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I wonder what the web would be like if we priced bandwidth at the requester point and as you go.

Honest ask because I’ve not generally paid attention… Is it the case that the numbers always appear more optimistic, and then are revised to be more pessimistic values? Or is it ju…

I totally see this. I just did 3 hours of bot sitting to put together some thrash loops that thrash our provisioning working flow for a BLE gadget we make. It was pretty straightfo…

Why is it “just a matter of time”? Why do we assume and say this? The amount of times humanity has said this and time itself was not enough of an ingredient to achieve some anticip…

To me, what makes this so obvious with the web platform is the bureacratic nature of developing for it. To do anything meaningful, you have to bring three departments together (htm…

I’m selling Enshitification Popcorn. It comes with extra strong spices so that you can watch and eat your popcorn without the odors getting to you. Please support my efforts throug…

I’m overwhelmed by LLM/Agent signal on HN lately. I actually liked this question. It’s trite and whimsical, but frankly nice break.

Can you elaborate why adding guards makes things faster?

Tax social media and other forms of attention products. Time users spend on these products is time taken away from earning revenue that can be taxed. Balance must be restored. If v…

In family and friend relationships, this all resonates completely. Where I struggle and find my ego self defensively screaming “But…!” is in work relationships. Product managers, w…

Q: what kind of collection is this real world example illustrating? A: Copying Garbage Collector (semi space). Chapter 4! Great book. I was always fascinated by bakers treadmill. A…

SpaGrox

> Paying $60B for this is idiotic. Isn't that kind of Elon's thing?

It’s ok. In the future, no one will do math. Mathematicians will be directors, with a team of math bots that they administer and direct. Instead of being managed, they will become …

This is awesome. Bag “vibe coding”. Today I will start coding in what I’m going to call “Roy Kent mode”.

I find that junior engineers like to use it “up the authority” of their arguments when my experience clashes with their desires. OTOH, I am humbly aware that sometimes my experienc…

Reading the BBC article about poisoning the real time AI well of info yesterday, I was super struck by this point > "We're moving towards this 'one true answer' world. Before, Goog…

What is unclear to me is how less skilled people gain useful experience, when using these amplifying tools. I’ve been at this for 35 years; I like to think that sometimes i get som…

People are never going to quit doing this. I'm surprised we still get "incensed" by being "watched without consent". There is No. Way. It's. Going. To. Ever. Get. Stopped. The only…

> quality code Probably where the mismatch is in this discussion. The measure of what is quality code is all over the place. For some, some form of "good enough" is quality. And fo…

Anyone have any stats on just what the headcount is at Anthropic and OpenAI these days?

Been using Kagi search for more than a year. Been happy. I use GPT/et al for the little things (e.g. unit conversions, rather than search for and then try to use an enshittified we…

There will rise a PETA like organization that will protest this. Probably call themselves the Lorax and protest that we're practicing colonialism on plants now. All satire aside...…

It’s hard to forecast this. Support calls occur chaotically. So staffing to support them is difficult to do in a way that keeps a steady margin.

Rust is mostly ~20% bigger. Except comments. Where they basically doubled... what's with that?