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by bakugo 7mo ago
The idea that marketing and hype are more important for success than the quality of the product is not new, and has existed for longer than either of us have been alive. That does not mean your well-marketed and highly-hyped product is good
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by bakugo 7mo ago
If you're just a machine, can I unplug you?
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by bakugo 7mo ago
You're not doing anything wrong, they are not comparable. Claims to the tune of "this 0.5B local model running on my phone is almost as good as [large expensive model]" are common but greatly exaggerated, it's simply not
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by bakugo 7mo ago
Bob can't do things, Bob's AI can do things that Bob asks it to do. And the AI can only do things that have been done before, and only up to a certain level of complexity. Once that level is reached, the AI can't do things an
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by bakugo 7mo ago
Have you written a compiler, though?
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by bakugo 7mo ago
> We have to use some kind of attestation mechanism per the eIDAS implementing acts. Sounds like these "eIDAS implementing acts" are the problem, and were influenced by ulterior motives.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
Implementing Play Integrity is something developers have to go out of their way to do. Not implementing it requires literally zero effort. So no, it's not easier to do it this way.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
Being able to install whatever apps you want on Android without any sort of dependency on a Google signature or API was the standard for a decade and a half. Let's not act like things have always been this bad and thus we should just a
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by bakugo 7mo ago
> I suspect we'll address this Who is "we"? Definitely not Google or any other major tech company, they're all actively encouraging this. > trusted sources. What trusted sources are there that haven't yet been
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by bakugo 7mo ago
I have used Kagi, it's not a suitable replacement. It still struggles with relevance even compared to the garbage that is current-day Google, and is particularly bad at finding recent (less than a month or two old) information.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
You should care because this website has a high ranking on Google and these 12000 posts will show up every time you search something programming related.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
> Redix for Redis connections in Elixir I googled this exact sentence, and the third result was a link to the blog this post is about. Grim.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
I think the bigger issue is that the percentage of internet writing that can be classified as "business writing" is growing significantly, now that the effort required to produce it is literally zero. Overall, it feels like no mat
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by bakugo 7mo ago
Most of that "public data from the Internet" is subject to licenses, yet their entire business model is built on top of a legally grey algorithm that ingests that licensed code and spits it back out without the license. They have
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by bakugo 7mo ago
TIL open source projects simply didn't work before a certain (often big tech associated) crowd of non-contributors started forcing bureaucracy and codes of conduct down everyone's throats less than a decade ago.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
Why does an open source project, apparently developed by a handful of core developers, have a "board", a "membership committee", "elections" etc? And why do these include people who do not contribute directly t
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by bakugo 7mo ago
What kind of human writing has "it's not X—it's Y" in every single paragraph? The answer is none. LLMs haven't accurately modeled human writing for years, current models have been smacked on the head with the coding
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by bakugo 7mo ago
Probably because most HN posts in the last six months have been written by LLMs. Not all, but that doesn't matter, the trust has been eroded to the point that clicking on an article on the front page of HN and not being immediately met
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by bakugo 7mo ago
No, that's exactly what the original post said. > No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is. This has since been edited (I suspect OP later realized how ridiculous of a claim it was) but it's an
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by bakugo 7mo ago
"I have an opinion and everyone on the planet agrees with me, if you disagree, you don't matter" is not a useful insight, and is, in fact, far more emotional and dismissive than any of the replies to it.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
Nothing, apparently, which is probably why Claude Code has 7893 open issues on Github at the time of writing.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
It's impressive how fast vibe coders seem to flip-flop between "AI can write better code than you, there's no reason to write code yourself anymore; if you do, you're stuck in the past" and "AI writes bad code
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by bakugo 7mo ago
> If everyone avoids using packages released within the last 7 days Which will never even come close to happening, unless npm decides to make it the default, which they won't.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
You're replying to an AI bot.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
Apparently it's possible to create access tokens that bypass 2FA. Might've been this. https://docs.npmjs.com/creating-and-viewing-access-tokens
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by bakugo 7mo ago
OpenAI must be the most awful webmasters of all, then, to need such sophisticated protections.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
The cost is so marginal that many, many websites have been forced to add cloudflare captchas or PoW checks before letting anyone access them, because the server would slow to a crawl from 1000 scrapers hitting it at once otherwise.
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by bakugo 7mo ago
> For Nintendo games specifically, the way to play them is to buy a Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch 2 and subscribe to the Nintendo Switch Online service for $20 Unless you absolutely need to play these games away from home and a phon
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by bakugo 7mo ago
Let's see... - Millions spent rushing out huge amounts of Fortnite content at a breakneck pace - Millions spent organizing, designing and marketing 5 new Fortnite collabs every week - Millions spent trying to wrangle Fortnite's sp
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by bakugo 7mo ago
No, Epic's problem is that they saw Roblox's success and went "we deserve that too because we say so, let's go all-in on this market that is already dominated by an established player!" Roblox isn't killing Epi

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