better job showing that?) e.g., Dr. Brett Seales and his decades of work: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciad…

No that is not true. Read about PARC and all the crazy tech they built some time. It was ahead of its time!

Come on. It reads all the code in the world; then, you ask it to produce code; then, it gladly writes out something "new" which is a synthesis of what is out there, often with dire…

Also connected: many composers would write out previous great works, to learn them more deeply. Bach as I recall would do this.

Which Hamming quote, btw, do you refer to? I think he mostly talks about talking with other "smart" people, and communicating what you are working on a lot (like giving talks, etc.…

this is true in all human endeavors. Tech is not special in this regard, alas.

It didn't strike me as modest, to compare oneself to another who is known to be great. "Van Gogh is almost certainly a better painter than I am" -Monet

You know, there seems to be a hidden thought here that it's either just (A) let the Founders do their thing and of course they will provide great value and happen to become billion…

written with confidence too. I'm amazed at the levels of confidence people have in predicting the (unclear) future.

I'm having a hard time putting much faith into posts like these, especially as they near IPO.

I read this differently: they are actually seeing that it's hard to keep advancing frontier models, and now are moving the goal posts so that when they start getting evaluated more…

"Links No Longer Mean Credibility" - did they used to? I mean, I mostly agree with this article but a person could have written this about the internet. I remember people linking t…

I'm amazed by all the "people hate AI therefore this won't get anywhere". This is a first (perhaps real) attempt to envision what a desktop of the future looks like assuming AI pro…

Really? I see this all the time. Maybe I'm going to all the wrong places. I see "couples" on their phones, I see groups of friends on their phones, etc., etc. Maybe different parts…

so is the Unix command line ...

me too. It's like it was written in 1980.

“The presence of greatness” - ugh.

Yes I’ve had to do this but it does work. Unfortunately it’s a constant cost to have to look for stuff like this and then do the work.

Honestly this thread was been one of the funniest HN threads I've seen. So much gold in here - for which I thank you all. "My React website can't star React" "in what sense is this…

Pretty dismissive ("when they grow up") of the group of people in the 16-24 year old range. These are not children; most of that group is 18 and over. You imply noise but there is …

I mean, why not? Haven't people seen the documentary, "Good Will Hunting"?