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Can we also flag AI generated projects posted on Show HN? I used to love reading HN for the handwritten articles and handmade projects, but in the LLM era the quality has deteriora…

> what’s left to get to is relatively small Not necessarily. In many (most?) areas of tech the rate of advancement follows a logarithmic curve. That is to say, the first 90% is ach…

I blocked AI overview because it starves websites of their own traffic and revenue. Websites accepted Google scraping their content because it gave them a prominent blue link plus …

Not sure if you're aware, but defer is proposed for C2Y [1]. It's already available in Clang behind a compiler flag. It is interesting how the languages continue to diverge. [1] ht…

I think there is one major difference that separates the two eras: in ye olden days you bought software for a fixed price and while it's understood you might only receive updates f…

Data is being licensed by AI companies, but negotiations are limited to those with the capital [1][2][3]. You write about "imbalance" but ignore that large firms can cut deals whil…

> concrete steps Start by legally compelling companies that trained on unlicensed data to either (1) license the data, (2) publish their model, or (3) destroy their model.

If models are trained on the collective whole, they must be owned by the collective whole. If you believe funding creators for the training of private models is too slow, inconveni…

How about forcing businesses to be owned by their employees [1]? Instead of taxing the owning class and being paid UBI peanuts, you become the owning class and reap the rewards dir…

How about requiring AI companies to pay creators for training rights? Alternatively, models trained on the commons must be owned by the commons. Right now these AI companies are tr…

> In my opinion, for open-source projects, scoring the project's AI sloppiness based on the timeline of commits would be a good indicator. You can’t necessarily judge by timeline. …

Great read. It would be neat to see a mini operating system under 1 kb of code.

> We're on the precipice of something incredible. Only if our socioeconomic model changes.

Why is slop assumed inevitable? These models are plagiarization and copyright laundering machines. We need a great AI model reset whereby all published works are assumed to opt-out…

> It's called Universal Basic Income. I'd rather we democratize ownership [1]. Instead of taxing the owning class and being paid UBI peanuts, how about becoming the owning class an…

> As far as I know, there aren't any Rust based C compilers with the same capabilities. If you trained on a neutral representation like an AST or IR, then the source language shoul…

I miss the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs days. At least there were positive improvements to Windows and Mac in those days.

> reflects the software engineering philosophies of the 1980s. It has a microkernel architecture. That's already an improvement over the "modern" monolithic kernels we are stuck wi…

> Apple being the largest sponsor of Objective-C would suggest that you get greater vendor lock-in out of it than Swift Fun fact, you can use Objective-C on non-Apple platforms [1]…

Why is there no C benchmark? The C++ benchmark appears to be "modern C++" which isn't a substitute.