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Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:24PM (#49702521)
Their demo stores are literally losing money...
I read the title as 5 km S of San Jose (as in bay area) at first
Re:The next chapter of our AI momentum on Thursday August 06, 2026 @11:52AM (#49198350)
Anyone know how much these founders generally pay themselves / how much they receive in liquidity each raise?
Re:John Jumper leaves Google to join Anthropic on Saturday June 20, 2026 @03:47PM (#48612360)
He doesn't need the money though. I bet there's something cultural or structural going on at GDM that made him want to leave.
Going off the other reply, I wonder if a highly-active secondary market means that companies can raise series [A-Z]+ rounds effectively forever, where each "round" just refers to a giant purchase of shares under strict company supervision. Is this the new game for startups?
So... Does the Gates foundation get an equity stake?
Unrelated, but I see the use of the phrase "taste" as having a strong Twitter / e/acc smell (in a negative way).

I tend to associate it with folks who are prepared to victim blame researchers for not adapting to the "new economy" as being people who have "bad taste" or "low agency", maybe as a way to rationalize/justify the upcoming inqeuality that AI will create.

Basically a recycling of the way "IQ"/smarts/hard-work has historically been used to justify disproportionate rewards for the upper class.

(Obviously a gigantic stretch on my part, and not saying the author is in this camp, but just wanted to vent somewhere)

Re:Marcus AI Claims Dataset on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @09:18PM (#47242159)
I feel he'd want to rebut the use of an LLM for this task to begin with (i.e. find issues/nitpicks with the LLM judgment whether it said he's right or wrong)
Re:Marcus AI Claims Dataset on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @08:43PM (#47241919)
Can't wait to see Gary Marcus's rebuttal
Re:Anthropic ditches its core safety promise on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:24AM (#47168192)
Getting SBF vibes from this. "Earn to give" is an inherently flawed philosophy.
It's Claude Code slop
Re:Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 on Sunday February 15, 2026 @07:52PM (#47029534)
I can't believe he was calling Greta a potential antichrist when there's... this
This is already the case
Why are we pushing this when we have beans
> He smirked. "Yes, I am."
Re:Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @01:34AM (#46042940)
The comments there are hilarious
+1, the tokens from before a quantum hack will be transferred to a new fork. So at that moment, the value of BTC will go to 0 and the value of BTC v2 will take the value of BTC.

However at the moment, the community seems to be leaning towards pay-for-quantum-resistance [0]

[0] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1670

This and stock buybacks make me question company valuations
Re:Sora 2 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @02:32PM (#45429312)
Instagram reels are gonna get crazy
Re:SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think on Friday September 26, 2025 @02:22PM (#45389494)
Why is apple doing protein folding?
Was a bit scared by the headline at first
Re:Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @08:12PM (#45367605)
To what extent is YC's current strategy a form of "cookie-licking"? I.e. capture a small fraction of every plausible startup created by the next generation of students?
I'm guessing they were looking for preferential delivery to certain cell types, and AAVs just happened to have best profile for those. If anything, LNPs might aggregate in the liver even more than AAVs, which can lead to even worse hepatotoxicity if an immune response happens.
The issue was not the gene therapy itself, but the delivery mechanism. They used a virus to administer the gene therapy, and this virus (like most bloodstream impurities) aggregates in the liver. At low doses this is fine, but at high doses, your body's immune response will be laser-focused on the liver, and you die from the side effects of this response.
Re:Don't Fall for AI: Reasons for Writers to Reject Slop on Thursday July 17, 2025 @11:07PM (#44600817)
Same, ever since AI got big I've started to see typos and signs of amateurism in a positive light. I wonder how long it will be before people start generating slop with typos on purpose so that we think a human wrote it. Maybe we're already there.
Very cool showing the outputs of hyperparameter search. Hopefully this gets someone out of a tuning tarpit!
ohhh, yea I terribly misread that
Re:Every 5x5 Nonogram on Friday June 13, 2025 @01:20AM (#44265914)
That puzzle has two solutions no?

     1 1 1   
     1 1 1 2 1
   2 x x . . .
   2 . . x x .
  11 x . . x .
  11 . x . . x
   1 . . x . .
and

     1 1 1   
     1 1 1 2 1
   2 x x . . .
   2 . . x x .
  11 . x . x .
  11 x . . . x
   1 . . x . .
(found these with an SMT solver :D)
Wait, what about it made you want to throw up? Was it that the proceeds from lawsuits were being garnished by the law firm rather than going towards the families?
Re:The Problem with AI Welfare on Thursday June 12, 2025 @11:13AM (#44258752)
I have a criticism that is the opposite of the article. We already know an immense amount about animal welfare and have done relatively little about it. Even if the AI welfare research is true, what are the chances we'll actually act on it?

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