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by echelon 2mo ago
> only grievance They're ripping up lanes of traffic in my city and replacing them with bike lanes that nobody uses. The busy intersection next to my home used to take all of 15 seconds to turn at, now I get stuck for five to six mi
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by echelon 2mo ago
People in cities decided they wanted less car-centric infrastructure. People in cities demanded EVs, yet didn't show up to keep buying them. People in cities apparently know best what car companies should build, yet they don't buy
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by echelon 2mo ago
The pool of people trying to raise >$100M is smaller. Failures (in terms of typical VC exit trajectory) have mostly been weeded out.
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by echelon 2mo ago
I've been on this site for 15 years. The damage is already done.
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by echelon 2mo ago
> Edgewood Georgia, I love when HN mentions my state or city, but that's the road and neighborhood one block down from me. I feel seen. To add something more substantive to this thread, apparently Google's deal with Uber for di
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by echelon 2mo ago
If it takes me two days to build a service or make a short film, I'm doing the work. It doesn't will itself into existence. If I use an excavator to dig a ditch, it doesn't mean I didn't dig the hole.
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by echelon 2mo ago
No. This anti-AI attitude is getting old and tired. I'm getting sick of people insulting the work that I do, calling it lazy (it's not), and saying I should do things in the manner they prefer. I'm also sick of the childish d
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by echelon 2mo ago
> the current hype around it. - Fable - Seedance - Nano Banana / GPT Image - Kimi - ChatGPT These tools are 80-90% of my day now. Google Search? Meh. Chrome? Eh. Mac or Linux? Honestly just input devices now. The models are the hott
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by echelon 2mo ago
The internet remains the biggest singular development of my entire life. The most valuable companies in the world are internet companies. Journalists have been eager to call AI "over" since 2022, and yet: - Models just got good at
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by echelon 2mo ago
> A year and a half behind Seedance 2.0? That is a bold claim that needs evidence. SOTA a year ago was Kling 2.5, and H3 does not look or perform at that level. The Artificial Analysis rankings are whack. They rank Omni first, which is i
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by echelon 2mo ago
Both populations and supply can remain static as demand pushes up prices and swaps lower earners for high net worth people. Classic supply/demand.
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by echelon 2mo ago
Film in Atlanta has dropped significantly. We had a boom from 2010-2022, but post streaming era the gravity has moved to the UK and Eastern Europe.
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by echelon 2mo ago
This is still about a year and a half behind Seedance 2.0/ Seedance 2.5 But it represents a coming price pressure that will face the leading foundation models. Open source will prevent runaway costs. Moreover, it prevents the hair-trig
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by echelon 2mo ago
They can be used to create synthetic training data for robotics. It's not the best approach, though.
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by echelon 2mo ago
> A lack of original thinking is coming. As with the arts, 99.9% of people can't use these models to express vision, get attention, or achieve distribution. The game is the same as it has always been. You still need hard work, taste
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by echelon 2mo ago
Does this mean people can delete comments from HN?
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by echelon 3mo ago
Which is next to nothing compared to the cost of a movie, animated TV show, or quality YouTube video.
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by echelon 3mo ago
"cod.ing" ... available!? Someone just dropped their registration for that today!? Namecheap... Hurry... Login, come on... TOTP, uagh... Come on, come on... register, register... ... $39,000.00 !??! "Premium" name?! What
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by echelon 3mo ago
Even if you use AI tools?
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by echelon 3mo ago
You see, grandma is supposed to see the ads and buy the Mighty Putty. I'm supposed to get the adblock version. That's just how the world works.
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by echelon 3mo ago
I suspect they're doing this because of AI. Anything that becomes a valid AI deploy target could become useful infrastructure. The rate of humans testing things in a CodePen will slowly fall off, similar to Stack Overflow. The rate of
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by echelon 3mo ago
I suspect that a lot of hardware will start shipping open source firmware soon. Routers, IP cameras, etc. It'll be a selling point for everyone tinkering with vibe coding, and it's no longer a moat. Companies that don't do th
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by echelon 3mo ago
PostmarketOS is cool. Let me revise that super abbreviated prognostication to hint at what I was really trying to say. I think a lot of people are going to start to look at replacing Android and iOS, and some of these will be decently funde
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by echelon 3mo ago
> I'm not suggesting that fine-tuned models don't have their place, all I'm saying is that the constant drumbeat of "cheap model X beats more expensive model Z" completely misses that the more expensive model is
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by echelon 3mo ago
The once unthinkable is now changing. https://nypost.com/2026/07/22/business/reddit-news-outlets-w... https://www.wsj.com/business/media/google-search-publishers-...
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by echelon 3mo ago
Google has no moat anymore. - Google search is on the way out. I don't know any of my peers who use it anymore. - Coding models make doing extreme depth of work possible. - Hoards of unemployed engineers now have access to 10x coding u
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by echelon 3mo ago
Metaverse without Crypto/VR/Facebook is fantastic and is bound to happen. Metaverse is just people building cool stuff in a way that builds and compounds. Critically - hopefully - in a way that can't be owned as a central pla
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by echelon 3mo ago
People are now starting to turn out for WNBA. Relatability matters, and generational shifts matter. Perhaps a league for retired stars would do well. The older demographics still spend lots of discretionary money, and it could lead to cloth
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by echelon 3mo ago
It's a massive oscillating system (millions of square miles), so we have plenty of lead time. It's easy to measure and watch evolve.
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by echelon 3mo ago
>>>>>>> now if only parents were given these options to indicate their child is using a device.. we could do away with all this Online Safety Act nonsense... THIS Holy shit. This is such an obvious fix. And it shuts up

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