losteric

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by losteric 4d ago
Spam website owners pay for these bots, they get compensated for the conversions. In an ideal world, google’s ad prices and fraud detection would render this ineffective.
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by losteric 7d ago
The actual rates charged to merchants are variable, and typically higher for rewards/cashback cards. Basically, other people are subsidizing cards with higher benefits/cash back (of course as people shift, the merchant raises pric
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by losteric 10d ago
why?? It's extremely common for nonprofits to have anonymous matching donors. Even my local animal shelter.
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by losteric 20d ago
I have a feeling search traffic is down and lots of people are diverting to using AI, or to one of the sloppy competitors. Conveying bank statements doesn’t seem like there’s much of a moat around the workflow.
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by losteric 25d ago
Their primary information channels have been captured and corrupted. They are isolated and misled. This is the penultimate form of domestic fascist propaganda. Your reductive statement just fodders further divisiveness and apathy. We'v
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by losteric 26d ago
I really struggle to get past AI writing. Aside from feeling disrespected, something about that style is just so tiring to read… the marketing style of setup and reveal, repetition, only works in small doses
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by losteric 1mo ago
> I think it funny how much average engineers are beginning to discover the challenges of engineering leadership and program management. This has always been the bottleneck. It is somewhat new for most ICs to need this skillset, as oppos
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by losteric 2mo ago
> This is funny to read because I remember hearing someone complain about the exact same thing in the Bay Area, but their dates were shifted by about 10 years before yours. Another perspective is just that SF's culture has been decl
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by losteric 2mo ago
I'd guess it depends on the type of business. If it's some genuinely deep technical space, the model would give an edge but even then I think luck would be a significant factor. In a monte carlo of such scenarios, the business wit
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by losteric 2mo ago
What are your thoughts on Hubble?
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by losteric 2mo ago
this is just crowd sourced data? Looks vibe coded. And immediately asking for donations for a short Claude job, pretty sus?
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by losteric 2mo ago
it's part of a webring of vibecoded slopsites
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by losteric 2mo ago
the post seems to be link farming for the poster's startup that hosts the site
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by losteric 2mo ago
AI-written blog post, basically link farming for the associated "Auditable workspaces for AI coding agent" product (that owns the git repo). I care because: It's not clear what a human learned or found valuable? If a human le
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by losteric 2mo ago
Can you elaborate on the project? Because I just see a vibe coded project with failing builds and no associated interesting development story or example applications.
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by losteric 3mo ago
I’m also curious how OP came about this? No comments on the post, two comments on HN, most history are submissions that are almost all [dead]
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by losteric 3mo ago
The Google matches for this name are inconsistent and suspicious. Did the LLM just pick a random name?
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by losteric 3mo ago
It seems like AI is really hurting the people who don't have a hoard of experience - the juniors and early mid-level tech people. The incumbents with experience are doing amazing. PM's with Mythos aren't replacing the PE wi
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by losteric 3mo ago
> Plain headless Chromium is easy to detect by websites with anti-bot measures. Plain headless Chromium avoided getting blocked by websites only 2% of the time, according to our stealth benchmark. > Our browsers avoid blocks 81% of th
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by losteric 3mo ago
How does this > If this source [0] is true then 65% of audiobooks (in 2022) were non-fiction. Likewise that the audiobook industry has grown by nearly 3x since a2022. Lead to > by my math, it's simply that people prefer to listen
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by losteric 3mo ago
I can’t even figure out what to pick from the myriad of streaming services I have. How would I prompt an AI for dopamine fix?
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by losteric 3mo ago
> Why would I pay for services that will be enshiftified when I can build an app that does exactly what I want in an afternoon. When we talk about “the market”, the customer base, remember it’s a market that typically doesn’t know how to
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by losteric 4mo ago
Right after WW2, trust was way higher. There was a belief in common good and progress and all that.
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by losteric 4mo ago
Can you share what some of those apps are?
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by losteric 4mo ago
> using it all day (say 8h) costs between 0.7 and about 14 kg of CO2 in the US, How do you get to this range? That's quite a spread. When I last ran the math, my daily usage (efficient and effective productivity, not spamming Gas To
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by losteric 5mo ago
“The community” - which community? Where? This is a brand new website, there’s next to no online presence for the name (all seemingly unrelated). It reads like using LLMs to fake some credibility
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by losteric 5mo ago
The problem with billionaires is they have a vastly disproportionate voice in the political system, which leads to ineffective politicians and policies not aligned with a thriving society. eg: cutting funding to the IRS and advanced science
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by losteric 5mo ago
The top 1% own 31% and the top 10% own 68% of household wealth. The group you’re talking about, 70-95 percentile, are often people that just own a house near a big city or a farm/small business.
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by losteric 6mo ago
That’s so conspiratorial. They could just stream with a slightly delay to interrupt the feed on disaster. I think it’s way more likely they just didn’t have a good broadcasting team.
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by losteric 6mo ago
What is this submission?? It's linking a closed issue, with a fairly incendiary title off of one sentence by a now-deleted Github user. How did you even find that?

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