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by shubhamjain 9d ago
I talked about this in my blog post [1]. I didn't expect regulators to pay attention to the issue anytime soon—let alone move against it. So kudos to the Australian government. Enough with the free-speech and free-market rhetoric: algo
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by shubhamjain 10d ago
It’s in the same vein as saying, “Why don’t we bring forums back?” Vast majority of people 'enjoy' the quick dopamine hit of swiping, matching, and trading cheesy pickup lines, even if they claim otherwise. They may complain, but
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by shubhamjain 10d ago
I used to think the same way, that people have always overreacted to new technology. But over time I’ve started to feel there’s at least a bit of truth to some of those moral panics, and it's not correct to dismiss all. I remember laug
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Doomscrolling ourselves to death(edwest.co.uk)
429 points by shubhamjain 11d ago|338 comments
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by shubhamjain 11d ago
It’s surreal how quickly this went from being the most important problem in the world to barely being on anyone’s mind, all in less than a decade. I had plenty of problems with the fear-mongering and doomed-by-2030 predictions, but the curr
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by shubhamjain 12d ago
> So this is just delegating certain work to dumber models? I certainly wouldn't use Gemini 2.5 Flash (!!?) for code writing as suggested. Why not, though? I started using OpenCode + GitHub Copilot, but I burned through my Claude So
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by shubhamjain 15d ago
The source of the problem was misdiagnosed, though. Idiocracy predicted that idiots would eventually outnumber smart people because the latter are supposedly much more ambivalent about having kids. I don’t think that’s actually true—the “sm
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Your AI Generated Menu Triggered My Trypophobia(shubhamjain.co)
17 points by shubhamjain 20d ago|7 comments
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by shubhamjain 20d ago
Every quarter I see a similar analysis, similar projection. Yet, they keep posting these insane numbers. Everyone knows it’s a bubble, the problem is determining the top. Nvidia is continuously showing the top is far far higher than everyon
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Your AI Generated Menu Triggered My Trypophobia(shubhamjain.co)
6 points by shubhamjain 21d ago|0 comments
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by shubhamjain 22d ago
I haven’t used this project but I have used Gerrit. It has its drawbacks (like terrible UX) but its style of code reviews were the most sensible and commit of every PR might not be as bad as it sounds. GitHub’s PR reviews are atrocious and
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Show HN: MageCDN – Image CDN with unlimited bandwidth(magecdn.com)
2 points by shubhamjain 22d ago|0 comments
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by shubhamjain 1mo ago
What an absurd take on a very reasonable concern. As much as I hate “obviously AI” writing, I don’t understand why we have to handicap the tech and prevent it from improving. This manipulation of word choices virtually guarantees AI will al
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Demographic Dividend, my ass; overpopulation sucks(shubhamjain.co)
5 points by shubhamjain 1mo ago|1 comments
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Demographic Dividend, my ass; overpopulation sucks(shubhamjain.co)
3 points by shubhamjain 1mo ago|0 comments
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by shubhamjain 1mo ago
If these numbers are remotely true, there's either a crucial number missing or investors are utter idiots who forced this sale. Won't be surprised if it's the latter. Assuming M&A deals take at least a few months to close
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by shubhamjain 1mo ago
As I have grown older, I have realized dead-honesty is a false ideal to live by, especially when it comes to being rewarded in the capitalistic world. I know someone who reached executive level position in a major company and all of his car
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by shubhamjain 2mo ago
Despite its obvious advantages, the biggest drawback of DuckDB is its concurrency model [1]. If a process opens a database in read-write mode, it acquires an exclusive lock on the file. This prevents even simple read operations from other p
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Show HN: PDFUnlock - Unlock password-protected PDFs right from Finder(shubhamjain.co)
3 points by shubhamjain 2mo ago|0 comments
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by shubhamjain 5mo ago
The kind of garbage that gets to the front-page is mind-boggling. Okay, maybe there's some useful trivia here, but combined with the headline, it's just trash clickbait.
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by shubhamjain 5mo ago
If you think you need to spend $100B, does using a third-party cloud provider still make sense? It doesn’t matter what sweet deal Amazon is pitching—in that scenario, you’d want to own your stack. Especially in a hyper-competitive field lik
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by shubhamjain 5mo ago
The article sounds like the author is visibly upset why these videos are being shared, which are mere “propaganda” to them. “Slop”, “factually inaccurate”, “Iran, the most repressive country for press freedom.” “We spoke” is doing a more t
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by shubhamjain 5mo ago
Probably never. I think it's been at least a decade since the fear over them became mainstream. Yeah, it's possible these things can take time to show up but considering the scale of their presence and how long we have been using
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by shubhamjain 5mo ago
I think it's a pretty good case. I always wondered why would the inventor would use pseudonym in the first place. Surely, not even the most visionary person could anticipate how hugely popular the thing would become. This is why I was
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by shubhamjain 5mo ago
Was expecting to learn how SMSes work on the cellular side. Nothing of that sort. This is probably the worst AI slop article I have ever seen with the same thing repeated multiple times, short stupid sentences, which I can only assume is a
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by shubhamjain 6mo ago
> OpenAI is struggling to monetize. They turned to showing ads in ChatGPT, something Sam Altman once called a “last resort”, while Anthropic is crushing them with the more profitable corporate customers and software engineers. Their shop
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by shubhamjain 6mo ago
Amazing! Kudos to Hollywood, for going to this length to license the work, credit the author, involve him in the project. To respect realism as a goal for its own, even though "no one will notice" and a similar image might be &quo
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by shubhamjain 6mo ago
I always wondered what alternative reality are people supporting the administration are living in and this right here is the answer. As someone put it, Americans love to fool themselves in believing they are the ones 'winning' bec
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by shubhamjain 6mo ago
I would like to point out that Bram Cohen seems to be obsessed with “better merges” and had a verbal spat with Linus on Git when it was just taking off (2007). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8118817 It’s pretty weird
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Total fertility rate doesn't tell the number of births women eventually have(ourworldindata.org)
3 points by shubhamjain 6mo ago|0 comments

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