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New comment by democracy in "GPT-6 Astra"

democracy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:18:10 +0000

As always with AI - somehow it's your fault - you didn't help it enough - your prompts were inaccurate, your context was too large, the thinking effort was too low, the model was too old, etc. Basically you failed to use your human intelligence to make every effort to enable the AI to do its job better than you ))) It's like pushing a dirtbike up the hill so you can demonstrate how well it climbs.

New comment by democracy in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

democracy — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:48:59 +0000

Cooking a steak is easy - undercook it's "rare", burn it - it's "Well done". You cant go wrong really.

New comment by democracy in "Discovery Loop"

democracy — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:53:00 +0000

dillusional millionaires

New comment by democracy in "Couple Stalked by eBay Settle for $56M"

democracy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:36:22 +0000

just wow

New comment by democracy in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

democracy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:48:43 +0000

Given enough motivation (cash) and temporary tools (WD-40 and tape) there is nothing stopping bigtech from doing just that to kill local trade and then 10x prices

New comment by democracy in "Americans hate AI so much that politicians are losing their jobs over it"

democracy — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:21:58 +0000

Touche, a more or less decent pool robot cleaner is around 3k and doesn't last more than a few years without changing every part but the case itself. Ok I take it - it operates in somewhat "hostile" environment but the point still stands

New comment by democracy in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

democracy — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:18:44 +0000

Very new, beta stuff - AI can be helpful but too creative sometimes

New comment by democracy in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

democracy — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:10:36 +0000

I am happy they are dead. Humanity gets +1 for this one.

New comment by democracy in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

democracy — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:04:37 +0000

They chose being controlled and not being Reddit - I can imagine lots of ways to do both - still they chose the toxic way and now they are dead, goal achieved.

Tech Fines Tracker

democracy — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:10:14 +0000

Article URL: https://proton.me/tech-fines-tracker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785533

Points: 2

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New comment by democracy in "Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it"

democracy — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:46:12 +0000

Did you try to negatively impact their profit? And you expected them to act on it? Are you crazy? /s

New comment by democracy in "The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming"

democracy — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:39:58 +0000

One of the cowboys' techniques, only good for the writer, never for the reader

New comment by democracy in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

democracy — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:29:00 +0000

yc pitch?

New comment by democracy in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

democracy — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:18:31 +0000

thats brilliant - "we gonna take your job away from you, please start using our tools", "we stole the content to sell you, and now we are getting robbed, please feel sorry for us", what's next?

New comment by democracy in "Elastic lays off 7% of employees"

democracy — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:42:47 +0000

It does actually. I am pro-OSS as sharing knowledge and innovation, I am not sure at this stage I am happy sharing my work with people using LLMs for anything... OSS gonna change for sure.

New comment by democracy in "Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics"

democracy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:18:32 +0000

nothing beats diy dehydrated turkey mince stripes... but pita to make them )))

New comment by democracy in "I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner"

democracy — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:46:42 +0000

Midjourney seems useless these days, not even sure why would anyone use.

New comment by democracy in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

democracy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:09:11 +0000

Touche )))

New comment by democracy in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

democracy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:40:53 +0000

I reported a fake costco website ad (cc harvester) to Google, their response was something along "we cannot verify the ad", go figure

New comment by democracy in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

democracy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:22:09 +0000

The power of SQL is not because it is "based on mathematics" - it's because anyone (really, anyone, even with the most basic English skills) could understand it quickly enough to start using it productively with not much technical knowledge. Business analytics, managers of all sorts, manual QA people could grasp the basics in a minute and more complex queries within a few hours. It is very user-friendly and such tools win over anything else. Each time I see an overengineerd/overcomplicated solution that is hard to read/understand - I know it's only "good luck" to the creators.