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I guess we'll see if it's really a sell-off, or if it was normal market volatility around an election.

Seems to be pretty close to SOTA on design. I’m excited to try it out with my agentic design system.

Thank God it has an 8K polling rate!

Yeah, I am mystified as to how this could have happened.

hn is full of technical people that like to believe that they behave logically (they don't), and that others would change their behavior if the logic was explained to them (they won't).

But yeah, there are a lot of comments from genie-rebottlers that are not very grounded in reality. They're functionally equivalent to saying "hey, everyone in the world, let's not actually use electricity after all" in 1905.

Maybe AI lab CEOs will change their behavior once they read about it /s

Just to flip it around on you, what do you think would happen if Anthropic and OpenAI agreed to stop working on AI altogether?

I'm not arguing about the consequences or responsibility. I'm asking which humans would be capable of stopping the development of AI at this point in history.

If we're cherry picking statistically insignificant examples, we can also select the most warm & fuzzy examples of animal testing too.

A world where people use Claude to operate doomed SaaS products

Folks who eat meat but wring their hands about animal testing: I accept your illogical downvotes!

Are you vegan?

That’s just a harness with a hat on it

I’m self employed, which means there is less than zero chance I could rely on self-hosted AI. $200/mo for virtually unlimited use, or $10k for a machine that will be less capable and slower?

There are so many cool harnesses I could use if I didn't have an outrageously subsidized Claude subscription

Are you browsing the web without an ad blocker?

We should be more courageous in adding `p{max-width: 36em;}` to our stylesheets.

BI is just the word Excel users give to charts they can't make in Excel

God, some people really can’t get over the fact that the site is run by a Nazi /s

The best evidence is just how comically bad their ad targeting is vs Meta

I don’t think it’s conspiratorial to question how strong the firewall was between your Gmail content and Google’s algorithms. Whether or not they actually leveraged that understanding for targeted ads is somewhat beside the point.

Can you say more? Why would the inference engine be the secret sauce that would protect trillion-dollar valuations? Isn't the inference side somewhat of a known-quantity, while the training is more of the lab's trade secret?

AI is good at code but bad at writing. So what makes you think that its skill with code would generalize to product decisions?

Put it on OpenRouter… I don't really want to sign up for the first-party API

The Postmodern Condition is a good one, and it's short. There are still some useful lenses from that era of critical theory, but the discourse has of course moved on over the past 45 years!

The narratives described in the article are metanarratives in the critical theory sense. Lyotard defined postmodernism as “incredulity towards metanarratives.” So welcome to 1979!

Investors literally can’t stop talking about “pattern recognition,” because it’s comforting to think that the past can predict the future if you’re clever enough. But the best investors are pattern breakers, not matchers.

Crickets

It’s not about the price of Apple products falling—I was commenting that the price of inference will continue to fall (chips getting faster). If “good enough” inference is in your pocket, this benefits Apple and harms Nvidia.

Don't get me wrong; in the long term I see the price of local inference falling as their chips continue to get 15-20% faster every year, and meanwhile the "intelligence per billion parameter" chart is rising. There will be a magic point where they cross, and "good enough" reaches your phone. That's when Apple starts to drink Nvidia's milkshake.

Yes, I'm very glad they're doing this, but as of 2026, it's a bit academic. Pricing for the 512GB Mac Studio hasn't even been announced yet, but the 256GB version starts at $9499. So when you start talking about four of those puppies, it's substantial.

Someone else will do the math on how many years it would take to spend $40k on Muse Spark Open via OpenRouter.

I think they may eventually be able to buy the US TSMC facilities and assets.