Recent submissions

Comment · 2 hours ago
I don’t mind advertising in news papers or on buses. I don’t like advertisements based on my profile created by collecting private data from me and stalking me through the whole internet. So advertisement is ok, collecting data and stalking is not. It’s not even working in a good way.
Comment · 15 days ago
I’m not quite sure, but the reasoning that some technology is frustrating users and therefore is not calculated in when optimizing cost per seat could apply to every software. In a large enough company there will be always people complaining about this and that. If you google you will also find people complaining about Slack.

I like Teams. Especially the Meeting feature. I like that I can join with multiple devices in a meeting. Sharing stuff in a meeting is also pretty cool and easy. I also like the integration into other products.

The only thing which could be better is performance - even the new WebView2 thing is not enough. But this is sadly common for most tools like this.

Comment · 1 month ago
I would add transition to a more digital era. Apps, distribution, website, in car entertainment etc…
Comment · 1 month ago
That’s not how this works. Let’s assume there is a correlation between productivity gain due to AI usage and outcome per working hour. No manager/CEO would say “hey, due to AI my workers get the same work done in 30h for which they needed 40h before - let’s cut their working hours down to 30h with same salary”.

No, that’s not happening. Shareholder value has to increase so keep working 40h and produce more outcome.

Comment · 2 months ago
Imagine creating something people still like to pay for after over 20 years. Incredible! Disclaimer: I also have still a subscription.

Regarding LLM: I guess if you count in enterprise/company subscription, LLMs would win. Interesting would be how many really want them or just have to use them…

Comment · 2 months ago
Aren’t ads payed also via „impressions“, like 10k people saw your advertisement so please pay x money?
Comment · 3 months ago
Isn’t it weird to think a LLM “fully understands” something? What does this mean?

It reminds me of this printing trick “until you are 95% confident”…

Would really be interested to know how this influences the work of the LLM. Also, how would it be if I write “until you certainly understand it”?

Comment · 3 months ago
I guess the main issue is that HTML was supposed to be a language to describe documents. We abuse it to design interactive applications. I would rather like to not have one technology to support to different use cases. It’s a shame we are riding that abomination for developing apps.
Comment · 3 months ago
I think ACL is only a part of the solution. If he runs the agent with his account, the ACL would not really help. But I do admit, I might have an outdated understanding of ACLs.
Comment · 3 months ago
I think the issue is could be that your new partner might be your half sister/half brother which could yield some problems.
Comment · 4 months ago
Based on the topic, this could be intentional.
Comment · 4 months ago
Does it need to be infra only? Is there also a risk by using go/rust/java etc? Like some of those projects are hosted on US sites? During Iran conflict access to US sites was cut (GitHub/NPM/Maven etc is hosted on US entities). To be really independent would mean much more I guess. Even languages who were invented in Europe are mostly dependent on US entities.
Comment · 4 months ago
Terms of service link seem not to work. Otherwise it looks interesting.
Comment · 5 months ago
People always laugh when I mention C# in this regard. It has so many things, like pointer, you can define that memory alignment works like in C, SIMD, AoT compilation, Span<T>. I think you can do pretty much C like programming in C#.
Comment · 5 months ago
I was referring to this:

>I think that Nolan sells himself (The online worship can hardly all be organic) as an authentic, technical director interested in accurate physical props.

I just wanted to give an example of such accurate physics props, that this is not only due to Oppenheimer.

This was not about the historic accuracy.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton