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by codingdave 3d ago
> Here's the API key... > ...that can't really be stopped easily. Sure sounds like you built in an easy lever to pull to stop it. After all, even if you accept your premise that it will clone itself and run independently,
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by codingdave 3d ago
> all they'll find out Who is "they"? Flock collects data which is given/sold to police departments or other entities. Regardless of how you feel about law enforcement having this data, how do you feel about Flock bei
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by codingdave 3d ago
AI has no autonomous goals or personal ambition. The only way they would "take over" in any sense is if people give them a goal that drives them to that direction and give them access to freely access any system. What needs to s
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by codingdave 4d ago
From the guidelines: "HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by codingdave 4d ago
Actual Title: "Snapchat's New Business" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
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by codingdave 4d ago
This question is asked often, and the answer is always that it depends on who your audience is. Channels that work for one person might fail for you, and vice versa. Every product solves a different problem, which means different people who
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by codingdave 6d ago
> and loads of other huge tech things that are now wildly profitable. They also said it about loads of other huge tech things that died. Pointing at the ones that made it is literally survivor bias.
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by codingdave 6d ago
This was clearly a popular post, but please do be aware that blog posts are explicitly not "Show HNs".
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by codingdave 9d ago
Actual Title: "Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas" If you want to quote an essay, then write a blog post and quote the essay. Linking to the reference material, putting in the wrong title, and then commenting about the one sentence y
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by codingdave 10d ago
> (k) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the Service IANAL. But I think reverse engineering their data structure, identifying a security measure - even one as weak as obfuscation, and publishing code to circumvent i
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by codingdave 10d ago
> you and I know it misses the point. wat. I didn't lie about my perspective. If you disagree, by all means, share your thoughts. But that statement puts a really odd spin on your response.
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by codingdave 10d ago
"Asking for a friend" is a great example.
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by codingdave 10d ago
I dabble in art - maybe more than dabble. I have a degree in Fine Arts / Art History, and have been creating art for a few decades. But I don't do it professionally. With that context in mind, my take on this is that it might help
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by codingdave 14d ago
That existed for decades in the USA just by dialing '411'. It only went away a few years ago in many locations.
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by codingdave 15d ago
I worked with some of the folks who introduced coding into school districts way back when that movement started, so I have a bit of inside knowledge. The biggest anecdote I'd share is that learning to code as early as 1st grade unexpec
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by codingdave 16d ago
The JavaScript test is more about how well you know how quirky JavaScript is than whether or not you have lost coding ability.
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by codingdave 16d ago
The author doesn't really claim it was a hack, just that it is a possibility. But they are charging down the path of the potential hack before asking the more obvious question: How many refrigerators exist in the military at all? And o
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by codingdave 17d ago
> The device captures the dream, illustrates it beautifully... Captures it how? Does she describe it to the device? If so, this is just another ChatGPT wrapper, with added hardware. If not, and it somehow actually captures what is going
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by codingdave 19d ago
> To write the kind of code AI generates, I used to have to keep documentation open on a second monitor, think deeply, and constantly Google better approaches. This is a double edged sword. Yes, LLMs have given me some really interestin
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by codingdave 20d ago
Most new businesses have nothing to do with tech at all. If you want to play in the slice of the tech world that is focused on AI, that is a choice you can make. And some people are going to make a fortune doing so. But don't fall into
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by codingdave 21d ago
Civil law is not centered around what is or is not legal. It is about resolving problems that fall outside of criminal law. It is a completely different set of procedures and approach to the law.
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by codingdave 21d ago
Hm. I'm someone who stills prefers to code by hand, and one of my hobbies is to go do some work in my blacksmith shop down in my barn. While my wife enjoys making our own clothes by hand and quilting. OK, I think I'm going to bow
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by codingdave 22d ago
> if you don't use social media to promote your business you'll be left behind by your competitors who do. That isn't universally true, though. If everyone is at the same skill level for a skill common enough to be a commo
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by codingdave 22d ago
AI speeds up my personal work a bit, because I don't use it for anything that isn't effective. I am in control of how much or little I use it. Where I get slowed down by AI is when working with others. My current main gig is one o
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by codingdave 22d ago
Except that isn't how it played out. Most of the Access DBs, spreadsheets, and even SharePoint, Notes, and early Salesforce apps worked just fine without any help from devs. Yes, the devs got called in when those solutions needed to sc
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by codingdave 22d ago
Think about the scale of that. If 100K users all posted the story of their one or two friends that needed help, HN would be overwhelmed with such things. It is the same reason you cannot take a pretty rock from a national park. It seems sm
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by codingdave 22d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." Feel free to tell a story in a comment, like you did, but trying t
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by codingdave 22d ago
The largest company I worked for was in the energy industry, and we didn't even have quarterly shipping goals. I pretty much was handed some apps and told, "Handle these." I did well with that and ended up being handled a col
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by codingdave 23d ago
One of the side effects of the "up or out" business strategy is that by definition, almost nobody has to live with the long-term results of their work. If they did something that had a short-term benefit, they can walk away with a
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by codingdave 23d ago
Yeah, if that is the situation, this is straight up fraud.

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