<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: altmanaltman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=altmanaltman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:58:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=altmanaltman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altmanaltman in "If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a very old samsung tablet that i still use from time to time. It never connets to the internet and wifi stays off. It can last easily a week or more on a single charge still. With wifi on, it dies within a few hours</p>
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<p>I don't think they will care about 1 customer. If it sells well right now, it means its doing the right thing from its pov and it also means that while it might feel wrong to you, that is what the market wants.<p>Lets say the sales do start dropping once you avoid it. At some point it will make sense to change it <i>because</i> most people likely want the change.<p>But from their pov, nothing is really different right? They are always catering to the most common demand in the market. How will this affect them or teach them a lesson?</p>
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<p>How can it perform tasks automatically? It's not magic, there has to be an UI/UX for interacting with it. Will that UI/UX be more optimized and easier to use is the question. Like would you prefer saying "close window computer" or press alt+f4 or just click on the little cross thing or equivalent. Why are we assuming all AI automagic UI/UX will be better for all tasks?</p>
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<p>I don't understand your point. You say:<p>> Creativity is neither a property of who you are or what you do<p>Then you say:<p>> It’s closer to a mindset of curiosity, wonder and play.<p>Which has to be the property of what you do (the process) or who you are (the personality willing to embed those values), right?<p>> It’s the process that’s creative. Building a car can be creative. Buying a car is not.<p>Sure, but the process is "what you do" which directly contradicts what you're saying.<p>> For example, many programmers have a need for creativity within coding, but don’t feel they get it at their 9-5 job, and instead work a side project (like FOSS, indie game) because it’s a more creative experience.<p>Sure but most programmers don't do it. Simillarly many artists work on projects for companies and their own projects. My point is that you cannot reduce commercial work as not creative just because it's a 9-to-5.<p>I really fail to understand your point with this comment since it's not really saying anything coherent.<p>You also say<p>> The point is: same person, same activity yet one is more creative than the other.<p>Again, if that person is doing that activity then it is what they do i.e. you're calling the process creative. And in this case, we'll call that same person to be creative since they have the drive to work on their own project after a full 9-5 job. But if they were not doing it, we'll still consider them creative since it is a basic requirement at their 9-5. That is my point - both of them are creative. Degrees may vary depending on subjective perception but that was not what was being discussed.</p>
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<p>I mean it literally is not meant to be used as a general distro for a desktop machine so I'm guessing not very good.</p>
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<p>I think you're romanticizing art generation a bit. A lot of it operates like a normal working job, there is no magic "truly creative genuis", a lot of working artists treat it as their jobs and if a tool helps them get their job done, it is helpful.<p>Not every creative profession is something where you create something you're proud of or you own. You're often just one part of a massive machine working on a project. It's a bit hard to keep sticking to the "creative noble artist" mythical vibe when it's a 9 to 5. And it's not fair to call them not creative just because you feel like it.</p>
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<p>> “we don’t know what to do, so we’re going to throw spaghetti at the wall.<p>this is pretty normal, i mean you have OpenAI and Anthropic trying the same as well. OpenAI is working on legal stuff [1] and also rolled out (or said they'll roll out) ChatGPT Health [2]. Then there was Sora etc.<p>These companies need applications for their tokens and someone has to build them. If they can win even with one, that's a net benefit for them no?<p>1 - <a href="https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2026/06/02/openai-targets-the-legal-vertical-what-happens-to-legal-tech/" rel="nofollow">https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2026/06/02/openai-targets-t...</a><p>2 - <a href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/</a></p>
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<p>I opened it on mobile, the first window shows up and the text cannot be scrolled through.<p>Also absolutely horrible UI and seems like you just put up whatever Fable shat out without checking or any thought. I am only saying this because you shared it for public feedback</p>
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<p>DeepSeek v4 flash and pro are both surprisingly good at coding. I shifted to them from Claude due to costs concerns and haven't really looked back. I would say Claude is still overall better when it comes to complex tasks but my current workflow is never about delegating complex or actual thinking tasks to agents but just implementation and I do all the testing and thinking.</p>
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<p>Linus really has very little to do with git's development. He has stated that himself multiple times, and it's the factual truth. "This is what happens when a kernel developer creates tools..." is funny but not factual.</p>
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<p>Yes if a company's market value exceeds a certain size, it will be considered to be included in indices, most of which track these things automatically.<p>They have to apply the rules consistently otherwise it wont make any sense to have these indicies right? Spacex got rejected in one of the big indicies because it was not profitable while it got accepted in another. You can buy from both as an investor or a fund manager. If you think one of them is wrong, it is in your interest to switch. If you don't switch then you indirectly don't see anything wrong with it.<p>Going back to the point, if we want a free market, it has to be free for all. Spacex can go to 0 tomorrow and cause markets to implode, it can also surge 10x over the next 5 years causing everyone in the market to get richer or it can just drag for 10s of years in the same level.<p>But you and I do not know the future. We cannot block a company from IPOing just because we think it will fail in the future. If it meets all the existing regs, it should be allowed to IPO. If you want to change the regs, thats a different discussion but one i fundamentally disagree with personally. I think the market should be able to take risks and explore potential otherwise we will stagnate.</p>
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<p>Your first paragraph is just a barrage of personal insults.<p>Your second paragraph is playing the victim while you just acted the agrresor in the previous.<p>Your third paragraph seems to make it sound like you have a point but it essentially boils down to we are all strangers on the internet. And okay?<p>If you had just written the last sentence, i would have respected your comment much more.<p>I know i am just a stranger but we are talking about perception and self help here. And from what I've read, i am not leaving with a positive perception of you based on your comments sorry.</p>
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<p>An IPO doesn't mean public is forced to buy the stock. There is a choice for funds or individuals and if they chose to buy it, they should be allowed to in an open market.<p>The other side of this are companies like Uber where (if we go by your logic), the public markets made a killing betting on a company that had massive losses. Should Uber also be blocked from an IPO even though objectively it turned out great?<p>Investing and markets will always decide between risk and reward. The risk of OpenAI is that it will never find profitablity but the potential rewards outweigh that in the current market perception.<p>In fact, the argument kind of shifts here, OpenAI can afford to IPO at this condition and still expect strong subscription precisely because its OpenAI. If it was some idk cooking appliance company with no exponential future payoff, the market would laugh and reject that IPO.<p>They can do that to OpenAI too but all signs say they wouldn't. You can still short the stock once it hits public if you really believe in the downfall of OAI in the future.</p>
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<p>It really doesn't matter if the model sucks and doesn't perform well. Given the funding amount and their lofty ambitions, it seems very unlikely they will be able to pull it off properly.<p>Yeah China and US models have baises but so will any model. The biases do not get in the way of the product though. You don't open those models just to ask for what happened in Taianaman square or if Taiwan is a state. You dont ask ChatGPT to generate CASM. But they are very good at the tasks you actually expect from a LLM. If you fail at that, nobody will use your model no matter how "ethically sourced" a colonizer-based entity like Europe made it.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://thebead.pixlw.com/">https://thebead.pixlw.com/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542827">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542827</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
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<p>they are not just big, they are huge</p>
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<p>this is interesting but it would be much better if this was like a native keyboard or something or a web plugin on browser that does this automatically instead of having to manually do it everytime. cool idea though but its an ask to open a different page just to write a post<p>Not verified human</p>
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<p>Wait, did people really get worked up over a playable character in a video game? How is Ubisoft changing history or whatever with this? Its a silly assasin game where you murder a lot of people?</p>
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<p>I don't understand the point of your comment here. Yes of course JaneStreet published that since its relevant to them. Yes, it doesn't generally apply to all programming. How is you being a "social loser" or not following these practices in your career relevant to this?</p>
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