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I thought the purpose of coding was to produce software, but apparently every action I take should be evaluated on how well it achieves arbitrary brain calisthenics.

Yeah, my interest in giving money to this guy vanished after learning about this. It’s not like whipping up some eink dashboards is a huge imposition in the AI era for anyone nerdy…

“For the good of humanity we must protect what I’m working on at the expense of others because it’s super important.” As frustrating as the anti-AI crowd can be, I see why they end…

Elena is one of those people who was loudest about AI on other channels and now she writes this when, as you say, there’s a demand for articles like this. It’s marketers doing mark…

All the nitpicking in this thread is missing the forest for the trees. You know what’s really bad for decentralization? The rest of the world living on fully centralized apps mostl…

The important part is Apple rebranding “OpenAI-compatible API” to “language model protocol” and I think we should all rally around this immediately before we’re cursed with that aw…

If it were lighter with a better FOV I’d buy it at the current price. Apple isn’t doing metaverse, they’re doing computer with a 3D monitor and I don’t think it’s a bad move to hav…

This comment really drives home the effective propaganda of “publicly owned” as a term. Concentrated ownership of the wealthy is not synonymous with “the public.” You are very lite…

Every user of Headway is required to submit to this, regardless of medication status, or they lose access to the platform (and their therapist). HN has come a long way if we’re con…

Tech bros reinvent autocracy

It’s a real phenomenon that gets lazily slapped onto anyone using AI poorly.

I love Pi, but it’s pretty distasteful to write off ongoing debates in a separate field than your own (philosophy, particularly theory of mind) as “AI psychosis,” which ironically …

Not in conversation, but if I were working in the auto industry and exclusively referred to cars this way it would sound extremely juvenile.

The funny thing is that Atlassian themselves uses “custom fields” so it’s not even clear which are actually org-specific. The new JSM uses a lot of them, for example. It smells lik…

If you think heavily subsidizing AI models isn’t financially viable, I have some bad news for you about US AI companies. Deepseek has made some incredible advancements in model eff…

More likely? US tech leaders have been fully capitulating to the surveillance state for over a decade. Why do I care what China does with my data? I don’t live in China and never p…

I know this is attached to a stupid bill, but I really like the general idea of special carve outs for open source projects.

Virtue signaling apparently means making decisions based on the current reality instead of a future hypothetical.

As an Army veteran, I try to be accountable for the role I played in an imperial occupying force and use that to inform my decisions in life. People have a hard time admitting they…

If your incentives and emerging behaviors land at an evil result, it is evil. I’d argue the problem is everyone who constantly generates these “well actually” reasons to excuse the…

It’s hard on AWS as well, but I agree. There’s just no incentive for the billing experience to be better.

This isn’t surprising at all. It reminds me of staunch Apple haters who recycle superficial talking points as opposed to Apple nerds who have long lists of very pointed critiques. …

It really baffles me that a forum full of people who casually deep dive into all corners of tech regardless of its “usefulness” can’t understand people might want to do the same wi…

Yes, it’s called “game recognize game.”

Agreed, “if it can’t do everything it’s useless” is dumb on face value. I’m sorry if people don’t have more imaginative uses than checking their email, but I’ve gotten so much util…