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by sebmellen 7d ago
Yes, and Tesla and SpaceX are both ridiculously overvalued by any fair measure. But we can separate the financial inanity of his empire from the question, which is whether Elon is a capable engineering mind or simply an ‘Isaacson puff piece
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by sebmellen 7d ago
Yes!
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by sebmellen 7d ago
Maybe I’m overstating “massively more successful” but to my understanding “X” has roughly twice the active use count that Twitter did, although that includes Grok. That said, do you remember these kinds of articles? > Musk summons engin
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by sebmellen 7d ago
Do you remember when he bought Twitter and fired everyone, and the mass media and employee outcry was that a) the service would stop working and b) he would bankrupt the company, yet a few years later it’s massively more successful than Twi
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by sebmellen 7d ago
> What is not done Rewrite this Readme without Claude? Also > There's also no server at all besides a free Cloudflare static site. The encrypted bundles of passwords and photos are in Cloud Kit. Sign-in/identity is a pass
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by sebmellen 8d ago
This might be my favorite HN comment of the year!
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by sebmellen 8d ago
What’s really hilarious is that there’s an “un-slop site” button that does absolutely nothing to un-sloppify the site
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by sebmellen 8d ago
McMaster-Carr is unbeaten.
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by sebmellen 9d ago
GPT 4.5 was really good.
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by sebmellen 9d ago
That op ed was absurd. I respect Druckenmiller a lot and am always impressed with his lucidity in interviews. The Claude “ick” was all over his writing.
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by sebmellen 10d ago
The writing feels human to me… and I call out AI slop as much as possible.
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by sebmellen 12d ago
> Finds clues worth investigating, not proof that a photo is edited or authentic. Isn’t this kind of Claudeslop something you could at least remove from the homepage of a product like this? What does this even tell me? Nothing! It tell
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by sebmellen 12d ago
Did the AI agents actually wear makeup? I’ve never heard of a rouge AI agent :P
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by sebmellen 13d ago
This will be very useful for me, but I wish it could be built natively into the agent harness.
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by sebmellen 15d ago
Interesting that they’ve switched from Persona to Yoti. But what a strange move, with no justification in the article!!
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by sebmellen 16d ago
Although I must say this threw me off: > Steer clear of load-bearing tech debt as your agents evolve. Satirical?
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by sebmellen 16d ago
Truly love the website.
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by sebmellen 16d ago
Yeah, but to my understanding that’s not what Shopify is doing.
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by sebmellen 16d ago
Totally depends on your business model too. We have clients that often require quick changes for compliance reasons, and they need to ensure all users of our apps are congruently updated. That’s not easy without OTA.
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by sebmellen 16d ago
This is so true, and I'm surprised that Shopify didn't mention it or that they don't use OTA updates.
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by sebmellen 19d ago
Similar in the sense that they captured and extracted them, but you are right that Germans were not as central to the actual operations of the Soviet program.
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by sebmellen 19d ago
I should have been more specific about what “created” meant, but my point was just to emphasize how ridiculous it is to ascribe national provenance to a massive open source project like Linux.
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by sebmellen 19d ago
Linux is 100% created by an ethnically Swedish guy in Finland. Your point is?
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by sebmellen 21d ago
I mean, Operation Paperclip and Von Braun were central to the success of the Apollo program. The Soviets had a similar postwar-German-capture program, if I remember correctly.
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by sebmellen 21d ago
Realpolitik sorely lacking
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by sebmellen 26d ago
Yes. It’s scarily accurate. They have a blog post on it if you look up “Pangram v4 System Card“
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by sebmellen 26d ago
Super cool. Love these kinds of posts.
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by sebmellen 27d ago
Wow, this is a very good site. I hope the see the other articles filled in at some point.
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by sebmellen 28d ago
I’m as skeptical of the AI writing detection as anyone else, but I’ve been trying to beat Pangram v4 for the last week and it’s essentially impossible.
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by sebmellen 28d ago
Just had a thought, what if you made new contributors write a human-authored essay on why they’re submitting a patch, and then check it against Pangram? Pangram is really accurate from what I’ve found…

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