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StarterPro··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
Its a completely optional purchase, and there's no clear way for ads to be included without it muddying up the actual answer.

"The most popular brand of bread in America is........BUTTERNUT (AD)"

Its a sinkhole that they are destroying our environment for. Its not sustainable on a massive scale, and I expect to see Sam Altman join his 30 under 30 cohorts SBF and such eventually.

StarterPro··on AI tools I wish existed
>A calorie tracking app that’s a chat app grounded by nutrition databases. Just minimize the cognitive effort it takes me to log a meal.

My brother in christ, how much cognitive effort does it take to log a meal??

StarterPro··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
Once the bottom falls out of ai, will programming be seen as a marketable skill again?
StarterPro··on ChatGPT Pulse
Wasn't this already implemented via google and apple separately?
StarterPro··on AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
I'm in the minority, but I feel like coding is just as creative as writing. AI should be used as minimally as possible, to maintain that coding muscle.

If there's ever a long-term outage in the middle of the week, god help em.

StarterPro··on Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation
It doesn't matter if they were or weren't. Its a fucking civil offense at best.

This woman called ICE and they shackled these people up like it was the 1800s again.

StarterPro··on Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
"AI agents " I KNEW something was up with it. Wrap it up.
StarterPro··on Claude for Chrome
So I'll just ask ChatGPT to create a website that calls Claude pulls and dumps any credit cards stored on the browser.
StarterPro··on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
Its almost like nobody asked for the dramatic push of ai, and it was all created by billionaires trying to become even richer at the cost of people's health and the environment.
StarterPro··on When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
There are at a minimum fascist adjacent.
StarterPro··on GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?"
I don't know, for a nearly trillion dollar venture, for it to get that answer wrong MULTIPLE times?

How useful can generative AI be past acting as a bank for Sam Altman

StarterPro··on Getting good results from Claude Code
At a certain point though, you lose any creative input.

If you review the code and it needs a change, do you run it back through Claude with the requested changes or do you make the changes yourself?

StarterPro··on Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience
Doesn't this defeat the purpose of actual field research?

If it isn't based on ACTUAL buyers who have ACTUAL input, what is it really doing? Great job at creating something, but at the same time, it feels kind of unnecessary.

You're essentially telling people what you THINK they'll want.

StarterPro··on Two narratives about AI
For text LLMs, on a basic level, isn't it just aggregating the percentage chance of a specific word order based on the topic/genre?

I've just started looking into them, but it feels like A BUNCH of stats hidden beneath a layer of if/else statements.

It only seems to work given an unlimited amount of money being thrown at it. Which would be possible if it were nationalized, but they're too greedy for that to happen.

StarterPro··on Claude Jailbroken to Mint Unlimited Stripe Coupons
Here's a wild thought: stop shoving ai into everything.
StarterPro··on Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
I was wondering when we'd get to the end of the reduced fare portion of the bubble. With the layoffs, increase in prices, we're going to see a lot more vibe coding to justify the price of ai.

With the talented employees laid off, I predict there will be some VERY LARGE code mistake pushed, either banking or travel, and we'll either see the burst, or they'll move on to strictly enterprise/gov opportunities. (see: grok for gov)

>Super Free [Introduction, lots of free options] >Reduced Fare [higher prices, smaller pool of free options](We are here) >Premium Only [only paid options, mostly whales]

StarterPro··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
They're both clearly bought.

Why else would you have the cameras in there for that long, and act that way in front of said cameras. I'd hate to be Rubio or anyone else trying to actually do their job.

It stopped being a Red/Blue issue after the polls closed, this is a issue for the country as a whole.

StarterPro··on Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover
This feels dangerously close to eugenics
StarterPro··on AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'
"Although the findings suggest that the design of such complex chips could be handed over to AI, Sengputa was keen to point out that pitfalls remain “that still require human designers to correct.” In particular, many of the designs produced by the algorithm did not work– equivalent to the "hallucinations" produced by current generative AI tools."

:-|

StarterPro··on DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
Unrelated, but I wonder if there is a test to see how many of the commenters are bots vs actual humans
StarterPro··on DOGE Takeover of USDS Allows Them to Surveil the US Government from the Inside
Because I'm not talking about left or right. I'm talking about corruption. He and his people are corrupt. You can be a republican who voted for him, and now realize he lied.

He promised these people the world only to get in day one and say "sucks to suck".

StarterPro··on Are Devs Becoming Lazy? The Rise of AI and the Decline of Care
They are, and the glut of A.I. products will only make it worse.

Look at the election, this is not a country of intelligent people.

If you think the upcoming programmers aren't outsourcing all their work to chatgpt, I got a bridge to sell you.

StarterPro··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Partisanship aside, he is not a smart man. He's a convict and a known racist.

He most likely has dementia, and we will be under a President Vance before 2026.

But he still won. I'm disappointed but not surprised.

StarterPro··on International 'race science' network funded by US tech boss
These people always make me laugh.

They look at the crusades, trans Atlantic slave trade, genocide of the indigenous people of the Americas and go "hmm, why are all these brown people so violent"

StarterPro··on Spotify Will Keep Remote Working
Good. Unless you're creating a physical product, there is no need for everyone to be physically in the same space.

The sooner we stop treating founders and CEOs like infallible job creators and start pushing back on all the RTO, the better.

StarterPro··on End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit
If they are connecting to Google Drive, is that not connected to the internet?
StarterPro··on 'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything'
No shit. Just like people who "create AI art" aren't actually creating anything.

We've let these tech companies distill learning and creating down to a mouse click.

StarterPro··on Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan
RTO Mandates are just attempted power moves by greedy CEOs.

We have people living on space stations and promising nuclear fusion, but we still have to be in the office to be productive? Gimmie a break.

StarterPro··on Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting
It is already available to everyone. You can make a movie on your phone, create a song, edit images.

A.I. art is for the lazy.

StarterPro··on SpaceX grounds its Falcon rocket fleet after upper stage misfire
Ha.
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