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Re:PingCap TiDB Leaks on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:48PM (#50190133)
since they pasted customer creds in jira tickets they most likely are very liable hence the downplaying

im not an expert but if I was an investor I'd try to find a buyer for my shares and run

Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:22PM (#50155177)
> Literally the only people with this opinion of Tao are internet forum warriors

I find it amusing that you would be the one saying it here.

Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:19PM (#50146069)
entirely fair.

basically both sides now dislike that he flip flopped

its either you are anti-AI all the way or flexible and adaptive without making strong opinions that can be put on record.

most people are in the latter and its growing. math is solved.

Re:I Became a Citizen of Japan on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:22AM (#50138739)
Ethnic Japanese people who have lived in Japan for thousands of years
Re:I Became a Citizen of Japan on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:21AM (#50137891)
Foreigner who becomes Citizen of Japan = Still a gaijin (foreigner) to real Japanese
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:39PM (#50024047)
never used deno or paid much attention to it despite all the fancy marketing.

i always wondered how they were making money

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:50PM (#50010255)
No, that is the incorrect take. Offshoring isn't easy or cheap. Especially when Trump is basically trying to get companies to hire American workers by any means.

It is risky to invest in offshoring when the outcome isn't guaranteed to save you money.

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:40PM (#50010091)
America already won here, the top tier talent outside America is already here or looking to get to America. The big name companies hiring them aren't doing it to save money. It is the outsourcing companies that are basically sweatshops that Trump is targeting.
Re:Web Search API on Monday October 05, 2026 @01:19PM (#49967682)
is this serpapi ?
Re:Sites in ChatGPT on Friday October 02, 2026 @02:24PM (#49936817)
honest question what is the sherlock proof business/app/saas we can do as independent builders

hard out here hard for startups too

Re:Sites in ChatGPT on Friday October 02, 2026 @02:23PM (#49936808)
wow there goes lovable's moat
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:25PM (#49914689)
Tough to compete against your own stake in Anthropic and they just filed for IPO. Not digging Google as a result of this, they are holding back.
Those redditors are here on HN and it has inherited a lot of the same far left ideology. You can see it common place now, stalking comment history, flagging so that they will get banned. It's not even necessarily political but having different opinions or not agreeing with narratives they subscribe to, exactly the same flaws that Reddit has.

I've stopped engaging on HN a lot because of the characteristic change I notice especially since 2020.

yeah reddit but also its old as time I see people do it on HN as well

this type of behavior just comes from a deep place of misery and anger

the amount of time someone spends online is directly related to their socioeconomic status

someone with a rich vibrant and wholesome life with economic comforts to do travelling and hobbies dont have time to go through somebodys comment history and spend time judging and trying to instigate others

someone without those things are going to be online all day.

This is why Reddit is a low value high effort distribution channel. When your userbase is hostile and suspicious constantly to any commercial introductions, advertising there becomes just an exercise in futility. The demographic also is problematic on Bluesky. Same on hackernews. Astroturfing is certainly a response to this friction and in turn it only creates more of it.

Also specifically with Reddit they have allowed hiding comment history which makes it even harder, I imagine they did this for boosting ad business

There are much better platforms to spend your effort on like X. X requires many users to purchase a subscription account and thus acts as sort of a litmus test (people who can afford low amount of money per month).

i've tried all the "open source" me too Jevs

they all suck

I'm fascinated how little people know about Japan are seemingly the loudest in the room when it comes to deciding what Japan should do.
So Japan had minorities and borrowed writing system from other countries thousands of years ago mean they need to now redefine what Japanese identity is and become a full multicultural nation the likes of North America and Western Europe ?

So if sushi replaced turkey for Thanksgiving, do non-Americans get to tell Americans how they should organize themselves too and define what a real American is ?

Shitty situation I'm sure but no matter how you spin it or complain its shouting into the void. Whether there was real plus or minus ultimately as you pointed out make up a very microscopic fraction of Japanese economy and priority from the Japanese point of view, who's voice almost always override those of foreigners.

It would be nice for everybody to be happy but its clear Japanese who are the rightful owners of the land are not, and thus they have a right to vote and through consensus decide on what they perceive to be best for their national interests.

Maybe it's good for them maybe it's not but it won't be heard like all the comments here including mine or visible to real Japanese people living in Japan.

Korean men and Japanese women make up the biggest share of international marriages in Japan so there's something more going on here that makes Japanese women highly desirable to men in general.
There lies the thesis you pointed out. The point of these articles and coverage seems to be aimed at "Why isn't Japan multicultural yet, so racist!" which makes no sense. Japan has been inhabited by Japanese language, culture and homogeneous people for thousands of years.

There is absolutely no need for Japan to become multicultural or any other country for that matter because not being multicultural isn't a fault or a sin.

I don't know why so many in the West demand this on other countries. There's just something very unnatural and unrealistic and scary to expect a homogeneous country like Japan to suddenly start calling a clearly non-Japanese looking person Japanese. It's going to create huge problems for Japan that won't benefit it or its people by any measure.

I just find it odd so many non-Japanese media and commentators weigh in on this.

Japan is not a multicultural country. You can't become Japanese through paperwork. It is very much through blood heritage, your language and cultural proficiency.

The bar to be Japanese is much higher than say Canadian or French. So why shouldn't they create laws that is aimed at benefiting themselves and their country without depending on foreigners?

Also if you have a business and you don't have $125,000 you are not going to make it in Canada or America either.

Re:Unreal Agent on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:17PM (#49811228)
that shouldn't be what eats up tokens tho

gpt 6 sol already made a lot of progress with caches

i have a feeling unreal agent might have decided to release now rather than getting sherlocked

i just think its very risky right now to spend too much time building harnesses or anything on top of codex or claude simply because frontier labs will just absorb whatever works

what was foxpro , for younger gen here
Re:OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:34AM (#49803026)
comments are pretty weird here, there's no real moat to what jev is doing, it is certain that frontier labs are going to release their own jev and there are even open source alternatives (although nowhere near as accurate as jev).

so maybe typesafe's real plan is to front run and releasing their own new models for some time until they can get acquired which seems to be the only rational objective

Before this article I wasn't even aware but 100% there's going to be a huge increase in Robin Williams AI saying/doing whack shit just like all the other AI footage of famous people.

If you are publicly famous, your image no longer is owned by you, especially true with AI now.

Not necessarily, anonymity enables a lot of interesting behaviors. I see it all the time on HN.
The irony here is that this article is now a giant invitation to everyone else who just found out about this to pile on and do the exact opposite
Re:Waymo in Singapore on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:51AM (#49750588)
Why is this something to be celebrated? Private ownership of land, property too ?

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