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Meanwhile, Tesla drivers are driving around with a dozen cameras mounted on their vehicle pointing in every direction. Who would have thought that would be socially acceptable in 2…

Imagine if AOL keywords had stuck around. Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37416005

This is also how Y Combinator operates. Founders are first. Ideas are second.

Wait, that's an example of something that's supposed to be better?

Looking at their 13f filing (filed in may 2026), they had $8 billion of leveraged put options.

Sure, but that's okay because you don't need 100% of spam calls to be recognized as spam for the incentive to do its job. The system still sounds like it could still work even if a…

Where I live, you typically share house cleaners with your neighbors or family members. My parents, aunt/uncle, grandparents, and one of my neighbors uses the same house cleaner. I…

That's a lot of words to argue that we shouldn't be separating prompts from the (often untrusted) data the prompts are acting on. I still don't see your point.

How does it compare to hiring a human? I pay $200 every 2 weeks to have a 3000 sq ft house cleaned. That's about $5200 a year to fully clean a house. And it's a human, so they can …

You're posting on a tech forum that includes readers from the highest income sector of the economy. There are a lot of 1 percenters here.

Well duh. You can also post a random AI malware prompt, and I can assure you nothing will happen. What's your point?

And salaries are lower than SF.

He probably means JSX mixing HTML with Javascript... function Greeting({ name }) { return Hello, {name} ; }

The person I was responding to says "HIV is not a solved problem" and "we need a new tool to solve it, a vaccine!" My argument is simply that new tools are great, but it's not what…

Taking teen pregnancy as an example: we have the tools to avoid it. We have condoms, we have birth control, we have the morning after pill, we have abortion. We have all the tools …

The alternative (throwing books away for no good reason) isn't much more reasonable.

The problem is 1) the Nasdaq 100 is where the majority of gains are coming from, and 2) it very well might be another 3+ years before anything unravels, if it unravels at all. If y…

Perhaps you can answer this for me. Why do some people get very defensive when you suggest AI isn’t comparable to humans? Like, where is it coming from? Why do people seem to want …

You asked for my parrot's take, not how to disprove a conjecture. Edit: And not a great example to use to prove human-ness considering humans didn't disprove the conjecture?