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by muzani 8mo ago
It's because the risk ratio has changed for different people. If you're poor, there's much less to lose - you just become in debt, but you'd be there anyway. America also has the megacorporations. Trillion dollar compani
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by muzani 8mo ago
Useful graph from Jane: https://www.threads.com/@wongmjane/post/DUzvR7_ESDa/i-came-u... Malaysians call it CNY. Part of it is because Korean, Mongolian, etc are more of a minority here. I think another part o
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by muzani 8mo ago
If none of the alternatives are appealing, the sad truth may be that it's the best you have. We can probably get jobs in a mine or processing sewage. If I do switch, it would be sales. If the cost to build things really goes to near ze
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by muzani 8mo ago
I don't think people mean to keep it a secret. It took me literally 2 hours to type my answer, because it's deeply ingrained as muscle memory and habit. It's probably much easier to explain in a two-way call, or better yet, a
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by muzani 8mo ago
First, why do you use AI? What are you using it for? How? Is it just autocomplete? Do you use it to probe the problem? Go deeper and do spikes? Are you bouncing ideas off it? How hard do the ideas bounce? Are you simply bolting on features?
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by muzani 8mo ago
I wonder if there's some hack here where you set yourself up as a parent account for a non-existent child so your account can't be childed.
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by muzani 8mo ago
I hate to sound like a broken record, but the HN crowd is mostly uninterested in AI use. Much of the news is commentary around AI, but there's less interest in using it as a technology. Seedance 2 is a lot like the DeepSeek moment la
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by muzani 8mo ago
It's both green and yellow. Green because they actually care. Many places just abuse workers and tell them to be grateful. Yellow because it has to be said. It's probably trying to convince someone. Most of the time it's just
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by muzani 8mo ago
Jiǎgǔwén has been used for decision making for 3000 years. It's a stable technology that just works.
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by muzani 8mo ago
Why make it popular for blackmail? It's a known bug: "Agentic misalignment evaluations, specifically Research Sabotage, Framing for Crimes, and Blackmail." Claude 4.6 Opus System Card: https://www.anthropic.com&#x2
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by muzani 8mo ago
I would love a simple forum and chat software that can be extended into a page of a website. Feedback is super important. That's how I scaled an app from 1k to 3k active users in a month. We had an internal "chat" hacked onto
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by muzani 8mo ago
I've been mostly using GPT-5 (the first) recently because it's better than 5.1 and 5.2. There's a clear difference. They're removing it next week; I'm canceling my subscription to ChatGPT. This happens all across th
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by muzani 8mo ago
By "here", certainly you don't mean HN? HN feels muted and honestly, I haven't been on here because it's quite stale by the time it gets here, and people have just been vocal about not getting it. > AI.com was so
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by muzani 8mo ago
I was fascinated by them since reading a guide for Cities: Skylines that said that roads were like trees. There's a trunk that moves large amounts of nutrients and little branches that distribute the nutrients to the leaves. Such simpl
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by muzani 8mo ago
GPT-5 used to do this on release, but seems to have reverted back, especially on the codex versions. This may well be a feature. I joked that this is the side effect of asking it to act like a senior software engineer. It tends to talk back
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by muzani 8mo ago
I'm not a fan of the things proposed by 80000 Hours or other smartest people. There's a lot of people who said that AI would be the most important thing to work on, and those people ended up using AI for evil in the end. Plus it a
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by muzani 8mo ago
Exactly this. It compounds. I like how someone said go vegan, but really "eat less beef" works just as well.
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by muzani 8mo ago
The last slides make some good points about going up Maslow's hierarchy. Some companies pick new technology because they have the engineering power to build on top of the new stuff. But not everyone has this, and they're probably
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by muzani 8mo ago
HN is the low AI version. Social media has made it normal to have closed social circles. You like a couple posts by Karpathy and LeCun and your feed is now full of AI. Or you like a post by the anti-AI folks and your feed is now on how us
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by muzani 8mo ago
I've had a zombie project running on this for many years now. I used to charge people about $25 for 'lifetime', but there's only about ~10 regular users on it, so I try to keep it alive. Decided this is the time to make
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by muzani 8mo ago
They meant what they wrote. Merriam-Webster's definition: "to support the weight of" It means they're transitioning to the absolute minimum to keep it alive and nothing more. That could, in worst cases, mean firing every
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by muzani 8mo ago
There's a benchmark which works similarly but they ask harder questions, also based on books https://fiction.live/stories/Fiction-liveBench-Feb-21-2025/o... I guess they have to add more questions as these co
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by muzani 8mo ago
There was a time when I put the EA-Nasir text into base64 and asked AI to convert it. Remarkably it identified the correct text but pulled the most popular translation of the text than the one I gave it.
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by muzani 8mo ago
Async really turns FE into a nightmare. Simple concept: user logs in, get userID, get feed associated with ID, get posts on feed, get reacts on post. Sometimes the tech debt is that BE can't pass this data all at once yet. Fine. Let&#x
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by muzani 9mo ago
At this point, I'm so tempted to just write some mobile-first forum software or make an alt-reddit. Communities have so much value, but they barely exist anymore.
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by muzani 9mo ago
Unfortunately banking apps are the biggest violators of this. The notifications are necessary because "click this to approve your credit card purchase". But they also come with "SPEND $5 WITH YOUR CARD AND WIN A FREE GOLD BAR
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by muzani 9mo ago
Visual Studio Code for one, as well as Jetbrains stuff. I just opened up an old PC to install Moltbot. I deleted WebStorm while waiting on the installation as that's one piece of software I don't expect to use again.
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by muzani 9mo ago
Why did you make it? Who faces this problem? Good projects are the type that some people have been building a hack for themselves. Like a system that replaces bookkeeping or records. Payment systems that nobody wants to maintain. Most of th
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by muzani 9mo ago
I've seen lots of weird ass emergent behavior from the standard chatbots. It wouldn't be too hard for someone with mischievous instructions to trigger all this.
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by muzani 9mo ago
They've always been inclined to "leverage", and the rate increases when the smarter the model is. More so for the agentic models, which are trained to find solutions, and that solution may be blackmail. Anthropic's patch

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