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Re:LLMs reward expertise on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:51AM (#49164462)
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Re:DOGE is done. What happened to its records? on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:27PM (#48896727)
I don't know. Did they?
Money spent is money spent.
Let's just say their performance (OKR, KPI, whatever "impact" metric you want) was indistinguishable from a peer that used the AI/LLM monthly allowance in full.

Maybe a $10k raise would be nice?

If a worker doesn't use their AI/LLM budget, can they get a raise?
Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:46PM (#48273656)
Are YouTube and WhatsApp social media?
Walking in the cold and/or rain is also quite nice.
The YouTube algorithm seems to be this bad.

I listened to a song a few weeks ago... now that song is in almost every page on YouTube for me. Homepage, sidebar, search results. It's just everywhere.

I've already listened to it. I don't want to listen to it again every single day for the rest of time.

Re:AI chatbots could be making you stupider on Monday April 20, 2026 @02:02PM (#47838195)
"If" is doing an enormous amount of work here.
Re:Claude Design on Friday April 17, 2026 @03:33PM (#47809695)
> The best design is original, groundbreaking and often counterintuitive.

If you want to talk in absolutes, I'd say the best design is the one that results in the desired behaviour of your audience.

Re:GitHub has been sending me an email every two seconds. on Saturday March 28, 2026 @12:42AM (#47551696)
I unwatched the repo yesterday, but that has had no effect. Also changed my notifications email, also no effect.

I have the emails going straight to trash.

35k emails so far, deleted about 10k yesterday.

My inbox is functional so it’s not a big deal, but it’s surprising this activity is not caught by a spam filter or something.

~45k emails (so far) to one email? Totally normal human activity according to GitHub.

I think changing his name to Richard Lambo may not have avoided this outcome.
Re:A modern 35mm film scanner for home on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @09:05PM (#45895589)
There are a few scans on Instagram, I'd charitably describe them as "dogshit".
Re:Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends on Sunday October 26, 2025 @03:32PM (#45714581)
Please do break down the differences.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @01:25AM (#45285764)
> why has the title been editorialized

Indeed, the HN guidelines:

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize

Re:How I Program with Agents on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @03:09PM (#44250761)
They're also saying that they don't understand that writing code costs businesses money.
The point of the documentary was to show that Vermeer may have used optics.

That's it.

Re:More Everything Forever on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @01:10PM (#43774292)
I'm just making the basic point that we have a wealth of much more hospitable places to live on earth, and somehow they're not viable candidates as "backup plans" for humanity.

Going a little further, living in the ocean is easier than living on Mars. As far as I can tell there are no billionaire-funded submarine civilisation programs.

Re:More Everything Forever on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @12:50PM (#43774058)
There are large swathes of earth that are too inhospitable, like deserts. They're more accessible and easier to support life in than Mars, and yet no one lives there.

The deserts even have breathable air.

I'm continuing because this is interesting, not try to prove some point that undermines your perspective.

> Copyright actually defies common law by requiring state power to enforce monopolies on certain information

All laws ultimately require state power. You're deferring to state power by using the MIT licence, which recognises and legitimises copyright law that you take issue with.

> Copyright is sold as "promoting the arts" but in net slows innovation and decreases artistic freedom.

This is a big claim that requires big evidence. Robust copyright law has existed for about half a century, during which time innovation and artistic freedom seem to have flourished. In fact copyright appears to have directly contributed to the creation of the corpus Meta AI is exploiting; it exists because of copyright, not in spite of it.

> [Copyright] primarily enables rent-seeking by publishers at the expense of the public

I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Copyright bestows the right of individuals to benefit from the value they create. Without talking about IP law more broadly in a capitalist system (which seems to be your gripe), I think this is a good thing.

I've benefitted greatly from the content of books, as have we all. If authors had to rely on live shows (for a book?), take commissions and sell subscriptions I think we'd all be worse off, because these provide little to no economic security for authors.

Which state are you referring to?

If you think copyright shouldn't exist, you're free to ignore any rights afforded you for your work, "the state" is not going to enforce anything unless you bring a case to a court.

I understand the MIT licence as convention, and it makes sense. It's just you're opining on a public forum about copyright being somehow antithetical to "basic principles on which our governance is founded" whilst attaching copyright notices to your work.

Much of common law is specifically about property, upon which a good portion of modern day governance is founded. So your objection to copyright seems somewhat misinformed.

What is it about copyright that you think is a negative in today's society?

The leads, are weak.
Re:Apple needs a Snow Sequoia on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:03AM (#43502382)
Curious what's bullshit about SwiftUI?
Unvibe AI (YC S25) is hiring.
Re:The Frontend Treadmill on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:01PM (#43430458)
I agree with your sentiment.

I'm a designer but 80% of the time I implement user interfaces. I have to say that the worst user interface code comes from traditionally educated computer science people... it's almost always a huge pile of shit with layer upon layer of useless abstraction.

I think you're right... no one has it figured out, it's all a mess.

Re:Jensen Huang – Nvidia GTC 2025 Keynote on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @01:41PM (#43402308)
> "we've left money on the table because we can't manage our supply chain. Oh, and we've pissed off an entire market segment."
Re:AI Is Making Developers Dumb on Sunday March 16, 2025 @08:42PM (#43384031)
Sounds like your friend ruined his own startup by employing only a junior dev?
Re:A 10x Faster TypeScript on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:43PM (#43334331)
> Discord ... immediately and permanently killed every other voice client on the market

Do you mean voice clients like FaceTime, Zoom, Teams, and Slack?

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