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New comment by azinman2 in "What the fuck happened to nerds"

azinman2 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:36:33 +0000

People are pointing to money, which yes absolutely is a factor. But what's also important to recognize is that tech has gone mainstream with smart phones, and what people do with that tech is basically 'TV'. Thus society-wide harm is now possible and, unfortunately, desired because that's also what ends up making money.

New comment by azinman2 in "The Future of Email"

azinman2 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:53:18 +0000

Have you put this up anywhere for others to use?

Fastmail’s spam filter is not very good.

New comment by azinman2 in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

azinman2 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:16:31 +0000

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New comment by azinman2 in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

azinman2 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:42:25 +0000

I’ve always found Instacart to be extremely slow with giant latencies. Of course I don’t know if that’s due to Postgres or some other design flaw…

New comment by azinman2 in "Siri AI"

azinman2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:30:07 +0000

Why?

New comment by azinman2 in "Siri AI"

azinman2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:29:56 +0000

What’s the bug

New comment by azinman2 in "Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers"

azinman2 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:33:48 +0000

*best open models

New comment by azinman2 in "The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern""

azinman2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:11:21 +0000

What made it so great?

1979: Will Word Processors start a home working revolution?

azinman2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:44:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6URa-PTqfA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393979

Points: 2

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New comment by azinman2 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

azinman2 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:11:06 +0000

But your performance reviews don’t have anything to do with age, so I don’t see how that could be.

New comment by azinman2 in "MAI-Thinking-1"

azinman2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:13:04 +0000

aka all of GitHub OSS

New comment by azinman2 in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"

azinman2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:51:01 +0000

Seems like trusting AWS with your data has been a good bet for a long time. They wouldn’t have the size/scale otherwise.

New comment by azinman2 in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

azinman2 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:34:13 +0000

What makes you say that

New comment by azinman2 in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

azinman2 — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:24:44 +0000

Because humans are bad at reacting to things that might happen; we’re far better once there is a literal crisis.

New comment by azinman2 in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

azinman2 — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:20:38 +0000

Do you use a washing machine or do you manually wash your clothes in a stream?

Much of modern life is automating away the boring useless bits.

AI, on the other hand, changes the conversation on what’s boring or useless.

New comment by azinman2 in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

azinman2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:24:02 +0000

First, there’s manyyyy model inference providers out there world wide. Just look at open router. Second, it’s well known in SV that most startups are using Chinese models because they have access to the weights… and that makes it far cheaper.

Why else is Qwen now having cloud-only models?

New comment by azinman2 in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

azinman2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:22:28 +0000

Not really, it’s a pretty common way to address companies that are part of a bigger geopolitical story. The press will happily refer to Chinese models, European when talking about Mistral, Canadian with Cohere… etc.

I’m an American person yet I’m not public property.

New comment by azinman2 in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

azinman2 — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:48:23 +0000

And not letting you opt out of being their training data.

New comment by azinman2 in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

azinman2 — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:47:48 +0000

And this is purely a way to undercut American models. If/once they’re ahead, it’ll stop being the case. Already qwen is doing that.

New comment by azinman2 in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

azinman2 — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:25:44 +0000

I think you overstate the power of money. Of course it helps. But it’s far from everything. Just look at the number of rich kid fuckups or CEOs with poor backgrounds. It’s just one component that smooths risk and occasionally provides a starter network, but it’s not everything.