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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
Good article. Concise and to the point, while covering the most common corporate bullshit. All of these are extremely common. Capitalism is in a sad state :(
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
90% of these thin LLM wrappers will fail over the next few years. The value they provided was always questionable at best. Most of these companies did not get into the field because they had something valuable to provide, or great ideas, bu
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
BcacheFS had so much promise. I followed development with a lot of interest for years. I was ecstatic when it was accepted into the official Linux kernel. And from there, it only went downhill. This process was so sad to witness, especially
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
> They were free to not buy items if they didn’t like the price. Customers (had to) accept prices under the assumption that the money went to the government, who are supposed to use it for the public good. You can easily argue that they
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
I would support the same for HN. This place used to be so technically interesting and topically diverse. Nowadays, the front page is 50%+ slop.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
> Of course this happens to be a bad time to sell I mean… it is still up 63% over the last 5 years. It’s not a bad time at all.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
If that is your argument, we can also produce Helium in nuclear reactors. It is just impractical for the amount that we use.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
This is just an ad.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
It’s not illegal to put gas in your car. That is a finite resource too.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
> Dolt is the Database for AI That’s all I need to hear. Just hype-chasing. Not interested.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
The idea was cool, but WMF is doing too much, just like Mozilla. They should focus on their core offering. I don’t think this is a bad move, they might even want to divest from their other side projects too. They are mostly distractions and
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
> If you put stuff out in public for anyone to use, then find out it's used in a way you don't like Nope. Copyright is a thing, licenses are a thing. Both are completely ignored by LLM companies, which was already proven in cou
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
It definitely is. I don’t get it. If you don’t take time to write an article, why should I take time to read it? If you don’t have anything to communicate, why write a blog post?
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
I get the sentiment, but everybody thinks that, and in aggregate, you get death by a thousand paper cuts. It’s the same sentiment as “Individuals don’t matter, look at how tiny my contribution is.”. Society is made up of individuals, so eve
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
> Gerstner questioned Altman about the financials of OAI After glazing OpenAI and Sam personally for 45 minutes straight. But as soon as Sam was questioned in the slightest, he exploded.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
It never made sense and was always just burning resources that OpenAI does not have. It reeks so much of desperation. They know they are running out of goodwill and money at breakneck speed. They are just flailing and throwing shit against
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
> where you can make money and have a really profitable business I am not convinced. Nobody is making money, every player is losing money hand over fist.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
DAI and SKY are backed in large part by USDC, so they are not truly decentralized. It is possible in theory, but nobody has successfully done it so far.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
> they're just holding back, because they realize that actually succeeding at this will instantly kill (or at least mortally wound) e-commerce They definitely would if they could. They desperately need money. They already told the w
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
> The tool didn't fail here, the person did Both failed.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
> Mozilla-ification All the Mozilla executives have done for the last 15+ years is * lay off developers * spend lots of money on stupid side projects nobody asked for or wants * increase their own salaries and all that with the backdrop
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
For anybody outside the SV, and especially outside the US, this seems high, yes. arXiv does not need to and should not optimize for “shareholder value”, which is at least nominally the justification for outlandish CEO pay packages.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
Being a superset would mean all valid Python 3 is valid Python 4. A valuable property for sure, but not what OP suggested. In fact, it is the exact opposite.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
I feel like these are far more vague and less actionable than the 5 Pike rules.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
You summarized agile. That is the whole point: short feedback cycles. You can view it as a series of short, self-regressive waterfalls.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
> I'm not convinced there's any real velocity gains in agile when factoring in all the fiddling, rewrites, and refactoring. That’s not the point. The point is to end up with something actually useful in the end. If the artifact
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
> It’s not just about the repetition; it’s about the hustle > Success isn't given—it's earned Is there a name for this AI trope? I am so tired of it.
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
A week ago, I decided to set up my home server with FreeBSD, after the HDD failed, just to try it out. The setup was quick and easy and everything works fine so far. I am just not sure it is worth leaving the Linux ecosystem. What if I want
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
This take is so tired. No, systemd was no political movement pushed onto distros against their will. The people who actually develop and maintain distros chose to adopt it because it solved real problems they had and simplified their lives
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by Hendrikto 7mo ago
I agree with Brendon Ewing that the 2026 IPOs will likely be the top of the bubble. I hope we can go back to logic and reality after that.

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