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Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:23PM (#50298243)
tornado cash?

edit: I suppose it would be hard still. You can get anonymity inside wallets with Tornado Cash but then to turn that into actual money it will be very dependent on the country

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:57PM (#50008391)
> For one, the engineer in India doesn't drive the demand for housing in Seattle thus keeping it more reasonably (less insanely) priced.

I urge you to understand that housing prices in Seattle are largely driven by supply inelasticity, more than anything.

If the premise was true, we'd have seen large drops in rent/home prices after mass layoffs (we didn't).

Also, it would be hard to explain the prices finally falling in Seattle for the last few months, which aligned perfectly with the largest supply since Feb 2014.

Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:10PM (#49999462)
gemini app kind of had that for a while I feel?
Re:Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:47PM (#49886537)
Factor in their margin being chewed through with every open model release.

That spending obligation sounds extremely unlikely to be fulfilled without a bailout. Anthropic's IPO is them passing the hot potato forward.

Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:00PM (#49872696)
most sociable redditor lol
Re:Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:25PM (#49720228)
being a bit more specific: the sample efficiency of humans is orders of magnitude larger for more abstract concepts. the same doesn't hold for memory-intensive tasks though (like any kind of trivia), but that only takes you so far.
Re:Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:22PM (#49720210)
Short and to the point! Open and cheap models will undercut the big labs continuously. The blast radius won't be pretty once spending commitments knock the door.
I'm gonna repeat my comment from months ago, still true

> Jesus Dario we get it man, you want clout for the IPO.

> It’s making me want to be a lot less collaborative with such individuals. I don’t want to sit around and refute Claude text outputs all day.

I echo the sentiment. It's frustrating to try to collaborate with a Claude/ChatGPT meat proxy.

You can write a very thoughtful two-line question over 5 minutes and get a 5 page design doc back in a minute.

Re:Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday August 13, 2026 @05:39PM (#49292203)
the race for the smartest/cheapest model is a race to the bottom. selling the tools is much more profitable.
same. been running it in a dgx spark and it slaps
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Monday July 27, 2026 @06:31PM (#49076320)
Jesus Dario we get it man, you want clout for the IPO.

This constant whining from anthropic about distillation attacks continues to be rich given the amount of stolen data that went into any Claude variant.

Re:Claude Opus 5 on Saturday July 25, 2026 @12:17PM (#49048880)
both companies have large spending commitments while their margins will be continuously wiped by open models / router-like solutions. both companies are rushing for ipo and doing an awful lot of financial engineering to look good (highly recommend ed zitrons analysis on anthropic profitability) before their margins are eroded that much.
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:13PM (#49039573)
feels almost like anthropic is desperate for ipo huh

i think we'll see one of the fastest deflations in history post anthropic/oai ipo

Re:GPT‑Live on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @05:14PM (#48837514)
i mean you chose to be irritated by it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re:The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:02PM (#48648806)
if that was true, we'd see the same pedestrian mortality rise everywhere, which we don't.
Re:Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil on Saturday June 20, 2026 @10:15PM (#48615055)
doideira
Re:Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil on Saturday June 20, 2026 @06:52PM (#48613746)
misantropia é um perigo rapaziada
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:29AM (#48536979)
> I've got kids, I want people creating start ups they can work in, the alternative is too grim.

got some bad news for ya pal

muamba garai
that's just a lie lol, stop spreading misinformation
Re:Googlebook on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @08:55PM (#48116585)
On the spot. A lot of replies in this thread which outline "useful" AI features fail to acknowledge the same: this is hackernews, and it's a very specific and non representative slice of the population.
Re:Permacomputing Principles on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:24AM (#48046092)
This sounds like a fence sitter take. Everything is political and not acknowledging that is part of the problem.
Re:Make Your Own Microforest on Sunday May 03, 2026 @05:50PM (#48001914)
ambrook is one of those doing the devil's work. critical small-medium agriculture infra picking a dependency in a venture backed NYC startup... sigh

my dream is that their lunch is eaten by oss

Re:Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:44PM (#47938707)
I guess mythos can't solve this one...
ah the distant past of writing services in clj and having a crazy good repl :)
> I interpreted it as people making up stories so that they didn't have to face the truth.

That's a very plausible interpretation. I grew up hearing about this myth :p

yeah suddenly perna cabeluda was cool but it did feel a bit random :p
Re:US Job Market Visualizer on Monday March 16, 2026 @05:01PM (#47404818)
you're not factoring in a few specific things:

1) how many of these people leave the country in this analysis.

2) OPTs likely will get h1b/l1s/leave the country and are being counted distinctly.

3) not all h1b/l1/OPTs are for tech. majority for sure, but there's a conversation factor.

specially in the current situation that green cards are much harder to obtain and many OPTs don't find a job, I expect 1 to be much larger than in the past.

as a more general observation, this line of reasoning does fit lump of labor fallacies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

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