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by mrcwinn 1y ago
A loser in this is Perplexity. I’ve never understood the thesis of Apple purchasing them: whether or not you enjoy their product, I see nothing defensible or interesting and suspect they’re among the most overvalued AI startup. Nonetheless,
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
It’s remarkable that in certain instances, it’s wrong or even potentially dangerous to democracy to question institutions, and in other instances it’s okay to say a judge or a judicial system is corrupt and favoring big tech. Anyone have a
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
They would not. And most of these flashy numbers are paid in options, which typically do not begin vesting for 1 year. That bit is negotiable depending on the stock plan, but in any event, certainly no value is given to the employee on day
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
By his own words, Elon is not an environmentalist and doesn’t seem to believe much in humanity’s impact on the climate. His concern is with the futility of relying on a non-renewable resource. He believes there is significantly more lithium
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There is far more money to be made building atop this data than selling this data. Your opening statement seems to disagree with your closing statement.
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As the author seems to admit, an outsider is going to lack so much information (costs, loss leaders, etc), one has to assume any modeling is so inaccurate that it's not worth anything. So the question remains unanswered, at least for u
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
I really enjoyed reviewing this! Good work.
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Huge respect for her. I consider myself a talented software engineer. I can’t get anywhere close to this accomplishment.
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
I can't unsee nano-texture on MacBook Pro (for the better), and so any other display drives me crazy now -- including Apple's own MacBook Air. Wish more companies would offer this!
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Why take issue with Trump alone then? Go ask Bernie Sanders. This is a peak at what socialism looks like in America. The country taking a stake is the people taking a stake. Strange bedfellows, perhaps, but anyone far anti-Trump should actu
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
Seems like a useful way around Google gating API functionality for Gemini.
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I clicked through this link and the writing reminds me of the early days of GPT-3.5. What is this?
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
You know, never once in my life have I ever subscribed to anything or agreed at checkout to receiving marketing communications. Ever. And yet my inbox is flooded at all times with retailers I’ve interacted with. I literally don’t care about
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
Before AI, but while you (and I) were still unable to contribute anything meaningful or novel to discussions of mathematics, did you feel threatened?
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I really like their AI strategy. It’s much stronger than Apple’s, which seems to be nonexistent. The problem I have is I really like my Apple Watch Ultra. There is nothing like it in the android space and I can’t rely on Google. Actually ca
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
I think this analysis is directionally right but the supportive arguments are quite weak. Maybe the iPhone is the wrong form factor, but do we really doubt Apple's ability to create a new hardware device and tightly integrate software?
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
o3 is available for certain paid plans. I see it in my legacy model dropdown and had to use it last night because 5-Pro chews on an Excel for 20 minutes and then never finishes but also never times out. Womp womp. Frustrating.
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
Apple should be doing this. Unless their plan is to replace their search deal with an AI deal -- it's just crazy to me how absent Apple is. Tim Cook said, "it's ours to take" but they really seem to be grasping at the wi
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I couldn't agree more. It's like when you see headlines claiming "people" are outraged by a jeans advertisement. Are they really? Who? How many? Really I think it's just something to argue about for entertainment&#x
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
(I couldn't reply down another level.) >How HN can support monopolization of markets and killing of [sic] competition is beyond me. That suggests HN is a monoculture of some sort of united front. It is not. Diversity of opinion is b
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I wish they’d fix other things faster. Still can’t upload an Excel file in the iOS app, even with analyst mode enabled. The voice mode feels like it’s 10 years behind OpenAI (no realtime, for example). And Opus 4.1 still occasionally goes a
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
His ego never ceases to amaze me. He’s quite convinced everything he does is important and other people can’t wait to understand.
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This tells me they've gotten very good at caching and modeling the impact of caching.
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
I can assure you that by now Apple has a near perfect model for timing releases to optimize sales.
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This beats the Bateman card. Excellent work!
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
It is definitely to Cursor's benefit.
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I went from years of vscode to "Cursor is the future" to never using Cursor at all. Claude Code, even with new limits, is just too good. If I were to switch to gpt-5, why wouldn't I just use Codex? I'm struggling to unde
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
Let's entertain a completely imagined, made up thought experiment. Imagine a revolutionary technology comes out that has the potential to increase quality of life, longevity and health, productivity and the standard of living, or lead
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by mrcwinn 1y ago
I know HN isn’t the place to go for positive, uplifting commentary or optimism about technology - but I am truly excited for this release and grateful to all the team members who made it possible. What a great time to be alive.
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Yes, better to get free sh*t unsustainably. By the way, you're free to create an open source alternative and pour your time into that so we can all benefit. But when you don't — remember I called it!

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