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If it were intended to be a direct alternative for the biggest use case, I think it would be more like Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects. However, I think it's an alternative …

Ah, that changes the amount of work and the reward in the equation for attempting to self-host Cloudflare OS. And I knew that I could run WebAssembly manually inside of JavaScript,…

There is also qm with smol machines. I found this out the long way, by looking at the contributors to qm at https://github.com/yc-software/qm where I found BinSquare, the founder o…

To say that you're building agents, is based on a way of viewing things that isn't at all pervasive. Some might say you're building a customer support chatbot. To talk of building …

It feels weird to be welcomed to a week. As though were it not for this, I wouldn't be welcome to this week. They seem to have lost the plot.

Fortunately the site is right next to the title, and so HN regulars can see it's a Simon Willison post about it. And like many expect, it isn't merely reporting , but offers intere…

That isn't what dupe means here.

I disagree. "Benefit society" means something that can't be defined or tracked so easily. And consumer behavior is heavily biased by things that aren't optimized to benefit society…

I don't think it matters if it's silly. I think it's highly successful, and that the success is continued. CryptoPunks is a clear example of genuine use of NFTs that still is an el…

I think the brand Clawd belongs to OpenClaw now. It didn't start there but it landed there, until Anthropic tried to kill the fun. Anthropic hardly uses that name, it's mostly an a…

It's something to avoid for everything. They've gone further with nastiness than the other FAANGs IMO. Though alternatives may be hard to see, they exist, including for PyTorch. In…

They should rewrite it in GraphQL, that's turing complete, right?

The request would need to be done from their service, so as not to expose the API key, and because it just makes sense. They could probably directly proxy it and Wireshark couldn't…

Moxie doesn't trash NFTs or Web3 in that article. He just points out some limitations of the ecosystem. Also, ipfs directly fixes one of the bigger issues: > Instead of storing the…

It's not not purely prepaid. It is purely prepaid through I might favor another way of saying it that specifically says that they don't offer any services on a postpaid basis. But …

It's inaccurate to say that it isn't purely prepaid , because that could be taken to mean that some services are available to be postpaid, with a due date. Here you can see that a …

It's not an accurate correction. It's prepaid with an ability to incur a small amount of negative balance, partly for protection against downtime or data loss and partly so the sys…

I think perhaps they'll crash more than others because they aren't AI enough. It's more of an AI financing bubble than an AI bubble.

That is an opinion framed as a fact. There's plenty to rub a coder the wrong way, such as the sigil in builtin functions like @import, the dot syntax in structures (.{}, Timestamp{…

Need an update from Elon about what he meant when he said "Midjourney is not mid" and what he thinks now https://x.com/minchoi/status/1766131045177409784

The way they talked it up, having both legs on one side of the bike is like walking to the car wash

Valkey continues to be the real redis, released under a permissive open source license like redis originally was. The fork of redis known as redis because those that decided to for…

Indeed. I have my agent edited files in podman in Lima, under two layers, and it's fine, because I do most stuff within my podman VMs. (I have shared volumes so I can review things…