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> What I would like instead is a return to the days when HN was a forum that still showcased cool things

As someone who used to share interesting projects, I stopped over the years due to mods favoring YC companies and hiding my work, and other bottom-feeders who were basically jealous trying to discourage me and downplaying the novel work I did.

I found places like HN and Reddit to only really approve of mainstream status quos and try their hardest to utterly destroy the reputation and confidence of any “indie” type who would ever dare to make anything cool.

I don’t even build up accounts here anymore, or do I attach my identity to stuff anymore too much.

By 2026 this censorship/hater problem is so bad it’s not worth sharing anything with anyone.

All I want to do now is figure out a way to destroy big tech and profit off their mistakes.

I want to eat academia alive and end college and classism. HN is not your friend but an enemy to be destroyed.

Just a joke, but you’re right I can like open source and not want to self host

For those who like open source so much they want to use a provider

To focus on code generation - arguably the easiest problem to solve.

So strange that they fell behind after leading the charge on video from Will Smith spaghetti through the spectacular launch of Sora.

Turns out anyone can get that look by appending “like an Octane render”

Beyond that, like Kling and Hailou quickly surpassed them on product, and OpenAI never even attempted text-to-3d as if they are entirely uninterested in rich media.

OpenAI reminds me more of Meta than any other company. They’re both pioneering in their space and yet are mere commandeers (not innovators) when it comes to technology and importantly end user products.

They’ll also be extremely valuable, like Meta due to their ad product and ever-growing user base over the next 10 years, and I guess by focusing on code they plan to capture a segment of the developer market à la React or Swift.

Will OpenAI release a language or framework? An IDE? I bet the chat paradigm stays for the ad product and aging user base (lol) while the exciting innovation will happen in code automation and product development - an area they are not really experts in.