<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: snackernews</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=snackernews</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:19:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=snackernews" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And upgrade frequency. You might give your old iPhone another year or two if the phone isn’t your limiting factor for photo quality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 03:18:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44730641</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44730641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44730641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "LLM Inevitabilism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the biggest impact I have noticed in my job.<p>The inundation of verbose, low SNR text and documents. Maybe someone put thought into all of those words. Maybe they vibed it into existence with a single prompt and it’s filled with irrelevant dot points and vague, generic observations.<p>There is no way to know which you’re dealing with until you read it, or can make assumptions based on who wrote it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 03:26:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578396</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "Airbnb and Vrbo are going downhill like a hippo on a water slide"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Americans and their driers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:32:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44371299</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44371299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44371299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "Ask HN: What's your most unpopular dev opinion?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Flash was an unreasonably effective way to build web apps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 09:35:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149688</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All zero marginal cost businesses. What is the path to profitability where costs increase closer to linearly with each new API request?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 02:30:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148280</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone who thinks an executive considers them necessary or irreplaceable in the current environment is fooling themselves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 06:14:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142220</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "Google's AI Mode is 'the definition of theft,' publishers say"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Workplace safety, environmental protection and human rights laws will never be enforced in the manufacturing industry because they cannot be enforced on the Chinese manufacturing industry.<p>Western governments would rather citizens lose some rights and years off their life than tolerate a world where their industries become dependent on Chinese manufacturing.<p>————<p>Western governments could make models trained on stolen IP toxic if they wanted.<p>It may not be worth it. The trade off of model capability vs the value of IP law might be worthwhile.<p>But western governments should show a little dignity and openly make that trade off. We don’t need to appeal to “but China”.</p>
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<p>I think we all know they won’t.<p>I am genuinely curious though to see the strategies they employ to absolve themselves of guilt and foolishness.<p>Is there precedent for the entire exec and management class embracing a new trend to this kind of extent, then it blowing up in their faces?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 21:40:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44056564</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44056564</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44056564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "Thoughts on thinking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you learn a lot? Or do you get instant answers to every question without learning anything, as OP suggests?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 22:48:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44010488</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44010488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44010488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does it satisfy customer support requests at a much higher rate than previous generations?<p>Every time I’ve encountered an AI first-line support agent I still find myself looking for the quickest escalation path to a real human just like before.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 06:46:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43960264</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43960264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43960264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For someone guarding the platform from weaksauce nonsense comments you picked a strange one to defend.<p>I was commenting on the weakness of the analogy. There’s nothing in any of the 4 entities mentioned other than the author’s opinion about them.<p>Sorry my comment missed the mark for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 06:37:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43951881</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43951881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43951881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Kagi is bad. As evidence I present Siri.”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 21:42:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43949236</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43949236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43949236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "Google won't ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google talking about the advertising industry as something external to itself sure is something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:09:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769725</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769725</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My iPhone occasionally displays an interrupt screen to remind me that my weather app has been accessing my location in the background and to confirm continued access.<p>It should also do something similar for apps making chatty background requests to domains not specified at app review time. The legitimate use cases for that behaviour are few.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:29:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740579</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "Kagi Assistant is now available to all users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree. I’m on the $10 professional plan and honestly if I’d received an email offering this for an extra $5 per month it would have been a no brainer for me.<p>Please Kagi, don’t take too much of a haircut or let paying for this eat into the core search budget.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:21:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728350</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s the complete lack of profitability all the way down, from the deep Azure discounts, to OpenAI’s training and inference costing more than it brings in, to all the OpenAI API wrapper apps losing money on OpenAI subscriptions to get some AI into their product.<p>There’s nowhere in the chain that gets anywhere close to zero marginal costs.<p>In any other industry, a business claiming success for selling $100 bills for $50 would be laughed out of the room.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:48:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691938</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "Google is winning on every AI front"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It worked for Uber’s investors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:03:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43671595</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43671595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43671595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "Google is winning on every AI front"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Opera had zero marginal costs. OpenAI doesn’t.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:49:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43663913</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43663913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43663913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "AI 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Other companies pour money into their own giant datacenters, hoping to keep pace.<p>> estimates that the globally available AI-relevant compute will grow by a factor of 10x by December 2027 (2.25x per year) relative to March 2025 to 100M H100e.<p>Meanwhile, back in the real March 2025, Microsoft and Google slash datacenter investment.<p><a href="https://theconversation.com/microsoft-cuts-data-centre-plans-and-hikes-prices-in-push-to-make-users-carry-ai-costs-250932" rel="nofollow">https://theconversation.com/microsoft-cuts-data-centre-plans...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 01:23:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589529</link><dc:creator>snackernews</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by snackernews in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In this analogy are all the steamroller manufacturers loudly proclaiming how well it 10x the process of bulk ironing clothes?<p>And is a credulous executive class en masse buying into that steam roller industry marketing and the demos of a cadre of influencer vibe ironers who’ve never had to think about the longer term impacts of steam rolling clothes?</p>
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