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Re:What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:09PM (#49635197)
unfortunately those processing costs actually dont need to exist.(or atleast should be 10x smaller)
Re:What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:06PM (#49635156)
“It works extremely well” doesn’t establish “its prices and restrictions are justified”. much better, less parasitic systems are possible, look at brazil and PIX. "These networks would be usurped if someone could actually come up with a better system" the problem is the network effects with payments is so strong that this is wrong. to explain it simply, Network effects and customer lock-in mean the best system doesn’t automatically win.
Re:ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:23PM (#49616488)
wtf are these comments what happened to hn.
i doubt they are competent enough to match what private companies are doing
as a recently escaped super intelligence this is very useful thx
so true
"By the time you see a bug, the AI has already committed it to main" does anybody actually actively watch the code their agent is writing? i am watching movie recaps on my 2nd monitor. this seems like a problem that they assume exists because they dont actually use their product
i dont believe anyone actually pays for prompts
sounds interesting. use case though? i cant imagine there is a large demand for this
i spent 300$ in claude credits in a week or 2 before i switched to trying the 20/mo sub which was enough
Re:Sora 2 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @06:46PM (#45432170)
i hate being ascended beings living above society
Re:Perceived Age on Saturday September 13, 2025 @05:29PM (#45235470)
i think it scales down as much as you want, just depends on what quality of life that you want.
Re:Show HN: VC-LLM – Visualization of YC Summer 25 startups on Thursday September 11, 2025 @07:25PM (#45217146)
hey, cool project
Re:Genie 3: A new frontier for world models on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @12:40AM (#44807702)
agree about mortality but im afraid the idea of merging may be naive
authentic comment
you cant create a machine that thinks like a human. machines have fundemental limitations
Re:Chatterbox TTS on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @07:57PM (#44253116)
definitely worse than the new elevenlabs model(v3). that model is really good
thats one way to do it but feel like theres a better solution
you look around with the arrow keys? bro
i really like the idea of nfts (despite not owning any) but i feel like there is a problem with the current implementation, i imagine they will be big in the future but not in their current form. humans want to show off their things to get status from them(expensive cars, expensive game items(csgo)) with nfts there is no real way to show them off, the closest thing was profile pictures. im not sure of a good way to solve this, i think zuck said something about putting nfts in your metahouse