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Re:A Faster Shortest Path Algorithm by usrnm on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:47AM (#49827091)
> there has to be people alive who saw a complex problem and simplified it 10x

Absolutely. Let's be generous and say that there are a thousand of them alive today, what about everyone else? Are their lives meaningless now?

> the simplicity of the Internet

The Internet is TCP/IP and TCP/IP is a lot of things but hardly "simple"

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Re:A Faster Shortest Path Algorithm by sashank_1509 on Thursday September 24, 2026 @11:59AM (#49832572)
99.9% of humanity don’t derive meaning from their work, sad but true. They don’t care if their life has meaning, if their work is actually valuable etc.

HN just selects for the latter who care. Yes it’s probably much harder for those who care to have a meaningful life in the presence of LLM’s unfortunately.

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