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A daily update on the best posts of the last 24 hours would be amazing: https://news.ycombinator.com/best

It's fun the first time but it quickly gets boring.

I mean, there’s only so many ways to optimize a black box

YC went downhill during Sam Altman and then Garry Tan pushed it off a cliff. There’s no point in joining YC anymore.

> When I read a self-help book, but it's laced with stories, I lose interest. Just state the point. The reason why these books are filled with stories that repeat the same point ov…

I strongly believe the potential valuation and financial performance was not the primary motivation for Musk to buy Twitter, it’s simply a toy for a man worth $200+ billion.

$32K is cheap, we got charged ~$110K in Southern California (two kids - two different hospitals - both over $110K). Luckily insurance paid 95% of it.

Is there a solution out there that manages all this paperwork and custom requirements/contracts?

Curious: what do you do when it's not a good enterprise lead but you still don't want to burn them as a customer? Do you point them to the self service solution?

imagine the hubris and arrogance of trying to control a “superintelligence” when you can’t even control human intelligence

I remember burning CD's full of 1 minute songs that never completed because someone was always calling our house line, disrupting the internet connection (and there were no resumab…

I switched to using Instructor/Marvin which works really nicely with native pydantic models and gets out the way for everything else.

It’s as open as OpenAI

> it covered some generally profound ideas that still are relevant as ever and not widely understood I've tried to read this book over and over again to understand what everyone is…

I don’t use Claude 3 for anything else than coding, it works phenomenal for that use case. Maybe we’re seeing the emergence of super specialized LLMs and some LLMs will be better a…

> Google had far more to lose from a "copyright? lol" approach than OpenAI did. The company that scrapes trillions of web pages has an issue with copyright?

To be fair, a lot of those Upwork job requests are now being written with AI…

I think it’s a cultural difference. I’m also from a non-dubbing country (Netherlands) and I can’t stand dubbed content either. On the other hand people tell me they can’t stand sub…

There’s no such thing as a broken system, every system is perfectly aligned to achieve the results it currently gets.

https://x.com/sama/status/1758347811786281355?s=46

That’s why I suspect he’ll be joining Meta next.