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userforcommenton $10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize

Great marketing stunt, nice work by XTX HR!

userforcommenton CodeCrafters CEO adds his paid service as a next step after finishing Rustlings

There is no such thing as bad marketing, I think this HN mention will get them some as well:)

userforcommenton Why people care about PostGIS and Postgres

BeeKeeper is good light alternative.

userforcommenton Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it

Try visiting this from incognito and clearing cache/cookies: https://fingerprint.com. This can't be legal, right?

userforcommenton Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot

Oh, wait. That's why I hate Java? We used Netbeans in university...

userforcommenton Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React

I am using MJML but custom components aren't great, happy to see this one. Also would be great if you take a look into adding email action buttons, calendar integration and other modern features.

userforcommenton Ask HN: Proven front end stack for fast iteration

+1 to use what you know comments, also check out https://github.com/calcom/cal.com tech stack(next+prisma/trpc). If you have literally zero frontend experience though, vue 3 was very beginner friendly for me

userforcommenton OpenAI is getting sued for being biased with Y Combinator

>> Devs, while you are waiting for access right now, over 70 YC companies from the latest W23 batch are ‘AI companies.’

Disagree, got API access relatively early after announcement, have nothing to do with YC. But my suspicion is that some of YC batch got OpenAI API credits to use those, otherwise e.g. phind.com would go out of funding while ago.

userforcommenton Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

Sam Altman just wants to stop new competitors...

userforcommenton Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok

I was surprised that when you share a TikTok video on whatsapp/anywhere, it generates unique URL link that can be traces back to your account. This company definitely has "we need more data" culture.

userforcommenton Fire Mark Zuckerberg

This. Owning ~20% of normal stocks and ~60% of voting stocks shouldn't be allowed for public company. At some point company becomes just CEO's toy to do things they want, in this case "metaverse".

userforcommenton H. G. Wells interviewing J. V. Stalin (1934)

Not sure about Holodomor, but famine in Kazakhstan which killed almost half of population was real. Third of population fled to China during the 1929-1933 and still remain there. To be honest though while Stalin is cruel, he is more comparable to Kim Jong Un than Hitler.

userforcommenton AI doomism is quickly becoming indistinguishable from an apocalyptic religion

I think nuke analogy is very tempting since US banned A100 export to China. One could assume that AI race of 21st century ~ nuke race in 20th. Note that Nvidia circumvented ban, so race is on..

userforcommenton Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

I support direction of AI control, but I think focusing on size/compute isn't productive at all. Use cases are more important: let it control browser on itself, let execute arbitrary code etc. Depending on capabilities of next GPT versions, opening GPT API could be risky.

userforcommenton ChatGPT powered GitHub code review app

Why not IDE suggestions: not auto-completions(already use gh copilot, latency is so high) but more of advanced linter suggestions?

Would love to this evolve into sourcery.ai-like product. Or sourcery.ai could benefit from ChatGPT/Codex.

userforcommenton Bars in Antarctica

Thats how environmental scientists spend funding, huh?