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The HN audience is overwhelmingly aware of the issues around right to repair and data collection, so there isn't much reacting to do there - I assume there's already near-unanimous…

Seems like a more organized way to do the equivalent of a folder full of md files + instructing the LLM to ls that folder and read the ones it needs

I feel like this sort of thing will be referenced for comic relief in future talks about hysteria at the dawn of the AI era. The article actually contains the sentence "The machine…

Whether web or native is better is hardly relevant to the core of this issue IMO, which is about fundamental rights to admin our own devices. Having to make a network request to fe…

Agreed 100%. When you work on an app every day, it all makes sense to see the cool features flash by, but you need to design for people who don't have a clue what your app does.

I'm not a modeler but I've tried it a few times. For me, modeling is a pain that I need to deal with to solo-dev a 3d game project. I would think about using something like this fo…

Kind of fun to get into a brutal insult battle with. Hope I didn't violate any TOS with with that one.

No degree. I've been working the full stack for almost 15 years full time, including recently learning to train various types of gen AI models. There are still orgs that are rigid …

It's inevitable because it's here. LLMs aren't the "future" anymore, they're the present. They're unseating Google as the SOTA method of finding information on the internet. People…

I'm not going to disagree because greed knows no bounds, but that could be RIP for the enthusiast crowd's proprietary LLM use. We may not have cheap local open models that beat the…

I think I'm mostly in agreement with your points. I think a significant part of the downfall of DEI was deliberate bad-faith behavior from those who actually oppose equality, but t…

I think there's still appeal in the underlying (very) basic ideas of trying to create a workplace that's comfortable for everyone. It's being rolled back quickly because that's wha…

I think information and culture/fashion both have a lot to do with it. Pre-social media, you could get drunk and embarrass yourself, and forget about it by the next day. Now everyt…

Not a lawyer but my opinion is the law shouldn't be used to compel anyone to provide unpaid services. With that said, I still think it's terrible for the community. If other packag…

The preamble of the GPLV2 begins with: "The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is…

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but it sounds like they're doing this the right way. I want to be able to run a local model using something like VLLM or FastChat, then be able to call …

That's hilarious. Someday we'll all be working QA, just scanning over AI output for issues, like manufactured goods passing by on a conveyor belt.

I began my career in a startup where pretty much everyone else but myself was an Ivy grad, with many coming from FAANG internships, and I have very high opinions of them. We all we…

Reminds me a lot of the boat I'm in - based on his CV it looks like he's self-taught and started around the same time I did. This market right now is killing us, and I've got to wo…

There's not enough info on how this works. I need to understand the full user flow for both parties before considering signing up. Will I be giving others an alternative email addr…

Not sure if this is the primary reason, but it should be enough to throw off anti-spam systems that are looking for repeated posting of the same content within a short timespan

I'm not a lawyer, but I believe there was a court ruling that says AI generated works cannot be copyrighted. So you could use them, but couldn't stop anyone else from doing what th…

For those not in on the origin of the joke, Next.js introduced "server actions" which became a huge meme / debate topic on Twitter - for example, https://twitter.com/peer_rich/stat…

Is the versioning scheme only in .001 increments? I know version numbers aren't indicative of progress, but I still find it fascinating that a 26 year old project is just releasing…

I've seen businesses tank because of search algo changes long before this. I see it as something similar to reliance on a third party API - you have to be prepared for the rug to b…