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Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:43AM (#50244599)
Because the $100/m fee they're charging is only there because Chinese models will undercut them if they try to raise it further.
Because it works and they don’t charge a lot for it
Re:Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's on Sunday August 09, 2026 @07:39PM (#49237434)
Collecting a bunch of covariates is never a substitute for recognizing that you can't force people to be taxi drivers for life.
This is like the "half of my marketing spend is wasted" quote. The complexity is finding out which half.
CSV files are widely known to be used by the most frugal companies so of course it is.
That's why anything that goes against the long-established corporate culture aren't likely to stay around for long.
Re:Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:35PM (#48269450)
Someone tag Apple in this thread and shut them down please
That's not shame, the LLM did not mope about for days before deciding to pick itself up again and go to work.
Re:Google Declaring War on the Web on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @06:31PM (#48215176)
The web is going to become China, which is a collection of walled gardens
This is called proof of stake
That’s not true. If you want to have a job at a prestigious institution then the research committees are pretty consistent in their biases.
Re:Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' on Sunday April 12, 2026 @07:52PM (#47745815)
Driver support eats directly into driver development
Re:Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:08AM (#47714227)
It’s not illegal, just stupid because. Because plaintiffs can use this as evidence that they can police their own platforms
Then you’ve never been to China
Re:Ask HN: How do you handle clients who don't pay on time? on Saturday April 04, 2026 @10:41AM (#47639469)
If there’s no way to tell between a good customer and a bad customer who does the wrong thing then the difference doesn’t matter
Direct action is literally their policy
That directly goes against the earlier post where you said you lived in a particularly nice part of town
TVs tend to incessantly ask for internet access, especially android ones.
Re:Steam Machine on Thursday November 13, 2025 @04:01PM (#45920474)
Turns out the problem with mobile was windows all along!
Re:Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015) on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:16PM (#45690386)
Personally it felt quite natural once you start to work on real software projects.
Re:Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015) on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:16PM (#45690384)
That's the job of a (good) manager.
Re:Ask HN: Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech? on Sunday October 05, 2025 @05:52PM (#45485602)
Main Street sells pizza but VCs sell Ponzi schemes
The biggest assumption is that it assumes only a single path to intelligent life.
Re:US Cities Are Paying Too Much for New Transit Buses on Friday September 26, 2025 @11:14PM (#45392977)
I disagree with the characterization of structural corruption. Every rationale actor will seek to capture all the benefits and pass on the risks. The real corruption is when decision makers know that they can’t be held responsible through corporate or political structures. See also [moral hazard](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard)
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:31PM (#45192873)
If compute power is the deciding factor server vs edge discussion then we’d never have smartphones.
I’m willing to sacrifice your rights if it means that there’s less incentive to steal my phone
It’s not just Apple, lots of federal programs in US require a DUNS number.
Just give the AI something worse that would happen if it doesn’t call these functions.
Re:Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome on Thursday June 26, 2025 @11:05PM (#44393379)
I can guarantee you that some smart person actually thinks that the opportunity size is measured as a fraction of the pharmaceutical industry market cap.

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