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Agree. Just natural language business goal prompts using an AI assistant paired to a frontier model thats is in always-on mode. The vendor race will be first mover advantage to create customer lock-in.
Re:Surviving "The Graduate" on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:40PM (#50322265)
Must have been quite a trip for Hoffman to see the movie for the first time in that NYC theater, probably thinking it would be a failure given his account of production, only to see the audience reaction.
Re:Ask HN: Good movies and series about startups? on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:19PM (#50280314)
A bit beyond tech: The Founder (Ray Kroc), Tucker, The Man and his Dreams, Carmen Curlers, MadMen (forming new agency seasons)
Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:28AM (#50005019)
Maybe a K-Tel mixed track cassette like this one, which looks orange: https://www.discogs.com/release/5291004-Various-Instrumental...
And I have the 9-3T in driveway as daily driver :)
Next he'll put Canada on Double Secret Probation, that should do it facepalm
Did not know! Before my time I guess.
A big driver of cassettes then was the write ability, unlike 8 tracks. You could borrow your friend's new vinyl album, pop in a new cassette tape on your hi-fi, and record a copy of the album to the tape. Of course the Walkman then made listening to your new album fully portable.
Same with the 'doing AI right' Netflix example for me. Showing me the same exact recommendations in each tray but in a different order isn't helping.
Re:Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588 on Saturday July 04, 2026 @09:15AM (#48785203)
Yes. There is an Iberian connection that explains Irish folks with dark features, but that would be from Neolithic farmers migrating there 5000 years earlier.
Re:The Ben and Jerry's Flavor Graveyard on Thursday July 02, 2026 @07:55AM (#48760023)
Agreed that was a good one. They used so much Kahlua that it caused the price of Kahlua liqueur to rise at liquor stores because they were buying so much of it. So they stopped the flavor.
Re:Van Halen test on Thursday June 25, 2026 @10:11PM (#48681564)
Fortunately the gas pump is a primary news source for a lot of people and it doesn't lie!
Re:Boston and Bermuda on Thursday May 28, 2026 @05:07PM (#48315502)
Yes, back when Brador beer was available! That was the main draw for me and friends when we were that age :)
Re:Boston and Bermuda on Thursday May 28, 2026 @05:03PM (#48315443)
Also in greater Boston and had the fortune to do a family trip to Bermuda in that era. One more possibility not mentioned in the article is that Bermuda could have also 'lost its crown' as a popular destination for New Englanders because it was simply promoted less. I don't think the island cluster is as dependent on tourism revenue as maybe it once was in 70s.
Re:AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale on Thursday May 21, 2026 @10:50AM (#48223700)
You could just put your website content behind its own chat interface. The crawler would just see a form input for a prompt.
Re:Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @12:58PM (#48124502)
What a blast from the past. I completely forgot that I was a The World customer way back when.
Re:Building for the Future on Friday May 08, 2026 @08:09AM (#48061933)
2001 affected tech mainly, so a lot of folks went to other industries still hiring. And 2008 affected other industries more than tech, so the inverse.
Ha, resonates for me. I wonder if a solution is to pitch the APIs (or an MCP) to customers at the same cost as cloud solution and tell them to vibecode away on top of it. I guess that's IaaS.
Just another 80s trekker passing along a hello. I had the same experience as you describe nearing the top of Kala Patthar. Trekked outside of Pokhara too but did not do the circuit. Maybe we passed along the trail though ;)
Re:AI and the Next Economy on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:06AM (#46541880)
The comments on early Google circulating value resonate. As a web developer then it was great to add free Google services that enhanced my site/shared revenue (e.g site search, adsense, maps, analytics, etc). It's what I see really lacking in OpenAI's centralized approach. They've extracted all my old site data for their use but have offered no complementary value in return. Which is what this article speaks to in part.
RIP Jimmy. ...one of the rare cases of a cover song being better than original imo. I Can See Clearly Now at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHxhQPOO2c
Re:Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona on Thursday November 06, 2025 @09:36AM (#45835718)
Along these lines I wonder how many people have been able to do triathlons for multiple decades (started in their 20s and still doing in 60s). This impressive woman started late and wondering if that gave her an advantage relative to joint stress...i.e. if you only get so many years
Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @12:33PM (#45735062)
I'm here. The Front Page doesn't seem to change much intraday (to me) and feels heavily moderated.
This seems like a big shift for OpenAI into an enterprise applications vendor to me.
Re:The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @07:50AM (#45101848)
It's optimized for the seller. The sales person that can actually determine good fit/bad fit can't also be making 100 calls a day. The BDR making 100 calls a day cannot determine good fit/bad fit on their own on the first call.
Re:Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @08:08AM (#44875215)
It all started with Evel K. in the 70s I think. We'd see him on Wide World of Sports, get his cycle jumping toy as presents, etc. Everyone started building wooden ramps to emulate Evel. It was actually a lot of fun so long as you didn't add too much speed or ramp height.
Re:Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality on Thursday August 07, 2025 @08:50AM (#44823834)
I'd say it most certainly killed the sort of dedicated small print classified ad publications you'd find at store checkout counters. But maybe those small pubs like The Want Advertiser (in Boston) were few and far between.

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