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MagicMoonlight··on OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon
Yeah it’s a scam
MagicMoonlight··on Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200
No, they’ve lost market share because they haven’t released a new product in years. Meanwhile China is releasing hundreds of excellent models into the European market which are better than Tesla’s.
MagicMoonlight··on Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried
But normally they wait a year for new companies, whereas Sam and friends have managed to buy some officials and have made it a day-one-rug-pull.
MagicMoonlight··on Apple unveils new accessibility features
And this is why androidlets will never win. They’re too busy selling your data to ever think of disabled people or usability.

iOS is just painfully good. I can pause a video, put my finger on text inside the video, and copy it. Until they added it, I didn’t even know how much I needed that.

MagicMoonlight··on The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
They’re definitely RL training the models on the pelican test. They patch any kind of test that shows them performing poorly by hardcoding some answers into the model.
MagicMoonlight··on Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
Bullshit. GCHQ loves new ways to spy. Being able to harvest all traffic is their dream. I’m sure they already do harvest it all.

If they cared about privacy and security they wouldn’t be [redacted].

MagicMoonlight··on OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid
Lmao that must been an American thing. Here it just uses the open banking APIs.
MagicMoonlight··on OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
It’s a shame ChatGPT is total trash now.
MagicMoonlight··on HTML Lists
That’s a really good article. It’s nice to see something which isn’t slop.
MagicMoonlight··on The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)
Doctors prescribed drugs and everyone became addicted, do you seriously think Nestle is going to pull their punches when they can sell people crack?

They’ll be outside funeral homes, outside schools, offering free graduation crack. Ads on every bus, hot women handing it out in the street.

MagicMoonlight··on Grok Build
I mean you could say that about anything.

“If you’re so good at building salesforce, why don’t you simply sell paper yourself?”

MagicMoonlight··on Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence
Bullshit. You can’t compare terrorists to the Democratic Party.

ISIS also had trash collectors. Are you saying ISIS should have been left alone?

MagicMoonlight··on Starship V3
America still isn’t self sustaining and it’s been hundreds of years.
MagicMoonlight··on Googlebook
What a terrible name.

Plus the fact that they’ve clearly just ripped off the exact shape of a MacBook, but thicker and shitter.

MagicMoonlight··on Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
Iran, Russia and North Korea are the biggest sources of ransomware.
MagicMoonlight··on Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
I don’t know if that’s really true. Nobody would really give a shit if you leaked where everyone goes to college… because it’s already on their LinkedIn or whatever.

The only people it’s valuable for is the ransomee, because they don’t want the reputational hit of having their data everywhere.

MagicMoonlight··on They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
If it was a basic biological function then the marketing department wouldn’t exist.
MagicMoonlight··on Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did
They used to dig coal, playing with their brother isn’t a hardship.
MagicMoonlight··on The OpenAI Deployment Company
The problem with these kinds of businesses is you have no capital. You have labourers.

If you’re SAP, you build SAP once and you sell it. If you’re an author, you write the book once.

With consulting, you have to keep doing the same work every year just to stand still. You don’t own an actual product.

MagicMoonlight··on SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites
And that will never be true, so it’s meaningless.

It would also be cheaper to build one on the moon, if it was free to build them on the moon.

MagicMoonlight··on I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left
This isn’t a like for like comparison though, is it.

You removed all of their logging and all of their redundancy and reliability and replaced it with shitters that will all explode if the small providers one data centre goes down.

And if someone penetrates this mega server, they’ll be able to wipe all your logs or tamper with them, to hide the attack.

If your storage servers go down, everything they have is gone. And these providers don’t offer the finest hardware. How do you know all of those drives aren’t from the same batch? They will be, because they’re a bulk buyer with a single data centre.

MagicMoonlight··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
AWS is aimed at enterprise, not personal projects. Personal projects wouldn’t give them any meaningful revenue because the only thing that matters is cost.
MagicMoonlight··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
These complaints are very weak.

Lambda is incredibly simple to use, it just runs a function for you.

Not sure how you could burn so much with dynamodb. It’s serverless and incredibly cheap. Must have been doing something insane like a huge dataset where you scan through it over and over.

Being salty that Gary couldn’t sell enough of his paid service and AWS is competing with it isn’t a meaningful complaint. I want something in AWS, not on Gary’s servers.

MagicMoonlight··on Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
Why would you screw yourself like that when it's already a huge project?
MagicMoonlight··on Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
Nah. I'm not going to yearn for the days of hitting steel on an anvil when we can have steel produced in a factory.
MagicMoonlight··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
ChatGPT pro is garbage. It’ll spend 20 minutes on an answer, doing all kinds of ridiculous things like writing scripts… instead of just outputting plaintext.

And then the answer isn’t even right.

MagicMoonlight··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
This is why it’s stupid to assume a randomly generated ID is unique just because it is random.
MagicMoonlight··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
This is slop generated right?
MagicMoonlight··on Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
In civil law maybe, but you aren’t allowed to blame a rape victim for choosing to walk down rape alley…
MagicMoonlight··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
How would a data centre poison the water? They don’t produce any chemicals or do anything.
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