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I agree, it's an interesting distortion to the traditional technology feedback loop. I would expect someone who "strikes gold" like this in a solo endeaver to raise money, start a …

It has a heartbeat operation and you can message it via messaging apps. Instead of going to your computer and launching claude code to have it do something, or setting up cron jobs…

This comment sounds exactly like the infamous "Dropbox is trivially recreated with FTP" one from 20 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

This is how it worked a decade+ ago, when there was still alpha to be had on providing better streaming service. It was great and we got things like the Netflix Prize and all sorts…

I've always kind of expected it to work this way, with people being cutthroat and stealing credit for other people's work. What I have seen in reality is a lot more nuanced. There …

> His $750-million company got that way entirely by exploiting people’s misery for views and profit Uh, what? The guy runs big elaborate game shows. The contestants are thrilled fo…

> Who wouldn't want to live and work in that world? Who would want to? There are a lot of jobs in the real world that do work this way, and they are generally not the most desirabl…

> create a space where a community of people you care about can thrive > the reward could evaporate at any moment Wait a minute, is the reward the fact that the community exists? T…

That's why I'm curious just how good the resolution can be on the Vision Pro. If it takes a 5k monitor at, say, 2ft away which covers maybe 30 degrees of your field of view vertica…

> Before, mods could run subreddits as they saw fit, users could choose the subreddits they participated in, and a user can always create a new subreddit if they don't think any ex…

I agree with all of that, but honestly the more important factor is this is just not a very good cause to get all worked up about. Reddit is trying to grow into a profitable compan…

Interesting, at what viewing distance is a 4k monitor 70 PPD? From what I've seen the common advice for monitors is that 5k is the ideal resolution for a 27" screen and 4k is a lit…

I have a really hard time believing this is being actively driven by collusion among rich families who know they could game non-SAT metrics. It would require a huge organizational …

I just can't take any discussion of "skills" seriously that equates skill to some formal certification or degree. As a software engineer, basically all the skills I use to do my jo…

What even is the most generous, steelman argument of how this could help humanity prepare for a pandemic? The article just glossed over that part. Because after Covid it sure seems…

Is the joke that the news would rather report on the bicycle accident in this case and not the collapse of civilization? I can barely tell what you're going for here, I feel like y…

Part of it is that people want to be tricked. If I want to buy something but I'm on the fence about whether it's worth $5 then I think the $4.99 price works as like a semi-subconsc…

Idk, doesn't this happen everywhere? Like at any physical store most things are $X.99 or $X.00 or $X.49, but not usually something like $X.31. Maybe this is just a US quirk. Apple …

> 3. Replacing `p-4` with `p-4` will require you to replace its occurrence all over your app, sometimes affecting thousands of matches. I'm not necessarily a big fan of Tailwind, b…

It is a neat property but lines like this trip me up: "it's incredible how fast the DeFi space is moving because of it". The crypto/dapp/defi/etc spaces have supposedly been "movin…

From reading the abstract you are completely mischaracterizing this study. For the average person healthy food usually means food with fewer calories and more micro-nutrients, like…

> That'd test all the software paths. The daylight savings time bugs I've run into at pretty much every company I've ever worked at would beg to differ.

To a very good approximation, it is simply not eating too many total calories. If you want to go one extra step, then also not eating too much sugar. Some people might find that th…

If you want to claim that coloring or preservatives are bad, then just make that claim instead of the more vague "processed foods".