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Real estate has little to do with this. Our peers in other countries can live with dirt floors, no climate control or running water, and tarp roofing. And they have no problem havi…

It's still dopamine. Dopamine + freedom. It starts with access to tv, movies, leisure travel, and disposable income. These things take you out of the evolutionary algorithm. Boredo…

The reason we have declining birth rates is phones. It's not the economy. People have overwhelmingly been historically poor. Our ancestors ate rotting and festering meat and they h…

It feels sickening to watch, because you can get a sense of where this is going. They're cutting AI off at the legs for everyone else, then building the new tool to sell AI enablem…

Yeah, this whole thing is bullshit. Bring back older cars with poor safety and high energy costs? Seriously? Distrust medicine and agriculture? Wtf is this doing on HN? This is the…

Is Gruber starting to realize Apple's monopoly is bad? App stores should not exist in a world where only two phone operating systems exist. All apps MUST be installable via web. Co…

I have never been happier. I flipping love AI. This is literally what I dreamed about as a kid. I feel like we might get to witness the singularity, and that's exciting. To live an…

Yeah, but now we can hire the Chinese instead for 1/100th the cost. It's an even better deal. Plus we get to own, keep, run, do whatever with the model. We don't feel trapped. More…

They're a public company with a $50B market cap. That's not going to happen. The direction would be the other way around. Axon is showing that they want the market, that they can b…

> the fact that the universe is consistent We don't know this either. We are very limited in detection. Our energies are small. How "standard" are standard candles and other refere…

You don't know any of that. We are primitive apes. We are all uniformly dumb.

I think a fragile world hypothesis is more interesting and scary. Instead of a superintelligence killing any emerging intelligence, superintelligence is so smart that it can pertur…

We're going to be able to dump phone firmware soon and reverse compile with LLMs. This will become an assailable salient soon and by 2036 we should have dozens of competing phone o…

> Every change is linked to the agent conversation that produced it. From any line of code, find the conversation. From any message, jump to the code it touched. This is how Zed le…

You can't imagine OpenAI being a multi-trillion dollar company? Open weights will drop costs, but distribution matters. OpenAI has that. Costs will come down. Deep entrenchment wil…

I appreciate your extremely thoughtful answers. It greatly improves my perception and attitude about this. I'll check it out. I'm still anxious about the Cloudflare angle (and that…

Workers is a product and you're paid to develop and sell it as an employee. I 100% understand the hustle. I do the same thing. I just don't trust a giant like Cloudflare that has d…

This is far too Cloudflare flavored to be interesting to me. It's using Workers (capital W) and the core Cloudflare primitives. I don't feel safe building on this or touching this.…

I'm not interested in a single super vendor. Especially not one that blocks AI scraping yet wants to be an AI power player - they're setting themselves up to be the gatekeepers. If…

> only grievance They're ripping up lanes of traffic in my city and replacing them with bike lanes that nobody uses. The busy intersection next to my home used to take all of 15 se…

People in cities decided they wanted less car-centric infrastructure. People in cities demanded EVs, yet didn't show up to keep buying them. People in cities apparently know best w…

The pool of people trying to raise >$100M is smaller. Failures (in terms of typical VC exit trajectory) have mostly been weeded out.

I've been on this site for 15 years. The damage is already done.

> Edgewood Georgia, I love when HN mentions my state or city, but that's the road and neighborhood one block down from me. I feel seen. To add something more substantive to this th…

If it takes me two days to build a service or make a short film, I'm doing the work. It doesn't will itself into existence. If I use an excavator to dig a ditch, it doesn't mean I …