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by echelon 1mo ago
IMO, Codex is worse than Claude with Fable. At least at Rust. That said, the open source models are not bad and I'm looking forward to more tools and products built on top of them. Code review, security review, etc. Anthropic needs to
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by echelon 1mo ago
More details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500019
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by echelon 1mo ago
Behind eight menu settings, a scare wall, and unfriendly UX with additional constant scares. Oh, and also they're rolling it back by adding additional hurdles. Directionally, they're starting to remove it.
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by echelon 1mo ago
Lina Kahn had the mandate but took too long. She did not appreciate the urgency or limited time with which she had to put together the cases. Both the Democratic and Republican parties have lots of members who are fed up with big tech. Amer
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by echelon 1mo ago
F-Droid is a nerd solution and will be used by 0.00001% of the total market. There are more people that will use Linux on desktop than will use F-Droid. We need governments to mandate both Apple and Google to allow web installs of apps. No
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by echelon 1mo ago
I studied biochem in undergrad and my classes were full of premed students. I loved the subject and nerded out about the course material - I spent my time designing my own experiments around gene cloning that took several semesters to run.
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by echelon 1mo ago
> You are creating so much stuff, but most of them are useless garbage that no one cares about. Are you so sure of that? One of my projects is at $5M ARR in just six months. I passed $400k in sales this month. It's an open source pr
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by echelon 1mo ago
You can look at the glass half full all you want, my glass is overflowing. This is the best year in all of my 20 years in tech. I'm creating so much stuff and it's all I've ever wanted. This is the dream of the 2000's, a
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by echelon 1mo ago
> I think the golden age of music streaming is coming to an end. It's just getting started. We're going to vibe code the entire enshittified internet to be ours once again. The dream of the 90's and 00's is alive agai
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by echelon 1mo ago
I love this project! I saw this back in the day and it inspired me to build this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x034jVB1avs I hacked together some game jam games with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd
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by echelon 1mo ago
This is amazing and has me wishing we had pay phones again. Maybe they could come back and offer "free" service in high-density areas and fund via pre-roll ads or something. But perhaps the culture of remembering phone numbers is
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by echelon 1mo ago
"open-x" for anything not actually OSS/FOSS should be banned. Just like "engineer" is a reserved term in many jurisdictions, "open" should be too. At least in our industry. If a bakery wants to call itself
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by echelon 1mo ago
You will save so much time and energy using the free/shareware DaVinci Resolve instead of OpenShot. I have hope for OpenShot, but it's still not there.
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by echelon 1mo ago
OOP is perfectly fine. Rigid class-based inheritance (especially multi-inheritance) is what sucks. This over-engineered complexity really only benefits things like window toolkits where you want super rigid modeling of widget types. But eve
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by echelon 1mo ago
This is the correct read. Meta is pushing forward every measure it can to record precise identity, age, and income with everything that you do. They're the ones behind the push for internet porn ID laws. They're the ones behind th
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by echelon 1mo ago
> GPT2 was considered too dangerous to release This is how ridiculous this industry is. Regulation-seeking panic over nothing. Drama in search of a moat. Everything is "too dangerous". GPT2 is going to invent a time machine and
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by echelon 1mo ago
Even better: make people pay for access or vouch to give access to a third party.
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by echelon 1mo ago
Prior to AI, I've made over a dozen films. Six AM call times and eighteen hour days, location release forms, insurance, lifting big props off of two story shelving at the prop house in sweltering heat, last minute fixes to catering for
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by echelon 1mo ago
I responded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500019
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by echelon 1mo ago
https://getartcraft.com https://youtu.be/kzvQMdg66Go (Now with full animation control, not just blocking and posing.) This isn't UGC. I know a lot of studios from my filmmaking and 30% of my customers are s
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by echelon 1mo ago
Why do you (and lots of other people with your mindset) speak to other humans this way? I post stuff I make on reddit and the teenagers (or grown men?) say things like, "your mother should have used a coat hanger if she knew you'd
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by echelon 1mo ago
I really do not get all of y'all claiming this causes you to "not be able to think". I worked on six nines active active payments infra that handled billions in daily transaction volume. I've built laser projection syste
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by echelon 1mo ago
Alternate take: open source models and model routers are the real bang for your buck. Subsidized plan or not.
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by echelon 1mo ago
Gambling is a negative externality that needs to be taxed. Gambling takes advantage of the poor, under-educated, and addictive personalities and puts them into financial distress. This places burden on families, the state, and local municip
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by echelon 1mo ago
I appreciate your sentiment, but in my opinion this is the best our career has ever been. This is the magical sci-fi future I always dreamed about, and it's getting better every quarter. The amount of stuff I can do now, in terms of ti
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by echelon 1mo ago
The winning move is to continually deliver value and realize when the market wants something else than what you have to offer. Instead of blaming others, improve yourself and your station. Life is too short to spend it putting up road block
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by echelon 1mo ago
I suppose it's a very human behavior to speak out against the communicated preferences of others. Maybe I'm wasting your time now.
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by echelon 1mo ago
It's been ten months since good models started landing and threatening our current job descriptions. Do you think this is where it stops? This is where it begins . Machines will be good at managing complexity too. You can't draw
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by echelon 1mo ago
> Pollen Robotics is a French company Acquired by HuggingFace, a French-American company. Acquired by Nvidia, an American company.
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by echelon 1mo ago
The paragraphs descend below the page fold. The paragraphs in view have 10 lines of height and a hero image takes up the first half. It's a bad shape. The one question I want answered is "what is Stripe buying?" I know the pr

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