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VCFundedGenYer··on Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
1. Android Automotive is run by Google, so that entire argument goes out the window immediately, because Google

2. Car companies bypass CarPlay/Android Auto with their own head units with software that executes before the projection software does.

VCFundedGenYer··on Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer
It may not be 100%, but human code is objectively more reliable and higher quality than any LLM generated slop code.
VCFundedGenYer··on LG says we're fake news [video]
You can't change the laws of physics.

If it isn't connected to the network, it can't communicate.

VCFundedGenYer··on LG says we're fake news [video]
I have a TCL TV where a recent firmware update actually fixed up some Arc power settings and a few other things. I only connect the TV to update it once every 6 months, and as soon as the update is done, it gets unplugged from the network again.
VCFundedGenYer··on Homebrew 7.0.0
You're on macOS. you should know full well that they do not care about those values.
VCFundedGenYer··on Homebrew 7.0.0
You do realize Intel support is gone, right? You won't be installing anything on your Intel Mac very soon...
VCFundedGenYer··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
Perhaps because all of the parent companies committed mountains of felonies stealing and plagiarizing all the same training data without consent nor permission.
VCFundedGenYer··on OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026
They are constantly out of money, going public would be the dumbest move imaginable. They are unstable, not only financially, but in leadership.
VCFundedGenYer··on My last six months at Evernote
I remember using Evernote in the very early 2010s, pre acquistion, and before OneNote got really good/had a cloud sync service.

Evernote was...fine, but the UX was very stilted. Text placement was very restrictive, and the spontaneous nature of taking notes was suppressed by it generally forcing you to type linearly as if it were a Word document.

I used it for the ability to seamlessly sync between devices, but once OneNote 2013 hit, I dropped Evernote like a rock in a lake. It had no competitive drive in terms of functionality once MS wiped the floor with them.

VCFundedGenYer··on Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development
Reminder that Altman does nothing but lie so this means nothing.
VCFundedGenYer··on Coding Is Over. Get over It
Stop peddling this nonsense please.

Coding will never be "over" - those saying it aren't true coders in the first place.

VCFundedGenYer··on AI Is Powerful Enough to Crack Our Hardest Math Problems–and Kill Us All
Wrong. LLMs can’t even count the “r”s in strawberry.
VCFundedGenYer··on Measuring the sloppiness of code
Only frauds/vibecoders/non-programmers claim coding is "solved". This is nonsense.
VCFundedGenYer··on Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI
This was written with AI, so there's no point here.
VCFundedGenYer··on Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat
Throwing my support for this. Do not use LLMs to write things humans should write.
VCFundedGenYer··on Feeling Sad about AI
It is not a game changer for anyone, yourself included.

That is the fallacy - you think this is some amazing thing when it isn't. You're experiencing AI psychosis.

VCFundedGenYer··on Feeling Sad about AI
I'm just sad that the overwhelming majority has resorted to using AI in terrible ways.

Case in point, last night, I saw a flyer with the US flag. It contained at least 55 stars, and the bottom row was cut off at the bottom.

Nobody even reviews this stuff anymore, and don't even for one second tell me people will get better at it - they won't. You're living in an absolute bubble if you think AI is a net benefit for society.

Our AI team at my org doesn't even know how to write half decent prompts. They just show us how to make Corgi pictures in every meeting. When you actually challenge them to use LLMs in real ways, they crap their pants or tell you that you're out of scope.

Executives are the same way, they push AI on everyone but have no clue how to actually use it in a practical setting (because there probably isn't a way)

VCFundedGenYer··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
Useless and pointless measure. you could even ask Claude how to bypass this.
VCFundedGenYer··on Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
Yeah there really needs to be better moderation and filtering here.

Yesterday there were multitudes of blatant AI slop and AI-slop-fueled misinformation/contrarianism all over the front page. It's not getting caught and flagged fast enough.

VCFundedGenYer··on Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster
When the CEO becomes a diva, the company has lost the plot.
VCFundedGenYer··on CSS Curiosities of the Past
When I took web design courses they basically told us you effectively have to make two websites - one for IE6, and one for all the other browsers. It came down to a bunch of crazy hacks and conditionals you had to bake in.
VCFundedGenYer··on CSS Curiosities of the Past
I last heavily worked with CSS in 2010/2011. These still don't feel old to me.

There came a point where if you wrote good HTML/CSS that passed the W3C validator, you were golden on pretty much any device. This still rings true today.

VCFundedGenYer··on Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
They don't know that.

You can't currently turn off the algorithm in Instagram.

This person is talking nonsense.

VCFundedGenYer··on Show HN: Bodily Oddities
This AI website has very weak sources for many pages.

As they said in school (and is still valid here) - Wikipedia is never to be your primary citation. This website commits the sins of citing Wikipedia and ONLY Wikipedia.

VCFundedGenYer··on Show HN: Bodily Oddities
What world are you living in where you’re okay with this?

Phoned in websites / AI slop is not a good thing.

Code something yourself on neocities.

VCFundedGenYer··on Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
Reminder that Sam Altman is a sociopathic serial liar, nothing within the OpenAI sphere should be trusted.
VCFundedGenYer··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
Double-ended USB A cables were popular in the 2000s/early 2010s for powering external hard drives or USB DVD drives.
VCFundedGenYer··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
USB B cables are also notoriously sensitive and the slightest damage can result in malfunctions. Went through this recently with a PreSonus AudioBox.
VCFundedGenYer··on Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic needs to get their act together. These are incidents that end companies.
VCFundedGenYer··on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
A true Microsoft drone to the end.
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