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I used the HN |Past| feature to go back 15 years. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-06-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-06-08 There ar
by brudgers 4mo ago
I used the HN |Past| feature to go back 15 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-06-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-06-08
There are three articles about Steve Jobs. To me LLM's are a more intellectually interesting cargo-cult than that cult of personality cargo-cult, but YMMV.
- unconed 4mo agoIn 2011 the iPhone was ~4 years old and iPads were ascendant as the only tablet game in town. Google was still playing catch up with Android as a knock-off, having just debuted Android Honeycomb. The actual topics are: - the Apple campus that is still unique today - a rectification of an urban legend about Jobs and Knuth - a clip showing Jobs was prescient in the late 90s about personalized cloud tech Dismissing the focus on Jobs as a cult of personality is a mistake, he was simply very influential, and so was Apple at this time. Meanwhile LLMs are the antithesis of the Jobsian style: just cramming pirated data into a model and reselling it as fake intelligence without real source attribution.