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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by Jean-Papoulos on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:25AM (#47059888)
It took a billion years to get to the tool-making state, and then less than a 1000th of that time to making CPUs. Then a 1000th of that time to make LLMs. We are in a parabolic extreme
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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by c22 on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @10:06AM (#47061740)
This is begging the question. What evidence is there that this is all the same "stuff" driving towards some future apex? What does it mean to "get to" the tool making state outside of a Civ-style video game?
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