beaker52

Judging by the nature of the site (file conversion) and comments — has HN been invaded by bots here?

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“The ad rule isn’t the only one that asks for it”

This is the kind of writing pattern that makes me nope out of reading.

“The ad rule” means nothing to me.

“isn’t the only one” only what? - rule? That thing you started by not making clear, and haven’t showed me the symmetry with?

“that asks for it” why is a rule “asking” for anything? And what is “it”?

When the agent says things like this, I can almost guarantee: the thing, the other things, what the “verbing” actually means, and how the impact is described, are all clear as mud — lost in some kind of metaphorical gibberish.

Given the weight and blessing governments in Europe and America are putting behind passkey roll outs despite the awkward provider lock in, I’m convinced the centralisation of credentials is one of the early steps to making western digital IDs happen and granting convenient access to your credentials for law enforcement. Happy for you to mark my words and call me out if it doesn’t happen.

It’s not really surprising that bot traffic originating from a network went away when _all_ traffic originating from that network stopped.

OpenRouter has its own chat UI so the benefit is unclear to me.

Mine was that if I (or anyone else not-hn-famous) had written this and posted it to hackernews 10 times, it wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near the front page.

The aspect of prototype software that the author was calling out was that it is throwaway software.

Putting that aside, prototype software is recombining existing technologies and concepts in well trodden domains, which is distinct from the genuinely novel scientific work the author was contrasting with. Software prototypes are not in the same league, as much as you may like it to be.

Same. I had no idea if the article was for me and what I was going to get out of it, so I just gave up.

Apparently I pointed at the truth

They absolutely have a marketing department tasked with intentionally creating situations that people would find disturbing and plausible.

This article is great advice that I should take if I ever get a role where I’m not going to be pressured into delivering some kind of low-value BS during Phase 2 that causes me to hasten the delivery the most useful organisational changes I can. I can’t help myself when the wick gets turned up.

As a result, after 15 years as a software engineer, I’m genuinely considering leaving the industry altogether because the only roles available to me are ones where I’m expected to deliver features rather than organisational change and growth. It’s like my heaps of experience have navigated my career into a cup-de-sac, and the only way out is backwards. I’m so jaded. Hopefully it’s a phase. I need a coach. Help.

Because if this was an anonymous software company who had an employee who decided to hack HuggingFace, they wouldn’t be talking about it gleefully - they’d be in court.