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The answer, of course, is that the taste-making apparatus inside the typical tech company is now entirely imposters (non-technical, non-power-users), who continue to LARP as vision…

I agree with everything you said. Most open source projects are limited by contributor labor. Generative AI does help with that problem, but it introduces a sea of vibe coded slop …

> And no, HN is not social media in any normal sense of the word. The pedantry involved in that comparison is extremely tiresome. Whatever you want to call it, HN has followed a si…

Which specific externalities are you concerned about? Do they affect you directly?

> If you don't see the problem with that, you're complicit, misinformed or brainwashed. The problem that I imagine you see with this, is that it doesn't conform to a particular, sp…

> Regardless, polymarket seems to be on balance corrupting, by monetizing and normalizing use of inside information, This is a common take on "inside information", but for most peo…

This is exposing a problem that already existed, AI is just throwing gas on the fire. Most engineers, including the readership of this site, have terrible taste in software. What I…

Instead of understanding all of this, and when it does or does not apply, it's probably better to disclose vulnerabilities anonymously over Tor. It's not worth the hassle of being …

> This assumes every individual is capable of succinctly communicating to the AI what they want. And the AI is capable of maintaining it as underlying platforms and libraries shift…

People already pay for journalism through substack. It's not micropayments, it's a commitment to the ongoing consumption of a high quality creator's work. I can't think of a single…

There's an undertone of self-soothing "AI will leverage me, not replace me", which I don't agree with especially in the long run, at least in software. In the end it will be the us…

> I wonder whether the vaccine content matters at all in current vaccines. The target does matter, that is the basis for the whole technology, and the thing most predictive of effi…

Yeah this is more likely than cancer, and is a potential side effect of anything that stimulates the immune system, including real antigen-carrying vaccines.

This kind of "but for us it's different" thinking is a little amusing. I don't care about the implementation process or the RFCs or what-have-you. If there is a democratic committe…

Yes agree, we are definitely past peak Go. Suspiciously, after Rob Pike retired from the project, the amount of language and standard library changes skyrocketed. Many people now t…

What no one wants to hear is rust is destined for the same fate. If you want to see the future of rust, look at C++. Rust has a much better initial state, but the rules evolving th…

Can someone, who knows computer graphics, explain why the old library had so many issues with flickering and black triangles or rectangles flashing on the app, and why the new libr…

> Voila: you've re-invented product management. This is a names vs. structure thing. For a moment, taboo the term product manager. What I'm suggesting is a low risk way to see if a…

> This sentiment is going exactly against the trend right now. It's not. Engineers are having more and more minutia and busy work taken off their plate, now done by AI. That allows…

There are individuals who have good taste for products in certain domains. Their own preferences are an accurate approximation for those of the users. Those people might add value …