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I have no opinion or knowledge of the claims in that link, nor will I research them. The entire thing is obviously claudeslop.

At some point, the leadership team had a conversation that went something like this:

CEO: “We’ve spent tens of millions of dollars designing, developing, and tooling up to bring a new truck to market at a competitive price. We’ve worked out the entire manufacturing supply chain and have contracts in place with numerous vendors. We’ve placed orders for the thousands of parts, and hired highly skilled labor, and have extensively planned to have the man, machines, and materials all in the same place at the same time to actually pull this off. We have the working capital loans in place to let us run these operations. All that remains is the marketing outreach.”

CMO: “Okay, got it boss. Let’s start with one of the most highly visible parts of the marketing plan that literally every customer will interact with because of our sales model. Our contract marketing agency says they can develop a fantastic site for $200k - they have a great portfolio that shows they can make exactly what we need.”

CFO: “Fuck that, I just asked Claude to vibe code a marketing landing page. Looks great. Ship it.”

I’m way out of my depth in suggesting this idea, so forgive me if I’m committing a conceptual “divide by zero” and it’s not even wrong:

It seems like the SpaceX IPO really breaks the traditional notion of market cap.

Market cap has an unstated assumption that most of a company’s stock could, in theory, be traded unencumbered. Thus shares * price gives a very rough view of the value of the company. Everyone understands that this valuation has problems: it attributes the last marginal trade to the entire stock, and doesn’t account for large purchases/sales. But it’s useful nonetheless.

But with SpaxeX, only a tiny fraction of those shares are even theoretically tradeable, so it seems bizarre to calculate valuation using price * shares. I think this is the source of discomfort around the $2T market cap.

It seems like, similar to how there are long and short term liabilities, there should be long and short term market caps.

“Short term market cap” would be price * “number of shares that could theoretically be available for trade within the next year”, from all sources (including vesting employee options, expiring lockups, etc).

“Long term market cap” would be price * total authorized shares.

So SpaceX’s long term market cap would remain at $2T and its short term market cap would be, say, 5% of that (about $100B).

This is where things got interesting. Not because AI wrote the code — the code itself isn’t complicated, it’s a 1986 game that ran in 32K of RAM — but because Claude turned out to be an extraordinary tool for interrogating 6502 assembly.

Complaining about slop with slop.

There is no doubt. It's junk.

Things that are worse than war, a wildly incomplete list, in no particular order:

Pogroms; slavery; totalitarian dictatorship; theocracy; intentional mass starvation; mass organ harvesting; mass forced relocation; anarchy; failing to respond to unprovoked violence; restricting freedom instead of defeating the adversary.

War is not nearly the worst thing. Not even in the top 10.

It’s potentially a gross misallocation of capital.

Right now, the 5 and 10 year US treasury rates are 4.2% and 4.47%. The 30 year is 4.99%.

A business with a return on invested capital less than that is in fact operating at a loss. Unless there is reason to believe the situation will change in the near-to-mid future, such a business would literally be better off liquidating everything and just investing in treasuries.

You would need access to internal data to figure out their ROIC, but a 3% margin is not promising.

This likely represents increased freedom and faster decision making for Mojang and King.

Moving up the org reporting chain lets you do more, because you have fewer people to convince.

It’s not as good as being fully independent, but that will never be an option for Minecraft again. Actually being spun off might even be worse, because any new owner will be even more fixated on just the numbers.

Here is my unsolicited advice:

If one of your goals is to get others to adopt the software, I recommend you redo the marketing page and readme from scratch. Delete them without looking at them again, then hand write the content for them. Once you have the content, you call tell an LLM to format it into a nice landing page, but strictly keep your wording without changes.

Why does this landing page load js from merklemap.com?

Entrusting data storage to a vibe coded filesystem seems imprudent.

Setting aside that this seems to be pure slop, what’s with all the empty commits?

Of course.

Here is a video I made explaining it from absolute basics:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_AgKuFGvJfI

And the repo:

https://github.com/abtinf/homunctor

I wrote an early version of the Cylance AV desktop client. The UI side was a web app that talked to its windows service backend using HTTP over windows pipes. This was surprisingly easy to do using WCF.

Those claims are extremely suspect and completely support the current rationing and power structure of healthcare.

But, even granting they could be true, they would be true under the status quo.

Sure, a one off full body scan might be scary and lead to unnecessary action. But if a technology of the sort being described here were to exist, you would just get daily (or more frequent) scans to monitor the situation. Is that tumor actually growing or is it just a transient thing your immune system is dealing with? Way easier to tell if imaging is cheap, fast, and frequent.

And then there is the data.

No one knows what is actually going on in our bodies. If we had the ability to do billions of scans, imagine the longitudinal studies that could be performed.

It would radically alter medicine.

The first thing I look for in any UI library is accessibility support. Makes it trivial to filter out toy projects.

Someone ought to build a browser that is designed from the ground up to treat the web for what it is: the most hostile ecosystem on the planet.

uBlock/uMatrix functionality should be built into the core. Every domain and PSF should be sandboxed to its own profile. User agents and many js queries should return standard responses. Forcing display of video controls should be trivial. Manipulating pages to show/hide elements and customize feeds should be trivial. Right clicking to download any asset should just work.

And so, so much more.

The browser is my agent, not your mole.

If I had to guess, it's because the registration is brand new (about 8 hours old), created at 2026-06-15 14:01:25 UTC.

Please provide an evidentiary basis for human consciousness.

Direct experience. No further justification is necessary.

All arguments against consciousness presuppose the existence of consciousness (the so-called stolen concept fallacy). Any attempt to refute it necessarily relies on it.

You can’t even have a coherent concept of “knowledge” without it, let alone knowledge of specific things like 3D graphics, algorithms, and synapses.

This seems like just another NoSQL db, but with fancier words.

The claim that LLMs are conscious is exactly the same as the claim that this mechanical movement (a NAND gate) is conscious.

If you created an enough of these and connected them (material properties permitting), you could implement anything in computing, including LLMs.

Asserting that a trivial mechanical movement (or indeed any non-biological process) is conscious has no evidentiary basis in reality, is absurd, and should be rejected out of hand as arbitrary.

No, proof reading isn’t okay. No LLM involvement should be allowed whatsoever, exactly the same as the current HN policy on comments.

The HN rules need to expand to ban all AI generated posts.

There are many cases where SQLite + concurrent front end (like a go net/http server) can handle all the load that a service might ever conceivably have to handle, especially if allowed to scale up hardware over time. You can trivially scale up SQLite to, what, hundreds of thousands of tps?

The only thing you really give up is HA/failover and DR. But there are solutions to deal with those. And single-server systems are generally surprisingly robust (since, in the absence of very complex control planes, uptime goes down with more systems).

Pontiac Aztek was at least bold

How bad does a design have to be that this is a valid attack?

The Luce is so generic it borders on nihilism - destroying the very concept of Ferrari precisely because Ferraris are good.

This transpiles to the native language.

That area has dozens of aerospace manufacturers, building up since before WW2. People wanted to live close to work. There are lots of homes and commercial areas and industrial parks are tightly mixed together.

Source: I’ve worked in aerospace in Orange County.

I don’t see how models can be licensed at all. There is no creative element in them.

As you say, you start with a random array and start mutating it until you get something that magically does interesting things.

Sure, you can hold copyright over all the software used to train the thing. And trade secrets or patents around your data selection, training methods, and infrastructure and such.

But unlike typical software compilation, the model isn’t a rote translation of something that has a creative element. Ordinary software has creative source code as input, mechanically processed into an output.

Models start with a bunch of inputs that are not the creative property of the model maker. Those non-creative inputs are not imbued with novel creativity, no matter how advanced the intermediate machinery may be.

By analogy, you may hold a copyright on the layout and creative elements of a phone book, but you have no rights over the actual data of phone numbers. Nor will any amount of ingenious layout engines or ad placement algorithms or complex printing press methods turn those numbers into something that can be licensed.

IANAL. This is truly baffling to me and it seems like everyone is going along with it because some corporate lawyer probably said “Iunno, let’s just say we are licensing this thing before release. Worst case, a court throws out the license”.