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New comment by glaslong in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

glaslong — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:00:17 +0000

Yes I believe we're quickly approaching crypto territory, where distributed ledgers certainly have their valuable use cases, but the overwhelming _mindshare_ is active scamming and/or monkey jpegs.

There needs to be a concerted focus on real value for end users and less "yeah the terminator will take your job and raise your kids in your absence"

New comment by glaslong in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

glaslong — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:39:13 +0000

Their Q10 Max has hit an amazing sweet spot for me. Being able to keep DIYing on that base is like Xmas, this is awesome.

New comment by glaslong in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

glaslong — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:41:36 +0000

Thus begins another Streisand Effect meme campaign of

"MZ Is A Punk-Ass B

payed for by Person & Guy LLP"

New comment by glaslong in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

glaslong — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:28:06 +0000

"Their viewers" minus me and mine

Others are welcome to look past it. I've unsubbed from a lot of shite on clear signals that they'll say anything and stand for nothing. Ad reads are an incredibly easy, bright line for it if you're someone who gaf.

New comment by glaslong in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

glaslong — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:23:08 +0000

Oh no, pls don't ask about our product, its too good, its so X-Treme, it's Dangerously Cheesy

New comment by glaslong in "Show HN: We fingerprinted 178 AI models' writing styles and similarity clusters"

glaslong — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:51:50 +0000

I'm curious about the sorts of users who care about style but will either one-shot with default style, not providing samples or direction, or who even choose models on that style rather than, you know, substance.

New comment by glaslong in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

glaslong — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:12:56 +0000

This is why I greatly prefer podcasts where the hosts read the ads. If you're going to take ad money, you better be willing to sell it with your own voice. All else is a descent into scam ad hell.

New comment by glaslong in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

glaslong — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:56:32 +0000

Is the difference between signing up for subscription billing vs api billing really a moat

New comment by glaslong in "Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount"

glaslong — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:53:17 +0000

It was always rough, but this is by far the worst I've ever seen or heard. The thrash and org maneuvering are feral.

New comment by glaslong in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

glaslong — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:44:15 +0000

They're going to have a fast and ruthless testing of whether their product senses and abilities to attract and trap customers were actually skill or lucky positioning, as competition explodes from every direction, including from within customer and user bases.

New comment by glaslong in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

glaslong — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:36:52 +0000

The marginal differences in quality seem pretty meaningful right now, enough to make Claude wildly dominant, but some of the locally runnable models like Qwen feel only a few months behind the leaders.

I'm betting the generational gains level off and smaller local models close the gap somewhat. Then harnesses will generally be more important than model, and proprietary harnesses will not offer much more than optimization for specific models. All while SaaS prices ratchet up, pushing folks toward local and OSS. Or at least local vs a plethora of hosted competition, same as cloud vs on prem.

New comment by glaslong in "Montana passes Right to Compute act"

glaslong — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:10:48 +0000

Proactively shielding themselves from the eventual, justified, realization that spiking a population's price of water and electricity such that they cannot use them IS an externality just as bad as polluting the water supply.

New comment by glaslong in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

glaslong — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:59:06 +0000

Given his track record of raising ever more money on idealistic claims only to deliver less and less... I think he delivered exactly as expected

New comment by glaslong in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

glaslong — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:07:13 +0000

Indeed, the proper response is now to vibe code 14 semi functional gsheets clones in parallel

New comment by glaslong in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

glaslong — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:04:59 +0000

I'm always astounded by the tendency to bet it all on core competencies and wind down every other effort that's profitable but not profitable _enough _ As if times don't change, innovation never happens, and your accessory plays of today are never the overtaking market of tomorrow.

New comment by glaslong in "Google Street View in 2026"

glaslong — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:48:39 +0000

Finally, the metaverse arrives

New comment by glaslong in "Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer"

glaslong — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:02:19 +0000

Very cool! For all its faults, seeing control and value change flows through execution is one of the things I really liked about Unreal's Blueprint viz scripting system. This looks like a better take on that.

And for huge git repos I always like to generate a Gource animation to understand how the repo grew, when big rearrangements and refactors happened, what the most active parts of the codebase are, etc.

New comment by glaslong in "Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals"

glaslong — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:21:37 +0000

The government gets to ignore the will of its people and companies get to be middlemen leeches, it's perfect really.

New comment by glaslong in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

glaslong — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:12:46 +0000

Worked for a shop that had the hardest time grasping this. We had to tell them UE4 was a "3D Rendering Engine" because they couldn't get over the term "game engine" in planning meetings...

New comment by glaslong in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

glaslong — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:05:18 +0000

These days I guess we could do gpt with voice out to recite a poem about the kid you're about to hit?