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I'd guess us throwing around the word "AI" constantly and endlessly debating p(doom) based on current tech will be considered pretty amusing in the future.

Like reading essays from the late 19th century that can't stop pontificating about living in a boundless technological singularity thanks to railroads and the telegraph. Current hackocalypse discourse already has shades of "the bomber always gets through" from the 20s.

"Sure, people in every era since the Renaissance have foolishly believed they were the ones living on the cusp of uniquely transformative and potentially cataclysmic technological change but ... This Time It's Different"

That is entirely ISP dependent and many don't actually work like that. Your cable modem gets a specific IP for as long as Comcast or whoever sees fit, restarting does nothing on the WAN side.

Seems like this can go both ways. You should volunteer to have a bank of loud, polluting turbines from obsolete passenger jets running 24/7 next to your home so Meta can serve GenAI ads with 5% lower latency.

That sounds more like prediction markets tending to blindly follow more credible sources of information. Wisdom of the crowds doesn't really provide added value if it's based on a bunch of uninformed gamblers refreshing the same four websites.

Kalshi had Abbot solidly in the lead (polls were closer to final accuracy) until the minute enough votes came in for news orgs' forecasting models to tip the race to Lean D, and then plummeted to 0%.

On balance it seems like they provide little to no uniquely valuable information for anything that matters.

https://kalshi.com/markets/govpartytx/texas-governor/govpart...

Client scraping with SingleFile extension or Karakeep works perfectly on anything visible in your browser window from my experience. Including SPAs/JS rendering/aggressive CAPTCHAs/etc.

For CLI automation could probably one of various fingerprinting resistant Chromium instances with the extension setup in a Docker container or similar. Run from your home Internet for the residential IP.

SingleFile should handle that without any issue. Or use client scraping option in Karakeep which integrates SingleFile into a self hosted Pocket replacement.

I haven't seen an open WiFi network near any apartment I've lived in for more than a decade.

There has never been a shred of evidence for any TV model actually doing this despite how often it's speculated about in comment sections.

It's kinda weird how the most sensible, straightforward mitigation for the TV spying people claim to be concerned always gets this evidence-free FUD thrown out to claim it's pointless.

Using 50 cent Mylar blankets which ... did not work like they hoped from the videos I've seen.

> I just realized that that "framework" is the same ArrowJS that used to be a "library" and the selling point was how small it was, and how it wasn't a framework (https://web.archive.org/web/20230609020338/https://www.arrow...), incredibly funny they pivoted into making it a fully fledged framework after all.

Hahaha, speedrunning the "remember how React used to be a library (not a framework) before it became overloaded with pointless bloat? my new sleek, simple library (not a framework) does the bare minimum, and will never do anything more" trail blazed by hundreds of would-be React killers over the years... but with AI this time.

HN has decided React is why some ad-infested SPA they hate to use downloads 15 MB over the wire and can't accept that it's like 150 KB.

React is like 150 KB, I feel like people ranting about "React" monstrosities don't actually understand the distinction between React the framework and other unrelated junk React doesn't require or depend on at all.

A single dev can churn out a basic React app in like a single workday pre-AI, the important parts are not at all hard to understand and you get reactivity out of the box which is a lifesaver later on as your app grows in complexity.

I'm not understanding why you have the idea that it's a huge drag on productivity and hand rolling the same patterns everyone ends up needing will somehow be more efficient.

Fans have a minimum speed needed to spin up when cold starting from 0 RPM. So it's safer to start at near max RPM and spin down to the desired target RPM if the controller doesn't know the exact operating characteristics of each fan.

You can observe this with a speed control knob/ESP32 where a running fan will happily run forever with the knob turned down to e.g. a 30% duty cycle. But after turning to 0% and waiting for the blades to fully stop, if set back to the same 30% they won't move at all or you'll maybe hear a sketchy clicking/whine sound with the blades intermittently twitching.

Misunderstanding what actually qualifies as a "prediction" seems to be a recurring problem among AI commentators.

I've seen dozens of posts/top comments in the last few years dunking on "AI skeptics" for statements that didn't even vaguely resemble an actual prediction.

Like the front page post from Karpathy which got 600+ upvotes by throwing an AI model at old Hacker News comments without any human vetting to score "predictions". And upon further inspection included a bunch of unambiguously factual statements of the present or conditional if-then logic about the future which when glossed over for convenience become "failed" predictions.

The problem would be much less intractable if one party didn't do 3 pointless multi-trillion dollar tax cuts primarily for the benefit of ultra high earners. Each time promising it would reduce the deficit, with increasing absurdity.

It's depressing to look at the before/after federal deficit estimates over the last two decades without the Bush tax cuts, even before taking out the Trump 1 tax cuts (and future projections from the recent Trump 2 cuts in the BBB). Just a huge unforced error that was completely foreseeable each time.

Contrary to public perception and PR, the "party of fiscal responsibility" has consistently been a disaster for controlling the deficit.

But instead, ever since the brief federal surplus at the end of the 90s, we've done multiple multi-trillion dollar tax cuts for the highest earners. Bush tax cuts + 2x Trump tax cuts (most recently in the BBB). In each case after fudging the projections beforehand to claim it will reduce the deficit somehow, then the deficit grows by a massive amount.

We've been reshaping the system to redistribute trillions to capital owners via government IOUs that will eventually come due. Inevitably, this will be "solved" by cutting benefits to workers while insisting no other solution could possibly exist.

Like, you know, undoing these relatively recent handouts to the ultra rich and restructuring policy to the benefit of workers.

It's my understanding that those groups buying exploits in plain view sold exclusively to government agencies which is why their business model was tolerated.

But also not unusually so by 80s/90s television standards (TNG).

Back then writing on popular network TV shows could get away with beating the viewer over the head with a lesson/moral explicitly explained by a character with delivery about as subtle as an after school special. So a lofty Picard speech or whatever wouldn't stand out much from whatever else you'd see that night.

DS9 is still pretty earnest but you can start to see the evolution of writing/viewer taste as you get closer to the 2000s (also the freedom to follow the formulaic episodic structure of network TV a bit less rigidly).

If you scroll up to the message you originally replied to, OP's goal posts from the start were companies like Stripe (which was specifically named).

Most businesses aren't in that category, that doesn't mean they aren't able to provide useful services and make money. But your company does not seem like it meets that bar.

Expanding the group to "any money making SaaS" would be moving the goalposts for the point OP was clearly making from the beginning.

Sorry for being a bit dismissive in my previous comment but it was fairly jarring clicking your link expecting a more responsive counter example to their argument, and then left a further bad taste after realizing from your bio that it was self-promotion.

You're promoting your own company here, which as far as I can tell from the vibecoded website is Yet Another Agentic Platform of some sort. And prominently features a leaderboard with high scores for some reason.

It hardly meets the bar of a mission critical product like an ERP or payment processor layer where introducing random billing errors in customer data could be fatal to a B2B company's viability.

Half the direct quotes from Yen in the article sound exactly like AI/growth hacking posts from current day LinkedIn. Sure, you can't generalize from that alone but I'm not seeing anything unique or interesting from this sample to root for, just more of the same 2026 flavor of insufferable corporatese.

I'm often baffled by the current trend of leaders/employees at a company acting completely unprofessionally and seeing a social media reaction like "sure they're acting like an asshole for no clear reason but TBH I'd rather see that than a customer service/HR drone politely following a script!".

Mostly because it's tends to be really obvious a company/individual is still deliberately cultivating a specific image, just with a different spin/target demographic than the stereotypically sterile, formal variant of corporate PR. But so many people eat it up.

In this case, doing a garden variety Elon-wannabe persona that's currently in vogue among the SV founder set. It's a really uncreative, lazy move for leaders doing cargo cult management. And cringe-y in general to imagine working for someone who unironically resembles the most over the top satire of tech leaders on HBO's Silicon Valley.

Same way you would with missile guidance/targeting software (ITAR in the US, or equivalent in other MTCR countries). You probably wouldn't prosecute individuals running models locally but create a chilling effect by scaring any semi-upstanding citizen from openly hosting/developing models (and no US business would touch it with a 10ft pole).

Why are you sidestepping OP's clearly articulated grievance about LLM writing infiltrating every corner of the internet to bring up some personal Aaron Sorkin hobbyhorse?

Lying with statistics (well, your own guesswork not even hard figures) to say actually LLM-ese is mostly confined to TPS reports where they're not hurting anyone is in conflict with our own experiences being subjected to LLM spam/slop every day.

(Not to mention that many of the same frustrations wading through a massive volume of tediously long, low SNR LLM also apply to the workplace where the unfortunate recipient of those "TPS reports" now has to wade through all that filler to find the occasional important detail. While the sender pats themselves on the back for 10x-ing their productivity, by creating more work for their coworkers)

Recently I tried to donate to a project using their preferred crypto payment processor flow, which purported to support "Coinbase Wallet" integration. So thinking that was just like, Coinbase, I said "sure why not" thinking it'd save me the effort of copy/pasting long strings back and forth.

Turns out, Coinbase "Wallet" is a completely separate thing from Coinbase, and long story short, ultimately ended up accidentally converting some spare ETH I transfered into some kind of garbage Binance "wrapped" Litecoin. Which had zero indication/warnings in the app other than a like 4 pixel Binance logo superimposed on the 16 pixel Litecoin logo that it wasn't the real thing.

Once I gave up on this Wallet experiment I ended up needing Gemini to walk me through all the Binance "gas" nonsense to finally manage to swap into a real coin I could transfer out (like 80% of what I started with after subtracting gas fees and miscellaneous leftover change I was stuck with). And while transferring I had to avoid like a dozen alternative networks consisting of seemingly random strings and a scary red banner saying "yo don't fuck this up".

My first red flag should have been that Coinbase Wallet's Play Store name literally advertised betting on prediction apps. Second red flag was while looking for "Litecoin" in the list of coins, there were literally about 5000 different spam/meme coins with dozens of near identical clones that were all name squatting on top of each other.

As someone who came of age in the Crypto 1.0 "Bitcoin is for buying drugs" era the entire exercise was utterly baffling and somehow significantly less usable than crypto was a decade ago for actual payments. I guess for a young person looking to illegally gamble their paychecks at some unlicensed offshore prediction market it provides some utility I'm missing but man, the experience just made the post-Web 3.0 crypto scene look .... grim.

Yes, at any given time like 75% of the front page is about Yet Another AI Model/Tool/Demo/etc.

Sure, the comment threads have varying opinions with a decent share of AI skeptics/critics but also plenty of die hard AI boosters.

It's hard to imagine what an even more pro-AI version of HN would look like whenever I see the meme that "HN hates AI". Unless the hope is for a 100% pro-AI echo chamber (which would be completely detached from the broader controversy about AI among the general public).

That's the usual failure mode of any grid, aggressive load shedding will be used as a last resort to keep the frequency within tolerances.

The renewable aspect is because historically they were installed with "grid following" inverter systems instead of "grid forming" which can maintain frequency even if temporarily islanded in a partition without spinning mass generators to set frequency.

There's nothing intractable about a 100% renewable grid, the technology exists and has already been deployed in new installations.

I love how increased healthcare spending always makes it into the top line of the strongest drivers of growth and example of consumer "willingness" to keep spending.

  Less affluent Americans in particular have been squeezed by higher prices. But Wednesday’s data showed that on the whole, American consumers continued to splash out in the third quarter, with spending on healthcare, food and accommodation rising.

Those same models have already been subjected to the equivalent of probably millions of hours of RL on simulated user messages containing every possible combination of self-harm, torture, murder plots, genocide, child endangerment, CSAM, etc to test refusals.

"Model welfare" seems like an objectively absurd concept given the inherent training process needed to produce a usable instructions tuned model.

...and yet despite similar anecdotes it's still not showing up in the actual data.

It's entirely reasonable for a financial analyst to point out the gap between vibes/anecdata and financial metrics for F500 companies.