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New comment by pixel_popping in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

pixel_popping — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:07:29 +0000

Because businesses need to run and make money, I doubt they will just stop building because users can replicate their work easily.

New comment by pixel_popping in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

pixel_popping — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:44:46 +0000

Literally this is our future, many devs still don't seem to believe we will be able to "zeroshot" everything, but it's because they haven't experienced themselves proper tooling (at the minimum leveraging 4 models in debate, adversarial and loops and workflows and so-on and unli-loop until completion, MITM everything...), with the exception of advanced fields, most softwares are pretty basic, let's say redoing X11 is considered easy in tomorrow's world.

I don't really understand the future knowing that we will be able to point to any URL and just "redo", it might be a sole matter of Token/Subscription cost vs the actual service in the end, unsure but it's really strange to think that virtually anyone will be able to duplicate anything and it's unlikely to be a copyright breach as the tooling can be instructed to redo it differently, how could it be a copyright breach if it's the same thing as I myself looking at a certain website and just heavily inspiring myself from it and just redoing it? The fact that it's done automatically shouldn't change that.

I am allowed today to take a GPLv3 program or a commercial program, redo it and publish it as MIT, so why would it be forbidden, it's terrifying.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Should everyone be on GLP-1s?"

pixel_popping — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:31:31 +0000

You can get it way way cheaper, obviously I won't link here but it exists since a decade+ in bodybuilding communities, you don't need pharmacies, just import.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

pixel_popping — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:41:14 +0000

You miss the point, the point is that by using AI, our skills (let say "coding in Rust") are diminishing and even without reading this article, we can feel it to some extent already if we aren't lying to ourselves, especially very heavy AI users.

We do however create new skills, skills that might be more relevant for the future, but still, it is controversial.

New comment by pixel_popping in "How much $ you spend for AI to code?"

pixel_popping — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:02:34 +0000

Minimax by far, excellent coding plan.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

pixel_popping — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:44:07 +0000

We are literally about to build the next civilization and some still wonder if we can build the Pyramids while it's actually basic for today's technology, people are not on phase, it's scary to see that gap.

New comment by pixel_popping in "OpenAI is a non profit after all"

pixel_popping — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:42:35 +0000

People are mistaking what non-profit means at first, you can build a non-profit in the goal of becoming rich.

New comment by pixel_popping in "How much $ you spend for AI to code?"

pixel_popping — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:34:40 +0000

About 20 subscriptions mixed (~$5000 a month), around 100K$ (equivalent) in token a month for me. 24/7 running. Everything is automatic, very little human input needed.

New comment by pixel_popping in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

pixel_popping — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:25:17 +0000

W Social isn't built with proper cryptography and so-on, it's amateurish.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Show HN: Spin Lab"

pixel_popping — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:59:25 +0000

It's the new NPC insult.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Mathesar Cloud: hosted Postgres with a spreadsheet-like interface"

pixel_popping — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:25:56 +0000

This PNG image (why PNG?) took 10+sec to load fyi: https://mathesar.org/images/blog/mathesar-cloud/database-pow...

New comment by pixel_popping in "Is web app discovery still a broken problem?"

pixel_popping — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:10:03 +0000

The website is broken.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

pixel_popping — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:35:46 +0000

You have not tried any hard drugs like Alcohol or softer ones like Marijuana in your lifetime? I mean kuddos to you but I don't really see what's wrong with it in moderation, and shaming people that decide to partake into it is a bit low :)

New comment by pixel_popping in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

pixel_popping — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:33:58 +0000

It's literally the norm.

New comment by pixel_popping in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

pixel_popping — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:11:31 +0000

Literally, but of course when there is a news about it, suddenly it's "surprising", it's like when people find out about the Olympic games that their favorite athlete is leveraging steroids, hormones, drugs and so-on and act surprised (sure, even a 16-year old at the gym is using steroids but the one that is "at the top" doesn't? Absurdity), it's tiring to see, obviously virtually everyone is using PEDs there, the same way as virtually every student cheat to an extent.

Cheating in life isn't necessarily that bad, if you are at the end of your studies and it's either you pass by cheating, either you don't, then the only logical thing to do is to cheat, who would go in more debt and potentially ruin their live doing otherwise, and WHY?

New comment by pixel_popping in "ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker"

pixel_popping — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:15:00 +0000

Could they do CPU chips?

New comment by pixel_popping in "The Same Hetzner VM Cost $60 Last Week. Today It Costs $154"

pixel_popping — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:06:05 +0000

Not at all, go on any low end forum and you'll have a ton of offers way cheaper, in term of reliability long-term+price point, sure, but there is a ton of VPS that are $5-10 a year for 2GB RAM out there (then of course, those providers are always a gamble in term of durability).

New comment by pixel_popping in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

pixel_popping — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:07:47 +0000

What's wrong with Ketamine? Everybody (or at least population majority I'd bet) have consumed hardcore drugs like Alcohol, Cocaine, Ketamine and so-on, what does it have to do with anything?

Haven't you tried?

New comment by pixel_popping in "Show HN: I'm 15, built an AI that watches your screen and acts before you ask"

pixel_popping — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:08:59 +0000

I used to be your age and publish good stuff too, hope you'll succeed.

- Add an image/video in the repo, ask everyone you can to star your repo to get some traction going.

- Add a license

- Add a 1-liner that users can paste in their terminal or whatever to install instantly your product.

New comment by pixel_popping in "Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks"

pixel_popping — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:12:56 +0000

To be fair, I still find it to be a great initiative.