Imustaskforhelp

Firstly, take everything that I say with a grain of salt. I can only reply on to the things that you've told here and give advice from it but I don't know the full situation. Read the advice and apply it as you wish.

> I have been staying up late, sleeping in, skipping chores, neglecting my relationships, eating too much food, neglecting hygiene, and generally just being a bum.

Happens with me. Something which helps me is figuring out why I sleep late. For me, it was a constant cycle of trying to do something today's night to cope up with waking up late or not doing something today.

Realize that productivity = hours put in * focus. I found myself constantly procastinating (hours go down) and when doing tasks (with less focus)

And if you continue this cycle, then the cycle continues. Over a long term, it is better for you to sleep today no matter how the day went early and then wake up early. It has been scientifically shown to improve your mental health and even from the logical standpoint of productivity, it will be better to sleep early today than not.

Your time is constant, when you sleep late you are borrowing time from tomorrow's productivity and this borrowing cycle will continue and you will feel as if you are short on time but you have ample amount of time provided you break the cycle.

Don't Neglect your relationships: Here's a comment[0] that I recently wrote about it. TLDR: try to appreciate them back and don't take them for granted. Appreciate them a lot.

There is some logic that I have found in that struggle is finite and constant and you can either take it in small doses today rather than an instant hit later. This also applies to doing chores

Regarding cleanliness: My room is a mess but the logic which can help is that I have found myself losing so so many time because I lost my keys or just lost something and then it has an insane amount of stress/time loss and struggle. I had forgotten (twice) that I had already taken my clothes back from laundry because of how messy my room is and I had to manually count all clothes I have (twice).

The amount of struggle in keeping your room clean is better than keeping it not clean.

Also, even speaking out of logical arguments, right now if I understand you, you want to be the guy who does keep his room clean, who does sleep early and who does appreciate relationships. You don't want the immediate benefits of it as much as you want it to help be part of your identity and boost its self-confidence. You want to be the guy as you want to do something, anything.

> My main reason has been that I am afraid of interviewing and that my skills are not up to par.

Happens with me as well but again the struggle is constant if not larger. You can either do interviews right now and fail them (which is okay, literally everyone fails) and failure teaches more than success. You learn from it, you improve and your fear can be taken less. Fear is because of the fact that you aren't approaching it, not that you aren't approaching it because of fear. In some sense, its a chicken and egg problem and the only way to break out of it is to not give the fear enough importance to make you change decisions but rather act on it and pass through its struggle and win through it. Do the interviews right now,don't postpone/procastinate it. Try to give as much as possible and not expect anything in return. because if so, then what is it to fear? Worst case: you don't get the job, best case: you do.

Well if you don't interview, its already the worst case plus you are giving fear its weight.

If you notice, I am saying the same thing over and over again applying more weight to it each time but I think that this overarching philosophy does help me sometimes to be more comfortable with struggling to then be a better person because I want to be a better person and I am gonna struggle. Might as well struggle (less) and then be a person I am proud of being.

Once again, I doubt that the thing stopping you is knowledge. I have tried to give knowledge but in today's world, it's not because you lack some knowledge that is causing you this but rather the lack of actions. One action can speak more and form your identity better than reading books and speaking all you want.

Your brain asks you: Talk is cheap, show me the actions. Actions start small and slowly and with some initial intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. Words can help you motivate for sometime but it won't be lasting unless you decide it upon your identity itself.

Books which can help you: Atomic Habits, How to win friends and influence people, How to measure your life, Deep work.

Hope this helps and I understand the situation that you are going through and I genuinely want you to know that you can change this very instant, and so with that in mind, have a nice day :-D

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271091

My apologies, I take back what I say but I tested it on https://kouh.me/ai-text-detector because that's the only AI text detector which doesn't have some word limit. (It was recently submitted as a show HN[0])

I then tested it on pangram and gptzero and pangram does say 97% human and only 3% AI and GPTzero says 100% human

For some reason, my AI spidey sense had activated and I used the new AI text detector and it had a false positive maybe.

But I was wrong and since this is written by human, now I will read it :-D

An interesting observation that I have made here is the amount of stickiness that Pangram and others can have. I tried a new AI text detector and it failed and because of it I falsely accused someone of AI writing. Now I would prefer not to use that. So AI text detectors have this sort of effect where they have to be really effective and false positives/negatives can change a lot of things/interactions.

My apologies though once again that I said that it was AI generated when it wasn't!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220254

Sorry but I wasn't talking about the Ars Technica article but the article that GP had shared that I had highligted under >

The article that I am talking about which is generated by AI is this one: https://tinfoil.sh/blog/2026-10-25-less-is-more

Hope this clears up the confusion!

I am not @gavinray but I have downloaded the image from imgur and uploaded it to catbox.moe, hope this helps!

https://files.catbox.moe/2aqfk7.webp

(Edit: For some reason the previous jpeg link: https://files.catbox.moe/yjqa0a.jpeg wasn't working and catbox.moe was just downloading 4kb white screen so I converted the image to webp and reuploaded it on catbox)

gemini 4 carbon has now come on the artificial analysis page. I think that I had checked it 5 minutes ago and it wasn't there.

For historians, The blog post is 31 minutes ago so we can say that it was true for 20-30 minutes.

Slightly embarrasing but it seems to be the case that the model is actually worth what they were saying on AA. It's just that it is not available to people and I think that Anthropic and OAI will release a better model to public before google might.

AA has tons of its flaws too and the recent shift to their new v5 has been nothing but controversial for many.

> https://tinfoil.sh/blog/2026-10-25-less-is-more

The blog-post is written by AI. I am more than interested to hear a human talk about it but AI generated blog post removes that interest.

I can be wrong and I usually am but what if the answer lies somewhere in the middle and depends on the definition of the amount of depth and other factors that one talks about and that it also depends highly on the context of work itself. I am unable to provide an exact answer or a binary answer to it because I don't think that there's much.

For example. A person who does frontend sadly is more affected by it. The advice for him to learn more in depth backends and where they connect and maybe connecting that cross domain knowledge and orchestrating AI where others could fail could be more relevant than further specialization in it itself.

But on the other hand, suppose there's an employee who is working with an quant company. Maybe you can say that they should generalize, maybe not. I have the personal opinion of saying that even if AI can write such hyper-efficient code, the ability/depth of him to verify (because verification can mean A LOT more in quant than in frontend generally speaking*)

Suppose there's a student who is just starting out, you can give them generalist advice to learn things and find what they like and learn it more in depth.

Suppose there's a employee who has a family life (wife, kids etc.) and is simply unable to have so so much free time as that student and its genuinely okay. Then there could be a different advice for them.

There are different advice for different people. My optimistic opinion is that maybe AI can help both specialize in a particular thing and teach you it or it can teach you multiple domains. It is still an impressive tech that you can get such a good teacher.

I also have an pessimistic opinion but enough nuance for today as I am gonna go late for a class. I don't think that there's one right answer to this question (maybe)

One thing which has helped me is to genuinely wish good for others for the sake of it and helping them out in that.

Note: I worry if I am virtue-signalling or larping here because there are immense flaws and inconsistencies within me. I sometimes feel like there are just these thoughts that come in me but acting on them (consistently) is hard. Not too much time has passed for me to comment if it has become part of my identity or not but commenting it can help solidify it further and help others get to know me (which feels my need to be understood) or more importantly, perhaps can help a single person out there.

When otherwise I would think of competition and stop, I now DO try to speak the thing out loud which can help the other person. We all have our biases and if I as a person can help see the other bias and try to help them provided I try to not cross boundary or be pushy but just for the sake of helping. Then yeah, it is good.

Paraphrasing my brother here: "You can genuinely change people's (friends) lives within college. It's genuinely so powerful"

Also, I see many spirits of kindness from people of all walks of life and the world has been aside from a few occassions still a kind place to me in terms of giving me chances. It's cruel and kind at the same time but it's my world and I can try to make it a little better for my friends.

In that sense, "The world is a generous place", as Minhyong Kim said[0]

I sincerely believe that "How to measure your life" is a great book which has a piece of logical advice which did change my interpretation of it (so much so that I wrote the entire page and pasted it on my front desk). I highly recommend reading that book [Along with How to win friends and influence people and Deep work, I wish to read em all and moreso act on them now]

Here's what the page said:

I genuinely believe that relationships with family and friends are one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. It sounds simple but like any important investment, these relationships need constant attention and care (...)

You'll be tempted to invest your resources elsewhere but if you don't nurture these relationships, they won't be there to support you in hardships or as one of the most important sources of happiness in your life.

My interpretation: Balance is necessary and understand the important of family and friends as the society around us is underweighing the genuine importance of it and as the culture around it is focused on not paying importance to it (and rewarding that behaviour).

Appreciate your family and friends and don't take for granted.

Take an Action (Knowledge means fundamentally nothing if you don't act on it): Try to do something which can show the appreciation that you have for friends and family and show it within words and tell it to them.

If it can help you take some action, I have messaged two of my brothers while writing this comment appreciating them.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH_UM9TDJ-c&t=588s

Does mosh help with it? Seems to be based on udp, and it looks good. I am not entirely sure if it helps the issue that you are talking about so hoping for someone more experienced to chime in

https://mosh.org/

> they aren't opening up to google specifically. any search engine will be able to index the content on the server web pages.

My apologies. I didn't see that and skimmed through the web-page and I thought that it was a discord-google specific deal.

> one of the biggest complaints about discord (other than all of the grooming and such) is that communities move to discord and then all of their (previously freely available) information is locked behind a login.

> addressing a big complaint that many people have about your service is a good financial move.

True, that can very well be the case but my question of AI training still stands. Couldn't this make many discord texts/discussions part of AI training corpus and AI models as has been the case for many such situations.

I but am just slightly worried about all the AI training that can happen but other than that, its a good change!

> Just as friendly feedback, monospace fonts are difficult to read for me for that kind of content.

Yes! Feedback is great and means a lot to me. I never thought about that. I do wonder though how do I exactly fix that as monospace is rather the core identity of my website. I might have to re-think the whole website but I will try to provide the ability for your own fonts. I would sincerely love some great feedback here as well because I had built it extremely with monospace in mind because I thought that it would look good. But perhaps it looks good but monospace is not practical here as you suggest. I can be wrong, I usually am and it was just me wishing to play with monospace fonts.

> says “terminal-grade communities” (whatever that means),

It just sort of reflected the style of it being terminal or (retro?) but if I have to answer what that means: It probably means nothing relevant, as such, I will remove it.

(Full story for those curious)

It was an experiment: I just had bought a domain out of an mirror: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330475 (TLDR: someone on HN wanted to show someone else mirror so they showed mirror.org and It led to a very high price so I wondered what the cheapest mirror.<tld> which I like could be), mirror.online was available for 1st year for 1$ at Namecheap (I use tld-list.com to find cheap domain tlds)

(extreme side note I also have a custom tampermonkey script to sometimes find the cheapest one ie. completely available not premium domains but yeah I need to make the script slightly better)

[I built the project because the domain was idling and I wanted to experiment with the architecture of a pure golang binary with modernc sqlite and a 7$/yr VPS and https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/ and I wanted a real project for that so I thought of it after discovering fluxer]

It is sadly vibe-coded. Thus the terminal-graded community comment. I am sorry if I didn't disclose it. I tried to show it to people and didn't get much response and so in the end, I was still happy with the experiment because I just wanted to tinker around but after its completion I was satisfied thus I didn't tinker more with it other than running it and showing it to my friends sometimes.

But knowing that a person cares about it to give me feedback enough makes me warrant to fix the changes that you've mentioned. I will try to fix them.

I will try to add an about-me page and make it better.

Though that being said, I think that the domain renewal is coming soon and I might sell the domain as renewal of 20$ is still slightly expensive for me for experiments (college student budget here!). If I do that, I will hopefully try to create a last archive.org pointing to a new subdomain of a more long lasting domain that I will try to have.

Have a nice day :-D

I think that it can be a good change depending on how you interpret it but suppose it becomes part of Google search engine then, wouldn't it allow Google's AI quick summary to search/scrape that and have it part of training process

Or having all of the search/scrape data itself be part of the training process of Google/other's AI process?

A quick LLM search gives me the answer as a "maybe", but knowing the financial incentives at hand and why Discord might be opening up. I remain slightly skeptical as to why Discord wishes to open up to Google*

Fluxer is amazing.

Quick self-promo to my website: https://mirror.forum which can help people find some fluxer communities and also help migrate discord communities to fluxer. It also works for not just fluxer but also matrix and stoat as well.

I have submitted Fluxer 2 times on Hackernews if not more, I really really strongly believe that people of HN should look into it more & (maybe my website as well :D)

> Libghostty now builds and is tested (in CI) for: [...] freestanding (i.e. direct on hardware with no OS).

I am really impressed. When I had read your original comment, I literally shouted oye! (meaning woah) because of how interesting it felt. Glad that I can see the demo as well.

But aside from the fun little demo, what are the real use cases that we can think of as well.

here are some that I have thought of

1. SSH'ing into a terminal (VPS) or being able to view what the AI agents are doing on that VPS and controlling them very thinly in your pocket.

2. I have a slight dream that I'd like to chip in but I always wanted to create something like monkeytype but on embedded-hardware. Something which can just plug to TV's and people can connect a keyboard and start to type.

3. Or another idea but being a book reader and having it connect to some library resource

(2) & (3) for the underdeveloped regions.

Maybe (1) can be good as well and could very well be a small computer terminal which can teach/help the underdeveloped regions.

I live in India and I see it first hand how genuinely just want to create some extremely minimalist software on extremely cheap hardware to make funding of them easier and more scalable.

This also makes the constraints work good as one of the govt's basically spent a lot of money providing mid/high end tablets to every children and it turned out to be quite catastrophic because although it was kiosked because it was just intended to watch videos or read resources.

Children paid people to crack it and then started using instagram on it. My mother is a govt. teacher and she strongly thinks that it was a waste of resources and even the parents of the children and local village meeting committees think so as well. I remember reading some local news articles about villages conducting meetings on how to prevent their children from such instagram addiction so quickly after the tabs were given.

I would like to hope that maybe someday someone creates the more optimal solution to the problems that I discussed and libghostty comes handy to the situation. Thanks for making it and have a nice day :-D

> Minecraft worlds also have low Kolmogorov complexity and high logical depth, producing these incredible complex worlds from a seed and a relatively small program. Just that observation is drilled into every player's experience in a visceral way and I think it's a useful thing for more people to know and appreciate. A kind of intuition for complexity and compressibility.

Glad you liked my comment. I learnt about Kolmogorov complexity through it! I think that Minecraft basically provides some beauty to the complexity yet structure that it has and that too comes in a program that I can download!

> [Like you I also worry about short form video, but I note that in the past humans have got bored of these types of addictions so you might find we see it waning at some point.]

I hope that I am wrong about it. I can be wrong and I usually am and in this case I want myself to be wrong, but within the context of discussion and as it currently stands, I am more worried about that but I do hope that the future will be a brighter future.

Another game that I like with Minecraft is pokemon.

I genuinely think that you will love this video really a lot: Competitive Pokemon may be Impossible to Explain[0][1]

This is a video of an economist Phd person trying to explain competitive pokemon and the most accurate representation that he could come up with for the title is that it may be impossible to explain, but I think that within this 45 minutes video, he does a pretty damn good job at explaining it.

There is some joy in all the complexity behind the scenes that children can be exposed to in "simple" games. There is fun in exploring all these forms of complexity especially if its a phenomenon that other people connect to. I have so much fun playing competitive pokemon with my friends and if someone plays pokemon or minecraft, then it can help strengthen the bond and be part of community of like-minded people in many ways. In my opinion, this is the largest benefit of such things (especially when the downside seems to be comparatively little but nonetheless, I still believe that there are be downsides but still as said by jacquesm himself, there are far worse things out there than minecraft/pokemon)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrR6MquGU6A&t=16s

[1]: https://attraylor.medium.com/competitive-pok%C3%A9mon-may-be...

Honestly I'd much rather take this model then.

It is having improvements in other fields than coding while being more cost efficient.

If all I want is coding at a cheaper price, then deepseek is a good model for that.

I am more than okay to have a bifurcation of models good for coding and models good for everything other than coding. I strangely imagined it many years ago.

Everyone is suggesting OpenAI to release a model close to opus 5.5 yet it's releasing this. On one hand we can imagine that maybe their training cycle wasn't able to produce this whereas gpt 6.1 terra was made.

But on the other hand, I also now wish to see an OpenAI model which is good for just pure coding, like an absolute beast at it while being cheap (so the opposite of terra)

ironically, one of the few appreciations that I might give to OpenAI if they pushed this model to prod and are facing some pushback as developers like us want/only see coding models. They could've benchmaxed it and it would've been slightly irrelevant. I'd much rather see reality.

At the very least, this new model won't make things more expensive for anybody and would only make use-cases cheaper depending on what they are, so it's a fine deal for me.

I also wonder maybe this is why open source labs aren't targeting this space and why the only focus of AI labs is coding nowadays. Everything else just doesn't seem so worth it from investor, even end user, training perspective.

Maybe this is the reason why we have gotten almost an exponential growth in coding capabilities as that became the most (if not only) capability that truly really matters.

To not wish for discussion to go to a tangent, nonetheless this could also explain why our work as a software engineer is going through a slight crisis of meaning as these AI models have gotten impressive at coding.

As an (aspiring) developer (currently in 1st year college), I don't wish for AI to replace coding even more for me or to push it even more or to suck the joy out of it even further. So I am more than happy for these models to stay as they are and rather make advancements elseplace. Ironic because it is us developers who use AI as well and we want cheaper workflows and so we would also want models to be cheaper and better at coding. There are some fine lines of contradictions and irony in all of it. I'd much rather also have open-weight models of such terra-like models but I imagine that because of the reasons that I mentioned above, we are most likely gonna see it the most focused on coding but still open-weights is pretty close.

The more choices the better (though choice-fatigue is a real thing), I hope I was able to explain some of the nuance I feel about this particular launch.

For what its worth, I might be one of the younger folks on the site (currently 18)

I am still glad that children are playing Minecraft. One of the first things that I am really proud of what I did was somehow breaking a nat of an intel tiber (free) vps just so that I can create a minecraft server.

My first thing that I built myself in mc that I still remember is having a piston push a redstone block which pushes another piston and a redstone block (quite complicated overengineering) to basically create a clock to spawn many mobs. I am still proud of it and my brother showed me minecraft and I remember the first time he showed me and I was in awe!

one of the first blogs (or second I think) that I made was about how to self host minecraft using a different technique (there is a plugin)

There are lots of coding/server related things to Minecraft. I think many people got into coding just as much because of minecraft and got into servers because of minecraft server hosting. (It's really popular)

I sometimes get recommended Minecraft Nostalgia videos and man the nostalgia hits so hard.

I understand what you are saying but Minecraft at its core is a simple blocky game that I played with friends.

Yes, It might be hard to care about pixels but also not so much. I still play chess and I can play it on a pixelated screen just as much as on chess.com or lichess.org

One of the first games that I played was pokemon yellow (the OG one), I pirated it and that introduced to the piracy and oh boy, I genuinely believe that it was the reason why I got tech savvy and am learning CS within uni as I did that within 2nd grade.

I have played pokemon yellow, pokemon crystal and all the pixelated games. I love them all and cherish them with nostalgia.

I am more worried about the shorts and reels.

Some comments and stuff that I wrote about similar things:

[An advice for a 15 year old on HN to play minecraft instead of hyperoptimizing for business]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341430

[My pokemon yellow piracy complete story]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663383

Self Hosting Vanilla Minecraft server has never been this easy before (GUI Right in minecraft , while being open source !): https://trulyfoss.mataroa.blog/blog/self-hosting-vanilla-min...

This is really cool. Is it open source and I am more interested in the inner working of how this works

Thanks for making this, I will try to use it as I do find myself sometimes troubled by the free limits of ai detecting software online like Pangram etc

Which is also gonna be open weights on 4 Nov.

When the frontier is pacing itself in its speed in terms of adding new capabilities (notice how fast opus 5.5 got released after Astra), then that also means that the open weights models which were just behind are accelerating in their speed just as much as well.

Good news for us because the models which used to feel 6 months behind now feel like they are lesser.

Double threat to Anthropic and OAI because if open weights models become good enough at the current level of Sota while being cheaper (which time will tell if this model fits the bill or not), then people will use those models instead of OAI/Anthropic provided it is "good enough"

Though it has to be said that only real world use case can be trusted but I remain optimistic and hope that this turns out to be good in real world use cases as well.

But in my opinion, all of this is really good for us end users!

Slightly offtopic but I find it slightly funny that they have accomplished to hack the iPhone yet the name of the third video is: Can you iPhone do this?

I would like to think that they might've created the video so fast and perhaps out of so excitement that the name of the title had the typo :-D

Although I agree with your comment but your comment is naturally making me wonder what are the very few pieces of truly universal good advice that you are mentioning.

What do you think such advice could be/is and the definition of finding such advice and to differentiating it from other advice which is still contextual?

Thanks, your comment was the first one which linked the two.

Revolut is the biggest private company in all of Europe.

Perhaps it’s me but I still find it kinda wild that a single power outage in London can shut down Google DC and it can lead to Revolut shutting down for some time disrupting much of the economy which depended upon it

Perhaps this could’ve been prevented, which makes me wonder how much of code written at Revolut is ai generated and its ai policy?

With this new data at hand, I have to wonder how profitable would it be for the investors.

The cost of amortising a datcenter, the gpus, the engineering costs attached all to produce inference.

At how much percentage of its inference would it be profitable (if it does), how much returns would it make over the long term and what would be the profit of those inferences/ profit-revenue and how that compares to other industries.

Are there any statistics which show this. Also how efficient token inference has gotten over time?

Yes you are correct about it, though aside from a minor differences within the architecture itself, its right that being impressed with token speed is being impressed with model's size.

So you are right about it and I think that I am just excited about how deepseek although having the same architecture as previous times is just able to make consistently good upgrades and just honestly impressed by it all :-D

I think it's because of the fact that Deepseek at 16B can be comparable enough in tasks to Mimo with 42B

I am just extremely impressed and surprised by the fact at how small we are going. My dream of local inference is perhaps coming close.

Regarding 12B one (Nemotron), still, there are other models even comparing it to qwen 9b, its tps difference is: 435 tokens/s vs 68 tokens[0]

I am not sure if this is because of how AA does its calculations for the speed but my main point was that I am impressed by the speed improvements happening in general hardware. I remember this speed when it was only expected from cerebras or groq.

Also speaking of this I found K2 Horizon[1] which seems to have 1,061.5 tps at 23b and it seems to be really close to actual open source (sharing their training code, pre-training, post-training, checkpoints etc.), I am quite impressed by them as well! [And I think that I wouldn't have found them if it wasn't for their token speed perhaps]

[0]: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/nemotron-3-...

[1]: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/k2-horizon-375b-a23b & https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/

Really wild that Deepseek's model is 536+16B (passive+active) parameter model and its really comparable to Mimo v2.6 Pro which is the current open source SOTA model which is at (978+42)

This is half the size of Mimo and comes pretty damn close to it and I feel like lots of tasks can be done by it.

I really like its speed as well but its quite verbose from the benchmarks, IMO, this should be tackled in the near future as well. I wonder if specific fine-tuning can happen just to make the model token-efficient.

Also, slightly offtopic though deekseep has good tps but Nvidia's nemotron recent 120B model also has some really crazy tps. I wonder if we are gonna see some really good tps on general hardware.

The best part is that the amount of current innovation happening within the space means that a lot of good ideas are bound to be absorbed by one or the other and we will get many of these improvements handed to us :-D

I think that such engineering is also the engineering of the trade-offs and on what axis to play on. You can be SOTA but with very low speed, extreme price and other factors. I think its interesting to see how each engineering lab approaches these trade-offs and what they pick. But whatever they pick, its best because its more choices for us to pick upon from (especially if its open weights)

I wish to read this post but I am unable to do so because of the paywall. Can you please provide either other resources/articles pointing out what its saying or any way for me to read the source itself, I would really appreciate it as I do wish to read the source or have a good discussion surrounding it :-D

For what it’s worth though, if your project can work on open source models or other models in general then you have the ability to vote with your feet and you still have leverage.

Is pele open source?

I tried to find the source code of it but I was unable in finding so

Edit: found it, https://github.com/obsidianmd/pele

Also folks, this is a good reminder to please have a github icon on the top of the page to easily show git/github links if the app is open source, also helps in the fact that I can star your projects and bookmark them more easily :-D

Hmm makes sense, though isn't AWS and others realizing the threat that vercel is making constantly towards them while being operated with servers of AWS?

I remember reading about vercel trying to move away from AWS or railway successfully doing so. Their long term end goal still is to migrate away from AWS to capture more juicy margins (or is it? Vsauce music plays)

So with that in mind, has AWS and others realized that providing free credits would be more disruption to actual people paying right now and more loss than whatever Vercel is fighting for?

And if that's the case, then to the investors funding Vercel... Do they know that as well?

Also, I think Vercel has gotten to the point where they are handling spam good-ish but the other alternative railway (not entirely free without credit card yes but still an alternative) still relied on GCP (yes even after their migration/colocation) and GCP's opaque black structures shut down all of railways because of a few accounts doing something malicious.

That is the cost of doing business on someone's else computers and also suppose somebody is creating a new vercel competitor, then they are intentionally targeting themselves as a free alternative and are gonna get free users who intentionally might not pay while facing spam/scam/reputation issues and would need constant maintanence and support. (For example: a guy X creates a scam site targeting Y company at this new Z vercel alternative, the Y company has to contact Z and Z will contact it back and Z has to fix the issues X caused, and there are many more X than what Z can handle)

I am more-so interested though that if Vercel is really a great idea (lure free users etc.) then why aren't others trying the same now and flooding free compute. Is it that the investors who wish to invest in such companies would have better returns in investing in Vercel anyway and have better chances in beating the traditional hyperscalers over establishing a new competitor over Vercel and then over AWS etc.?

If we were to try to arrive at an conclusion or for me to try to learn something new, what could it be?:

Is it that AWS/GCP/Azure are intentionally not becoming a Vercel alternative because they can get away by doing so and its more profitable for them to do so?, and that it's not profitable or even possible for others to do so as well unless they have deep pockets to burn through.