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Agreed. It's not just a reduction in size, but a reduction in general quality. For example, my preferred NIVEA roll-on deodorant used to come in a glass bottle and now it comes in …

The author misses one potential future of AI software where people use use their own subscriptions / API keys for their AI usage. In this scenario the user would either sign into t…

Maybe it's just me, but I don't actually feel any discomfort while sitting for 3 minutes doing nothing. Do most people actually struggle with that like the article says?

I love the author's attitude. In my writing, I'll probably consider using en dashes ("-") in place of em dashes ("—") in the way he describes. While it technically won't be grammat…

I disagree. It's a high signal article that can create great discussions on what people on HN have reverse-engineered with AI. For example, just yesterday I reverse engineered the …

Fun. I could see myself playing this while on the train, etc.

Aside from the fact that they're judging you based on who you were as a minor, it's interesting how it was a startup that asked for this and not a large corporation, given that mod…

I kind of like how it breaks the layout, since it's such a ridiculous word

Nice! Some feedback: The score it shows doesn't really mean anything to me. I think it would be more interesting for the user to know how they rank (perhaps in percentile terms) re…

Anecdotally, when it comes to talking to strangers I've often felt it's easier to converse with older people than those my own age. For example, the conversations feel more genuine…

Sending AI-generated messages can also be disrespectful to the recipient. Personally, I often just don't bother responding when I receive low-effort messages that are clearly AI-ge…

Yeah this one definitely seems like the wrong approach. I prefer the approach of the other professor who makes her students write the code by hand (with the analogy of how grade sc…

Seems reasonable to build a cryptocurrency around this. The network could pay the cryptocurrency out to users dedicating resources. Have you thought about that?

Very interesting. Beyond ideological motivation, I’m curious what the long-term incentive is for someone to run a peer. For example, if Freenet were to reach scale, it could eventu…

Sounds like it did

It's interesting how Anthropic haven't shipped their own IDE for more vertical integration. All it would take is implementing their own forked version of VSCode (like Cursor did) a…

A lot of people become "stuck in their ways" as they get older. Marc saying this about introspection might be an example of it starting to happen to him. By definition, "being stuc…

It feels like these weight-loss drugs distract from the underlying issue which is that obesity is mostly caused by an unhealthy lifestyle. It amazes me that we live in a world wher…

Yeah I think where we fundamentally disagree is what prediction markets should be optimizing for. If the goal is to produce the most accurate forecast possible, then informed trade…

The actual economic theory behind prediction markets (if you read Robin Hanson's work, efficient market hypothesis, etc.) is that these markets work precisely because informed trad…

This may be an unpopular opinion, but calling it insider trading misses the entire point of what prediction markets are built for. The goal of a prediction market is to be able to …

Oatmeal has become my favorite breakfast by far. It's delicious and never seems to never give me the "crash" that people describe with other carbs (probably due to it's low GI). Ve…

This is a good example of why companies that have IAM figured out (Amazon, Google, etc.) might do well as AI becomes more embedded into our daily lives.

Yup, it becomes a race to the bottom. And honestly that's a good thing, everyone hates paying for all of these subscriptions.

> "You have this innovation bazooka with these models. Why would you point it at rebuilding payroll or ERP or CRM" Most SaaS companies are just expensive wrappers on top of existin…