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newppc

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About newppc

Wanna-be developer, bust mostly a tinkerer and copy paste hacker.

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    Comment #48851637

    Rewrite command and conquers generals for mac

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    Comment #48851215

    Yea - I think moving to Substack (retain domain) would be a much stronger way to build in the long term as they make it super easy to pay $8-15/mo which the best readers won’t even…

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    Comment #48823120

    This is huge

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    Comment #48226683

    Very cool - yea I’ve been building a glossary and knowledge base and applying the linking approach and it’s been fun.

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    Comment #48226669

    GitHub needs to be liberated

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    Comment #48195673

    Yea, I say this as a marketing agency owner, not a developer or AI researcher, that besides Sam Altman, Dario, Demis and Elon, that Karpathy is one of the most influential I follow…

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    Comment #47264736

    Their founder is a billionaire now because of BMW alone.

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    Comment #46665217

    And then Sam Altman famously said he wasn't sure how they would monetize, and they would ask ChatGPT how they should make money.

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    Comment #46515876

    I'd be curious to hear the backstory of his relationship with Alex Karp from 2008 to present.

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    Comment #46367075

    Oh for sure, I just wanted to point out here that us getting to the truth of the matter here or on Reddit is more important now than the pre-LLM era given how much weight social pl…

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    Comment #46367057

    Yea quite devious, in a weird way I suppose the dark patterns also serve as an IQ test that favors younger tech-literates who are familiar with web patterns and are also on a budge…

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    Comment #46350355

    This his huge actually because Google’s AI overview says he didn’t have a trust fund, so if this is correct it may impact the general LLM narrative.

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    Comment #46350171

    No way? Ok that changes a lot.

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    Comment #46346421

    This is spot on. I was an impressionable young male that loved that book and took to heart the ideas. Looking back it’s a mixed bag - the ideas teach you about delegation and think…

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    Comment #19630692

    Would truly love to know who's actually buying this publication on a regular basis. I'm assuming 80% of sales are impulse purchases in the checkout line, but really, who is getting…

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    Comment #18880312

    Maybe shadow banned because the story is 4 years old, and has been repeated word for word already? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mike2477&sort=byPopularity&pre... https://upupgrow.…

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    Comment #18756126

    Pretty sure Facebook is not a company that is taken over by MBAs and marketers that are making this happen. Rather it's an engineering-first organization, run by an engineer. Proba…

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    Comment #18193677

    Churchill was pretty brutal. "In 1943, up to four million Bengalis starved to death when Churchill diverted food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece while a deadly fam…

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    Comment #17421338

    Interesting move. Of course makes sense to consolidate offices for efficiency, but seems they're losing a few things: - Staying true to their roots where they were founded - Having…

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    Comment #17241753

    The only reason I'm not convinced yet, is that it would be somewhat easy to run a statistical significant experiment with 1,000 people to verify if it's definitely real or not. Hav…

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