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dabbz··on Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
I mean you got me there. There will be places who do have the means to build up massive GPU servers. There's just a lot more to it and I don't know if we're going to pinpoint an exact catch-all moat.
dabbz··on Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
I feel like the models have no moat paradigm died when a single model expanded past the memory of single GPU slices. The moat is hosting the model. Even paying a server host to run a rack of GPUs has immense upstart cost, and then you're still struggling to compete on the add-ons of the things on top of the model (prompts, validation loops, etc). You can only throw so much money at a problem.
dabbz··on Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
Literally this. Every response initially was "we don't see that and we let it sit for weeks". Now there's just no response from devs. I was unable to browse past more than 1 or 2 pages before memory ballooned to 30gb.
dabbz··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Software has been riding on the backs of the insane hardware growth curves for the last 20 years. I miss the days of reading about how software engineers had to delete standard C libraries in build time to shave extra memory so they can stream more of the level in.

I also fully acknowledge that change starts with me, unfortunately those changes don't pay the bills.

dabbz··on The rise and fall of snake oil
Most of that site reads as a "trust us, sound makes you heal!" I don't see a single thing there that tries to explain the correlation between bumping your brain with sound and "restoration". It doesn't explain what it restores, why it works better than nothing.

Honestly this website doesn't seem to even be trying to sell anything. "Help your sleep" how? "doesn't make you sleep longer" but what does it do instead? Do I feel more restored when I wake up even with a shorter sleep time? It's not even trying to sell me on a specific outcome that I John Everyman is facing.

Snake oil things are typically very light on details and this site is also light on details. Maybe it's a victim of form over function? The site's design looks nice but has very low information density.

dabbz··on Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
I would really like to see a renaissance of in-person activities. I think a big hurdle to this though is the lack of a 3rd place for communities to exist. Parks are nice in the summer but less ideal in the winter (and not available in all neighborhoods). Town squares are also more hostile to "loiterers" (no data to back this just feelingss).

Overall I think if we want to see a resurgence of IRL, we need the social support of our governing bodies which imo is a large hill to climb.

dabbz··on OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
It's a very frequently used structure by LLMs especially ones writing for LinkedIn.
dabbz··on Astral to Join OpenAI
Oh are compilers going away? Or personal computers for that matter?

If the barrier to button-pressed companies goes that high up, the cost to run/consume the product also goes up. Making hand-rolled products cheaper.

Slower paced to roll out things? Sure.

That's the precarious balance these LLMs providers have to make. They can't just move on without the people feeding it data and value. The machine is not perpetual.

dabbz··on Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)
I believe the Shared Payment Token is interchangeable with a payment method id that you attach to a customer object, but that link has very sparse information about how things actually work end to end and what objects mean what.
dabbz··on Have a fucking website
Nobody cares until the automated trust and safety bot bans an account for no apparent reason and you can't contact a human for help. Before that happens though, how do you get someone to care? I suppose it's risk management at that point. "What are the odds that I'll get inconvenienced by Instagram before the ROI on establishing on their platform pays out"
dabbz··on Node.js needs a virtual file system
I mean that's a fair distinction. There's definitely some overlap depending on needs though.
dabbz··on Node.js needs a virtual file system
Another thread about Edge.js has some similar concepts that might be applicable? They're not 1:1 the same but it involves Sandboxing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47417398
dabbz··on Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
They have Their Link.com product which integrates pretty seamlessly. It just doesn't store balances or anything akin to PayPal, Venmo, Cashapp, Apple Pay/Cash, etc.
dabbz··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
The ability to auto-fill the text/email verification codes is a huge one.
dabbz··on Railway (PaaS) global outage
+1 for dokploy, it's very flexible and allows me to setup my sites how I need. Especially as it concerns to the way I setup a static landing page, then /app goes to the react app. And /auth goes to a separate auth service, etc.
dabbz··on Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
Whatever the speed of light is I would imagine
dabbz··on Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis
We gave it advanced pattern recognition.
dabbz··on Show HN: Rails UI
oh yea I absolutely understand the niche this Rails UI fits in. I was just drawing parallels to Tailwind UI. Rails is a more "opinionated" version.
dabbz··on Show HN: Rails UI
Felt more like a Tailwind UI (https://tailwindcss.com/plus) to me
dabbz··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
I was more hoping to use the Tailwind UI components (or tailwind plus or whatever they're calling it now) with the LLM output. I don't think they offer downloadable components or whatever so the LLM would need a way of knowing which were available to use and be able to pull them in for reference. At least that's my assumption.
dabbz··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
I was going to say before LLMs Tailwind UI helped me get moving much faster on front-end code. Now I wish there was some kind of context I can provide to use the Tailwind UI instead of hallucinating its own. Tailwind UI still looks better than the generic stuff LLMs generate.

(Open to any suggestions to feed existing ui components from Tailwind into my projects/llm).

dabbz··on Apple Services Experiencing Outage
Got it, yea my inside sources were as they relate to Siri and that was a decade ago at this point.
dabbz··on Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case
It's more like Goliath vs Bigger Goliath.

Small developers/business won't benefit from this change.

End-users COULD benefit from this change but the skeptic in me knows Epic won't adjust their prices to reflect the smaller cut they have to pay now.

dabbz··on Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case
They need locale-based app bundles to make that realistic then. If I need to support every locale I can, I need to bundle the frameworks necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeCYiD0hnE

dabbz··on Apple Services Experiencing Outage
Last I checked they were phasing out their own DCs in favor of cloud-provided services. Though it's been a while since I have heard anything about it, so maybe those plans got canceled. It could have also been phasing out those DCs for only the specific services and not all services. My details on the whole thing are fuzzy at best.
dabbz··on Apple Services Experiencing Outage
If I remember right they primarily use Google Cloud with a small mix of multi-cloud stuff for iCloud
dabbz··on I built a faster Notion in Rust
The people yearn for a database. Everything ends up trying to be MS Access, the perfect software.
dabbz··on Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue
My mattress is starting to sag. I'd consider it 99.99% uptime at this point.
dabbz··on Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps
I was more clarifying my own hypothesis on what level of "live" this demo was, more so than explaining away the failure mechanics.
dabbz··on Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps
Yea the behavior of the AI read to me more like a hard coded demo but still very much "live". I suspect him cutting it off was poorly timed and that timing could have amplified due to WiFi? Who knows. I wasn't there. I didn't build it.
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