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Re:I'm in a Meeting on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:30AM (#50021049)
That is not what extortion means
Re:From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:51AM (#49993683)
No resentment to the author but also you have no problem publicly shit talking him online ok bud
Re:EVE Online moves to Python 3 on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:31AM (#49490222)
Will you poor contributors ever shut up?
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? on Saturday August 08, 2026 @12:35PM (#49223352)
> I just don't think it's healthy to wake up, walk down the stairs and sit in front of a computer for 8-15 hours every day, rinse and repeat

Yes obviously?!? Nothing about work from home makes you sit on your ass all day.

You're projecting your lack of discipline about the things that make life worthwhile (feeling good physically, bettering yourself mentally, enjoying the world around you, and sharing it with others) onto a working model.

Re:How Kalshi Infects the News on Monday July 06, 2026 @01:01PM (#48807420)
Not really? It's an interesting proxy for public opinion that requires zero investment from the news org. They don't have to pay a polling agency or wait for someone else to.

Of course that suffers some likely substantial bias from oversampling a specific domain/sub-population

Re:How Kalshi Infects the News on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:53PM (#48807302)
You are 100% free to not gamble
Re:Vite+ Beta on Thursday July 02, 2026 @03:19PM (#48766109)
That's a pretty disingenuous take on the purpose of TS and misses the point of having a stack in general. The tools actually cover a lot more than that.

Yes, if your goal is to get HTML/CSS/JS in any form to a web client then you don't need this stuff.

If your goal is to ship a web app that stands a chance of surviving multiple devs, production traffic, etc then you need more tools. Testing behavior (vitest), enforcing code standards (oxfmt and oxlint), optimizing network calls (e.g. tree shaking from Rollup), etc. all go beyond what you describe.

This stack is as boring as it gets without literally using the tools it consolidates and replaces or dropping a requirement that necessitates them.

The frontier labs are not "fine-tuning", they're doing massive scale RL post-training
Your basic analysis is not the point of the article
Your quoted text does not back up your claim. It says brands live in the mind of the customer (i.e. the prospect). It doesn't say anything about a brand representing a real human being.
Using AI for your own project is different than being overwhelmed by AI contributions from other people/bots
Re:Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:26AM (#47614181)
What are you trying to say here? This makes no sense.
Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:30AM (#47395469)
That view is overly simplistic. People find real utility in ad-supported tools and apps.
Re:Apps SDK on Monday October 06, 2025 @03:34PM (#45495337)
Who says you have to learn this? You are free to ignore it if it's overwhelming.

I'd much rather see a thriving ecosystem full of competition and innovation than a more stagnant alternative.

It's hard to imagine that abundant housing led to the truly adverse economic conditions in the USSR. Rather than offering a cheeky strawman perhaps you could give some real thought to alternative solutions you'd like to see?
How do you know GP isn't a woman?

More broadly, can a comment on a forum thread that isn't directed at anyone in particular really be considered "mansplaining"? I consider that term to mean something like "a man explaining something to a woman because he assumes she doesn't know".

Just because the topic is about women doesn't mean a man can't post a thought that is relevant and (mildly) thought provoking.

Re:Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized on Monday July 14, 2025 @12:30PM (#44562065)
What do you do if you're out of town for a vacation, work trip, family event, etc? I could see making a daily habit work for running since your feet work anywhere but if you physically don't have access to a rowing machine do you find some alternative?
Re:Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized on Monday July 14, 2025 @12:15PM (#44561896)
If you have the time I recommend working on distance first. Running farther is great for fat loss & cardio training and speed only really matters if you're trying to be competitive in races or have to squeeze your run into a confined time slot.

I also find that adding distance makes it easier to improve time. If I can only run 1 mile, it's pretty hard to run that same mile but faster. BUT if I can run 3 miles, it's a bit easier to run 1/3 of my normal distance but focusing on pushing the pace.

Re:Grok 4 Launch [video] on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:18PM (#44523232)
How do you know? Have you seen the code GP generated?
Re:Writing documentation for AI: best practices on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:34PM (#44313857)
If your software business relies on people coming to your site to read docs then you were cooked from the start. It's about enabling your users whether they're on your site, ChatGPT, or anywhere else.
Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms on Monday June 09, 2025 @04:03PM (#44228810)
Perhaps they learned something from that? Look at modern MBP models which have MagSafe, HDMI, and SD card slots.
Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms on Monday June 09, 2025 @04:00PM (#44228766)
> things are now harder to read, identify, and understand

What makes you think that? Do you have a specific example from the keynote in mind?

There must be something since you've never actually used this design system yourself. Or is this just your pre-judgement?

Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms on Monday June 09, 2025 @03:56PM (#44228733)
Do you really think that Apple, of all companies, did a cross-platform UI refresh based entirely on vibes without considering user taste, usability, accessibility, etc?

You've already judged the system as only good for "looking good on screenshots and marketing materials" when you haven't even seen anything other than the announcement.

Re:Show HN: My AI Native Resume on Monday May 05, 2025 @01:05PM (#43897180)
A major distinction here is that it is very cheap to host content on the internet and VERY EXPENSIVE to build things like a separate road network in the real world.

Who is actually hurt if I publish an llms.txt or MCP in addition to my existing content?

Re:Show HN: My AI Native Resume on Monday May 05, 2025 @01:03PM (#43897157)
Lucky for you that if you remove the "ai" subdomain here then you get a traditional "human-first" website.

Really though, how is this all that different from making candidates type their resume into a form then filtering in their ATS? Seems like a nice ergonomic approach if they're actually set up to use MCPs in candidate sourcing (probably won't be the case for at least another year).

Re:College Towns: Urbanism from a Past Era on Monday April 21, 2025 @01:25PM (#43754307)
Fair enough! You're right it's a bit blunt. I didn't take very much time to edit it. Hopefully folks are able to look past any gruffness and find the substance in it.
Re:College Towns: Urbanism from a Past Era on Friday April 18, 2025 @02:42PM (#43730761)
Total strawman argument.

The size of the country has almost no bearing on the way we develop our towns and cities, subsidize car production, assume/require car ownership in public policy, etc.

It's also quite the stretch to claim the UK as the best country in the EU and even more to claim that it doesn't also have a car culture. And it's not just "America's worst state", the vast majority of US town and cities are car dependent.

Re:The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @12:11PM (#43633706)
> Can't we just have a set of best practices around API endpoints/functions? Like, imo we could just keep using Rest APIs and have a convention that an agent exposes endpoints like /capabilities, /task_status ...

To make this work at scale we all need to agree on the specific routes names, payloads, behaviors, etc. At that point we have defined a protocol (built on top of HTTP, itself a lower level protocol).

Really? The hyperbole does not help anyone here.

I don't sign a term sheet when I order at McDonalds but you can be damn sure they count how many big macs I order. Does that make them morally bankrupt? Or is it just a normal business operation that is actually totally reasonable?

You're making a huge jump from "gathering anonymous counters to understand how many people use the thing" to "harvest all the data you want and monetize it".

If they were tracking my identity across sites and actually selling it to the highest bidder that's one thing that we'll definitely agree on. This is so so far from that.

You're welcome to build and use your own MCP browser automation if you're so hostile to the developer that built something cool and free for you to use.

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