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bobxmaxon Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

Lol okay buddy. That's why there are literally millions of people spending money every month and upgrading because of how useful this is. But there's always some big brained ape on hacker news who thinks they know better and everyone is just riding the hype train.

Nearly half of Google engineers' outputs are coming from AI generated code, but you obviously know better than all of them.

bobxmaxon Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

ChatGPT, Perplexity and Midjourney are all branded as "AI".

bobxmaxon Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

I don't know what the point of your rant was. Nobody is talking about AGI. Even if the technology never evolves again, it's still dramatically useful to the tune of billions and billions of dollars being spent on it.

bobxmaxon Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

It's dramatically useful for millions of people who are now much more productive than they were 3 years ago, including the programmers who have 10x'd their output.

Your superiority complex is nothing new... anytime new technology emerges, there's an old crochety class that thinks it's a fad. It's always people arrogant enough to believe they know the world better than everybody else.

And no, billions of people aren't spending money on tech purely because of FOMO. That's just nonsense.

bobxmaxon Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

That billions of dollars is being spent on AI? That's a wild claim?

bobxmaxon Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

That's demonstrably false unless you believe millions of people are spending their own money every month for useless tech.

I don't know how a thinking person can use this technology and not see the possibilities it opens up.

bobxmaxon FBI, Dutch police disrupt 'Manipulaters' phishing gang

Wilders is also a fair bit more extreme than Trump.

bobxmaxon FBI, Dutch police disrupt 'Manipulaters' phishing gang

Not all seconds make great seconds either.

bobxmaxon Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

Billions of dollars are being spent on very useful AI.

You just notice the shitty ones, but people on HN thinks that's the norm for some reason.

bobxmaxon GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable

> most art is bland and worthless and has no meaning behind it.

FTFY. There is no such thing as AI art.

bobxmaxon GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable

it's a great tool if you aren't an ornery artist who refuses to adapt to new ways and means.

bobxmaxon OpenAI O3-Mini

I think that has more to do with the multiple year head start and multiple tens of billions of dollars in funding advantage.

bobxmaxon An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1

> LLM do the read, analysis and summarization part for the human

No they don't. The human is meant to read, analyze and summarize the output same as they would for search results

bobxmaxon An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1

Two questions:

1) Which search engine comes with infallible information? 2) Where are LLMs being sold as something different?

bobxmaxon An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1

You can probably sue Open AI for getting bad legal advice from ChatGPT too.

bobxmaxon An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1

Why would it need to work at inference time?

bobxmaxon An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1

I don't know why HN users in particular fixate so heavily on fringe issues when it comes to LLMs. Same as the exaggerations of hallucinations.

bobxmaxon Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-taiwan-chip-tariffs-nv...

Hopefully it's just posturing, but either way it's utterly asinine yet about par for the course what I would have expected from this administration.

bobxmaxon Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history

It's also deeply damaging to the western ego, especially one rooted in American exceptionalism.

But also one those of us actually working on foundational AI saw coming a mile away when most of the top research of late has been happening in Chinese labs, not American or European ones.

Can't wait to see what this boneheaded President's tarrif on TSMC does to this situation.

bobxmaxon I still like Sublime Text

The resistance developers have to LLMs considering how much they're 10xing myself and many other devs I know is just sad to see. Anytime new disruptive technology comes in there's always an old guard that doesn't adapt in time.

bobxmaxon YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

But again, what exactly is it about their approach/thesis that's "predatory"?

bobxmaxon YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

How, exactly?

bobxmaxon YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

How is that worse, as a VC firm?

If I was betting on technology right now, I would bet on SF-in person teams with young founders and a focus on AI. Sounds like the perfect target.

bobxmaxon YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

Depends on your money raised and your leverage. YC companies are typically top tier founders with tons of leverage and capital options.

bobxmaxon YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

Worst based on what, exactly?

bobxmaxon Show HN: I built a DIY plane spotting system at home

If you know the flight and the date and time you can easily pinpoint exactly where the plane was and where it was heading. Not incredibly challenging at that point to narrow in on roughly where the photos were taken from.

bobxmaxon Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

They're at $90M ARR right now and accelerating, so no that's not ambitious. Midjourney is close to half a billion in ARR.

Figma destroyed Photoshop & Sketch.

Whatever, you have your opinion, none of the facts today support it, maybe you'll be right in the future (you won't be).

bobxmaxon Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

No, you don't know.

Stable Diffusion came before Midjourney. What first mover advantage?

Flux has been around almost a year, by your reasoning everyone should have switched. They didn't. Everyone who used Midjourney a year ago is still using it.

The Midjourney sub on reddit has 1.6M subs. The Stable Diffusion sub has 600k.

I don't care what AI studios you know want to use. They use Premier Pro. Just like every film school in America does. Despite plenty of open source alternatives.

90% of people don't give a shit about running locally as long as it's high quality, easy to use and not expensive. And that's exactly why Midjourney is dominating.

Oh, and Runway is projecting to hit $150M in ARR this year.

bobxmaxon Show HN: Open-source AI video editor

Topaz Labs isnt' video generation, it's used for upscaling videos. How in gods name is that a comparable with Pika? What are you talking about?

Internet creators are not "everyone". 99% of people aren't going to waste their time setting up ComfyUI instances and screwing with github nodes.

As I said, which you haven't disputed, Midjourney's revenue is orders of magnitudes more than any of these tools.

bobxmaxon Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

I would assume most non-trans people aren't willing to date trans people, so there's probably a pretty glaring need for them to have their own spaces.