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by bobxmax 1y ago
Or, y'know, there's a lot of AI vendors and Telegram doesn't need to pay for it because they have something to offer. Hacker news users will consistently use the dumbest arguments to try and poo-poo AI.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
wow 25% not 30% ya sure got me > shouldn't almost all of them be built by LLM if LLM is that much better a) not every yc company is a software company b) these things take time, and not everyone knows how to use these tools this stu
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by bobxmax 1y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/a-quarter-of-startups-in-y... What real skill do you have exactly
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Go look at the latest YC batch. 30% of them were built with 90% of the code being written by LLMs.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
They are. People are building sophisticated products in days not months now. If you can't see that, it's your issue.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Known world does not usually mean Africa. It generally means Europe and central Asia... because that's the known world to European explorers. Oceania, Africa, the Americas are not included in that nomenclature usually.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Sure, but if alcohol didn't get you drunk consumption would plummet 95%.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Getting drunk is literally poisoning yourself. Some humans just happen to enjoy the symptoms of said poison.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Aside but I've always hated the phrase "known world". It means "known to the Europeans"
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Just because you don't know the reasons doesn't mean there weren't any.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Yeah, let's also give credit to the building materials and mother nature. Let's give credit to the pedestrians who walked by the construction site every day and decided not to commit arson. Brilliant logic. And no, the original co
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by bobxmax 1y ago
It's great that you know better than Steve Jobs. You have impressive self-esteem.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
I absolutely despise comments like these, and you only see them on HN. It's like saying great architects aren't great, it's the construction workers who should get the credit.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
I'm pretty sure this was named years ago
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by bobxmax 1y ago
This is a good point. People always point to places like Sweden yet conveniently ignore the Bulgarias. In fact, most EU countries wouldn't even be considered a first world country.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Yes you're right. The broader population doesn't have that mentality and are, in fact, I would say on average quite lazy. It's a certain group among the elite (especially those foreign educated) who seem to really want to pus
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by bobxmax 1y ago
I don't disagree. I also hate playing this card but there's a racialized element to it... snobs on Reddit and HN love to glamorize Nordic countries in particular, despite being tiny, racially homogenous countries with their own bu
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by bobxmax 1y ago
The US is the place to be for ambitious and highly talented people For average/unambitious or unfortunate/poor people, places like Europe or Canada are much better standard of living
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by bobxmax 1y ago
The "pioneer spirit" is so core to the American identity and hard to replicate in Europe Americans just have a borderline delusional self-belief that other cultures really have a hard time matching The Gulf Arabs are another group
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by bobxmax 1y ago
It seems to me that security and surveillance conscious folks tend to sit on either extreme of the spectrum
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by bobxmax 1y ago
No, it doesn't matter when you're paying $1B. Why would it? Tech companies don't care about profits. It's easy to become profitable - tech margins are obnoxiously high. They're bought and valued for their ability to
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Are people still making comments like these in 2025? What the hell do profits have to do with valuing tech startups?
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by bobxmax 1y ago
there are hundreds of thousands of developers, lawyers, artists, musicians, etc who have transformed what they're doing with AI
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by bobxmax 1y ago
I'm sick of this forum's lame performative cynicism masquerading as depth—it's a lazy cop-out that spares you people from the uncomfortable, demanding work of actually building something better. Technology that any of us 5 ye
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by bobxmax 1y ago
It's going to be fun when China rules the world because western democracies have gone so batshit anti-tech
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by bobxmax 1y ago
"Antitrust" is just lawyer-talk for winning strategies that we later arbitrarily decide is not good for capitalism. They weren't a bunch of gremlins in a cave conspiring to commit "anti-trust violations" in 2005. Th
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by bobxmax 1y ago
Yes, because it's a very convenient way to feel better than other people when you're insecure about your own accomplishments.
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by bobxmax 1y ago
is Mistral really doing anything here? Llama models are open source, Cohere runs on prem etc
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by bobxmax 1y ago
i pay a bit more so I can get food to my house from wherever i want how is this hard to understand lol

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