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by echelon 16d ago
Axum and Actix are phenomenal web frameworks. The type system and error handling ergonomics make it easier to write defect-free code than, say, Go or Java. Simple servers are request scoped and mostly feature linear request handling, so you
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by echelon 16d ago
None of this matters anymore. We have LLMs. It's easy to build native everything now without much resource expenditure. Android will be Kotlin. iOS will be Swift. Desktop and server will be Rust. Web will be TypeScript / React fo
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by echelon 16d ago
A lot of infrastructure is going to be ported to Rust. It's fantastic for websites and servers, and LLMs are very good at generating it. The primary downside of Rust is the long compile times, especially with macros (serde, etc.) If th
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by echelon 16d ago
Honestly, this feels like we're in the Geocities era again. Tons of people are making stuff again. I'm excited by that. And even LLM design tropes are better than seeing the same platform design on every page. The same Instagram,
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by echelon 17d ago
Hydrated sugars certainly think they themselves did.
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by echelon 17d ago
Humanity evolves. We wouldn't need doctors if we had a box you could walk into that cured all ailments. We won't need software engineers once you can crudely specify requirements and have a machine turn them into rigid requirement
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by echelon 17d ago
It's only when kids play in the streets that capitalist companies are to blame. We never blame kids playing on publicly-subsidized subway infrastructure. edit: https://www.aap.org/en/advocacy/community-healt
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by echelon 17d ago
Most people give away attention tidbits for free via social media: TikToks, YouTube shorts, posts on Reddit. That means attention can be sated by microdosing on free attention morsels rather than paying for something long-form that requires
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by echelon 17d ago
I've used Bevy a few times (plain old coding), and recently again a few months ago with Claude Code and Opus. I wasn't happy with Opus's grasp of Bevy. Opus and Fable are both great at Rust, but the results in Bevy have been
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by echelon 17d ago
This is the right perspective. While {AI, the Internet, Smartphones} can cause harm, {AI, the Internet, Smartphones} are vastly more beneficial to society than not.
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by echelon 18d ago
This is an artificial modern world problem. For thousands of years people have told embellished stories, and humanity has thrived upon it. Tall tales, fish stories. Heck, that's still the average person's experience unless they&#x
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by echelon 18d ago
There's an event horizon and we're maybe past it?
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by echelon 18d ago
They make their money from hardware (and hopefully will continue to be able to do so). This is commoditizing Adobe for them.
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by echelon 18d ago
> Taking away some of the more monotonous and "uncreative" tasks in any job can be taking away some of the variety in the work. Thank. God. I never want to rotoscope again. And frankly I'm not fond of editing either.
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by echelon 18d ago
This is going to be dramatic in so many different ways. - First off, to reiterate, WOW. - Second of all, when does this end? Are we at the dawn of the singularity now? - People are saying OpenAI "stole" this from the work of an Op
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by echelon 19d ago
There are lots of "not clearly legal" things that turn into big business. - YouTube had dubious legality when it started and definitely benefited from lax copyright enforcement initially - PayPal didn't have all the licenses
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by echelon 19d ago
> It is illegal. Probably not forever. Eventually the models will be good enough for this to work. And it will work. Think about it: in the limit, the agents won't be emailing people in the future, they'll be directly contactin
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by echelon 20d ago
There are a lot of possible futures for Google. Here are a couple that I see: 1. Google de-ossifies and starts shipping. They have all the AI talent and infra necessary to "own" AI and get people and industry using its models and
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by echelon 20d ago
Google and Facebook fucked up the internet. The internet we had in the 90's and early 00's was amazing. Everything felt free, indie, hackable, composable, ingestible. You didn't worry about platforms because most platforms ex
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by echelon 21d ago
Mission-oriented jobs tend to be below-market. Open source, gaming, SpaceX, etc.
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by echelon 21d ago
Is Wikipedia a bad place to work or something? I'd imagine it must be pretty relaxed/cushy, albeit probably at the lower end of market comp for software jobs in particular. Does the union stipulate the workers cannot be replaced w
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by echelon 21d ago
LLMs are ungodly good at Rust, and I say this as a 10-year veteran of the language. My problem is that now iteration with LLMs is so quick when prototyping new things that I now spend an inordinate amount of time waiting on agents to compil
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by echelon 21d ago
I just wish Rust itself compiled faster. Serde, proc macros, it's all so slow. I'm going to start prototyping systems in Go, then porting them to Rust when they're more concrete. I feel as though the Rust code LLMs emit is ge
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by echelon 22d ago
There's a strong luck component to interviewing. Which interviewers you get, vibes, which team is hiring, whether the folks in your hiring bar are grumpy, ... Best thing you can do is know several people who can act as direct hiring ma
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by echelon 23d ago
Eventually we'll just construct 100% synthetic training data that can reliably reproduce pretrains and fine tunes. The first broadly useful fully open source models will do this. We already have open data / open code / open w
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by echelon 23d ago
That would be so cool and would make these limited hot commodities. .name was one of the very first expansions of gTLDs back in the very early 2000s. It's a shame that it's being shut down as it was spearheaded by the ICANN itse
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by echelon 23d ago
My engineering has changed so much that I'm now using this time to catch up on emails and think about design and architecture for the next leg of work. (And post on HN, of course.) I would never have predicted this a year ago. I always
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by echelon 23d ago
Please cite this if it's true. As far as I can tell they're updating the much dated UX from being stuck in the 90's and are making great strides on the app. I'm fine with them making money as they're investing into
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by echelon 23d ago
Hugging Face has no path to substantial profitability and the investors and employees want liquidity. Nvidia doesn't want this to look like a bubble pop (as they have lots of GPU data center build outs to complete), they've got pl
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by echelon 25d ago
That's good, but don't forget that the point is that Google's pearl clutching about security doesn't apply when they are making money. They'll sell you straight to scammers if it makes them money.

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