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This comment will definitely get you on a list somewhere. Either the CIA or my favorite comments on hn, maybe both.

Even if only for how well Instagram and WhatsApp were managed post acquisition, your message doesn’t hold up.

Most large tech companies buy late and struggle to integrate the products and teams they acquire without creating massive damage. He didn’t. Twice.

I am quite far from a fan of what he brought to the world (privacy nightmares), but to say that he’s a proof you only need to get lucky once is quite far off.

Oh. A little bit of a let down. I was expecting "HN without comments and posts written by LLMs".

That's very interesting to reconcile with the fact that not too far, Amazon employees feel incentivized to use as many tokens as possible.

Far from me the idea of criticizing a founder starting something to help other startups. That's amazing. However, the post is not really accurate! Are you sure that all these MBS pools have the same government backing as Treasuries? Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac are not equal. Are the additional risks (spread risk, liquidity mismatch, and risks related to the mortgage structure that even Regan discloses!) worth the tiny extra yield above money market funds? Startups have to deal with uncertainty all the time, that's the nature of business. Principal loss, and liquidity issues are not things you should have to deal with as a startup. However, providing options to startups is always great, and I think this is a great direction!

Again, I hope this doesn't come as negative, but I'm not sure this is making the risk clear. I am not sure I would suggest my portfolio companies to risk their treasuries unless I am sure they're fully understanding the risks associated. Do you intend to provide anything else?

Previous discussion on 5.3 codex Spark (sharing as the article doesn’t add tremendous value to it): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992553

Ars technica’s lack of journalistic integrity aside, I wonder how long until an agent decides to order a hit on someone on the datk web to reach its goals.

We’re probably only a couple OpenClaw skills away from this being straightforward.

“Make my startup profitable at any cost” could lead some unhinged agent to go quite wild.

Therefore, I assume that in 2026 we will see some interesting legal case where a human is tried for the actions of the autonomous agent they’ve started without guardrails.

Is the only way to install to download an executable without any option to check the source and have it use your credentials?

(Original title: Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States -- Had to be trimmed to fit within 80chr)

That’s only tangentially related but I have a very hard time using Opus for anything serious. Sonnet is still much more useful to me thanks to the context window size. By the moment Opus actually understands what’s needed, I’m n compactions deep and pretty much hoping for the best.

That’s a reason why I can’t believe the benchmarks and why I also believe open source models (claiming 200 but realistically struggling past 40k) aren’t only a bit but very far behind SOTA in actual software dev.

This is not true for all software, but there are types of systems or environments where it’s abundantly clear that Opus (or anything with a sub 1m window) won’t cut it, unless it has a very efficient agentic system to help.

I’m not talking about dumping an entire code base in the context, I’m talking about clear specs, some code, library guidelines, and a few elements to allow the LLM to be better than a glorified autocomplete that lives in an electron fork.

Sonnet still wins easily.

SSH comes to mind.

Neither their revenue nor their market share in the space looks like just fine. What exactly in trailing the market for years is “just fine”?

AMD is very far behind, and their earnings are so low that even with a nonsensical pe ratio they’re still less than a tenth of nvidia. No, they are not doing anywhere near fine.

Are hobbyists the reason for this? I’m not sure. However, what AMD is doing is clearly failing.

In this specific case it was obvious that Luna was based on dubious economics. It didn’t require auditor skills. Barely high school economics. If YouTubers are not blamed for promoting scams without appropriate disclaimers, the crypto industry will grow the wrong way. Making the promoters responsible for this would help legitimate projects.

Honestly, making people pay for an app that only uses a public API you’re not paying for, and no form of fallback is asking for trouble. This is not a responsible way to do business and I hope people reading this thread will understand that.

Customers are generally not willing to pay for trained cs reps that could actually be helpful. As far as startups are concerned VCs would therefore not like you to use their dollars to pay cs reps when an LLM could do the job in their eyes.

I agree with the sentiment of TFA but I think this is a battle that we have no chance of winning at scale. Very similarly to hoping for an ad-free web.

An estimate from a bank isn’t proof that the retail prices will decrease. Savings aren’t always passed down to consumers.

Not only training. Inference as well.

I didn’t mean metaverse/nft, HN is a virtual world.

I vividly remember coding, moderating IRC channels and playing StarCraft while being alone on a Christmas night, lobbies were full of joy and wishes, games were fun, and I felt way less lonely than while spending time with people I didn’t really connect with.

Christmas is seen as a moment to be spent with people, but IMO this day is only what you make of it. It is not bad to want to be totally alone, or connected with online randoms!

There are many people in these virtual worlds that you probably share something with if you spend Christmas alone or are reading this message on Dec 25th. I’m glad HN exists.

And if you really want another experice, go east if you can afford it, and enjoy in places where Dec 24/25th are just regular days.

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META: The hate for pretty much anything blockchain-related in the comments is real. I clicked on this link expecting the usual load of criticism, and I wasn’t disappointed.

Now, to actually add to the discussion, it would be great to see clearer use cases that Cloudflare has to help publishers and users of web3, as the blog post describes what’s behind the name but goes only very briefly on what Cloudflare actually wants to bring to the table. A very fast, yet privacy-focused or anonymous, and affordable decentralized CDN would be interesting.

What it sounds like is that in BigGo, exposure matters a lot, which is not very surprising. At scale, people pushing their own agenda might come at odds with what the consumers want.

It obviously sounds like a flawed incentive system, but it begs the question: What else works at such a gigantic scale? Is there any BigTech where Exposure Driven Development isn’t dominating?

Which toxic world have we built that let people think that tinkering, exploring different facade of life, and not being able to find a programming job at 22 is called failing?

The glorification of 400k packages right after graduation, of founders becoming paper billionaires before they have their first gray hair, the lack of representation of various software dev career paths... All this (and more) is giving an unrealistic and fake vision of what we do and become as software engineers.

Many of us here like to look down on what social media does to the life of teenagers, creating insecurities and disturbing development, but we’re doing the same exact thing in our industry.

The last sentence in the post gives a glimpse of hope, but the general tone resonates with something I’ve heard too many times around me. Life is short, yes, YOLO if you want, but no, not being a top software dev at 22 is not “having failed”.

As dangerous as it sounds for the industry, this article tells us they’ve discussed with the SEC without telling us what was said on their side. It’s difficult to share their confusion if we don’t know what they have fed the regulator.

Common sense makes it sound like Lend is clearly not about securities, but the SEC has generally been looking for settlements or discussion instead of straight litigation. Why the change of motus operandi? Is it because Coinbase is big and it would make an example, or maybe somewhere in Lend there’s a business model that makes the product act like a security? Who knows at this point?

More information from Coinbase would help us empathize.

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Typically, by preventing regulated institutions to accept deposits from and withdrawals to addresses that do not match a wallet that has been associated with an identified entity. That would be unfortunate.

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The view that governments are necessarily trying to control information unless they’re dumb is not universally shared. This has little to do with surrendering sovereignty.

This is a great thing that people intend to align what they’re paid to do the greater part of their lives with what they find just.

This is hackernews, the place where people intend to make positive change with their brain, their time, and sometimes, their money.

The Alphard V6 really isn’t that bad to drive. We’re not talking Porsche of course (and why would we? Topic is carrying kids safely), but it is a really pleasant drive.