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Re:How much of F-Droid is LLM generated? on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:00AM (#49710581)
Well, you must have some low fkn standards.
Re:Let's make quality the norm again on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @06:57AM (#49710545)
Most of my "smart" devices are Chinese. Huawei creates superior products than most western/korean/japanese counterparts. I would prefer everything I own is Chinese, the quality is superb.
Re:Let's make quality the norm again on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @06:42AM (#49710413)
Those things made 30 years are filled with carcinogens. the Chinese make great stuff, your opinion comes off like programmed xenophobia, lay off the twitter.
Re:Let's make quality the norm again on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @06:37AM (#49710377)
Its funny to watch a bunch of Americans who have the worst possible tastes, standards and expectations commenting negatively on a Norwegian Org's article about why we need higher standards.

Guy's its possible not to live in a world of slop, you know that right? You don't have to turn the world into a glorified Walmart.

Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:01AM (#49709239)
The llm induced dunning krueger from you larper types is really funny. Software isnt all shitty webapps is you vibe coders create and declare software solved.

None of the code written for a pacemaker, medical imaging, weapons systems, and thousands of other perf critical domains are written by llms in any meaningful sense. Not everything runs in a browser.

Three years ago you asked this lol:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36136015

Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:08PM (#49707238)
If you automate a business heavily, it will fail. At least in the sense you people seem to be imagining. You can get away with this at a factory (kind of, but you'll also be out competed by your local community, you won't get tax breaks for hiring people your competitor will, and new types of taxes will be developed to punish you). We reward human collaboration as a society for a reason and punish extreme selfishness, these efforts will fail.
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:04PM (#49707214)
I know people who have run this experiment, with companies in the 7figs ARR, indie devs. Both of them have reverted to hiring humans.
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:51PM (#49707105)
Your bot you call a 'manager' can't actually do anything. You are selling ali-express drop shipped (probably filled with heavy metals) protein for $50.00 (why)?

You're in here actually running the company.. It seems like you have no product, a wrapper maybe.

See the reason you're in here running the company, sharing this link is because humans inherently value the social connection derived from "doing business". Pivot while you can, because this simply is not a paradigm anybody wants. You should read up on commodity fetishism.

Every company that attempts a strategy of full autonomy will automatically get out competed by the human ran company. For many different reasons, but mostly because its rather cheap and lacking any meaning. Even if you had an AI that was capable of doing so (you don't), people want human connection, they want the meaning behind things. We don't do business just for the sake of producing pieces of paper..

I would argue half the reason to have "businesses" is to employee your fellow community members, a tide that lifts all boats so you can live in a decent society. There's so missing here. You llm grifters are really losing the plot, not everything is about money (even if we would like it to be).

The Sovereign Individual???

Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:48PM (#49707082)
Their chat bot can't even do any sort of real functions other than look up orders or add you to a waitlist... Yet, its called 'the manager'

Another grift.

Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:47PM (#49707078)
profitable without the cost of tokens, gpus or the machine itself lol
Re:The AI job market in 2026 on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:50PM (#49699969)
Sorry, Ive been hearing these exact same arguments for 3 years now and its always extermely divorced from reality. Its starting to get very tiring, its hard not to be rude at a certain point.

Don't go around telling people their careers are in peril when you clearly have no clue what you're talking about. What do you expect?

Re:The AI job market in 2026 on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:38PM (#49699766)
Simple web apps, the kind you're describing have never been difficult, they were never what kept SWEs employed.

I'm not even sure what you're talking about when you say "web apps", because the kind of "web apps" that have kept SWEs employed are created by large organizations that have large requirements. You sound like you don't know what you're talking about. Companies also aren't going to just stop growing, iterating and improving, which requires expertise. Im worth more than ever with AI, my value as a SWE has only been increasing.

You people seriously need to stop using LLMs because your brains are devolving like taxi cabs drivers who had parts of their brains responsible for navigation atrophy after the advent of GPS.

Re:The AI job market in 2026 on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:54AM (#49699049)
Yeah completely unmaintainable code that cant handle more than 1k users before it collapses on itself. And quite probably so ugly its literally impossible to use.
Re:The AI job market in 2026 on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:52AM (#49699007)
You must have incredibly low standards for quality if you think manual coding will be finished any time soon, web dev or any.

secondly, using llms well still requires you to be a great programmer. Y'all are losing the plot.

Also, just because its easier to do doesnt mean everyone is suddenly going to want to do it. There's still always going to be only a small percentage of thr world that likes to build things.

Have you seen the code these things produce? Just because it compiles/ runs/ loads does not mean its durable. Its wild you people have these opinions, and it leads me to belive you have no idea what you're talking about.

There is mass dunning kruger due to llms, and people are speaking with way too much authority about things they do not understand. I hate this website.

Or just don't use these hacky solutions and just make a gd ecom website. It's 2026, use claude if you have too. There is no reason for shopify to exist (or wordpress for that matter, but at least wordpress isn't for profit). They say AI should kill SaaS, but it should actually kill all these dumb abstraction PaaS.

I say this as someone who has recently helped a few friends move their ecom stores off shopify, and wow, I didn't know such a horrible paradigm could exist. I genuinely think it would be easier for someone to learn a web stack in 2026 than learn to piece together whatever spaghetti monster shopify, and similar hacks are.

Nobody is arguing the e2ee isn't valid, its useful as a metadata collection platform, which is all they care about. Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden famously stated: “We kill people based on metadata." and then he tried to hold back a smile and said "but not with this metadata". It's usefulness as a metadata collection platform becomes much less useful if people don't trust it, so of course it's secure.

If you can convince as many of your enemies (the american people who politically organize against them) to use the same platform, your job becomes easier than having to ETL from 20 different privacy platforms..

To be honest, I use signal, I have nothing to hide but it is useful in that nobody can spoof me (easily). I even talk to my 60 year old mother on signal. It has it's uses. But the EFF is definitely a federal psyop to get people using tools and techniques they control.

Just look at the people who created TOR, they're all feds. All these projects are funded by feds. These tools are advertised in CIA recruitment campaigns, they are literal weapons to circumvent nation state firewalls and deliver psychological weapons, overthrow governments or allow covert recruitment of foreign traitors.

They avoid Monero because Signal and the EFF are actually the feds and this is all theater.
Re:Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:33PM (#49691208)
Openrouter isn't even 00.01% of tokens used on a daily basis. China alone uses 500 Trillion tokens a day and they're only 1/8th of the world. Much of the world has a google account, use your brain.
Re:Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:30PM (#49691186)
Why would Google be losing at AI, they're SOTA. They have all the users.

There's zero chance that AI destroys their ad business. I get served ads from Amazon in podcast RSS feeds that were directly derived from things I said in Gemini chats. It's definitely not destroying ads lol

I'm surprised by the weird levels of incompetence on this website, use your brain or have you already hawked that off to your favorite AI lab.

Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:23PM (#49691133)
ya'll are getting nerd sniped hard. This is all marketing and doesn't translate to the real world what so ever. This is getting so tiring, I really hate this website.
Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:32PM (#49690328)
What's so magical about the problem... Its the exact time of problem they were built to solve (things that can be brute forced with language). I'm not impressed.
Re:Everyone should slow down AI development except for me on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:11AM (#49684213)
He basically did the equivalent of a scientist moving to Nazi Germany in 1942 to help the Nazis research the atomic bomb.

He lectured us all on safety, then he went off, by choice, to create a "super intelligence" in the modern day Nazi Germany, to help said Nazis become even more advanced while they're actively committing crimes unimaginable (that they film, brag about and broadcast the world, so he's obviously aware not concerned with safety in any way (except for the safety of Nazis).

Re:P(doom) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:11AM (#49683112)
Probably the most annoying possible response. Your language seeks to make Elon, Altman and Dario's power levels equivalent to any run of the mill entrepreneur's and not, I dont know, the worlds most valuable and powerful companies of all time.

Why do you defend these people in your spare time on the internet, you'll never be rewarded for this. :sheep:

Re:Will There Be a 7G? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:53AM (#49680802)
You could not waste 5 minutes of your life telling me your personal finances, get a life.
Re:P(doom) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:21AM (#49680278)
I think it has everything to do with the subject at hand.

Elon, Dario and Altman are all terrible human beings, along with 99.99% of the rest of the ruling class. We don't need any of them, and we definitely shouldn't trust a single syllable that comes out their mouth.

Re:LG strongly denies TV spying claims on Saturday September 12, 2026 @11:32PM (#49679725)
Tldr: you shouldnt be concerned because its only 36 months away lol
Re:Will There Be a 7G? on Saturday September 12, 2026 @08:45PM (#49678767)
Imagine taking the time to respond like this.
Re:Will There Be a 7G? on Saturday September 12, 2026 @06:44PM (#49677998)
You're ripping yourself off, you can get 1TB of 5G from tmobile for $50-60
Re:Will There Be a 7G? on Saturday September 12, 2026 @06:42PM (#49677979)
Ive never heard a single person say they don't see a difference between 4G and 5G, atleast in the USA.

Ive switched my entire home internet setup to 5G and haven't had an outtage in two years. Whereas it was once a week with fiber. I also can fallback with duel sims.

5G has legitimately changed my quality of (digital) life.

Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @10:25PM (#49668080)
ZKPs would defeat the purpose of age verification, the point being to track your activity online so governments can do precrime and make sure no group can ever use technology to organize and challenge existing power structures so this will never happen.

Should be a thing stores sell for $5.00 or whatever, show your ID (not scanned) get a code you can use to verify. This obviously has flaws, but the point of age verification isnt to protect kids, the world is ran by literal pedophiles.

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