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New comment by blehn in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

blehn — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:38:11 +0000

I'd say better to not call it Cloudflare in that case

New comment by blehn in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"

blehn — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:56:23 +0000

Easily switching between models. Re: the local read/edit case, it's a bit more seamless than opening in a separate editor.

That's about it.

New comment by blehn in "Tidal AI Policy"

blehn — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:32:59 +0000

> electronic music is significantly harder for AI to do than a conventional love ballad or a rock song

Why do you say that? I'd argue the opposite

New comment by blehn in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"

blehn — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:27:50 +0000

Google is a good bet because if AI continues to boom, they're in a good position (frontier lab, vertically integrated). If the bubble bursts and the frontier labs fail, they might do even better.

New comment by blehn in "Tidal AI Policy"

blehn — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:00:20 +0000

YouTube is already recommending tons of AI-generated electronic music. It's pretty easy to spot: It will have millions of views and the "artist's" discography will only go back to 2025 or 2026. It's usually just singles. The cover art is vague atmospheric AI-generated. The "artist" will have no presence online save for a couple instagram account with a couple posts that are also AI-generated.

New comment by blehn in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

blehn — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:37:48 +0000

This seems like a typical AI workflow, but isn't it dreadfully boring?

New comment by blehn in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

blehn — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:46:18 +0000

But aren't there plenty of used expensive phones from the last 5-7 years that are more or less equivalent replacements for new cheap phones? Apple alone sells 250 million phones a year.

New comment by blehn in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

blehn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:07:08 +0000

Eh, Square and Cash App were pretty innovative when they came out. The industry is mature enough now that all the products are ripping each other off

New comment by blehn in "OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot"

blehn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:19:58 +0000

Have never seen an interview or piece of writing where he comes off sounding like he knows what he's doing.

New comment by blehn in "Will Claude Code ruin our team?"

blehn — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:56:12 +0000

After riding in countless Ubers and Lyfts, with drivers who drive all day for a living, I can say confidently that good drivers who grasp the intricacies of driving are by far the exception.

New comment by blehn in "Will Claude Code ruin our team?"

blehn — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:48:27 +0000

> It’s like learning how to drive. It’s a skill for sure but anyone can do it after practice.

The analogy only illustrates the parent's point. Most licensed drivers have been doing it for years and are still terrible drivers, because they never grasp the intricacies of driving — smoothly accelerating and decelerating, smoothing out corners, anticipating light changes, gauging merge distances and timings, using mirrors well, ensuring cars get by when making a left turn in an intersection, etc, etc

New comment by blehn in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

blehn — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:37:34 +0000

Obviously to have an unregistered gun?

New comment by blehn in "NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks"

blehn — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:05:40 +0000

Why not just improve the free public wifi?

New comment by blehn in "NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks"

blehn — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:05:00 +0000

> It’s a good idea to enable cellular service for those who don’t have adequate access at home.

But then the students with mobile access have an advantage over those who only have home access. And how do you determine who has adequate access at home and who doesn't? Much easier and more equitable to just provide it for everyone.

New comment by blehn in "A new AI winter is coming?"

blehn — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:13:47 +0000

The business trajectory will be like Uber. A few big companies (Google, OpenAI) will price their AI services at a loss until consumers find it to be indispensable and competitors run out of money, then they'll steadily ramp up the pricing to the point where they're gouging consumers (and raking in profits) but still a bit cheaper or better than alternatives (humans in this case).

New comment by blehn in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

blehn — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 02:03:57 +0000

Configurability is fine, but it's too obvious a recommendation and just creates noise. The purpose of a recommendation system is to help you find things that aren't obvious. I'd still filter them out by default even if it's configurable.

New comment by blehn in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

blehn — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:58:41 +0000

I didn't say it was likely that you'd enjoy the other books by that author. My point is that it's not helpful for a recommendation system to recommend more books by that author — it's common sense. If I've read a book by an author, it's easy enough to look up their other work and decide whether I want to read more of them.

New comment by blehn in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

blehn — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:09:04 +0000

You should filter out authors from the input books in the output. If liked a book by an author, surely I'd read more of their work if I wanted to — recommending them isn't helpful. Along the same lines, I think interesting recommendations tend to be the ones that (1) I like and (2) I didn't expect. The more similar the recommendations are to the input, the more likely I already know them, and the more likely to create a recommendation echo chamber.

New comment by blehn in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

blehn — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:33:40 +0000

> There's no air traffic after all

No air traffic until their are drone deliveries. What will the sky look like when you take every _individual_ package from Door Dash, Uber Eats, Postmates, Instacart, Amazon, UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc etc etc and put them on _individual_ drones? Even if the logistics could be sorted out, I worry about the quality of life issues it poses for communities, especially with the amount of noise drones make.

NYC handles 3,000 flights a day; it handles 2,300,000 package deliveries a day.

New comment by blehn in "The AI coding trap"

blehn — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:17:31 +0000

> There's a divide between people who enjoy the physical experience of the work and people who enjoy the mental experience of the work

Eh, physical and mental isn't the divide — it's more like people who enjoy code itself as a craft and people who simply see it as a means to an end (the application). Much like a writer might labor over their prose (the code) while telling a story (the application). Writing code is far more than the physical act of typing to those people.