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New comment by yearesadpeople in "The Prompt API"

yearesadpeople — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:50:59 +0000

It is important, however, not intellectualise repugnant, racist, or inflamatory language; it deserves to be called out for what it is aimed at doing

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

yearesadpeople — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:44:58 +0000

It does have the feel of a tactical crouch and hold position by Amazon. AI / LLM for the masses is still just a bet, and perhaps an overly invested bet

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

yearesadpeople — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:17:38 +0000

America, as an idea, is so strange

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

yearesadpeople — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:19:21 +0000

Ideally, searching once for 'midjourney' would mean getting the url to directly access it time and again (and, create a bookmark). Perhaps the issue is more on the business model, rather than the effectivness of search offered by Google.

What is search anyway (not being flippant!)? Its quite an odd 'thing' really these days.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me"

yearesadpeople — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:28:36 +0000

I adore Benn Jordan, a refreshing voice in music and tech. I hope Google pay him a public apology. Ultimately, this is exactly how innocent, private people will have their reputations and lives wrecked by unregulated public-facing LLM text generation

New comment by yearesadpeople in "GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world"

yearesadpeople — Mon, 26 May 2025 17:29:51 +0000

I've come to the same conclusion myself in the past 2 months (possibly driven by the AI / LLM age making me think even more in version control... writing those words make me wince). I have a small webapp too, which hoovers up issues I like to publish, from a repo with links on the web I like that I feel I would like to share (I believe the kids are calling this 'new age curation'). Its really quite a nice, organic, process. And its so odd its taken me 15 years of note apps - every other hot note app on the market - to realise this. Love Simon's articles, another nice insight

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

yearesadpeople — Sun, 18 May 2025 20:44:48 +0000

That tutorial guy on YouTube, Derek Banas, swears by Anki. He's quite the voracious learner as well as being a pretty good contractor. I've used it myself (sparingly, when taking on new projects with new technology stacks), and never really committed to it because of the somewhat static and predictable nature of the learning session (as described in the article; the algorithm). However, from learning about the upgrade (well, 2023 upgrade), I will try it out again: high hopes.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal"

yearesadpeople — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:47:47 +0000

FYI

https://european-alternatives.eu/

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Keycloak, Angular, and the BFF Pattern"

yearesadpeople — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:59:44 +0000

BFF pattern is very much misunderstood, and very much over-used IMHO

Perhaps most useful - in highly distributed systems - I've seen is when we require some kind of flow orchestration, where we wouldn't like the orchestration logic at the API implementation (or indeed require the downstream services to not have to consider different contexts).

[edit] Quite useful when designing nice clean, dedicated, new APIs and having to deal with legacy systems (perhaps data pertaining to the shiney new API model is housed in a legacy model): a useful means to keep moving forward.

British Museum forced to partly close after alleged IT attack by former employee

yearesadpeople — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jan/24/british-museum-forced-to-partly-close-after-alleged-it-attack-by-former-employee

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817621

Points: 4

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New comment by yearesadpeople in "Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01"

yearesadpeople — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 09:31:41 +0000

Quite an unreadable web page, and somehow rationalising there was 'everything before me', and 'everything after me' with regard technology and prediction. Unfortunate understanding of reality really.

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Factories in Space"

yearesadpeople — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:10:42 +0000

It would be ideal to also include the plans for orbiting data centres as well as satellite communication clusters in this very nice resource (since those are entirely _also_ necessary as part of manufacturing in space: alerting, measurement, telemetry, etc.)

Factories in Space

yearesadpeople — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:10:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.factoriesinspace.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589497

Points: 13

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New comment by yearesadpeople in "Rethinking how we measure economic activity"

yearesadpeople — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 17:28:29 +0000

'Going alone' on a method of measuremnt is questionable, especially for something so consequential as economics. Perhaps others - notably the UN, IMF - will follow suit. But, perhaps a new way to measure success for Labour - and the promise of growth as a means to judge the government - is entirely the point

Rethinking how we measure economic activity

yearesadpeople — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 17:28:29 +0000

Article URL: https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/economy/rethinking-how-we-measure-economic-activity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42341880

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by yearesadpeople in "Want to confess to Jesus? LLM have your back"

yearesadpeople — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:44:35 +0000

It would be quite an interesting longitudinal study to track those who have interacted with this model, and what qualities - or viewpoints - of their lives have perhaps being altered. Also, track those who have interacted with the model both in a natural - typical - space (like a place of worship) and those interacting in their own space.

Want to confess to Jesus? LLM have your back

yearesadpeople — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:44:35 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-chatbot-jesus-lucerne-catholic-66268027fbcf4b48972d1d62541f0b16

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42266046

Points: 3

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Not the peoples car anymore it seems

yearesadpeople — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 23:00:24 +0000

Article URL: https://theweek.com/business/companies/volkswagen-on-the-ropes-a-crisis-of-its-own-making

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42251072

Points: 4

# Comments: 0