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Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:44AM (#50243589)
well, do it as soon as it opens up;

if you really believe it you found a free money glitch

Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:41AM (#49684523)
The data to be open, in my case.

The "independent" METR that is composed by... Checks notes... Previously employees from the top labs.

Re:Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:44AM (#49642091)
And any exponential growth is also a multiplication, it's not a big deal, just giving example on what they asked before.

Somehow people are interpreting this as some kind of math trick.

It's not a trick, our brains are not wire to deal with numbers growing quickly, but we do understand the math.

Re:Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:20AM (#49640804)
Of course it is logical, we are not discussing the math.

But it isn't intuitive, you're not used to numbers that big or that grow that fast.

Few things go from a million to a billion, especially when related to time.

Re:Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? on Thursday September 10, 2026 @04:37AM (#49640382)
One million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is 31 years.
Re:OpenLogi on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @07:12PM (#49368387)
You need to catchup with the last 15 years then. It's not new at all. But I agree it is getting worse, but it is getting worse every year for a while.
Re:OpenLogi on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:43AM (#49363092)
Recent?

Oh dear.

If you really wanna worry about all of these things you better not use any open source from now on. Or even private software as well, because you can't even audit and know what "vibe code" touched.

Re:OpenLogi on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:40AM (#49363042)
YES YES YES YES

That's perfect

wrong link...
this guy gets it
So if they paid for pre-training they would not be able to open their weights?
Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:29PM (#48987047)
Mostly: Discord, Github issues (as forum), X (twitter at the time), and Discourse! Discourse was growing steadily, even startups like OpenAI and neobanks like nubank (Brazil) had forums for their users because keeping your community active and close was something considered valuable (devrel since then has experienced a rapidly decline).
Re:Show HN: I made email signatures less boring on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:27PM (#48987039)
We were this close to glory... This close!

But we got a generic 3D doll instead of forum-like signatures.

Just imagine something like this: https://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r488/Vayne-D3/HybridSig...

Already 10x cooler, or maybe a long strip of startups / project you've done https://www.carlos-menezes.com/img/before-the-bio/smaller.pn...

Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph on Saturday July 18, 2026 @12:17PM (#48959446)
The sale is relevant. The spike in activity right before the sale already shows the management hand and how they actively ran the org to optimize for this sale. The rebound right after is hard, and it was (right) before chatgpt

They accelerated the downfall with this and then chatgpt came over

Re:Elixir-lang.org has a new design on Saturday July 18, 2026 @12:15PM (#48959426)
Nice! The showcase of companies is really nice
Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph on Saturday July 18, 2026 @10:53AM (#48958684)
For those who don't know what the Monica affair was: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/393046/who-or-what-...
Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph on Saturday July 18, 2026 @10:48AM (#48958645)
I don't have the time to, but I'm surprised there aren't a lot of comments on the decline before chatGPT was released, but after SO was sold to Prosus [1][2]

Even the curious growth spike in activity happened just before the acquisition. I wish I had time to do this analysis a bit deeper, but you can look for SO activity up until when chatGPT was released, it is really noticeable.

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[1] Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for $1.8 billion: https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/02/stack-overflow-acquired-by...

[2] Prosus to acquire Stack Overflow for US$1.8 billion https://www.prosus.com/news-insights/2021/prosus-to-acquire-...

Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:32AM (#48957573)
Usually #1 actually works, most cases, and missing discord, several healthy communities on Discord nowadays
Re:Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:52AM (#48906890)
I was wondering why my local tool to inspect coding agent sessions stopped working in some cases.

This is a really interesting engineering decision, I wonder how many people will want an encrypted external piece of instructions running on their machine.

Re:When 2+2=5 on Monday July 06, 2026 @01:45PM (#48808011)
It's because you have not been paying attention (payin' attention)
Re:Show HN: Vet Turned Founder, AI Lawn Diagnosis on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:41AM (#48550660)
I am committed to some projects now, but I did a full analysis of projects to invest, used AI to validate ideas and so on.

My main goal was "solo founder projects as programmer" and one of them was software for veterinarians (second one was for golf tracks).

It is an interesting niche!

And I got it as a Roman curse (or from Roman times). That is common with old sayings.
Let me just add one interesting layer:

The current experiment in São Paulo, 8k+ cameras were added to the city with the same justification: security.

But, at least for smartphones robberies, the results are not obvious: on an average of 24 smartphones stolen every hour[1] in one neighborhood (Pinheiros is a big "tech" area).

I just want to point this out because this premise of more recording = more security = more behavior is not necessarily true.

[1] https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2026/05/21/cameras...

Re:Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) on Monday May 25, 2026 @10:13AM (#48267117)
From what you read, what do you think? All your questions are mentioned in the encíclica.
> Yes we did have similar back in the day, that's why MX and the like DNS records exist.

Care to elaborate? I wanna know more.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) on Monday May 11, 2026 @09:08AM (#48094506)
I am building several small tools for myself, no real intention of sharing them yet. Some have better solutions in the market:

* Advanced tab organizer, small chrome extension to organize my bad habit of 200+ tabs, can group them into windows, search, close duplicates, search just on a specific window. Pretty fun.

* A clipboard manager, just wanted to build something in Swift for fun

* A todo app for mac, local-only

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) on Monday May 11, 2026 @08:28AM (#48094129)
You lost the opportunity to call it io-chicken
I saw the tweet about the Reddit post about 2 days ago. It probably was X.

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