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New comment by shafyy in "A map of 5000+ midterm ads"

shafyy — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:12:20 +0000

That's a weird way to think about democracy and civic duty.

New comment by shafyy in "A map of 5000+ midterm ads"

shafyy — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:11:37 +0000

Well think about it: If nobody votes, what happens?

New comment by shafyy in "A map of 5000+ midterm ads"

shafyy — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:11:00 +0000

That doesn't make sense. If nobody votes, what happens?

New comment by shafyy in "Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?"

shafyy — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:57:24 +0000

Nice! Just heard about them here for the first time, but will give it a try. Model selection looks good and pricing seems fair!

New comment by shafyy in "Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?"

shafyy — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:36:14 +0000

Are you happy with melious.ai? Are there any other EU inference providers you have tried?

New comment by shafyy in "A map of 5000+ midterm ads"

shafyy — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:38:35 +0000

Voting makes absolute rational sense, what are you talking about. It's just that it makes sense in aggregate, but for that to make sense everybody must do their part.

New comment by shafyy in "Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it"

shafyy — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:08:58 +0000

Completely right. I think what is suprising about this wave of automation is that until now automation happened to more manual, blue collar work. I for one didn't really think that it will happen to software development up until some months ago.

New comment by shafyy in "US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech"

shafyy — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:21:10 +0000

The crazy thing is that government funded a lot of this hyper growth for these AI companies. Very similar to Boeing / McDonnel Douglas.

New comment by shafyy in "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model"

shafyy — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:49:37 +0000

I don't think today's AI labs would exist without the internet

New comment by shafyy in "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model"

shafyy — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:48:15 +0000

> I don't think it's profit

Hahaha good one. Profit is the whole reason of existence for for-profit companies. Sure, companies might start with some ideologic grain of thought. But as soon as you reach a certain size, all that goes flying out of the window.

New comment by shafyy in "Claude Duet"

shafyy — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:59:23 +0000

Agree

New comment by shafyy in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"

shafyy — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:29:20 +0000

Is it only faster or also higher quality (whatever that means haha)?

New comment by shafyy in "Claude Duet"

shafyy — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:27:07 +0000

I don't know. I think the moat will come from enterprise deals and deep enterprise integration, like it does for almost all software products so far.

I think for B2C products to have moat you need some type of network like social media apps. Or can you think of any other examples of B2C software products that have a strong moat?

New comment by shafyy in "DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine"

shafyy — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:38:13 +0000

Interesting, thanks!

New comment by shafyy in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"

shafyy — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:37:04 +0000

Can somebody explain like I'm five what this exactly is? How are providers like Fireworks or Novita providing inference today? Do they use some other inference engine software? If yes, what is the advantage of the DeepSeek inference engine?

New comment by shafyy in "DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests"

shafyy — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:36:36 +0000

There are already many open-source Jira alternatives. So why are not every > 100 person company just hosting and using those for free instead of paying tens of thousands of dollars to Atlassian?

New comment by shafyy in "DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests"

shafyy — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:37:32 +0000

> No company is going to pay e.g. $15/user/month for Jira when they can get the same thing for free - better even

It wouldn't be for free though, would it? People need to build and maintain it (and there's LLM cost associated with it too).

Let's say you are a 5 person start-up. It makes much more sense to pay $15/user/month for services like Jira, Slack, Email etc. then to build and maintain everything yourself.

For super large companies, it might make financial sense to build some of the tools in-house. But then again, that probably already made sense for LLMs were a thing. But there is more to it than just the pure financials (i.e. salary).

New comment by shafyy in "Tell HN: Shopify requires passport identification for collaborator store access"

shafyy — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:13:12 +0000

Yes, good point.

New comment by shafyy in "Tell HN: Shopify requires passport identification for collaborator store access"

shafyy — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:10:52 +0000

We develop a Shopify app. Sometimes, we need collaborator access to a customer's store to check for a bug or do a setup. Today, I noticed that Shopify requires me to identify via passport or ID before letting me request acceess to a customer's store.

What the hell? Why do I need to upload my ID to Shopify for this? This is already a super secure process where my customer needs to confirm my account to give access.

Tell HN: Shopify requires passport identification for collaborator store access

shafyy — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:10:52 +0000

Article URL: https://help.shopify.com/en/partners/manage-account/verifying-your-identity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119378

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