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by notatoad 6mo ago
they pay people to create content for their platform, and use their editorial control to determine what gets surfaced for you to see. how is that not "producing content"?
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by notatoad 6mo ago
X/twitter is a media company. choosing which media products to purchase based on political values is how it has always worked.
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by notatoad 6mo ago
As the article says: this doesn’t necessarily appear to be a problem in the LLM, it’s a problem in Claude code. Claude code seems to leave it up to the LLM to determine what messages came from who, but it doesn’t have to do that. There is
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by notatoad 6mo ago
i think the slightly less cynical interpretation of this is that it's not marketing, it's an employee morale booster. some skoda employees got to have fun with this. just like the amazon engineers got to have fun building drones
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by notatoad 6mo ago
i like some of the things this does, but pretty much all of this is not UX improvements, it's UX opinions. as a personal project to make HN better for you, i guess it's cool. but making every link open in a new tab so my back b
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by notatoad 6mo ago
i don't think the article is saying the problems are AI's fault, just that the success is not the result of AI. this is being promoted as an AI success story, but it's actually a fraud success story.
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by notatoad 6mo ago
>honestly I don't think anyone could peg this as AI just by listening to it. It's soulless and devoid of emotion i agree. as far as ai slop goes, it's pretty good. it could be made by a human who wasn't very artisti
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by notatoad 6mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHQevuohJH8 my music tastes are pretty mainstream, and this just does absolutely nothing for me. it's exactly what i'd expect AI music to sound like - completely forgettable, with
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by notatoad 6mo ago
>Ideas need time to be explored, and given a chance. sure, and the time for that is before you bring them to potential critics. unless a meeting is intended as a brainstorming session where any thought, no matter how unformed, is welco
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by notatoad 6mo ago
i use markdown because it's inherently limited to styling that is easy to represent. it's a good way to communicate the limitations of text-based content submission form. if you tell somebody they can use HTML, they get frustrate
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by notatoad 6mo ago
Milk the last drop, or raise the prices so high that people transition to a more reasonably priced option with a patent that isn’t expiring soon?
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by notatoad 6mo ago
the speculation i read was that it's trading hours, and they're getting a lot of load from the finance industry
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by notatoad 6mo ago
what they changed was peak vs off-peak usage metering. using it on the weekend gets you more use than during weekdays 9-5 in US eastern time.
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by notatoad 6mo ago
>There aren't futures markets in RAM as far I know sure there is. not formally, but if you hold a contract for x units of future production, you can sell that contract to somebody else who wants those units more than you do.
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by notatoad 6mo ago
it has a paid option. and the antigravity subreddit is full of people who claim to be paid users, complaining about constantly hitting limits.
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by notatoad 6mo ago
it's 8 hours later and the dog is still eating
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by notatoad 7mo ago
ever worked in IT support? letting people customize their environment both increases the amount of support that users require, and increases the difficulty of providing that support. a laptop in a stock configuration can be swapped out for
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by notatoad 7mo ago
it feels like if that statement were true, they could have come up with some reason why it mattered, or something better than a platitude. it reads as "we want to tell you that what you made with sora mattered, but we all know it didn&
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by notatoad 7mo ago
i think it's just a formalization of this https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/waymo-is-paying-doordash-gig...
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by notatoad 7mo ago
I can understand notifications and vibration. But why not Bluetooth or NFC? I can’t imagine any way those could be annoyances, or even why websites would want them outside of some extremely specialized applications.
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by notatoad 7mo ago
>a sudo prompt over a high latency ssh connection i feel this in my bones. does anybody know what level this change happens on? is this change going to affect ubuntu desktop users on any system they ssh into, or will it affect all use
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by notatoad 7mo ago
It’s wild to me how people are so fixated on this. Yes, obviously winter driving has challenges. And also obviously, the leading self-driving company has thought about that. They’re preparing to launch and have already been testing in Chi
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by notatoad 7mo ago
"protocol" is just an agreement to communicate in a standardized way. this is a protocol. a tool call exposed to the agent is a protocol - the act of "exposing it to the agent" means you're defining a protocol. th
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by notatoad 7mo ago
>Name one bad outcome a reasonable parent would care about that's prohibited under these bills. the bad outcomes don't need to be prohibited under these bills. it's already illegal to, for example, distribute pornography
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by notatoad 7mo ago
It’s completely inconsistent for me, and any time I start to think it is amazing, I quickly am proven wrong. It definitely has done some useful things for me, but as it stands any sort of “one shot” or vibecoding where I expect the ai to c
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by notatoad 7mo ago
Before chatbots, people used to link to Google search result pages as a passive-agressive way to say “the information is out there, go find it, I don’t care about you enough to explain it to you” Pasting a chatGPT response into a comment, a
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by notatoad 7mo ago
this sounds reasonable, but in practice people will simply sign off on anything without having thoroughly reviewed it. I agree with you that there's a huge distinction between code that a person understands as thoroughly as if they w
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by notatoad 7mo ago
definitely, except that shedding jobs in february is unlikely to be tourism related. that's not typically a month in which tourism operators would be either hiring or firing.
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by notatoad 7mo ago
Google account login
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by notatoad 7mo ago
Chromebooks don’t have a durability problem. I doubt the MacBook is any more durable, even with an all metal construction - if anything, that probably makes it worse at absorbing impact than nice soft bendy plastic. This is just how studen

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