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I agree that it would help the site a lot but Pangram is notoriously inaccurate.

Quaaludes are maybe a better analogy since the original, strong ones are mostly gone and the pills being manufactured today are significantly weaker. And their effect on Wall Street's decision making is pretty comparable to AI's

It can suck but it doesn't always. It depends a lot on the calling language.

I think the target application is writing the same algorithm in multiple places with a guarantee that the logic will be based on a single source of truth. Not unlike Protocol Buffers work to standardize data layout across platforms.

It still feels overcomplicated compared to the standard solution of writing a library in a compiled language you like, exposing a C ABI compatible interface, and hooking it up to any language that can work with that (i.e. any language).

For now.. ;)

Is there a good reason not to use WebGL to render the scene and compute the character mapping? Even if you're dead set on outputting text to a `<pre>` you could write the ascii values out to a framebuffer and copy from that for a pretty significant speedup.

Why? What does Anthropic have that any other software company that's capable of putting MCP integration in a chat app doesn't?

To be fair, a lot of that revenue is from subscriptions that aren't necessarily fully utilized. OpenAI said in March [0] that they have 50 million subscribers. Assuming they're all on the $8/month plan, that's $4.8 billion a year, likely at a pretty low COR.

[0] https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/

all those things aren't magical tasks that can only occur inside a human skull, they are a product of information processing

I agree but it's useful to remember that 1. brains and especially the human brain are enormous and 2. individual tokens carry significantly more meaning than individual tiny muscle twitches so even extremely primitive "cognition" can look like it's doing more work than it actually is.

Let the record reflect that I had this exact idea 2 years ago but never finished it, and remembered it this morning.

If you're the creator of the platform, you should post this under "Show HN" to make it clear that it's your own business.

This problem only exists because of the marketing move to call anything even slightly ML related "AI".

I see it as a double edged sword. People that want the category of AI to succeed can claim a victory when someone uses it to approximate protien folding and invent new drugs. But that also means the entire field is constantly being dragged down by low quality vibe coded sites, slop videos on social media, whatever horrific thing Grok is doing this week, etc.

There's no branch in that code either way. The comparison operator outputs a value (which is arithmetic, not a branch), and that value is added unconditionally.

I doubt it. Desktops don't add substantial hardware features often or get damaged in the same way phones do.

The author of this post works at OpenAI on the Codex team.

Is HTML really that much worse to edit than MD?

Elsevier is shitty to people doing stuff that (imo) should be allowed. Meta is making money doing the same thing and not getting the same shittiness from Elsevier.

Elsevier at least works within the (admittedly broken) system, Meta does not.

Airlines were heavily regulated in the US and essentially operated as government contractors until 1978 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Aeronautics_Board

At least on x86, multiple additions and multiplications can be done with a single `lea` instruction so it's preferable to XOR. Though I have no idea about other architectures, compiler implementations, any interpreters...

Modern != brand new shiny hipster thing. Unless you're a devotee of rolling release or unconvential things like Nix, Mint is not obsolete.

Is it actually useful and valuable? I can't see any serious use cases except maybe stock video generation.

"Decentralized" seems like a stretch for something developed and promoted by monolithic payment processors.

That backlash was short lived. Adobe went from $4.4 billion in revenue in 2021 to $23.7 billion

So? Anecdotally, the vast majority of Adobe product users are still upset about the subscription model (but not upset enough to switch to worse software)

It used to cost $2500 for the "master collection". Now it's $50 a month.

Illustrator-filmmaker-animator-publisher-photographer-web-designers everywhere rejoice!

The point is that there was basically no reason to totally kill Wordpad in the way that they did. They're different products and the new Notepad is closer to the ideal version of Wordpad than what Notepad is supposed to be, and now there's no Notepad.

Plus the devaluing of labor in basically every sector (to varying extents).

It's barely a value-add when agents can scrape the docs themselves and browsers have the reading tools built in.

I would ask if you've started a real business but it's clear you haven't.

I wouldn't speak so authoritatively about this stuff if I didn't know anything about running a business. My lemonade stand was extremely successful in the geographic area it was marketed in (~10 blocks around my house). I was planning on going public but unexpected regulatory issues (end of 4th grade summer break) forced me to reevaluate. Though these new agentic lemon beverage developments seem like they might draw me back into it...

I'm not opposed to the idea of natural language search, my point is the tools should be on the user side. Right now, I can ask questions about plain text pages that haven't been updated in 30 years directly in Firefox with no effort from the site operator. If an agent needs to have direct access to documentation, it's trivial for it to download pages autonomously (or even set up its own MCP server). There's literally no reason to demand that millions of sites independently add features that browsers and agents already have better and more uniform versions of.

I don't see AI chat so I can ask quick, natural language questions. No MCP I can install so Cursor can query. Prob no llms.txt. No quick Copy to Markdown.

It's not the site's job to add those features though. If you want that experience there are ways to get it without adding bloat to every page on the web. Scraping a static site and answering questions/summarizing is a solved problem.