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I for one think it's pretty cool how far too many people bend the truth or outright lie in tech these days.

There is going to be a reckoning for tech in the near future, because people will remember the lies and it's gonna be hard to beat the history.

Re:SOML – A Config Format for Humans on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:07PM (#50344567)
"Have a text area"

You've already failed. Config files are for more than just editing in an environment that you solely control.

And also, because no one seems to see it, negative profit for the foreseeable future whilst competitors have locked in "good enough" and a fraction of the price.
Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:16PM (#50343874)
Did you even read it? Wild the fanboyism for AI has rotted out the brains of so many people. It's a tool, it's useful, people will adapt.

The reaction was from the strip mining of pending human discovery, mathematicians were already using LLMs from frontier labs who then published suspiciously similar solutions or found connections that were just waiting to be discovered.

Re:SOML – A Config Format for Humans on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:51PM (#50343532)
Gotta be honest, any time there's a solution like there that makes it more "human" they've just removed the structure / syntax.

I'm guessing so you don't need to learn them, so then anyone off the street can edit the files, but it will break so bad without those guardrails, usually in some non-obvious way.

Leading us back to inventing some new "human" thing, but with more implicit rules, and the cycle continues.

No, not when that business spends more than it makes to bring in that revenue.

A better way to phrase your thinking might be that revenue is an indicator of demand.

The issue here is that they've not really tested what happens to demand when the prices moves to where it needs to be to cover the cost of keeping the lights on.

"Just don't look at those cheap af Chinese models pls"
There is no company on earth that can run on customers being interested alone, you also need to offer a product they can afford at a prices that generates profit.

Right now, I could start a business selling gold bars for $1 a piece. There would be more people interested in that than Anthropic.

Can we all please stop acting like revenue is somehow an indicator of a successful business?
Are you one of those people who lost half their money to spacex? You sound like you are.
Because it is, there isn’t enough money to be made to cover their valuation and their competition are essentially free by comparison.
I’ve discussed with many people at work, all engineers, they’re weirdly oblivious. Most are shocked when I say things like OpenAI and Anthropic are gonna crater.
Re:Building an AI-native engineering org on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:17PM (#50308017)
Categorically, if you ship more bugs per engineer, you fix more bugs per engineer.
I suspect that once the hype finally settles we will see a drop in demand. Turns out Tina from HR didn't need that vibed out custom calculator webpage after all.
No, take a look into people who bought used GPUs that were from crypto farms. It's not just thermal paste, the chips become unreliable because of degradation of the circuits etched on the chips themselves.
Thats the weird thing, scarcity drives value up so long as there is scarcity.

Once there is enough, or even a glut, it's over.

Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:07AM (#50304110)
Yeah, and anyone who had their crypto there will move elsewhere, then Binance has -12b
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:04AM (#50304065)
Crazy thought, but what if they went via the Claude Code trojan?
But with Dario's goofy expressions, gonna be *chef's kiss*
If they start pursuing the law the entire administration is gonna have a hard time.
Oh I see, sorry, I just went as far as checking they were still on the site, didn't check the details.

That is really weird given how widely used they are.

Re:Duet is the future of chatbot interaction on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:23PM (#50295312)
I dunno, Hermes has been real hard to beat lately.
Needs to check in with daddy putin first.
The models are still on AA, not sure what you mean
lol, honestly this is so stupid, did they really think that the GPUs wouldn't have wound up there?
No idea why you're getting down voted here. People are obviously willfully ignorant that a business would not be interested in doing business and making money, they really don't care who the customer is or why they're spending.
That's the thing about capitalism, businesses can sell to customers.
True facts, I look forward to you sharing the link where I can use this new model with my own benches.
Re:Finland investigate Google over destruction of 250k trees on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:11AM (#50290364)
Nothing will happen, calling it now.
It's announced with trust me bro benches, no you can't verify it yourself, this might not even be the model you get.

It's been provided to AA under clandestine circumstances, no you can't verify it yourself, this might not even be the model you get.

People on HN for some reason "wow this thing that I can't use is so great, really excited about all these ads I just looked at"

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