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by 3rodents 7mo ago
The internet has been full of brilliant dyslexics since the start, just as it has been full of brilliant blind people. Dyslexic people feeling that they must use AI to produce perfect prose lest they burden the lexics with clumsy spelling o
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
I thought that Moltbook was sort of a joke because it was people LARPing as agents as much as it was agents, and given that, I'm confused by this: > "The Moltbook team has given agents a way to verify their identity and connect
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
How so?
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
A polite request: English and Chinese are very different languages, asking AI to "translate" your thoughts sanitizes what you have to say, your words lose all of your personality -- a great shame. Participation from non-English sp
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
The shortage caused by the dispute between Underwood and Huy Fong was huge news at the time, there are millions of customers loyal to the brand and millions of customers saddened by the fall in quality. I don’t know if Underwood are astrotu
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
The final frontier: a warm body.
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
Earn.com (since acquired by Coinbase, originally called 21) tried this idea for a while — also using Bitcoin — but couldn’t make it work. Paying to email people just isn’t a compelling idea. Do you have any thoughts on new things you’re bri
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
Even though the OP didn’t write their posts or the code or the text on the website, we at least know that some part of the project is original: only a human could come up with a project name so terrible. Speaks to the problem of vibecoding:
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
Would you have needed 6 people? I find that Claude, Codex etc. are able to output so much because they do a lot of reinventing the wheel whereas a human, given constraints, would make much more pragmatic choices around which technology to u
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
I really like the framing of the case studies, the emphasis on Vela taking over their current process rather than requiring any change is very nice. That said, the case studies are interesting in that they reveal that the problems these cli
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
Replace “mobile app” with “backend” in my comment.
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
You're not describing anything new, you're describing progress. A company invests time and money and expertise into building a product, it becomes established, people copy in 1/10th of the time, the quality of products across
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
There is no need for such derogatory language, sex workers would be deeply offended that you compared them to the Trump apparatus.
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
The top post on Reddit is about it, it has escaped the nerdsphere.
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
it is owned by Automattic
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
Sociopaths aren’t the only problem with that philosophy. I agree with the philosophy but it assumes everyone wants good things. Many people want what others perceive to be bad, not because they are sociopaths but because they are different.
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
If this were true, why didn’t the chatbot immediately recognize that the word “Taiwan” should trigger the response? Detecting the word “Taiwan” has been possible since before most of us were born. China has more restrictions on what you can
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by 3rodents 7mo ago
Which companies are you applying to? Even in this new world, titles still matter a great deal. A former “director of AI” and FAANG data scientist is valuable even before considering whether you are competent. The part that stands out is tha
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
The project has involvement from people who have spent decades dedicated to these ideas — it doesn’t seem like a vanity project or a play for control. The most cynical view is that it is beneficial to the OP because it provides access to po
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
HN is almost entirely about the comments. Voting is useful as a tool for loosely sorting content but otherwise, HN could easily do without it. Some of the most valuable comments come from people with barely any karma. And that’s why HN is g
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
The reason we look harshly on past word usage is because of what it represents. The use of slurs 30 years ago isn’t a problem because of the word but because it suggests an association with a specific behavior. If you look back to the 90s a
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
I did not see this mentioned: a very hard part of organizing events for remote teams is dealing with visas, for example, choosing to host an event in Europe will often prevent someone from India attending. Do you handle that, finding a loca
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
Astro is a different paradigm. Acquiring Astro gives Cloudflare influence over a very valuable class of website, in the same way Vercel has over a different class from their ownership of Next.js. Astro is a much better fit for Cloudflare. N
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
What is it you love about Next that isn’t tied to Vercel and isn’t available elsewhere? I love Next too but I find the value is inextricably linked to Vercel. I can’t imagine choosing to use Next if I’m not choosing it for Vercel’s fancy st
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
Twitch had badged entry and still managed to have a couple of incidents in which people walked in off the street to steal laptops. No snack theft though, thankfully some things are sacred.
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
No. They’re not. Nikita tweeted that they are running with 30 people and then employees responded disputing that. The 30 number is full time people on the product team. The actual company is larger. And it is not a secret that Twitter was r
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
You don’t know enough people, then. There are a lot of environmentally conscious people who would absolutely first think “because it is close we should walk” and then follow up with the logical conclusion that you can’t walk to wash your ca
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2025215495142564177 https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2025221270061580453 Rather than be driven by something rational like building a great prod
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
I didn’t say that.
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by 3rodents 8mo ago
Sure, most of us are doing nothing to help people and are using grandiose language to describe reticulating splines. I don’t think that applies to good weather apps though, a lot of people do die because they are unaware of weather events.

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