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Not really relevant to this article, which is about graduate students in research programs, who get a stipend and don't pay anything. Of course, low stipends are also a big detract…

Forget AI, Google/Microsoft/Amazon could all in theory have built a clone of Jira/Figma/ tool by now. But large companies lack the focus and commitment needed to build true competi…

It's not so simple because: 1. Companies can hire overseas. There's some cost to it in terms of added friction, but if wages rise enough in C1, then it's worth the friction to hire…

How is that different from the US? Immigrants also get booted here if they lose their job. They also pay social security, Medicare, and other taxes but usually don't get the benefi…

You're attributing way too much intent to what is the viewpoint of some random analyst at Goldman Sachs (who doesn't even control any purse strings). A year ago there was another b…

This is either insanely ambitious genius or pure shithousery. I guess we'll find out which one it is in 10 years

Singapore. But anyways, the order of causation is probably reversed. Cities with high density are forced to invest in good public transport by sheer public demand and pressure.

In this case, there might be some truth to the statement. Not in the sense that AI is replacing current jobs, but that they would rather invest that money in Anthropic or on Data C…

Mercedes' feature has been sunset. It only ever worked in good weather on a limited set of motorways, below a certain speed, and with a guide vehicle in front of it l. https://www.…

Is there anything substantial in his list ("agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflo…

Residents of every city claim that they have the craziest drivers or toughest streets to navigate in. London isn't really that materially harder to drive in than San Francisco.

This specific bet is very targeted, but we do absolutely have commerciallly available self-driving cars in 2025 in several cities, and the list of cities is rapidly expanding. An 8…

Tourists get this impression by staying in the city centre. However, if you live in an outer neighborhood, what would be a 15 min car ride can easily become a 40 minute journey on …

I'd love to see someone build Duolingo with a single system prompt. By HN standards, no one would be paying for Character.ai, Cursor, Windsurf, or dozens of others tools because th…

He literally says in his post "It might look antiquated but it makes Cursor, Windsurf, Augment and the rest of the lot (yeah, ours too, and Copilot, let's be honest) FEEL antiquate…

It's the trend that matters, not the absolute numbers

1. It's not a defense, just an observation. 2. Transaction costs for liquidating your wealth is materially different from selling enough to significantly affect the market for an a…

Most billionaires cannot extract most of their wealth without crashing the price of their remaining assets. No doubt the gulf is still great, but it's a little smaller than the raw…

There is still publicly available code and documentation to draw from. As models get smarter and bootstrapped on top of older models, they should need less and less training data. …

Why would it benefit society to get less targeted ads as opposed to more targeted ones?

Replace "Open Source AI" in "is there an argument against xxx" with bioweapons or nuclear missiles. We are obviously not at that stage yet, but it could be a real, non-trivial conc…

Perhaps improvements might fizzle out, but a lot of smart people seem to think they won't. The AI models we are using today are the worst that models will ever be in the future. We…

If you are immuno-compromised or living with someone who is, shouldn't you not be travelling thousands of miles to a large, packed conference anyway? Since masks are not 100% effec…

It's obviously made in jest