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New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western"

ilrwbwrkhv — Fri, 02 May 2025 04:38:01 +0000

Oh god, the whole world become a boring mess of sameness, won't it. What a world we have created as the tech industry. Absolutely dumb as rocks we are.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis"

ilrwbwrkhv — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:54:06 +0000

This is actually a great characterization and one of the reasons why for example YC has not had a success in the last 10 years.

This has caused tech to look more and more like a ponzi scheme with greater and greater promises and yet the actual output is very feeble.

Even large companies like Apple have got caught in all this. Imagine what they promised and what they haven't been able to deliver.

We need a grand reset but that needs to come from the young ones.

Stop doing leetcode. Go back to original engineering. Stop using JavaScript. Build software like Winamp.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "Claude Integrations"

ilrwbwrkhv — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:48:44 +0000

None of those reports are any good though. Maybe for shallow research, but I haven't found them deep. Can you share what kind of research you have been trying there where it has done a great job of actual deep research.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "Ask HN: 3rd Week at FAANG and feeling imposter syndrome"

ilrwbwrkhv — Thu, 01 May 2025 06:25:34 +0000

If you are at Faang and feeling imposter syndrome, maybe you just need to get better at things. I actually rejected multiple offers from Faang back in the day because they were so mediocre.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"

ilrwbwrkhv — Thu, 01 May 2025 04:49:48 +0000

And that's why they should be broken up too and their app stores should be completely open so that any apps can be installed.

I want an America where competition thrives again.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant"

ilrwbwrkhv — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:57:32 +0000

Yeah, unfortunately, they have to jump on the AI bandwagon because they are forced to by other editors, providing free AI, but they simply do not have the skills to integrate the AI properly. It's a shame, and unfortunately removing negative reviews will not help as people will simply migrate to a different product. You can have three 5 star reviews, but that doesn't help if nobody else is using it.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant"

ilrwbwrkhv — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:55:34 +0000

Yeah Jetbrains is going down a very similar path to Borland.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant"

ilrwbwrkhv — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:51:49 +0000

The classic disruption of a startup. This is actually a good thing. This allows new startups to come into the market.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter"

ilrwbwrkhv — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:22:45 +0000

Just wait for the sniffling Marc Andreeson to tell you how it's just time to build now and it's all smooth sailing and blue skies.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI"

ilrwbwrkhv — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:09:15 +0000

I think this is a common gameplay from companies which are basically reaching their peak of what they will be able to do, but they have to keep growing somehow. Duolingo is basically a dying company if you think about it, like the growth is done, the other company which recently made news, Shopify is another one of these. You do not see them 10xing their revenue in any way again, so they have to play all of these games to squeeze more from the company by basically cutting people, and these are all steps to that goal. I would expect again other companies like Dropbox to also follow a similar path.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "BYD Keeps Delivering on Tesla's Unkept Promises"

ilrwbwrkhv — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:05:25 +0000

Tesla is one of the scammiest companies in existence. I have developed a deep hatred of them over time. They are a classic example of why tech is hated. Tech could have been this absolutely beautiful thing for the world, and instead it became a giant Ponzi scheme. I really wish Tesla was fined heavily for lying about everything for so long.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "The Leaderboard Illusion"

ilrwbwrkhv — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:58:04 +0000

Yup in my private evals I have repeatedly found that DeepSeek has the best models for everything and yet in a lot of these public ones it always seems like someone else is on the top. I don't know why.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model"

ilrwbwrkhv — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:55:53 +0000

And this point everybody will open source their models or weights. The only one which will not is open AI.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools"

ilrwbwrkhv — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:54:19 +0000

I think what Finland did is the right take because these are devices which kids do not need.

They can call their parents if required from the main office.

This is fantastic and once again shows why Finland is a pioneer in childhood education and why Americans and other countries are so far behind.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon"

ilrwbwrkhv — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:49:45 +0000

Lmao why are they doing LlamaCon, a convention with a subpar product?

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail"

ilrwbwrkhv — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:12:01 +0000

I agree. The fact that India is so behind China while not being a free country is just horrible. Add to that massive amounts of pollution. People cannot breathe and no clean water.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "Elon Musk is wrong about GDP"

ilrwbwrkhv — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:36:02 +0000

yeah this can be simplified to just elon is wrong and that covers the majority

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "The One-Person Framework in Practice"

ilrwbwrkhv — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:52:48 +0000

Rails is unmatched. I wish there was just a similar framework in a faster language.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "What went into training DeepSeek-R1?"

ilrwbwrkhv — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:29:01 +0000

To me, Deepseek is the pinnacle of llms currently with Gemini coming in second.

I'm also convinced the Chinese will crack AGI.

Brute force will not get us there and Asian cultures will win this one.

New comment by ilrwbwrkhv in "Show HN: Bhvr, a Bun and Hono and Vite and React Starter"

ilrwbwrkhv — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:33:53 +0000

I would reconsider using Elysia. I was also very excited by it and I thought it would be great but it has got errors and issues with different library versions and things like that. Also the whole Eden thing doesn't work for me for whatever reason. I have a monorepo. Typescript keeps complaining. Also if everything is defined in a single file, then it works well. If it's in different files, it breaks the whole type side of things.