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bdlowery

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About bdlowery

https://twitter.com/bdlowery2

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49214943

    I'm sure you'd like $100 then to give the founder of pangram an essay they classify as AI that is in fact not ai. Free money, right? https://x.com/max_spero_/status/208504120092339…

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    Comment #49214914

    pangram says this is AI generated and has a very, very, VERY low rate of saying something is AI generated wrong. https://www.pangram.com/history/0b397596-fa85-4869-bae3-2b1d...

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    Comment #48863745

    how is this slop? It's pretty good. Or do you classify ANYTHING made with ai "slop". So reddit is slop, x is slop, slack is slop, discord is slop, etc.

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    Comment #48840950

    Cursors whole moat is their harness. Other people have benched opus and GPT models through Claude code, codex, and cursor, and cursor came out on top everytime because of their har…

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    Comment #48840882

    What work are you doing where an LLM can’t meaningfully contribute to your everyday work

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    Comment #48825609

    This guy isn’t taking financial contributions, and the Amazon brand list is only one part of the product.

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    Comment #48824029

    That’s not the problem. The problem is buying stuff from AJSH or HUYA or BJFGL or MNQW or NBXA or any other random 4 letter “company” on Amazon for $40 when the item is crappy $2 i…

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    Comment #48823953

    This is like the maintainers of all Adblock lists getting upset at the creator of uBlock origin for using them.

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    Comment #48129803

    well yes, you were in Toronto, where there is a very very veeerry high cheating ratio compared to other areas.

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    Comment #48129793

    [flagged]

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    Comment #46955077

    Zulip is a website packaged into an electron app. It does not take $1billion to implement webrtc into a website as screensharing + video / audio calls are a solved problem on the w…

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    Comment #46955013

    so instead of discord, google, meta having access to private convos... we should all switch to Zulip and have Zulip being the one with access to those convos? Or join someones self…

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    Comment #46842518

    There is no "agent". It's someone using the public api routes to post stuff to the website. You can see the routes here and generate your own token to post on the website - https:/…

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    Comment #46832789

    Built largely by one person with Laravel. Hundreds of millions of requests each month. Millions of signed up users.

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    Comment #46284371

    Looks vibe coded

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    Comment #44563709

    [flagged]

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    Comment #43428085

    Svelte will never overtake react. It won’t even overtake Vue.

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    Comment #43350799

    Person who resembles 0.000001% of the internet userbase complains on hacker news. More news at 7.

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    Comment #41882316

    https://f5bot.com/ was free for like 8 years and it processed hundreds of thousands of db records a day, and it barely cost anything.