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by echelon 3mo ago
I'm earning $3m run rate from a business I launched in February and I've signed a few hundred thousand in monthly commitments for a new B2B SaaS I'm launching soon. Don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking a
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by echelon 3mo ago
Why is everyone here so myopic? Why pay Kagi or whatever at all? How can you trust them or anyone, if this is your belief? Why even pay your ISP? Just go back to candlelight and corn flakes and stay away from radio waves. You'd better
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by echelon 3mo ago
Why make new music or new movies? The same things have been said by every previous generation. Just listen to your parents' music, right? Use the same technology, the same fashion, everything. Why? Because it's incremental improve
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by echelon 3mo ago
I want to continue to use the enterprise products paid for with billions of dollars of investment, because they still have tremendous value. Similarly, I want to continue to use the platforms that have all the users, content, and network ef
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by echelon 3mo ago
I've built two multi-million dollar businesses this year. I have no interest in building Windows. Right now I'm building some very cool business functions similar to companies with way more funding yet lackluster product offerings
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by echelon 3mo ago
LLMs may actually drag our super-valuable tech industry back down to earth and commoditize everything we've ever built. How hard would it be to build a new Google Search with a small team and an LLM? How hard would it be to engineer a
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by echelon 3mo ago
I'm a Rust dev, but I've been worried Claude might not be able to emit Bevy (or Fyrox) sufficiently well. I keep seeing Mr.Doob post amazing stuff in Threejs and the vibe coding scene blowing up with all kinds of generative work,
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by echelon 3mo ago
Thank you. We have wasted so much time and energy building up what has effectively become a marketing stunt. Eliezer Yudkowsky was perhaps the best thing to happen to OpenAI's and Anthropic's fundraising flywheel.
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by echelon 3mo ago
We've had 50+ years of that. While you're undoubtedly correct, the bulk of the opportunity is in the massive disruptionary forces this creates.
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by echelon 3mo ago
Everything already exists. We only have incremental changes. The average moves over time. The ball is moving towards open source and this will include fine tunes and LoRAs, and even more fertile growth after that. There's an abundant f
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by echelon 3mo ago
You're moving too slow. Over the last four days I've few shotted a 1:1 clone (and improvement) of Fal, OpenRouter, and Replicate in Rust. It's going to be open source. I've lined up $300k of monthly commitments for it th
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by echelon 3mo ago
> Which caused some problems with merchandising, but that's a different can of worms. Can you expand on this? Are they not able to sell merch since they don't "own" their design? How popular are they? Have they consid
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by echelon 3mo ago
This looks straight out of Metroid Prime. Really cool design.
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by echelon 3mo ago
Google can do and has done a lot more harm than McDonalds or Coca-Cola. They destroyed the open web (over and over - AMP, Manifest v2, etc. etc.), helped turned mobile computing into a rental / second-class citizen model, are ushering
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by echelon 3mo ago
We just sacrificed our entire lucrative SaaS market to this, and perhaps even big tech itself. To the altar of AI. And now it's all going to become commoditized. Billion dollar software will be commodity. Salesforce. There are orgs alr
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by echelon 3mo ago
You could say the same thing about Linux in the 90's and 00's. And yet here we are. Remember the Halloween papers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
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by echelon 3mo ago
You have no evidence of this. Also: you can literally make incredible software that would take half a year right now for $200/month. Or free if you run local open weights. You can do branding, marketing, design. You can create comics a
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by echelon 3mo ago
Those of us who liked the open web and P2P and hacking on projects all the time are seeing these models as a way to rebuild the internet in a shape that pleases us. To build anything and everything we want. Sans opportunity cost. And that&#
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by echelon 3mo ago
This discourse reminds me of the handful of Christians who thought we needed Corn Flakes and uncomfortable clothing to stay chaste and that electricity made us stray from God. Chill. Your brain is the product of the past. Reread that: your
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by echelon 3mo ago
It's absolutely crazy that a game so popular - let alone any game - was originally written in Java. Why did notch do that? There were next to no libraries, ecosystem, or support for Java at the time. It was such a bizarre choice. Not t
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by echelon 3mo ago
This is the Kimi and GLM effect. Open Source is coming.
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by echelon 3mo ago
> came from people at Google Who had to leave to build anything.
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by echelon 3mo ago
> Will the West make open models illegal? We better not. > What is the financial incentive to do so? If we'd been sharing all along (as we should have been), we probably would have gotten even further along in the development of
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by echelon 3mo ago
I wonder about all the extraterrestrial AI swarms that have already imaged earth. Surely it has happened. They must have all spotted our planet millions of years ago and must be watching us with a continuous high-resolution feed. They'
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by echelon 3mo ago
Dang, YC needs to figure out if HN is going to tolerate this or not. It's rotting the community. I am so sick and tired of being harassed and flagged and downvoted to -4 for being a builder. These people are destroying this community.
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by echelon 3mo ago
Edit: title of the article originally contained the word "slop" and was negative / whiny in tone, but it has now been editorialized to a more neutral title. I'm being downvoted without that context. --- I'm sick of
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by echelon 3mo ago
> Dude you have been salivating at the thought of seeing developers fired, I don't think you understand my arguments at all. I don't want people to lose jobs. I don't want the advantages to accrue to a few hyperscalers. I
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by echelon 3mo ago
Directors and editors using Seedance can fire the film studio. This is a fundamental shift in how storytelling is funded and made, not in who does the driving. Same as is happening with code.
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by echelon 3mo ago
It's Wan video, which is a shitty video model. The OP would exclusively be using Seedance 4k if they were serious about this.
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by echelon 3mo ago
It's much more a rallying cry for open weights funding than it is for regulatory capture. The argument on our side wins - if America or the West don't do open source, China will. And that means -- with certainty -- that China wins

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