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when you want to start a B2C agent startup but the word "agent" is oversaturated

AI-written text

The article is quick to shoehorn LLMs in as the last of a long list of established tools. LLMs are fundamentally different from other writing tools because they attempt to construc…

Which one of these was supposed to be funny?

I am beyond tired of reading "This isn't X. It's Y" that happens at the end of nearly every paragraph here

people were (rightfully) complaining about this kind of humor in 2019 https://dysfunctionalliteracy.com/2019/12/21/why-do-self-hel...

the AI-generated imagery is a non-starter for me

the Kalshi legal team is a revolving door with the CFTC

Online store for CERN-brand antimatter

https://home.web.cern.ch/order

cruel and unusual

It's not an antitrust issue because antitrust laws aren't enforced in the U.S.

day ending in "y"

Projects including Soka will implement the Golden Rule and be licensed under the GPL.

Of course it could. The debate will be over whether it has done so already, how "new" the ideas are, and if it is doing so entirely independently.

It's convenient! I know that they are cutting corners on the product, because they are cutting corners with their ads.

Some of the customer's money is already crypto though

Gotta start somewhere

Wait, you're telling me I can get clean teeth AND free booze

would this also work for my video consisting of 10,000 PDFs? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44125598

if you quit your day job your team will be lost without you

YouTube is removing videos and moving to Shorts-only in a couple months, so this shouldn't be an issue for long

we know how Google makes money