Honestly, it's alright.

Just think of what we could do with computers up until this point. We keep all those abilities.

And more, even, because the industry still keeps churning out new local LLMs. So you even gain more capabilities than right now. Just not at the rate of the bleeding edge.

Which is just like the Linux desktop, essentially. It's fine, really. There is no need to consume the bleeding edge. You will be fine.

- Becoming a Platform

- AI

- User-generated content

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There is something comforting about seeing that the SV stopped having ideas and now just recycles and recombines the same tropes over and over again.

It's still all terrible, but it's a devil you know. You can live with that. You can skip the broken stair and duck, knowing exactly when they're trying to punch you in the face again.

Now here's hoping that eventually, they get bored and just stop entirely.

But it was helpful to me!

Reading it I mean. The commenter putting into words why exactly someone would think that this would be a good idea.

Of course, you're 110% right that it isn't, but it's still nice that HN provides some subtiles for those that are out of the loop and out of substances in their bloodstream.

And, to be fair to them, it works. It sticks. It gets the desired reactions.

Isn't that a nice perspective

Man. HN. This goddamn platform

No, you're combining "there can be updates" and "there will be subscriptions, always-online and enshittification" as if it wasn't splittable.

It is. It can. It will be.

As long as there are people making purchasing decisions, no ship will ever sail. This is just passive HN fatalism as we know and resent it; probably a survival tactic to not go insane in the SV (or any large corp).

I would like the bubble that is this website's "community" to pop, crash down back to earth and see them struggle living like normal people again.

There is no "only". It's $500.

That's fine. You don't have to be

Yes.

> The entire open source ecosystem works on this idea otherwise there would be no point in sharing and we can move to closed software.

No.

The _actual_ open source system consisted of hackers scratching their own itch and sharing the artifacts, because (it was assumed that) sharing is free. So if the work is already done and solved their problem, why not also share it as gift.

This remains unchanged.

The driving force of FOSS is not "how can I fix someone else's problem". It never has been.

Well.. maybe on HN it was different, but that's not "the open source ecosystem". And, yes, maybe some corps have gaslit naive people into believing that they must donate their lives to said corps.

This is just a correction of something that managed to remain in an invalid state for an impressively long time.

If you have no reaction at all, you probably weren't paying attention.

Eventually though, people _should_ recover and return after having processed the changes. So maybe the professor was still recovering at the time?

Why do you look at it that way? Why does anyone beside you have to care about what you do?

Just build something for yourself. You will always have things you'd like to build for yourself. You will be in competition with yourself only and your target audience will be yourself.

Market forces do not apply to side-projects, because that's what people do for fun.

Just because there are chess computers, doesn't mean that no one plays chess anymore at home.

This can be confusing on HN, I know.

Those numbers are likely greatly exaggerated. Twitter is nowhere near where it was at its peak. You could almost call it a ghost town. Linkedin but for unhinged crypto- and AI bros.

I'm sure the metrics report 80 million views, but that's not 80 million actual individuals that cared about it. The narrative just needs these numbers to get people to buy into the hype.

"Wow [...] some interesting things going on here" "A larger conversation happening around this incident." "A really concrete case to discuss." "A wild statement"

I don't think this edgeless corpo-washing pacifying lingo is doing what we're seeing right now any justice. Because what is happening right now might possibly be the collapse of the whole concept behind (among other things) said (and other) god-awful lingo + practices.

If it is free and instant, it is also worthless; which makes it lose all its power.

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While this blog post might of course be about the LLM performance of a hitpiece takedown, they can, will and do at this very moment _also_ perform that whole playbook of "thoughtful measured softening" like it can be seen here.

Thus, strategically speaking, a pivot to something less synthetic might become necessary. Maybe less tropes will become the new human-ness indicator.

Or maybe not. But it will for sure be interesting to see how people will try to keep a straight face while continuing with this charade turned up to 11.

It is time to leave the corporate suit, fellow human.