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One idea I'm toying with right now: My company has some internal nodejs libraries, some of which are quite large (think: codegen API library, thousands of types). When a new version is published: task claude code to distill the entire
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At the end of the day, they're building silicon that can do this to be ready for when the software side of the house actually figures this stuff out. Of course, it doesn't seem like the software side is close to this, and a very r
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I actually wonder if the 1TB+ models of the iPad Pro represent a higher portion of all models sold than that storage capacity would in other product lines. The iPad Pro is such a niche, weird device; it feels like if you're buying it,
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Docker images are self-running. Infrastructure systems do not have to be told how to run a Docker image; they can just run them. Scripts, on the other hand, are not; at the most simple level because you'd have to inform your infrastruc
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To be fair: They have the internal metrics on how many people are still on Intel-based Macs, and its very possible that this influences the types of comparisons they choose to make. There's still so many Intel macs out there.
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I deeply disagree. Docker’s key innovation is not its isolation; it’s the packaging. There is no other language-agnostic way to say “here’s code, run it on the internet”. Solutions prior to Docker (eg buildpacks) were not so much language a
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Yeah; IMO Docker was our last universal improvement to productivity, in 2013, and very little we've invented since then can be said to have had such a wide-ranging positive impact, with such few drawbacks. Some systems are helpful for
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One way you can pattern-match this dichotomy between different parts of the Pentagon might be to look at how many private contracts are involved with the project, and how large they are. Certainly seems to be a correlation there.
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A lot of people will say "well, the market of people who want that is so small that its not even a blip on Google's radar", but let's cut that one off at the pass: No one buys pixel devices anymore. Their sales are abysm
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There is good anti-AI content. I love reading articles concerning AI's limitations and the negative externalities of a world where we're increasingly outsourcing thought, and maybe even taste and authority, to unfeeling, soulless,
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This is so cool.
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There's a lot of people who can only process their own failures by assuming that everyone and everything must also, eventually fail; that anything successful is temporary and "not real". And there's a lot of down people
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Another thing to note about China: while people love pointing to their public transit as an example of a country that's done so much right, their (over)investment in this domain has led to a concerning explosion of local government deb
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Reminder: If you're going to feel doomer about how tech capex represents like nn% of US GDP growth, you should do some research into what percentage of US GDP growth, especially since 2020, has been the result of government printing. A
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Legally, I don't know. Conceptually: Disability is a protected class under US Law. Undeniably related.
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I never stated that its never reasonable or good to force corporations to behave against their interests. What you stated is that the "mechanism" might be to treat a person's chosen software stack as a protected class. I can&
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Here's a take on this which might be unpopular: Open source software lost in this domain fair and absolutely square. Desktop linux has been an extremely accessible and decent option desktops and laptops for, what, three decades; it los
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Eh, this I cannot abide with. There are dozens of hosted model providers, from the foundational providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) to cloud re-hosting (Azure, GCP, AWS) to routing proxies (OpenRouter, Vercel, etc). There are huge open sourc
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IMO: There's a ton of circumstantial evidence Liquid Glass was supposed to be a 2026 feature, but at some point between 2024-2025 they accelerated it for a 2025 release. Stating that it was because of the Apple Intelligence disaster of
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That number was not reported as "reported to shareholders". Again, its astounding how wrong you keep getting this. It was leaked to The Information by an anonymous source who claimed to be a shareholder who received this financial
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Also not official numbers my brother [1]. Check your sources. [1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-first-half-revenu...
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While it didn't work in 2000, "just stick ads on it" does work for Google and Meta, driving over $400B in combined annual advertising revenue. Their model, today, is far more relevant than calling back to antiquated banner
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> OpenAI announced a few months ago that it had finally cracked $1B in monthly revenue (intriguingly, it did so twice, which makes me wonder how much fibbing there is in these statements). I believe this is incorrect; as far as I've
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> the industry is spending over $30 billion a month (approximately $400 billion for 2025) and only receiving a bit more than a billion a month back in revenue. I suspect that this revenue number is a vast underestimation, even today, ign
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You should always assume that everything you read on Hacker News is the opinion of the individual typing it, unless otherwise properly cited. That's your responsibility.
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I've done three 500 mile trips with it this year, and on one of these trips I challenged myself to never disengage, except when within just a few meters of the superchargers, home, or the destination. It did it. And the other two, I pr
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Tesla, because they are the closest company to having a nation-sized fleet of autonomous taxis earning them some amount of revenue. Their autonomous driving system is roughly on-par with Waymo, but requires significantly less hardware, is a
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ChatGPT was at 700M weekly actives when their head of product went on Lenny's Podcast on Aug 9th. This week Sam announced at dev day they'd hit 800M weekly actives. They gained 100M users in two months. Not monthly active; weekly
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250M all-time users in a mobile game versus 800M weekly active users with scary native advertising possibility, is at least a two orders of magnitude, maybe three, difference in monetization. The better comparison is Fortnite & Epic Gam
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Idk. OpenAI has 800M weekly active users, which puts it in the top, like, four most used software systems in the west. They also just stated that they're emitting 6B API tokens per minute, which depending on the model puts their annual

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