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Re:OpenAI ARR in July topped all of Q2 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:38AM (#49108620)
This…doesn’t mean anything, right? There isn’t a way to say “this was the ARR for Q2” because it’s a projection of the future. Or am I misunderstanding this?
Yes. Elon has a massive controlling share in SpaceX, complete control over the board. SpaceX will be double the size of Tesla after a successful IPO, then they can swallow it and then he has the control over Tesla he’s constantly fighting for.

Ask HN: How can I avoid the "It's not just X, it's Y" writing

Every single blog post now. Half of news articles. All tweets over 140 characters. This sentence structure is everywhere and it's driving me absolutely bananas. It's so obvious to me when something is written by ChatGPT and I find it shocking that people are putting this work out there and thinking it's okay.

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Re:Software Engineering Is Back on Saturday February 07, 2026 @09:56AM (#46924358)
I had this moment recently with implementing facebook oauth. I don’t need to spend mental cycles figuring that out, doing the back and forth with their API, pulling my hair out at their docs, etc. I just want it to work and build my app. AI just did that part for me and could move on.
Re:Software Engineering Is Back on Saturday February 07, 2026 @09:51AM (#46924337)
> no amount of AI is going to help you debug why your auth flow suddenly broke.

What? Coding agents are very capable at helping fix bugs in specific domains. Your examples are like, the exact place where AI can add value.

You do an update, things randomly break: tell Claude to figure it out and it can go look up the breaking changes in the new versions, read your code and tell you what happened and fix it for you.

Re:AI's Lending Risk Getting Tougher to Compute on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:02AM (#46886652)
Repeating 2008, where nobody had a good sense of who actually owed what where. This is how Martin Casado can say this isn't like dot-com, because "there isn't as much debt". It's there, just shoved behind the couch.
Re:How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @09:45AM (#46886421)
Yeah interesting...so the libraries don't necessarily go away, they just change shape into skills.
Re:How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:26PM (#46877523)
I actually started writing a very similar essay, but the hyperbole got too out of hand – open source isn't dying anytime soon.

I do think that SDKs and utility-focused libraries are going to mostly go away, though, and that's less flashy but does have interesting implications imo.

https://meelo.substack.com/p/a-mild-take-on-coding-agents

Re:F Apple, Marry Anthropic, Kill Microsoft on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:00AM (#46856767)
Hence, "arguably" :)

For me, the current state of technology in society was impacted the most by Apple and their vision. Could definitely debate between Apple and Google, but I don't think another company is really in the conversation.

Hopefully the Supreme Court takes away Trump’s tariff toys soon and we can stop doing this.
I wish the article had a quote from a resident who voted against it, saying why they did so.
It’s better for them if you don’t know how long you’ve been talking to the LLM. Timestamps can remind you that it’s been 5 hours: without it you’ll think less about timing and just keep going.
You’re right – the way I phrased it assumes “having a plan” is a possibility for him. It isn’t. The best he was ever going to do was get talent in the room, make a Thinking Machines knockoff blog post with some hand wavey word salad, and stand around until they do something useful.
Wang is a networking machine and has connected with everyone in the industry. Likely was brought in as a recruiting leader. Mark being Mark, though, doesn’t understand the value of vision and figured getting big names in the same room was better than actually having a plan.

Show HN: Instant Messaging in VSCode

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=devchat-dev.devchat-im

I built live IM chat as a VSCode extension for those who miss the AIM days, or who wish they could chat with dev friends the way finance folks chat through their Bloomberg terminals.The messages are ephemeral and stored locally only. Pick a username, tell your friends to pick theirs, and chat with friends while your coding agent runs :)Have fun!

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The case against this EO is not “banning new technology”. It’s not allowing the federal government to ban any state regulation. And states having the power to make their own rules is maybe the most American value.
Re: on Sunday December 07, 2025 @09:02AM (#46181745)
You can do both. Make it public, and it’ll be something to point to for job interviews in the future. Frankly, if it didn’t get interest as a business, the codebase won’t either, so you can still have it for a time when you may want to build on top of it.

Show HN: Aim-Style Instant Messaging in VSCode

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=devchat-dev.devchat-im

As an old, I miss the AIM days of getting home from school and turning on the computer, waiting for friends to come online, and chatting with them live (and basically only saying "hey, sup, nm u, jc")We don't get that with messaging now because everyone is on mobile. Folks with Bloomberg Terminals can have this IM experience, because they are sitting with it open all day. Slack is like this...

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Re:Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @08:39AM (#46134355)
The missing piece here is Anthropic is not playing the same game. Consumer branding and larger user base are concerns for OpenAI vs Google. Personal chatbot/companion/ search isn’t their focus.

Anthropic is going for the enterprise and for developers. They have scooped up more of the enterprise API market than either Google or OpenAI, and almost half the developer market. Those big, long contracts and integration into developer workflows can end up as pretty strong moats.

Re:Anthropic acquires Bun on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @05:25PM (#46127790)
Could also be a way to expand the customer for Claude Code from coding assistant to vibe coding, a la Replit creating a hosted app. CC working more closely with Bun could make all that happen much faster:

> Our default answer was always some version of "we'll eventually build a cloud hosting product.", vertically integrated with Bun’s runtime & bundler.

Re:Sam Altman's pants are on fire on Friday November 07, 2025 @11:43PM (#45854191)
Maybe you’re missing the context of who Gary Marcus is
Re:Ask HN: Is OpenAI Acquiring Cursor? on Thursday July 17, 2025 @08:17AM (#44592475)
I’d guess that’s a preview of their browser
A computer is just a tool with an interface. If the interface requires you to learn an entirely new language then it seems like it’s a bad design. Why would you use it?
Re:Show HN: HN client app that remembers reading history on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @08:41AM (#44499414)
really nice! 5 stars! would be great to be able to log in, or easily link out to the comment pages in browser.
The primary is ranked choice, so no candidate will win until they have over 50% of the votes. Since neither has that now, there will be a series of rounds of distributing choices to candidates. Cuomo is basically saying “he will probably win” based on the sizable lead Mamdani has, but it’s not technically over yet.