merelydev

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by merelydev 23d ago
That is how we find ourselves in this mess, we design systems thinking only of everything that can go right and not what can go wrong.
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by merelydev 23d ago
Yes. My point is that until you learn to lock your door, thief will enter and steal your property. You can hate them all you want, that wont change the facts or magically lock your door.
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by merelydev 23d ago
That is like hating a hacker who hacks into your vulnerable server that is outdated and allows ssh password login. If there is vulnerabilities in the system someone will eventually exploit them, sure not you or me but there is always someon
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by merelydev 24d ago
TLDR: "Don't hate the player, hate the game".
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by merelydev 28d ago
Allot of people claiming it's because of increased load from AI. If that's true why do their systems sometime take hours to come back online, just restart the servers and you're back online, it's not like a nuclear reac
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Fallacy of Decentralization(kaindume.bearblog.dev)
2 points by merelydev 1mo ago|0 comments
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by merelydev 1mo ago
The main fuel is the internet , followed by mobile phones and social media. AI definitely makes the scams more believable, a Nigerian Prince can now easily forge documents. But at the same time AI is a double edged sword, it can be used fo
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by merelydev 1mo ago
I think you misunderstood what I said. Let me rephrase. Would you rather watch a chess tournament between two of the best human players in world, or between two of the best bots in the world? I know that chess is deeper than this, its about
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by merelydev 1mo ago
This is not surprising. Would you rather have handmade Italian shoes or factory made shoes sewn by a robot. Humans assign quality relative to themselves. A chess game between to bots is boring, no matter how strong the bots are. Humans gene
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by merelydev 1mo ago
Great stuff. Wonder how many of the ten problems where solved by independent mathematicians not linked to OpenAI
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by merelydev 2mo ago
There is a view where developers think of a forge as a place where they host their code. Than there is another view where the forge is where you go to get code others have written, and this is where GitHub shines. Because of the collective
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by merelydev 2mo ago
Learn JavaScript/Dart and Rust/Zig. Have a mono repo of all your code modules, never rewrite code, as you switch between projects. Because AI is trained on the web, expect the fundamental building blocks of Software Engineering to
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by merelydev 2mo ago
Why's this not the top comment?
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by merelydev 2mo ago
Why should consumers care what Coca-cola thinks about Pepsi?
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by merelydev 2mo ago
This will be used as an argument to ban opensource models.
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by merelydev 2mo ago
There has always been room for both closed and open source software. In this context, open source/self-host means do it yourself, closed source means you trust someone else to do it for you. In the long run open source always wins beca
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by merelydev 2mo ago
If they outlaw open source models that'll just handicap American companies, the rest of the world will be running open source and have an arbitrage against US companies.
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by merelydev 2mo ago
So what now? USA blocks Chinese AI. US companies use expansive closed source AI while the rest of the world use cheap self hostable open source AI from China?
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by merelydev 2mo ago
How will this be enforced, at least with financial markets money is discrete, can largely be counted. This seems like a slippery slope to full blown surveillance of the internet and in general computing. If AGI is truly imminent and will co
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by merelydev 2mo ago
I don't think that's their biggest mistake. Their downfall was because they where mainly a hardware company without any network effects. Customers could easily switch from Nokia to any other hardware without an issue.
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by merelydev 3mo ago
Because of asymmetric differences, I don't have access to powerful LLMs but attackers might. And also the complexities of software dependencies (supply chain vulnerabilities), my software depends on packages not in my control and I don
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by merelydev 3mo ago
"one ought to design systems under the assumption that the enemy will immediately gain full familiarity with them" - Claude Shannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle
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by merelydev 3mo ago
Fair point but it assumes we all have access to LLMs with the same capabilities.
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by merelydev 3mo ago
Most of the exploits are for opensource/free software. I don't know what methods where used to find these exploits but I am starting to think security through obscurity might not be a bad thing in this day and age, where someone c
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by merelydev 3mo ago
> The question is also what game they're playing. Deepseek came out of a hedge fund. I think it's no coincidence that their publications tend to have a large impact on AI stock prices. Its revealing that they always seem to pub
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by merelydev 3mo ago
> Yes exactly, and theoretically if there was a functioning market that should have driven prices way down, because the marginal cost to enter the market is so low. However, the non-functioning anti-trust laws as well as the expansion of
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by merelydev 3mo ago
> It's funny how everyone (especially here on HN) accepted (and expected) extremely high profit margins from software businesses Because software you build it once and can resell it as much as you want, a stick of RAM is only sold o
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by merelydev 3mo ago
Wiregaurd, postgres replication and load balancing can do the job? Lets go: https://matrix.to/#/#hostpool:matrix.org
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by merelydev 3mo ago
I volunteer my laptop, I suggest you and others do the same. We can hook them up in a VPN with E2ee. We just need 1 public IP. Lets Go!
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by merelydev 3mo ago
The beauty of supply and demand magic is that the market is now open for anyone that can provide server hosting cheaply.

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