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by kakwa_ 4d ago
I would love to have hn more curated. The AI spam is part of the issue, but not only. Maybe it's rose tinted glasses, but it feel like HN posts and comments quality have dropped significantly compared to ~5 to 10 years ago. It used to
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by kakwa_ 7d ago
That's assuming people are rational with their money. Cars already are extremely wasteful assets in terms of resource, space and money if you live in a decently served urban area. It already irrational to have one 90% of the times. An
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by kakwa_ 7d ago
You very rarely fire execs these days, the main reason being you don't want them to sue the company over their loss of reputation. You want to keep-up appearances and leave some plausible deniability, even if it's generally BS.
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by kakwa_ 18d ago
Both sides of the equation need to be solved. The US is still one of the leading CO2 emitters, both per capita and in absolute terms. And for cumulative past emissions, it's not even close. The expectation is not a mere 18% decrease bu
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by kakwa_ 22d ago
Personally, I've forked the hnrss project to create two separate feeds (ironically, quickly implemented using AI). It just a basic filter based on keywords, but it helps.
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by kakwa_ 27d ago
My personal experience reversing things relying mostly on Claude or other LLMs is a bit hit and miss. Sometimes it worked great, but sometimes it gets stuck. When it occurs, it kind of sucks because suddenly you have to catch up and assimil
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by kakwa_ 1mo ago
Both are not comparable as the stickiness dynamics are completely different. On Twitter, it's mostly the networking effect, you want to be where peoples are, and unless a large chunk move at once, you are stuck there. On Github, it&#x2
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by kakwa_ 1mo ago
Complaining with the angle of "cold pizzas and spilled cola" fills a bit of touch when considering the human exploitation on the other side.
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by kakwa_ 1mo ago
The anti-tech has been there for a while. In my opinion, the moment tech perception flipped from "it's kind of cool" to "I don't trust it" was E. Snowden in 2013. For more than one decade now, we have progressi
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by kakwa_ 1mo ago
Well, we are talking about the CEOs, not the companies. And these CEOs have very little to do with creating and improving said companies' products. The repeated outlandish claims kind of definitely broke this illusion.
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by kakwa_ 2mo ago
The debt amount is very roughly proportional to the size of the economy. It's also a system that is unstable in non-booming economies, drifts over time and needs periodic resets (through revolution, debt cancelling or inflation for exa
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by kakwa_ 2mo ago
And at the risk of being a downer, I'm not sure Open Source LLMs is actually viable. Training a model requires two or three orders of magnitude more investment than the typical OSS/Creative Common contributor can reasonably afford
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by kakwa_ 2mo ago
Well, it has proven itself to be a very useful military asset in Ukraine. The rural & underdeveloped area and the niche applications (ex: ships and planes) will bring-in some cash. And in addition, the US Army will pretty much guaranty
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by kakwa_ 3mo ago
I feel this is way too fear mongering heavy against developing in Open Source. I published nearly everything I code on my free time, that's ~100 git repositories. Out of these, ~15 are documented and made generic enough to be used by o
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by kakwa_ 3mo ago
> was very common for individuals and teams to publish projects to open source repositories under Google-managed Github orgs. I have the feeling these projects were not deeply intertwined with Google products like this cli is. This proj
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by kakwa_ 3mo ago
I don't recall any current car manufacturer with such lineage. Honestly, at Oracle scale, doing the "let's destroy and rebuild the company mid-flight" seems like a losing proposition compared to newly formed companies or
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by kakwa_ 3mo ago
A sample size of 3 is hardly statistically significant. From what I could found, billionaires die on average at ~83 years old. ( https://strygin.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-die ) It's not far off what a decent
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by kakwa_ 3mo ago
And the troubleshooting? Given the number of moving parts, I would be terrified to have to look under the hood of what Talos deployed for me.
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Show HN: Whim-proxy, a vibe-coded tool to reverse-tunnel webhooks to your laptop(github.com)
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by kakwa_ 4mo ago
In the end, Nix is just a thin veneer on this stuff. Given how many quick & dirty sed patching or exec commands I've seen in the few nix package/modules I've read, I would not exactly bet my life on it being completely id
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by kakwa_ 4mo ago
Also, the *BSD are structured somewhat differently to a Linux distro. It's not like the Linux world where you have distinct projects like the Kernel, GNU, OpenSSL, and then it's the distributions job to assemble everything. In the
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by kakwa_ 4mo ago
Bun is effectively dead. Anthropic bought it in a somewhat dumb attempt to solve their "performance" issues (not realizing their horrible code was the issue in the first place). It probably helped them, simply because they brought
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by kakwa_ 4mo ago
After having way too strong opinions about this, and even if Go is my go to language, I've stopped caring for this kind of statements. In the end, the language doesn't really matter and extremely rarely is the bottleneck. Python,
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by kakwa_ 4mo ago
Well, it depends. Managing and coordinating a bloated organization always has a cost and an overhead, from communication issues to technical inefficiencies. And I also doubt the frontend/backend divide is so clear. I would bet quite a
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by kakwa_ 4mo ago
It's not always the case, for example Japan has very low immigration. And there is also the demographic disparity at play here. The US is attracting migrants mainly from Latin America, that's a population basin of 650M people, rou
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by kakwa_ 4mo ago
Are these principles really about sustainability? It seems to be far more geared toward promoting some sort of misplaced post-collapse resiliency. In other words: solving some hypothetical issues on the other side of a catastrophe for a wor
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by kakwa_ 4mo ago
Pretty standard in highly regulated fields like aerospace, finance/banking or industry. Sometimes for good reasons, like thorough validation need or operational constraints like spaced-out maintenance windows. Sometimes for bad reasons
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by kakwa_ 4mo ago
For the home page, I would recommend the "UnTrap for Youtube" browser extension.
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by kakwa_ 5mo ago
Your toaster is well... a toaster. And even something as simple toaster might need some customer support. These things do fail quite often, sometimes dangerously. Increase complexity even a little; or worse, deal with a service (phone, inte
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by kakwa_ 5mo ago
I feel this report is missing something when it puts all OSS developers into the same bucket, and somewhat fails to define what an OSS developer actually is. There is tons of variability depending on many factors like the project complexity

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