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by Hansenq 7d ago
> The Wednesday evening statement from OpenAI was more emphatic: “We can say categorically that it is impossible for Dr. Buckmaster’s Codex prompts over the last two months to have influenced the system in any way, including training.” &
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by Hansenq 8d ago
Agree! We have both published solutions now; someone (AI?) should be able to analyze their methods and see how similar they are
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by Hansenq 2mo ago
This is a tragic story. But it is also a story about the lengths that parents in China will go to improve the quality of life for their only child or to "save face" to their social circle about how their child is performing relati
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by Hansenq 2mo ago
Technically, a wikipedia page of a [living] person is an unauthorized biography! But we'd like to think the crowdsourced editing process gives it some more trustworthiness than a random person self-publishing a book
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by Hansenq 2mo ago
Given that everything in the book is public information, it's hard to argue that any of this is strictly _illegal_, given the First Amendment. But it's definitely distasteful to write a book about a living individual without their
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by Hansenq 3mo ago
I only went to Pangram because I read through the essay and could not help but notice the Claude-like sentence structure and AI-isms in it, which distracted me and completely made me distrust the thesis of the piece. My understanding is tha
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by Hansenq 3mo ago
61% AI generated, according to Pangram https://www.pangram.com/history/e5a00ace-94cc-436e-b87b-a094... c'mon, you're Carlyle, a trusted institution for financial advice! How can I trust what you're sayin
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by Hansenq 3mo ago
You can absolutely level this claim against Tesla too. When deliveries dropped a year ago, the stock price didn't go down. Tesla's stock is disconnected from the fundamentals and every stock investor today knows this. Why would Sp
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Loupe: Revealing iOS Fingerprinting Signals(github.com)
3 points by Hansenq 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Hansenq 6mo ago
Lots of critiques here! Something missing in this discussion is people asking _why_ it is that they're doing this. The people who work there aren't stupid! I think this is a disconnect between people who think that large companies
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by Hansenq 6mo ago
Ben Thompson interviewed UA's CEO on Starlink a few months ago. Scott said: "It took time to negotiate, because we wanted to own the consumer data, and at the beginning, Starlink did, so that was hard, and then, the other thing wa
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by Hansenq 6mo ago
I've definitely thought about substituting a nonstop flight for a 1-stop flight on UA regional jets just to get Starlink on the entire route. The annoying this is I live by a UA hub and UA doesn't fly regional planes between UA hu
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by Hansenq 6mo ago
very fair! wild to think about though. It's both more human but also less. I would say this behavior now no longer passes the Turing test for me--if I asked a human a question about code I wouldn't expect them to return the code c
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by Hansenq 6mo ago
if you want that kind of control i think you should just try buff or opencode instead of the native Claude Code. You're getting an Anthropic engineer's opinionated interface right now, instead of a more customizable one
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by Hansenq 6mo ago
Often times I'll say something like: "Can we make the change to change the button color from red to blue?" Literally, this is a yes or no question. But the AI will interpret this as me _wanting_ to complete that task and will
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by Hansenq 6mo ago
I love this writeup--it's one of the refreshing looks into how startup innovation happens on-the-ground. We're inundated with new products and startups so often that it's easy to forget that the people working on the product
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by Hansenq 7mo ago
If you know anything about tech, you will know that tech as an industry is highly deflationary--billionares use the same iPhones as you do! (in contrast, they don't drive the same cars you do) This boils down to the fact that chip fabs
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by Hansenq 7mo ago
I was a bit confused as to how everything works until I read it in detail. Really cool tools, but I think one thing that would help in the introduction is: saying explicitly that the generated .md document is for you (the user) to read thro
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by Hansenq 7mo ago
Oh this is smart! Reading where Slack stores the local data in your filesystem instead of using their API/MCP (which they charge for). Very clever; similar to OpenAI launching Atlas when websites start blocking bot requests--just build
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by Hansenq 9mo ago
Water allocation in the American West has been a mess ever since the beginning, when Prior Appropriation was decided as the way to claim water rights. Essentially, the first person to put a claim of water into "beneficial use" get
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by Hansenq 11mo ago
OpenAI needs to IPO because they want to access the public capital markets to fund their AI investments, more deep-pocketed investors are wary of investing in a LLC, and for liquidity, etc. OpenAI needs to convert to a C-corp in order to IP
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by Hansenq 11mo ago
Not entirely by coincidence. Yes Shockley was from CA, but as late as the 1980, two places were competing to be the center: Boston's Route 128 ("America's Technology Highway") or Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley won out be
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by Hansenq 11mo ago
In any negotiation, you need to understand what leverage either side has. In this case, CA could block the conversion, and OpenAI could leave California. Both are possible but extremely unlikely outcomes! So the whole point is to take t
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by Hansenq 11mo ago
Everyone here seems to hate on the idea of seeing ads on an appliance you purchased. I hate ads too! But, let's consider the counterfactual. What if Samsung offered you a new fridge for free, as long as you were ok with passive ads? I
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A Software Fix to Make Caltrain 4% Faster(caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com)
1 points by Hansenq 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Hansenq 1y ago
$500B current valuation (Sep 2025) Nonprofit equity stake will exceed $100B So the OpenAI nonprofit will control ~20% of the OpenAI PBC once the conversion is done. This says nothing about different share classes that determine control (the
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Show HN: United PQP/PQF Earnings Calculator(app.statusrope.com)
1 points by Hansenq 1y ago|0 comments
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Bill Gates: Technology Stocks should have Lower Multiples(acquired.fm)
2 points by Hansenq 1y ago|1 comments
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by Hansenq 1y ago
Related to Judge Mehta's recent ruling on remedies for Google's monopoly status, I'm reminded of Bill Gates' quote that software companies should not be valued as highly as traditional companies, because the rules change
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by Hansenq 1y ago
Wow, congrats on finally using up your single Launch HN, David and Amanda! :wink: No but seriously, y'all have built not only an incredible product that I had the chance to demo, but a great company as well, through your previous pivot

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