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GPT-5 has convinced me that this is already the case. 5 is a major bump-up in terms of version name and yet it is impossible to tell what exactly has improved over the previous version by simply using the product.

On top of that we're at what, year four of the AI "revolution"? And yet ChatGPT is still the only AI tool that is somewhat recognizable and used by the general public. Other AI-based tools are either serving a niche (Cursor, Windsurf), serve as toys (DALL-E, Veo) or are so small and insignificant that barely anyone is using them. If I go to any job board and browse the job offers no company seems to be naming any specific AI-powered tools that they want people to be proficient in. I don't think I've ever seen any company - big or small - either bragging that they've used generative AI as a significant driver in their project or claiming that thanks to implementing AI they've managed to cut x% costs or drive up their revenue by y%. Open source doesn't seem to have much going on either, I don't think there are examples of any projects that got a huge boost from generative AI.

Considering how much money was pumped into these solutions and how much buzz this topic has generated all over the internet in the past 4 years it seems at least bizarre that the actual adoption seems to be so insignificant. In many other areas of tech 4 years would be considered almost an eternity and yet this technology somehow gets a pass. This topic has puzzled me a for a while now but only in this year I've noticed other people pointing out these issues as well.

They've stopped doing that for about two years but recently hired a bunch. AI did not impact this in the slightest, it was the combination of the post-pandemic slowdown coupled with rising the interest rates that impacted their decision to stop hiring juniors.

If nationality would matter here I would be geoblocked and yet I am not.

>credit score

Non-existent in the country I live in. There's a national registry of debtors and people end up there for a very good reason.

>Linkedin, Amazon

There's no reason to consider these to be essential services, I am not using either and I'm doing perfectly fine in life.

>Instagram

LOL

>Uber, Airbnb

There are several copycats, traditional taxis and hotels are still a thing and public transportation or your own car are valid alternatives

What even is this article? I skimmmed the rest of it and it just seems like the crux of the article is about proving how China's systems are actually fine while ommitng the fact that their systems are mandated by the state. Is Chinese propaganda what makes it to the front page of HN nowadays?

The internet is not a mirror of the real world.

I am not comfortable with a private company being the only solution, especially when they have a history of deplatforming sites.

Sure, let me just contact that one ISP located in Russia or India, I am sure they will care a lot about my self-hosted blog

The real question here is whether there's a better solution for blocking scrapers and spammers thst clearly do not care about any of these things.

It's as easy to say that this will poison the context and produce worse results. Do you have any actual examples? Without any sort of an example this sounds like some software voodoo.

It's not an apples and oranges thing, it's the same practice of changing one term to an another because someone out there chose to believe that these words are somehow so powerful that they're pushing away swaths of people. You have no way of proving that "side loading" somehow scares away people because such proof does not exist.

I really don't understand this war on language that is so prevalent in tech circles. There's a bunch of these like switching git branches from "master" to "main" or "blacklist"/"whitelist" to "allowlist"/"denylist" and I have yet to see a single problem that all of this term shuffling has actually solved.

Who cares? It's their choice.

Seems like the agent takes a lot of liberties when it comes to porting stuff: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Arepomirrorhq%2Fbetter-use...

None of these issues seem to be documented outside these files.

I'll buy that narrative if you can demonstrate that an another big service lost 11.5% users in the last three months.

Bluesky is constantly bleeding users so even if this is true it won't be relevant for long.

https://blueskyfeeds.com/bluesky-user-growth?t=3m

I was looking forward towards the Classic Offensive mod but then Valve DMCA'd it just a few days before the release. Awful move considering that not only they've okayed it before but also completely ignored the developers when they were trying to contact them. 8 years of development for nothing.

>229 EUR a month

LOL

I have used GPT-5 a few times and I genuinely can't think of a single improvement. You could stealthy deploy it in place of GPT-4 and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Interesting conversations can also happen under articles that have actual substance, there's no need to tolerate such short blogposts just because these might spawn an interesting discussion.

Funny that you mention reddit because this is the exact same type of spam that pollutes /r/programming.

The author couldn't even be bothered to write about the supposed examples of these practices being wrong. The whole thing lacks detail and actual arguments, instead we get "please stop" like it's some sort of a reddit or twitter shitpost.

Look at this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44822267 - is this what this site is supposed to be now? Writing the article in the place of the author because the author couldn't be bothered to even form their own argument correctly? What the fuck?

The fact that this has been upvoted so high and allowed to stay on the front page is also a clear signal to others that this low-effort garbage is welcome here, which will only encourage others to post similarly worthless blogposts, lowering the overall quality of this site.

There are multiple comments in this very thread that are longer than this "article". My own comment is longer!

This is an incredibly short-term thinking. The reason is simple: the author is not obliged to continue while this sort of thing can be demoralizing.

I don't know about the author's approach to this matter, but if I would find out that a company is making a killing using my software and then that company would refuse to even give me an interview I'd probably stop loving doing what I do. Sure, the software is under MIT license and it was the author's choice to do so, but what's the point of doing it under such a license when you can't even count of it mattering in a resume? What's the point of providing free labor to a company with revenue in billions? If you look at the author's blogpost, the only benefit the author mentions is making the number of downloads go up and that's just pathetic.

I am reminded of an another, similar case with a library called "FluentAssertions". This library used to be free to use by anyone until the author changed the license and started charging money for commercial use. The author did that because he spend several year maintaining the library on his own time and dime and megacorpos like Microsoft wouldn't even bother to donate despite using it extensively. What happened afterwards was that the author got shat on by everyone on the internet for daring to ask for money. In the company I work for his library has been replaced with an another free fork at a incredibly fast pace. All that free labor and the author got dropped as soon as they fell out of line.

The worst thing is that it wouldn't probably take much to make the author of the library happy. Even if they weren't interested in hiring him they could still acknowledge him, talk to him a bit to maintain good relations, throw him a nice donation as a thank you and now it would be a nice, good PR story instead of an another reminder that corporations are just looking to squeeze out value out of all of us.

What? They have to run the servers all the same.

How come this never happens to video game companies that give out various in-game currencies?

This article is about nothing, how does this kind of stuff hit the front page? Is it because of bots?

>This is a really terrible article.

I am coming here less and less because it's either the AI spam or low quality blogposts like these, with very few worthwhile articles in between.

So a pre-built prompt is now offered as a major feature worth announcing?

>The Poles we've historically had a great relationship with

Not really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Polish_alliance

>I don't think anyone objects to what the UK had 20 years ago - genuinely skilled immigration

20 years ago it was mostly Poles whose only quality was that they were willing to work for less than native UK citizens in jobs that said UK citizens supposedly did not want to do (which is doublespeak for businesses not wanting to pay a decent wage). This kind of immigration was one of the reasons Brexit happened.

We're back to 2016-2020 where the authors of nearly every single article feel like they have to take a stand against the Evil Orange Man on their blog. 3 more years of this clown show I guess.

So it's no different than landing a regular job if you have no network.