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jibolash

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    Comment #46770500

    Unfortunately technological progress is not always exponential. An human landed on the moon 56 years ago and people back then thought space travel would be a routine thing today so…

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    Comment #44882293

    Because too many people take Sam Altman's takes too seriously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5vsEUgxt3E

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    Comment #44882264

    Okay Tarzan

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    Comment #44880251

    So every individual becomes a company? The natural tendency of capitalism is to create bigger companies for "scale". Even if it was possible, what exactly would be the benefit of o…

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    Comment #44757207

    The problem here is the asymmetric nature of outcomes. The vast majority of these types of interactions will be positive, but it only takes 1 to ruin someone's life or reputation, …

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    Show HN: QuizKnit, an open source quiz creator

    QuizKnit is an open source quiz creator to create quizzes by pasting in text or selecting from a large range of historical categories. Started as a very simple app for me to play a…

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    Comment #44418295

    Open source quiz creator to create quizzes by pasting in text or selecting from a large range of historical categories. Started as a very simple app for me to play around with Open…

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    Comment #43094353

    The possibility that OpenAI, Anthropic or other companies in the space can lose their investors money does not make the technology a "con". As long as they do not try to pass their…

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    Comment #42558274

    I am using OpenAI's API for the movie recommendations based on the user's input and pulling the movie metadata from OMDb ( https://www.omdbapi.com/ )

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    Comment #38683150

    Curious why you are referring to the termination fee as an investment, does Adobe get anything back in return for it? Along those lines, maybe that would have been a better course …

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    Comment #38006815

    This category of drugs are referred to as Behind the Counter, https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-drug-class/legal-requi...

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    Ask HN: Companies Using JavaScript Canvas API

    Are there well known companies doing interesting work (visualization, animation etc) primarily with JavaScript's Canvas API?

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    Comment #26820327

    This was a thing in Nigeria in the early 2000s too. We called it flashing.

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    Comment #24620312

    Great article. Like every good piece of satire, the lines between what happens in real life and the parts that the author exaggerates is blurry.

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    Comment #24616350

    Nope, not ever. Five years, 3 companies, every single codebase has been a nightmare. The funny thing is that in all these companies, everyone talks the talk and uses all the standa…

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    Comment #24594307

    You realize you are speaking of a 6 year old language right? For some reason, it sounds like you are referring to some newly launched shiny new language that nobody has ever done a…

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    Comment #24444890

    Imposer syndrome alert. First, wait till tomorrow, see if you feel the same way. From experience, you're probably just in a mood bad because of some difficult task. If you still fe…

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    Comment #23428998

    Sleep at least 6 hours every day to see the positive effects of those two things compound dramatically

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    Comment #23067337

    > There's also something about the competitive aspect of seeing other people in person do better than you or have better ideas than you. Which is hard virtually. Maybe even this is…

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    Comment #22536802

    True. I find you can get a pretty good idea of what a company's tech stack is by looking at their engineering job descriptions