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thefounder··on US – Iran negotiations end with no deal reached
I think dropping a nuke is not out of question. We just have to watch the language of the U.S administration over the next weeks.
thefounder··on Session is shutting down in 90 days
>> Grounding identity in a phone number is very reasonable for almost all normal usage.

Yeah if you compare that with Facebook messenger and other such services but if you want secure communication it's not reasonable.

thefounder··on Veracrypt project update
I don't think they would be so much more expensive but they would be less profitable for sure and perhaps less "innovative" as a big chunk of the profit will go into regulation stuff.
thefounder··on Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C
As a Go developer I would use this unless...I would have to build the std libraries myself. Now I also wonder how this compares with tinyGo. Why would you pick one over the other...
thefounder··on Cursor 3
Copilot just sucks . I’ve tried them both and I stick with cc and codex mcp
thefounder··on Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs
How is Apple packing 512gb of ram on their cpu?
thefounder··on Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs
Why don’t they make an GPU optimised for inference/batch jobs with 1 TB of ram ? Everyone wants to run the biggest models locally.
thefounder··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
Yeah but why there was not red alert on all the monitors when both the airplane and the truck had green light on the same runway ? That’s the minimum of automation that I would expect, ideally sync-ed to all the participants(truck drivers, pilots etc). It would not have been hard for a system to predict the collision given it had all the data (positions of each participant + the route of each).
thefounder··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
Can’t this whole thing being automated and let only special/unexpected situations being handled by humans ?
thefounder··on Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?
You can launch a new product in one month instead of 12 months. I think this works best for startups where the risk tolerance is high but works less than ideal for companies such Amazon where system failure has high costs
thefounder··on Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
Like licenses are worth anything in the AI world…
thefounder··on Mistral AI Releases Forge
Gemini is the worst
thefounder··on Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
Why can’t we have original stories(I.e Sinners, Black Panther, White Lotus) and instead try to make White Snow black or whatever and paint people racist? I get that people want to make these stories more inclusive but the characters are just too powerful to change them and not expect a backlash.

People prefer new characters or “staying true to the original story/character” instead of lazy remixes.

Or you can create your own remix with AI now. Feed the movie and make the characters as you want. The result may seem a bit weird(i.e like a Snow White being a fat black gay male) for a fan of the movie/character but for you as an activist it will check the marks you are looking for. Just don’t invoke racism if people won’t like your AI slop.

thefounder··on Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
The main issue was the content the movie industry produced which looked like a lot like some AI slop. I think the DEI lecturing was another nail in the coffin. Unless that changes and they magically add something new to the cinema experience I think they will keep diving into irrelevance because now everybody can produce AI slop.
thefounder··on U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
Orphanage ? What about a school 2 miles away from the military installation or in Iran's given case why don't they move their sh** at the edge of the city like the shopping malls do? It may be a bit inconvenient, I get that it's inconvenient but it's far from the orphanage story. Not to mention in case of war...should the kids be kept close to a military base? Military installations within residential areas just beg for civilian casualties. Is as simple as that. If you see a military base near you move out or ask them to move out.
thefounder··on U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
Well that’s not very smart IMHO. To me they look like human shields. Shame on me as I was blaming Hamas for using residential compounds for military ops but it looks like everyone does it. I wouldn’t send my kid to a school on military base especially in times of imminent war. I label that gross negligence and even provocation.
thefounder··on U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
It’s not only about the precision of the munition. When you put military installations in residential areas you get this kind of result regardless of how precise the weapons are.

The maps could be outdated, intelligence may be flawed etc. In a hot war collateral casualties are secondary to the military objective. You try to avoid civilian deaths but that should be on best effort basis.

thefounder··on U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
I understand there was a military installation near the school. How is someone supposed to deal with that? War is not really an “exact science”
thefounder··on Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
This is the right direction. Another important bit I think it’s the GC integration. Many languages such Go, C# don’t do well on wasm due the GC. They have to ship a GC as well due the lack of various GC features(I.e interior pointers)
thefounder··on OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
The good Netflix movies are small diamonds in a swamp of garbage. Most of the content is the equivalent of fast food for movies with a political agenda.

WB has not been immune to the political angle but they at least care about their IP and produce decent content. Of course Netflix would have used WB IP and Netflix’s “state of the art” movie making machine to maximise the value of the WB IP.

TBH I don’t care about the WB news media part through I’m not sure if they will really destroy it just to align with their political views. If they make CNN like Fox News the viewers will just leave. The right move for Netflix from a shareholder’s perspective would be to get into the short drama movies that are popular in China and recently the US too. That would allow them to cover the whole garbage media spectrum and make a lot of money.

thefounder··on OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
Why would you buy the old gen GPUs instead to commit to buy the newest and best GPU available in 2 years? anyone knows that electronics depreciate fast. Unless they get them at discount this is really stupid. It’s like buying the best TV or iPhone at full price and keep it in storage for 2+ years.
thefounder··on OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
Well by the time the become obsolete you can run that computing on a Mac with no special cooling so I really doubt they will be of any use. Maybe in some parts of the world where electricity is cheap. If someone wants to really find out perhaps watching the crypto ASICs stories could help.
thefounder··on OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
From the consumer perspective the last thing I want is a Netfli-xation of WB…
thefounder··on Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
Thank you! I was not aware of Framework Desktop. Unfortunately it seems it’s even more limited to ram(to 128GB vs studio 512GB on Mac studio)
thefounder··on Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
Why people buy the Studio with the high ram config is actually the unified memory. This is unique to Apple. I'm not sure what Mac Pro would do with PCIe cards . It would be useless for AI because what you want is unified memory that can be used by the GPU/AI not just ram.
thefounder··on Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
why just 768gb and not a ~1TB ?
thefounder··on Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say
If I were POTUS Russia would never do that…because I have a great relationship with Putin
thefounder··on We might all be AI engineers now
The issue is that you become lazy after a while and stop “leading the design”. And I think that’s ok because most of the code is just throwaway code. You would rewrite your project/app several times by the time it’s worth it to pay attention to “proper” architecture. I wish I had these AIs 10 years ago so that I could focus on everything I wanted to build instead to become a framework developer/engineer.
thefounder··on GPT-5.4
Is it just me or the price for 5.4 pro is just insane?
thefounder··on Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team?
Well…Gemini sucks so I don’t know why you would hire someone from that team to lead your AI team.
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