Pulling key topics, claims and other insights from the interview between Stripe CEO and OpenAI CEO at Sohn 2023 using GPT-3 API and an open-source script for you to do the same.
Article author here - I wrote this after realising that buzz words have entered our industry again in the form of the JAM stack terminology. Hence I took an approach of actually what is going on under the hood.
While we tried to think about new ways a toy could be implemented, our brains were stuck in the ways we play today - with points and achievements. So while the idea is radical, it suffers from having parts of it get inspiration from today's apps.
Each language fills a void, a different way of doing something, just because it can be done. Because it is possible. And there are always uses for every way something can be done.
Node.js is nothing different, it has its pros and cons. You simply cannot tag it as 'good' or 'bad'. You are smart if you use it where it suits you. You are silly if you just try to trash it.
I spoke to my dad regarding this hub-hub on piracy vs. freedom. His thinking is very similar to the publishing industry that pirating something is simply illegal, and that's that.
I lost out in the discussion, because I wasn't able to provide good points on the aspect of freedom, and that actually it is not piracy, but just sharing, and it actually benefits the industry, not ruin it.
This article just made my job easier. It mentions all the important points.
For example, a search for 'mongodb tutorial' on HNSearch should have given me more useful results than searching on Google. But it is not so, because the results aren't presented well.
Oh, yes of course, the default engine. But it is more of just an index. It just shows the link names, and it links to purely what was posted on Hacker News.
What I am dreaming of is something like Google bot with the Hacker News links as the seed to start indexing... Also displaying the results with snippets and rating the results.
People misunderstand the whole 'do what you love' philosophy. They think that you just go about doing whatever seems interesting. The truth is that you have to 'do'. If you like philosophy, then write a book, talk about it, give a theory. 'Do something about it'.