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366karma·482submissions·July 11, 2025
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I guess teams that are clever enough to avoid Copilot are also clever enough to write a script to call it on repeat in the background, while they are doing something more useful. Autonomous agents are…
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Yeah, it read like "when running with scissors be careful out there". How about not running with scissors at all? Unless of course the management says "from now on you will be running w…
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The HBO's Silicon Valley ended way too soon. The plot pretty much writes itself.
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Yeah, he kind of lied about the length. I would let it slip, but it's obvious that the content is optimised for smartphones/tablets too, so kind of painful to scroll on a computer. As such, …
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Have average Google developers been told/hinted that their bonuses/promotions will be tied to their proactivity in using Gemini for project work?
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Well, The Guardian is a liberal-left tabloid. It dares not piss off their target audience. Similarly, it's mirror opposite - Daily Mail - would not publish an article on the benefits of migrati…
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True! At the end of the day, it's a multiplier - just like many other dev hype fads e.g. Python/JavaScript poorly-typed fad of 2010s - devs who do not know what they are doing are just produ…
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If they did refer to an individual Minecraft expert for an advice, then it counts as a team effort.
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It was probably done by an individual.
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The founders decided "it had been a wild ride but all journeys come to an end" so the prices and upselling now keep increasing so that the private equity that bought them can see fast short-…
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I will transfer my remaining domains from Gandi this month. In case anyone else needed a reminder.
11mo ago·view thread
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Just as a decent working life improvement, not a new industrial revolution.
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And they also try to minimize your use. Why do I need to stick "ultrathink" into my queries? That should just be the default and only mode!
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"...the cash from ASML could help Mistral make Europe less reliant on U.S. and Chinese AI models, the sources said." I thought the duty of a company is to maximise the return to shareholders…
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Meh, I'd rather had been born to same parents but as a USA boomer baby.
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"...post anything online..." you probably mean "express true thoughts or emotions externally in a proximity of an electronic device".
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They probably generated a generic AI response once and just copy-pasted it, thus saving their time twice. They did not do one scummy thing, these are just overall scummy people.
11mo ago·view thread
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What is the HN term for this? "Bootstrapping" your start up? Or is it "growth-hacking" it?
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Google using anti-Google text specimens is wild: "...No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy,...". Then again, it could have been edited by Gemini.
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It is very simple, people trading/deciding are not the same ones as fighting.
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Maybe they are going to use an average vibe coder's chat to teach Claude to treat subpar developers differently? It could be a win-win outcome.
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> I can only imagine what good that brainpower could do for humanity if it weren’t occupied finding cleverer ways to manipulate electronic money. Maybe humanity can start paying them decent money…
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480916 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/indian-regulator-bars-us-tra... …
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To the planet.
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Thank you Claude, good job!
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