I prefer Claude's vibe over 5.5 but 5.5 seems much less lazy. I'm sure it depends a lot on tasks and prompt strategy though.

Could LLM based AI prefer Linux since it's more customizable?

Are they doubling down on local LLMs then?

I still think Apple has a huge opportunity in privacy first LLMs but so far I'm not seeing much execution. Wondering if that will change with the overhaul of Siri this spring.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215810

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Personally I'm excited to see what he can do with more resources, OpenClaw clearly has a lot of potential but also a lot of improvements needed for his mum to use it.

This is economically illiterate. Advertising is not a discount mechanism. It is a tax on the consumer. When I buy a product heavily marketed on Instagram or Google, I'm paying for the product plus the auction bid price required to acquire me plus the margin of the ad-tech middleman (which are trillion dollar companies).

You are conflating "information distribution" with "persuasive surveillance." In a world without behavioral advertising, businesses compete on quality and reputation, not on who can exploit the most psychological vulnerabilities to manufacture demand.

As for innovation: The current ad ecosystem has killed organic discovery. You can't build a "micro-business" based on merit anymore. The winner SHOULD be the engineer who solved a hard problem efficiently. But instead the winner is the dropshipper who cracked the arbitrage spread between a cheap, garbage product and a highly manipulative Facebook ad campaign.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480133

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

In the author’s words, long degeneracy represents “a belief that the world will only get more degenerate, financialized, speculative, lonely, tribal and weird”.

The most concise and holistic explanation of this trend is:

"As real returns compress, risk increases to compensate".

In a somewhat ironic turn of events the more regulation you have, the worse it is for the customer. Big regulatory burdens require the bookies to extract more from the users, making the offerings more predatory. This is also why the likes of Kalshi can provide a better product to customers at the moment - because they ignore all the regulation.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073733

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The same logic is used for this book VAT exemption (which is good in my opinion) - I doubt we'll see the same effect though. Young people not reading is a complex problem to solve but books are really expensive to buy, so it's a good place to start.

[1] https://vidensraad.dk/sites/default/files/node/field_report_...

Every large European company and all of the governments are now considering how to move away from US services. They may not be able to do it quickly but it is a part of the conversation. Customers specifically request that new systems should be independent from US service providers.

In my view the damage has been done and will not go away even after Trump. The Europeans have realized that their only true allies, that they can trust in terms of critical infrastructure, are other European nations. It used to include America, it no longer does.

[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/04/30/europea...

[2] https://nltimes.nl/2025/05/20/microsofts-icc-email-block-tri...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06135 - Rewarding Chatbots for Real-World Engagement with Millions of Users

This is pretty funny. I wonder if LLMs can actually become consistent enough to run a business like this or if they will forever be prone to hallucinations and get confused over longer context. If we can get to a point where the agent can contact a human if it runs into unsolvable problems (or just contact another LLM agent?) then it starts being pretty useful.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42436395

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

I'm wondering if someone with a web security background can chime in.. but allowing this seems like a rookie mistake if you're running a large poker site to me.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38815132

Points: 1

# Comments: 3